"In The Golden Light" ©David A. Ziser I made this image a few years ago.  I like it because it's shows just how beautiful natural window light can be.  Once again, we have a beautiful profile view of our subject.  I've mentioned recently [link] that the profile view of your subject can often times lead to a wonderfully striking portrait.  Sure it's posed, but who cares - this is a

Good Morning Everybody, So this past weekend I'm playing around with Lightroom 3.  I'm all fired up about how it shoots tethered and want to see if it really is as easy as they say.  Well, it is that easy.  Fire up Lightroom 3, plug in your camera and the computer finds it and installs the necessary drivers - all no big deal. Hit File -> Shoot Tethered in Lightroom 3 and up pops the control

"Shadow Play" ©David A. Ziser I love how this image turned out.  When I first looked at it, I thought there was something interesting going on compositionally.  With just a few judicious tonality changes in certain parts of the image, I had what I wanted. The title implies what I like about this image - the shadow play, or the play of "lights" and "darks" dancing across the image.  At

Good Morning Everybody,

Well today, I take my non-3G iPad and make it work anywhere.  Heck, all I need to do is carry my own "hotspot" with me, then I can connect anywhere even in the car while traveling (LaDawn would be driving of course) - pretty cool. I headed to the Verizon store and picked up one of their very tiny MiFi 2200 portable "hotspots".

This thing is pretty cool.  It will support up to 5 devices connected to it.  That means 2 computers,  1 iPhone, 1iPad, 1 to spare. The beauty part of this solution is the fact that I avoid the high price connection fees at all the hotels as we travel the country. And, now everything I carry with me "connects"  wherever I am. I'm looking forward to seeing how well it works next week in NYC.

OK, that was a little "geek peek" at what's happening in my life for today. Time to get on with today's post. Here we go...

I'm Just A Manual Kind Of Guy

Many people email me with blog post suggestions.  The Skribit widget on the right side also gives you an opportunity to make those suggestions, too.  I read them - all of them - and file the suggestions in my on-line "suggestion box".  Today, I’ pulling out one of those suggestions to post.  The question our

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Good Afternoon Everybody,

I hope things are looking good for you in your part of the world today. We had lots of little things to do here at the studio today hence the later than usual post. So let's get moving with today's Technique Tuesday episode.  Here we go...

You Light Up My Life: Alternate Ways To Light Outdoors

Today I've got a pretty cool Technique Tuesday for you. It’s practically a Kelby Training video – yep, it goes a little long, but good stuff - I promise!

It's actually the result of an experience I had during my Digital Master Class. We were shooting in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the groups, lead by my coach, Craig Weiglein, had found a really cool alley way for doing "urban" wedding images.  Craig is a great shooter in this part of the world - you can check out his website right here - and shoots lots of high school seniors and concert events here in the city.

Anyway, I saw he had his group working in this urban landscape and was wondering what was going on.  As I got closer, I saw he was holding a Westcott 36” reflector, grabbing some sun, and bouncing it back into the scene. His group was getting some pretty nice results.

Here's where the idea popped into my head about how to use the

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Good Morning Everybody,

I hope everyone had a great weekend and had fun with your pixel play.  We sure did.  Saturday, I had an engagement party to shoot for one of our best clients. I love it when you show up and know about half the guests in attendance.  Its always fun to catch up. That said, let's get on with today's post.

Travelin' Light Lighting-wise

The cool thing about this party was the fact that I was traveling  light, lighting-wise.  Now don't get me wrong, I still shot the party with three lights. The main difference this time was that I ran my "room" light on battery power.  With all the new cameras offering such high ISO sensitivities, I can shoot at much less power output with my strobes.

That's like great news because less flash output for the same shots means that can get by with battery powered portable lights.  It also means that I get more flashes per charge out of those units - easily lasting the entire event.

This weekend I used my Quantum T5dR on a 12 foot high light stand to light up the room.  You can see it in the shot above. I was trying to get a quick grab of the guest photographing her friends and inadvertently shot my light too – not a good thing.  Still it’s a fun

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Good Afternoon Everybody,

I hope you really enjoyed the post yesterday [link]. I had fun putting it together.  It was especially fun to look back over the Zig Ziglar videos.  You probably didn't get a chance to watch them all but plan to spend some time over the weekend and dedicate some time to  view all of them.

Don't stop there either.  Do your own YouTube search. There is just so much information out there that you should never run out of sources of inspiration.

Since I've been waxing fantastic over people that have influenced me over the years, today I wanted to discuss one of my early photographic instructors.  I'm choosing this for a reason which I'll get to shortly. So let's get right to it.

Working With A Master, What Was It Like To Work With Monte Zucker?

It was back in 1978 when a friend of mine asked me to accompany him to a local seminar with one of Canada's finest wedding photographers at the time. His name was Tibor Horvath.  I was blown away.  It was my first experience of personally feeling that my work was "junk". At that same time, I KNEW that I could be a lot better - I just needed to practice a lot more. Heck, I was still big into

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Good Morning Everybody,

Today I’m announcing my Digital WakeUp Call Success Collection and I’m thrilled!  Why? Because nobody has ever offered so much "honest to goodness value" in one package!

I have been working with my video team, designers, and a special group of vendors for the last four months to bring this whole project together. 

The result is about the most jam-packed collection of training resources, exciting design and workflow software, and success tools ever assembled in one package!

Just Check out everything that's included! It's amazing!

Yes, all this for only $89.95 – a $600 value!

Hey, I don’t hardly believe it either! Hold on to your seats and Just look at what I’ve included thanks to the generosity of all involved.

1. First off, we've taken my "rapid fire" 4 1/2 hour Digital WakeUp Call presentation, edited it together into a very jazzy, fast paced presentation that captures all the fun we experienced in the 60 cities we visited. Then we added nearly 5 more hours of content to the video collection. I’ll tell you, it ROCKS! All the information and the fun that we had during the tour is captured vividly in this 5 DVD (9 hour) collection.

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