Ed Verosky - portrait, boudoir and editorial photographer

Photographer Ed Verosky is a photographer you should check out and see what he's up to with his current projects. Working in portraiture, boudoir, glamour and editorial photography, he brings a unique artistic eye to his images. One of his projects you can see on the site is X-Reel - based on b-movie and stag films, he photographs in a gritty, film like style.

You can learn lots about photography and he current photography on his blog at that site.

To keep up on what Ed is doing, and get additional information not on his blog you should sign up for his newsletter at:  www.veroskyphoto.com/signup.html

I recently bought his ebook 100% Reliable Flash Photography - and even though I've been doing photography for many year, I did pick up a some really good ideas.  One thing you can apply is systematizing your flash photography - settle on one or two settings for your flash and always use it (or them), and you'll be better able to handle changing conditions. Ed has some great advice in this book on how to apply that idea. A great value for only $9.95. 

I'm not affiliated so I don't get paid if you buy, I just think for $10 you shouldn't pass up this great deal.

Ed also has ebooks on boudoir and beauty photography - check his blog to learn more.

Asignment - get out and shoot

If you're reading this, you're probably very interested in photography and learning to become better at it. Of course there's lots of information at the site BestPhotoLessons.com - which you should devour - but you also have to "do" photography.

So your assignment: get out and shoot something, anything, anywhere, every week Or even every day) from now until you can't get out of your hospital bed and your family gathers around you.

Its a simple assignment. But hard to do. But, doing something you love to do - even when its "in the way of life" is important to us as humans.

"What you do today is important because you are trading one day of your life for it."

Don't know who said that, but it is profound.

Book Review - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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This book is a fantastic way to get more creative - not just about learning to draw but to see whatever you're creating in a more meaningful way. A big part of any creative enterprise, from drawing to photography to writing a screenplay, is to get at the feelings about the subject - not just create an accurate representation. This book taught me more in a few lessons that 20 years of reading dozens of other books and looking at art.

You don't have to a be "talented sketch artist" to get going on the exercises in this book - just a willingness to do the exercises. I'm a photographer, and can draw a little. But I'm nothing compared to most artists who use pencils and pens. However, I still got so much out of this book and doing the exercises and have been able to push my photography even further because of it. So, yeah, by now you've probably guessed I highly recommend this to anyone who is pursing a creative career or just a creative life.

Hack a Canon

http://lifehacker.com/387380/turn-your-point+and+shoot-into-a-super+camera

Well, I don't know if I'd call it a Super Camera, but this hack is pretty cool if you want to push your Canon point and shoot into a better camera. The Canon Hacker's Development Kit, aka CHDK, is a firmware enhancement you put on your camera's memory card and it does magic.

What does this do to it? You can get RAW files for better images, you can add Motion Detection for security or shooting lightening, etc. You can play games on your Canon P&S. Some of the tricks are really cool, like way higher shutter speeds such as 1/12,500 or faster - which is faster than my dSLR Canon 5D, or really really slow like 65 seconds - yes over a minute.

If you like to shoot videos and - like me - are disappointed with your P&S's short video capture time, this hack will be something you'll have to do.

There's quite a few scripts being developed for this hack to add even more new features. Someone even developed a game to play on your P&S.

NOTE: I have not tried this myself, so don't know how good or stable the hack is, but would love to hear from someone who's done it.

Lots of people coming by

Yesterday, BestPhotoLessons.com had 139 people come to the site and viewed 350 pages.

I just compared the yearly stats and every year visitors just about doubles. We've almost had as many visitors so far this as we had last year.

It's really gratifying to see so many people using the site. Thanks to everyone who visits.

And if you would like to suggest more things you'd like to see here, by all means leave a comment or email us.

Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman

Gorgeous photos and essential wisdom from those who've experienced life and have made a difference, photographed and produced by New York photographer Andrew Zuckerman.

We should all take these lessons to heart - and for the photographers, be inspired both by the photography and scope of this book, which includes a DVD with the interviews.


The Trailer:








Also see the web site for the book if you want to learn more and see the "making of" - great for us photographers. www.wisdombook.org

Getting the perspective

Pretty much every camera now has at least one zoom lens. But how do you make better use of the various lengths of the lens (or lenses if you have more than one lens)?

Try this, pick a subject preferably a person or person sized object. Set your lens to the longest it goes and move yourself until the subject pretty much fills the lens. Now, zoom out just a bit and move until the subject fills about the same amount of frame. Zoom out some more, and move again. Keep doing this until you've gone through the whole length of the zoom on your camera.

Now review the pictures and check out how each image looks.