by Jake Garn | Jan 11, 2011 | All About Lighting, Product Reviews, Whimsical Fashion Photography
Great lighting is all about the modifiers. Whether it is the clouds that filter harsh sunlight or the light shaping tools that attach to the front of your strobes – the way you control the light can have subtle (or extreme) differences on your subject. I...
by Jake Garn | Sep 20, 2010 | Product Reviews, Whimsical Fashion Photography
AquaTech Underwater Housing Canon 5D Mark II In a previous post I reviewed underwater point-and-shoot cameras. The cameras from Olympus and Panasonic were a lot of fun but lacked the control most serious photographers would want. Point-and-shoots are easy to carry and...
by Jake Garn | Aug 20, 2010 | Product Reviews, Whimsical Fashion Photography
What is the most important Purchase? Some sort of Data Backup, any sort! This is an educational announcement, no inspiration here just wisdom. If you already have an automatic backup system in place skip this blog post and look at my gallery instead. If you...
by Jake Garn | Aug 16, 2010 | Product Reviews, Whimsical Fashion Photography
Shooting Underwater is something I’ve never done before, not really sure why… I don’t really have the fancy tanks that a lot of the great underwater photographers have and I guess that kind of always kept me from messing around with it. But then the...
by Jake Garn | Aug 4, 2010 | All About Lighting, Product Reviews, Whimsical Fashion Photography
First of all, I have no idea why there isn’t a standard name for octagonal softboxes, every company uses their own name – Elinchrom Octa, Photoflex Octodome, Hensel Octaform… it gets confusing! That said the Octagon shaped soft-box is one of my...
by Jake Garn | May 12, 2010 | Product Reviews, Whimsical Fashion Photography
Review: 2 Light Kit for Less than $400 About a month ago I received an email from B&H asking if I’d be interested in reviewing photo equipment on my blog, all I had to do was tell them what I wanted to review and they’d send it out. Well, I could have...