When they announced they were remaking the classic Stephen King novel IT, I truly was skeptical. Afterall, who can live up to Tim MF Curry? Well, I saw it this past week. And it’s flipping awesome! While I agree the movie is far from perfect, I really enjoyed myself! In…
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Background I am surrounded by inspiring and creative people. I’m not sure if this happened on purpose or if it’s something I lucked myself into, but I truly am a fortunate dude. Between my family and friends, the people I work with, and my amazing studiomates (shout out to my…
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Hey everybody! Here’s quick before and after of my latest piece Heaven’s Fire: To download the PSD (low-res), please join my e-mail list 🙂
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It has been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to sit down and do a little writeup for my site and quite honestly, it feels amazing to be back! Over the past 2 months or so, I’ve found myself becoming obsessed with costumes and special effects makeup. In fact,…
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When I was starting off in photography, a big resource to help expand my knowledge were the before-and-after photos other photographers would share with me. When given the chance to see a before photo, more often than not the a lot of the techniques used by the photographer become extraordinarily…
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I’ve really been inspired by underwater photography as of late. While I do have access to an underwater case, Chicago’s frigid weather sort of limits our options (and sadly, I don’t know anyone with a pool). I had to improvise. The following shot was setup as follows: As you’ll notice this is a 3-light…
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Level: Beginner Before we begin I’d like to preface this by saying the phrase “vintage look” is very much a vague statement that really doesn’t mean anything. There are a lot of ways to achieve a more vintage-y look, but we’re going to focus on a look that seems to be popular amongst photographers on Instagram,…
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Level: Beginner Ok I want everybody to fess up. Be honest: You’ve overexposed a shoot before. I know I have. It sucks, and to be honest, it’s a horrible habit. Luckily for me, the power of shooting in RAW can often times help salvage an overexposed photo. Below, I present to…
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Life is an interesting thing. You see, the past year of my life has been absolutely insane. Like, so insane that I basically took a year-long hiatus from shooting any personal stuff as I needed the extra time to situate the situation. I’ve slowly been crawling my way back to…
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I’ve been slowly working on a collection of commercial art projects over the past few months and felt it was time to share this one with you guys. When deciding on a product to use, I knew I wanted to do a photograph where the product in question would illuminate…
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