Electric Sheep
In the hills of Wales, incredible stuff is going on…!
The Nikon SB-900 Cold Shoe Problem
I might be a little late with this… There is an issue with the cold shoe mount of the Nikon SB-900 speedlight. The space above the metal plate of the speedlight is a bit narrower compared to previous flashes. So the cold shoes of ordinary light stands, superclamps, Justin clamps etc. won’t accomodate the hot [...]
Remote Triggering the Canon G10 via PocketWizard
The Canon PowerShot G10 is quite small and considerably lighter than my Nikon D3. So for some situations it’s easier to use as a remote camera triggered via radio signal. I’ve finally build a cable to connect the Canon G10 cam to a PocketWizard. It’s very low cost. You only need a 3.5 mm to [...]
Portraits Portfolio
In addition to the sports and lifestyle portfolio – for which I intend a more commercial look – I have added a second portfolio category: portraits. These are mainly classical studio portraits with different lighting and postproduction styles.
More About Portfolio Editing
Editing seems to be very difficult for us photographers, especially when it comes to our own shots. Here’s a little list of points I found important while creating and editing my own website portfolio: What is it that you love to photograph? Think about it. Whatever you love shooting, stick to it and do the [...]
Portfolio Critique by Editorial Music Photographer Zack Arias
Zack Arias is an extremely creative music photographer in Atlanta. He was kind enough to help me editing and selecting photograhs for my portfolio. He has started a portfolio critique series, and I was lucky to be chosen as one of the victims… He does the critique in a very cool short video on his [...]
Yousuf Karsh
I was lucky to find an antiquarian copy of Yousuf Karsh’s book A 50-year Retrospective. Karsh has photographed many of the most influential persons of the last century. Among them is the famous portrait of Winston Churchill (“the roaring lion”) taken in 1941. He also made wonderfully lit portraits of Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Albert [...]
David Burnett
There is a very intersting blog post by photographer David Burnett, a long-time US photojournalist: Closing the Circle. He talks about his beginnings when he was shooting basketball games where the newspapers did not send their own staffers to. He has photographed Ayatollah Khomeini during the revolution in Iran in 1979, he was in West [...]