Krav Maga

3, 2, 1, click from a pose is just goofy. It's not uncommon for me to spend 30 minutes or longer with agented models teaching them to not pose. A good way of doing that is to tell them to go to a ...

Newest member of the 35 and Up! project. From Brazil this is Cristiane, age 43. I'm not sure what she does for a living as she's only been in the States for about 4 months. She reached out to me ...

Shamir and I have been talking about this shoot since the middle of winter. Last week, with the first real warmish days, we just winged it.

No, intended goal is far more useful.

I love giant soft boxes in general. This shot of Inna was natural lighting. I just did a shoot this weekend for a model who opted to not do any makeup and specifically asked that I not fix any of ...

That is true; what is it being used for? There are some situations in which a full-on retouch is warranted or requested by the client. But I think, generally, for portfolio photos, a very light ...

Other than a little dodge and burn to smooth tome tonal transitions, there is zero skin retouching. The only other editing is color grading. I'm really starting to develop a strong distaste for ...

You really need to provide some sample photos that represent what your goal may be. Otherwise those of us making suggestions are probably projecting lighting that's needed for our own aesthetic.

Gasp! You're right! LOL. I'll never be the same.

This is an awesome shot. Period. I am a bit disappointed in the lack of bloviating about the cropped head and chopped fingers. I was looking forward to the absurdity.

Close, but not quite. To be honest, my times are off by quite a lot. I took a closer look at the camera and it's a model B No. 2A Hawkeye which puts it at about 90 ish years old. I was thinking it ...

I always wanted to use a 130 ish year old camera for a photoshoot. Bonus points if you can guess the camera.

Thank you. As far as where I find models, I would say close to 90 percent of them contact me through Instagram. Isah, here, signed to an agency fairly recently and she reached out to me to do more ...

Why did humans create cave paintings some 65,000 years ago? Why did humans sit around tell stories and pass them along before written language? Why have various sorts of representative artforms ...

From a test shoot a couple of days ago.

Thank you.

Thank you, Klaus. I do appreciate the link explaining the concept of mirror neurons. It's wildly interesting. I agree that empathy plays a significant role in how we view or perceive something that ...

Inna wanted to come into the studio and do a "real" session. I did a mixture of natural light, flash, and experimented with some hard constant light as well. Being from the former Soviet Union, ...

I believe what Klaus says here is so important. For the most part non-photographers aren't caught up in the technical aspects of a photo. Generally they're captured by a perceived connection with ...