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A new lighting setup to try for table top photography

On a recent rainy Saturday afternoon I decided to take some time to experiment with a new lighting setup that I learned at a recent macro photography seminar. The idea is to surround the subject […]

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Good things happen when you play with your food!

A brief article about photographing chocolate cup cakes in a studio environment

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Project52 – Still Life

For assignment number 3 of Project 52, a great photography learning project run by Photographer Don Gianatti over at Lighting Essentials we had to create a still life photograph. It sounds simple and straight forward […]

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How You Can Make Paint Dance?

One of my favorite photos is this image, a capture of a few drops of paint. While a few drops of paint may not sound like they would be an interesting subject, but when you […]

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