Revisiting Old Work
Yesterday, I had a little down time (even though I probably should have been doing some homework) and I decided to go back and re-edit some of my photos from about 6-months ago. It’s crazy how much you can learn and how much your vision can change in that amount of time that can completely [...]
2010 UO Track & Field Campaign
For the past couple of months, I’ve been involved with the University of Oregon Track and Field team producing some awesome photos for them to use for marketing the 2010 NCAA Championships. I shot a variety of photos that they’ve gone and used for billboards, banners, posters and various other media all over Eugene. Unfortunately, [...]
Everyone is Born Creative
A few weeks back, I did a post called Drawing the Red Line and I mentioned a book called Ignore Everybody: and 39 Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod. Well, we are back to that book to talk about another topic that I thought was really interesting and a topic that I see come up [...]
Dramatic Lighting Tutorial
Tutorial showing a few of my lighting techniques and how I get the base of my image to look the way they look.
Big News Monday
Well, for those of you who haven’t already heard, it’s a big day in the creative industry. Adobe is rolling out the new version of all of their products, CS5! This means new Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, and (the only thing I really care about) Photoshop! I’m sure there will be great new products for every [...]
Dramatic Lighting
A photographer friend of mine, Seshu, recently asked me to come up with a blog post for his site www.tiffinbox.org and I decided to do a lighting tutorial. Most of you already know that lighting is an essential component to my photography and in order to get the look that I want, it has to [...]
Chase Jarvis and creativeLIVE
For those of you who don’t know who Chase Jarvis is (even though you should because I posted about him yesterday!), he’s a Seattle based Photographer who is all about giving back to the photographer community (and now the creative community). Today, at 10:50 am PST, Chase had a live broadcast all over the world [...]
Learning from the Masters
For the most part, my blog reflects the processes in which I am going through. It’s my way of almost documenting my journey to becoming a photographer but by providing the information I find/read/see to all of you. I try to provide some tips into some of the processes I go through in order to [...]
The Apple and the Orange
Image by Vlad Artazok Today’s blog post is a quote straight out of David duChemin’s book, VisionMongers. For those of you creatives out there, it’s a great book about the business aspect of our lives that everyone should read. Of course, David is a photographer so it’s catered to photographers but there are important ideas [...]
The New Zach Ancell Photography
I’m sure many of you have already (or hopefully) made your way over to the new Zach Ancell Photography website. It took about a month to put together and then another couple of weeks to get the domain transfered over but I never had a chance to officially announce that the site is complete! There [...]