The Ice Society is a subscription-based photography educational website created by world renowned photographer Jerry Ghionis dedicated to empowering fellow professionals and enthusiasts to take their photography and business to new heights. A new chapter is added every month with...
Celestial Lights Caught On Camera
This is a wonderful video of earth and space. I remember back in the day when I lived in Minnesota I was fortunate enough to witness similar dances of light in the sky but of course not in this scale....
How To Gel Flashes
Yes, finally after several days delay and a two failed attempts to upload to You Tube, here it is, my quick 12 minute (almost) video on how to gel your flashes… I was asked last week. There are literally many...
Studio Lighting Techniques from Mark Wallace
Mark Wallace is one of my favorite photography instructors when it comes to online videos. Here is another great video on how to use lighting tricks in the studio environment. Enjoy (tomorrow I will show you two techniques on how...
What Is The Woodburytype Photographic Process?
Yes, I know, we got it made with all the toys and technology we have in our hands today. I bet our kids or grandkids will laugh at the tools we use today, or they will look at them as...
Ian Ruther: Alchemist
I have been following Ian’s work since the beginning and yesterday or so a good buddy of mine, photographer friend Justin Hagman posted a video about him. I thought I had this video on this blog, can’t believe I missed...
How Sebastiao Salgado Sees The World
He has been one of my top 10 photographers of all time and I hope to meet him in person someday. Some of the images here may be disturbing, view discretion advised. Gokhan
Off-Camera Lighting with Neil Van Niekerk
Author, photographer, friend, blogger Neil van Niekerk shares a few helpful tips on off-camera lighting. Enjoy and go out practice You can visit Neil’s blog here: Tangents Gokhan Tags:Gokhan Cukurova, Chicago, Wedding, Photographer, Wedding...
History Of Camera
Great book (seen it at Barnes & Noble) nice video, makes me remember how lucky we are with all the gadgets of today. That luck should not be taken granted though. Photographer still needs to pay attention to many aspects...
How Photography Used To Be
I found this video on Gizmodo and really digging it. It sure was a totally different world. I’d like to learn wet plate photography just for the experience but this photographer made me rethink: What if I get hooked like...