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The LongArm and MetalHead – Taking Your Speedlite To New Heights
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The LongArm and MetalHead – Taking Your Speedlite To New Heights
May 21, 2009 – 10:01 am | 46 Comments

How do you convert a painter’s pole into a professional lighting tool that can carry your Speedlite to various heights above your subjects and then collapse it down so that you can maneuver through a …

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Meet LIDLIPS – The Book!
October 28, 2009 – 11:22 am | 9 Comments
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Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 96–100
October 23, 2009 – 10:00 am | 4 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 96–100

This Week’s LIDLIPS
96. Don’t confuse distraction with creativity.
97. There are many ways to cross the chasms.
98. Mistakes happen. Get used to starting over.
99. Listen to the resonance inside.
100. Be prepared for your dreams to come …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 91-95
August 19, 2009 – 8:04 am | 11 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 91-95

This Week’s LIDLIPS
91. Look along the edges to find the in-between.
92. The exotic is easy. The common is hard.

93. Allow yourself to be captured.

94. Ignorance is relative.

95. Creativity mixes with safety about as well as …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 86–90
August 6, 2009 – 8:22 am | 14 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 86–90

This Week’s LIDLIPS
86. Embrace stress as the opposite of apathy.
87. The frames of history are meant to be broken.
88. A camera is not a license to be a jerk.
89. Kodachrome is dead. Long live Kodachrome.
90. …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 81–85
July 22, 2009 – 8:00 am | 14 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 81–85

This Week’s LIDLIPS
81. The boldest creatives dance on the tightrope when it has no safety net.
82. If you don’t believe in your self, then don’t expect others to believe in you.
83. Sometimes the best way …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 76–80
July 1, 2009 – 6:20 am | 11 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 76–80

This Week’s LIDLIPS
76. Ignoring the manual is no longer manly.

77. Play photography as a team sport.

78. Your ‘Decisive Moment’ is still out there.

79. Spend more time shooting that you do reading web forums and blogs.

80. …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 71–75
June 24, 2009 – 3:17 pm | 10 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 71–75

This Week’s LIDLIPS
71. When you’ve got nothing to lose, don’t be afraid to lose.
72. Choose your friends wisely.

73. Listen for answers to questions you didn’t ask.

74. “Thank” and “you” are two of the most powerful …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 66-70
June 10, 2009 – 9:43 am | 9 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 66-70

This Week’s LIDLIPS
66. If you follow someone else’s path too long, you’ll lose track of where you left yours.

67. Sometimes “good enough” is better than “the best”.

68. Making yourself vulnerable is a sign of strength.

69. …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 61-65
June 3, 2009 – 10:01 am | 3 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 61-65

This Week’s LIDLIPS
61. Humor contributes to global warming.

62. Creativity and curiosity are fraternal twins.

63. The more I look at my work, the less I like it.

64. It used to be that photography was just another …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 56–60
May 27, 2009 – 1:27 am | 12 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 56–60

This Week’s LIDLIPS
56. Hollywood is waiting to teach you how to light.

57. Sometimes it is more important to look like you know what you’re doing than to actually know what you’re doing.

58. Sincerity, humility and …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 51–55
May 20, 2009 – 7:28 am | 7 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 51–55

This Week’s LIDLIPS
51. If your camera was a pencil or a crayon it would be easy to understand its limitations..

52. There are times when you have to hang it all out there – without any …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 46–50
May 13, 2009 – 10:16 am | 5 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 46–50

This Week’s LIDLIPS
46. Creativity comes as a breeze before it comes as a gale.

47. When a prospect says “It’s a simple job, don’t worry”, then it’s time to worry.

48. There’s no direct connection between the …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 41–45
May 6, 2009 – 1:27 am | 5 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 41–45

This Week’s LIDLIPS
41. Light is like water – both are boring until you put something in them.

42. There will be times when you should take a long break and other times when you should push …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 36 – 40
April 8, 2009 – 9:45 am | 16 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 36 – 40

This Week’s LIDLIPS
36. Make photos even when you don’t have a camera.

37. Don’t undervalue the importance of your monitor.

38. Accuracy is measured by experience not by color space.

39. A camera and a thick dictionary have …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 32 – 35
April 1, 2009 – 10:16 am | 5 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 32 – 35

This Week’s LIDLIPS
32. Be open to your camera capturing realities that you did not see.
33. Just because someone has a strong opinion, does not mean that he’s right.
34. The hardest time to create is when …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 28 – 31
March 26, 2009 – 7:33 am | 3 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 28 – 31

This Week’s LIDLIPS
28. You can seldom pay your mentors back.
29. Beautiful light happens… sometimes.
30. You can’t create and edit at the same time.
31. The news can be as addicting as pornography… and just as distracting.
…

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 22–27
March 18, 2009 – 8:42 am | 6 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 22–27

This Week’s LIDLIPS
22. There is nothing more interesting to us than photographs of other people.
23. Be the director. Your lens gives you that authority (and responsibility).
24. There is no I in “personal”, but there is …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 18–21
March 11, 2009 – 1:27 am | 5 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 18–21

This Week’s LIDLIPS
18. Make tons of mistakes and fail frequently.
19. Don’t worry about “having a defined look”.
20. Understand that owning a photograph is different than owning the right to reproduce it.
21. MTV has changed the …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 13-17
March 4, 2009 – 1:27 am | 17 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School 13-17

This Week’s LIDLIPS
13. Learning photography is just like becoming fluent in a foreign language.
14. Invest more in your education than you do in photo gear.
15. Understand that the meaning of “traditional photography” is relative …

Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School – The Beginning
February 25, 2009 – 1:27 am | 9 Comments
Lessons I Didn’t Learn In Photo School – The Beginning

Many thanks to Scott Kelby who courageously let me drive his blog today. Coming up with something insightful for the legions of readers who follow Scott’s Photoshop Insider tapped all of my blog-juice over the …

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Speedliter’s Intensive™ Canon Flash Seminar – Phoenix, January 16

Speedliter’s Intensive™ Canon Flash Seminar – Phoenix, January 16

Update: The Speedliter’s Intensive™ will tour the US in spring 2010 (and hopefully head overseas in the summer / fall). Join the mailing list, via the link just below, and you’ll be able to vote …

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Smashing Pumpkins With High-Speed Sync * Gang Light – Part 2

Smashing Pumpkins With High-Speed Sync * Gang Light – Part 2

GANG LIGHT – Part 2: Just how fast a shutter speed do you need to freeze the seeds flying from a pumpkin that your teenage son is trying to drive over the left field fence? …

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Drew Gardner on the Frontier of Digital Cinematography

Drew Gardner on the Frontier of Digital Cinematography

Many pro shooters still struggle to accept that the world is changing around us. My friend, Drew Gardner, who shoots commercially in London, is not one to wait for the obvious. Last August, Drew and …

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‘Making The Transition To Digital Tech’ – Image Mechanics Workshop

‘Making The Transition To Digital Tech’ – Image Mechanics Workshop

How do you capture and process 3,000 to 5,000 shots and hand your client the image disk in a single day? Is a workflow that shoots tethered into Lightroom robust enough for professional work? How …

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