This is a nice, comprehensive overview of how one photographer, Bob Davis, travels light with his bag full of speed lights to creatively light his client assignments. I follow a similar path using speed lights both for on site lighting and also for use in a studio. The key for me is to gang up speed lights to simulate the power of larger strobes an...

I pass by this old Chevy Truck just about every day as I bike along "A" street where it is always parked on the street, outside its owner, the Ashland Hardware store. With its tires always low on air, I don't even know if this truck can move, but would I love to borrow it one day for a ride.

A young Neil Tyson applying to Cornell University gets a letter from Carl Sagan:

A few weeks ago, I did a studio shoot for the Non GMO efforts (Friends of Family Farmers) here in Jackson County, Oregon. I thought it might be illustrative for how studio lighting can be done without a lot of expensive high end equipment. I used strobes and various shaped soft boxes to shape the light... and explain it all in this PDF: Studio Ligh...

Since the majority of my clients are horse people I am always looking for better ways to capture tack sharp focus when switching between stationary and action shots. A horse and rider in repose one moment transforms within a few seconds into a horse jumping with rider over the gates. Two very different focus points. I am a Nikon D800 user but this...