Headshots: diversify your face
There’s more to great headshots these days than just your head. You’ve got to engage the imagination if you really want to catch folks’ attention. Case in point: Chris, the proprietor of Panmelodia – an independent music production company – dropped by the other day needing photos to introduce his new (top secret) business launch […]
Cream of the Crop – PDN/PhotoServe – May
Athletes and artists have this in common: If we are not constantly exercising our creative muscles we quickly start to atrophy. Personal projects are a great way to stay in shape. In my recent drive to keep things fresh, I’ve played with a local studio project, which spawned a lighting tutorial gig, which among other […]
Pictures of pictures
Flat art is just a picture of a picture. Simple stuff you’d think. Then you try to do it; to translate a flat, two-dimensional rendition of a 3-D scene onto a flat, 2-D film plane. Ask any musician who has recruited the artistic talents of a best friend to pull together their next-platinum album cover […]
Cream of the Crop – PhotoServe January edition
Over the past 2 months I have come to realize that the edit is just as important to portfolios and galleries as the actual photographs that go into making them. Last month, I began to work with Jackie Ney, now with Pedro + Jackie. She’s a freelance photo consultant out of New York and she’s […]
Santa on a bad day?
Our latest tutorial just hit the webwaves for Photoflex this Christmas that utilizes the extra small OctoDome nxt. I’m pretty stoked about this hexagonal softbox because as the lesson proves, it’s a great little tool that packs up in a very small case to help portraits on the fly. The gig was a combination product/portrait for […]
Featured in Popular Photography: Backstory
NGO WORK – FEATURED IN POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, DEC. 2011 (article text as follows) In 2008, I traveled to Manila with my family and did volunteer work for Action International. One of the NGO’s members was writing a story on the “Ten Worst Jobs in Manila” for a street publication called The Jeepney, which focuses on […]
Watertight: Featured on Fstoppers
Was blessed to meet Patrick Hall (@phfactorblog) on Twitter this week. Patrick is the Co-Founder of Fstoppers who after a triptych of tweets, had scripted a short but sweet ‘graph about our recent video: Watertight. I’m always amazed by how much can happen in strings of 144 characters or less. Watertight from Craig Pulsifer […]
How to pick a guide – Pinoy style
Location scouting in Laguna, Philippines yesterday, I was already up to my knees in brush when I thought to ask the man standing by the tree, “Meron bang ahas dito, po?” (are there snakes here, sir?) The man, in his late 40’s, looked calmly at me, twitched his eyebrows upwards and puckered his lips out; […]
Bronze Award @ Creative Asia Photography Awards
The inspiration behind this photo has everything to do with the fact that the new dad here is a youth pastor who daily tries to model what it means to have a loving Father in Heaven. The lighting technique involves a 30″ overhead softbox spilling onto a styrofoam reflector angled in front of and slightly […]
LowePro 400 AW: field ready
For those of you out there who have scored the newest Trekker Series backpack from LowePro, welcome to the club. If you’re anything like me, soon after the excitement of this incredible mould-to-the-body pack normalized, you found yourself in a Velcro ripping frenzy trying to create the optimal customized workspace for your gear. Not saying […]
Unpacking the VJ Jargon
I’ve been wanting to tackle a request to unpack a few terms from the Visual Journalism Bootcamp “Top 10 Lessons List” for some time, so here goes: Strategic Dissonance (as I understand it) Dissonance, by definition, is a lack of harmony. As part of the summer VJ Bootcamp we attended, author Tony Deifell introduced the […]
VJ Bootcamp – TOP TEN LIST
Just back from the 2010 Visual Journalist Bootcamp in Langley, WA. Here’s the skinny. TOP TEN LIST OF VJ GEMS TO REMEMBER (MediaStorm): 70% of video production is audio Ask paired questions, then shut up. (use the Dumb Dog look for clarification) Let the motion happen (lock on tripod, reduce pans/tilts/zooms) Let each piece “breath” […]
