"Central Park Beauty"
"Central Park Beauty" ©David A. Ziser This is another image I captured at last weeks B&H Shootout in Central Park. Part of my lesson to the attendees was how and why to shoot with wide angle lenses. I love shooting with wide...
"Coming At You"
"Coming At You" ©David A. Ziser This is just one of the images I captured yesterday at my B&H Central Park shootout. It's just a simple portrait of this lovely young lady, Laurence. What makes it special is the l...
My Shootout At Central Park – Great Time and Great Images!
Good Morning Everybody, What a day! We arrived at Central Park's Belvedere Castle, the location selected for my B&H shootout, around 10:45a.m. Everyone was starting to gather for the big event. Peter, from Quantum, and I scouted the su...
Light Up Particles in the Air for a Snazzy Silhouette Portrait at Night
You can light up particles in the air for a snazzy effect. The photos in this post were done by shining a powerful focused light into the air in various weather conditions during a long exposure. You need a light source that outputs some major power to pull off the effect. I used a Coast...
Technique Tuesday: Give Me A Show Of Hands – The Finer Points Of Good Portraiture
Good Afternoon Everybody, Hey, better late than never, right? Sorry for the late post today. The morning got a little ahead of me and before long it was nearly 4:00 p.m. and I hadn’t even begun the post yet. No problem, I got it tog...
Creative Portraits of Classical Musicians
Denmark-based photographer Nikolaj Lund specializes in shooting the world of classical music, and captures some pretty unique portraits of musicians with their instruments. He takes the subjects out of their natural environment — the orchestra pit — and has them do epic poses in random places (e.g. streets, oceans, deserts). Portraits by Nikolaj Lund (via...
"Hot To Trot"
"Hot To Trot" ©David A. Ziser Here is an image I captured during yesterday’s class shoot. Now you see why Texas School is such a great place to teach. Not only do we get this really nice opportunity to meet some incredible pho...
Creative 365-Day Self-Portrait Project by a 17-Year-Old Photographer
Last October, Portland-based 17-year-old photographer Brendon Burton began an ambitious project in which he committed to creating one self-portrait every day for a year. Now, half a year later, Burton is still going strong and his Flickr photostream is full of beautiful and creative images that document his development as a photographer. 365 by Brendon...
Wednesday Recap: Shootout At Texas School
Good Morning Everybody, After beginning class early yesterday at 8:30 a.m. we wrapped yesterday’s activities with the Boxers and Boots party complete with parade at about 11:00 p.m. last evening. Lots of students and instructors stayed much later bu...
Starry Portraits Shot Using an Infrared Camera and a Microsoft Kinect
“Dancing with Invisible Light” is a project by San Francisco-based photographer Audrey Penven, who used an infrared camera to capture portraits illuminated by the invisible structured light emitted by a Microsoft Kinect. With these images I was exploring the unique photographic possibilities presented by using a Microsoft Kinect as a light source. The Kinect –...
Emotive Portraits of Majestic Horses
“All the Wild Horses” is a photo series by South African photographer Andrew McGibbon that consists of beautiful studio portraits of horses. McGibbon writes, For thousands of years the horse has been mankind’s closest ally. The horse made travel and development possible. We tethered, weighted and reigned them. We captured, stabled and trained them. Ever...
An Artist Goes Undercover at a JC Penney Portrait Studio
Hyperallergic has published an essay about a project titled Free Sitting done by artist Nora Herting, who got a job as a photographer at a JC Penny portrait studio for the project. Here’s the essay’s description of the project: The portrait serves a testament to the subjects’ prosperity and personal relations, and yet, despite the...
