I had seen this several months ago and just stumbled on it again and though I would share.

Although it’s not completely photography related, since I a Mac nut I thought I would share Steve Jobs 90 minute Mac World address right here in 60 seconds. It’s fun to watch and will save you 89 minutes in the process. The thin new Mac Laptop look pretty cool… although I think I’ll stick with my MacPro 15″ laptop for now. Anyway I’m off to watch the 90 minute version.

Better and better and better.

I just finished a new video on a portrait style I call Painting with Light.

In this video you will learn how we create very dramatic portraits through our painting with light techniques.

We will cover all the equipment needed for this style of portraiture as well as barn doors, snoots, gobo’s and other accessories. You will be pleasantly surprised by how simple and inexpensive the equipment needed for this style of portraiture really is.

Although, it’s not really about the equipment, it’s about how you use it. Painting with Light…. placing light where you want it, not blasting with a large soft box (not that’s there is anything wrong with that). You will learn how to precisely paint light in areas that we want to emphasize and remove light from areas that we don’t want to draw attention to.

After going through all the equipment and theory behind our painting with light style of photography we will go through a full shoot, start to finish.

In this video we will be doing a character study of a man, but this lighting style also work well with seniors, glamour, couple and fine art work.

After watching this video you will be able to create very dramatic portraits and never have your portraits lack impact again.