On Thursday, Calumet Photographic closed all of their U.S. stores amid filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy. I was particularly saddened to hear of yet another specialty photo store (read: non-mass retailer) leaving our industry. It is an incredibly competitive industry with small (and ever shrinking) margins, and the reality is that there are more cameras in the market place than there are...
As a local camera store based in Salt Lake City, UT, we have a lot of love for the photography community. We're all about sharing work from photographers we love, but we figured it's time we let you all get to know us a little bit better as a company. Our strapping team of bright-eyed employees here at pictureline are...
Lauren Johnson (www.laurenrjohnson.com) has been a stylist for photographers for many years, specializing mainly in bridal and wedding photography styling. While her more recent background has been in wedding and commercial styling, Lauren's formal training has been through public relations and journalism, giving her a unique sensibility on fashion and styling trends on video and in live news anchoring situations,...
Photographer Michael Clark (www.michaelclarkphoto.com) is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. His editorial and corporate clients include National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Men's Journal, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, Climbing, Nike, Nikon, Adobe, Patagonia, Pfizer and DuPont to name just a few. Michael Clark: "Choosing the right photography workshop can be difficult. It is difficult to know how open the...
Jack Graham (www.jackgrahamphoto.com) is a professional photographer living in the Pacific Northwest. Jack is well known for his Photography Classroom in the Field workshops throughout the United States and beyond offering his personal touch to the photographic workshop experience. Jack’s work has been published in many well-known magazines as well as for stock and fine art print sales. Jack is...
Andrea Zocchi is the Marketing and Promotions Manager at Digital Silver Imaging (http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/ ) in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and Knox College and is an author, a former publisher, graphic designer and art director. His extensive experience in photography and printing makes him an excellent resource for beginning to understand the challenges of photographic...
When Pictureline ran a photo contest every week of the summer in 2012, an interesting question came up when the winner of the PORTRAITS contest was announced. A follower on Facebook mentioned, "Does every winner of a portrait photography contest have to have a beard?" Having photographed many people around the world, I realized that I, too, was probably more inclined...
Photographer Matthew Kuhns (www.matthewkuhnsphotography.com) is a California-based landscape photographer, with images published in Popular Photo and PDN. Matthew has been producing landscape imagery across the United States for many years, and shares today a unique look at color temperature as it changes over several minutes in the landscape. Matthew: "'Is that what it really looked like?' is one of...
While the weather shows signs of breaking in the West, and at the tail end of a very hot and dry summer, having the kids back in school and the promise of cooler weather brings us to consider where to plan that perfect trip when the weather turns cold in most parts of the country. While most think of southern...
Marc Muench (www.muenchphotography.com) has been a professional landscape and sports photographer for over 20 years. Marc is now the "artist in residence" at dgrin.com for Smugmug, where he contributes on a regular basis to the "Muench University" critique thread. He is currently the photo editor of the National Parks guide, published by The American Park Network, which contain many of...
The Lowepro website lists the Pro Trekker 400 AW as a "lightweight, yet rugged, hydration-ready, expedition camera backpack." We tested out the 400 AW specifically as we thought the 400 would be what the majority of backpacking and trekking camera enthusiasts and professionals would go for. The 600 AW is larger--and much wider--making me feel like I would be needing...
David Patterson (www.davidpattersonphotography.com) has specialized in the photography of architecture, interior design, and related projects for twenty years, creating images for firms in the built environment and illustrative images for editorial and advertising clients. Based in Colorado, he works throughout the nation with a concentration in the Rocky Mountain region. His work has been published nationally and internationally in magazines...
Photographers, almost by nature, are gearheads. Some more than others, to be sure. Because photography is an obvious visual pursuit, photographers over time will begin to see a difference in lens quality and in the quality of the digital capture of the sensor. Equipment in a way used to be less of an issue with film as photographers were mainly...
Sean Hagwell (seanhagwell.com) is a celebrity and entertainment photographer who at a young age has started collecting a strong portfolio in the record and related industries. His work has appeared in Boston Magazine, Huffington Post's magazine "Olympic Issue," and for many companies including Sony Records and soon-to-be-released content for Warner Entertainment/Word Records. THE "LADY GAGA" SHOOT BY SEAN HAGWELL "One...
Photographer Andy Williams (www.muenchworkshops.com) has been a photographer all of his life. Andy has been teaching professional workshops since 2005, covering some of the major national parks in the West: Yosemite, Bryce Canyon, and Zion. His horse workshops with Lynne Glazer have become favorites of photographers of all levels. His work can be seen on Moon River Photography. Long fascinated...
Matt Nager (www.mattnager.com) grew up in the Rocky Mountains and frequently traveles throughout the Southwest for assignments. Growing up, he spent much of his free time getting lost in the mountains, filming movies with his friends, and jamming on the saxophone in his school jazz band. His love for nature and the outdoors, as well as his interest in people and culture,...
Trevor Clark (www.trevorclarkphoto.com) was recently highlighted in Photo District News (PDN) for his use of off-camera lighting in his adventure and outdoor photography. Trevor seems to be the quintessential on-the-road and shooting-all-the-time kind of photographer. Trevor's recent personal project of shooting a still and video story on an American kayaker who returned to medicine to set up a clinic in...
Carolyn Guild (www.carolynguild.com) currently splits her residences between Mexico, California and Utah with her husband. She travels extensively to capture her transfixing black and white photographs, which have gained International attention. She has won numerous awards including B&W Magazine’s Gold Award for Seascape/Water (2010) and Landscape/Nature (2007), Silver Award for Metaphor/Abstract 2012 and Bronze Award in Abstract, 2007. Carolyn’s work...
Adrian Parkinson (www.adrianmarie.com) is a freelance food and lifestyle photographer based out of Utah. Her love for photography has pushed her in several directions, including portrait photography, which has combined in interesting ways with her photographs of people and the food they love. ADRIAN'S PHILOSOPHY OF FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY Adrian: "I believe in a simple, direct approach to food photography that...
Raised among Utah's Wasatch Mountains, internationally-acclaimed photographer Adam Barker (www.adambarkerphotography.com) has a passion for photography matched only by his zest for life. Known for bold landscape and active lifestyle imagery, his love affair with exceptional imagery has translated into stirring editorial work for Outdoor Photographer, Skiing, Ski, Powder, Flyfish Journal, USA Today, The Drake, Adventure Fishing, Mountain Sports & Living,...
Dwight Eschliman (eschlimanphoto.com) has been living and working in San Francisco for over ten years. His work spans a variety of subjects from athletic shoes to Legos, clean rooms to castles in Germany, the newest tech products to beef stew. His editorial photography appears in New York Times Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Esquire, GQ, Details, New York Magazine, Dwell, and...
Legendary Utah-based landscape photographer Tom Till (www.tomtill.com) has been photographing on the Nikon D800e in the southwest of the United States during the monsoon season and shares with Pictureline a unique image from the desert. Tom's collection of imagery stretches over 37 years, mostly on 4x5 film, and he has many "first" shots under his belt in the Utah/Southwest area....
Cover "From Oz to Kansas" by Vincent Versace Vincent Versace (www.versacephotography.com) is an internationally recognized pioneer in the art and science of digital photography. His passion for natural light photography is manifest not only in his work but also through his role as a creative and technical leader. Vincent's work has been highlighted in American Photo, Popular Photography, The New...
Photographer Matthew Kuhns (www.matthewkuhnsphotography.com) is a California-based landscape photographer, with images published in Popular Photo and PDN. There is a reason why I'm connected to Matt's image highlighted here today, and that is because I met Matthew several minutes after he took this shot in Yosemite. I had been foolishingly loitering farther up in the Yosemite Valley and had taken...
Photographer Chip Kalback (www.chipkalback.com) is an independent photographer based out of Denver, Colorado who shoots commercial and editorial photography with a focus on lifestyle sports and music. He is represented by Wonderful Machine. We caught up with him in his busy schedule to ask specifically about how he gets his fantastic concert and music shots. Pictureline: First, how does a...
Nadav Kander (www.nadavkander.com) is a regular contributor to many international publications, including the New York Times Magazine, for whom he documented Obama's People. His many international awards and nominations include most recently the Silver Photogapher of the Year Award at the Lianzhou Internaitonal Photo Festival in China. He holds the title of the largest portfolio of work by the same...
Ryan Krueger (ryankrueger.com) is an outdoor adventure and landscape photographer based out of Bozeman, Montana. He works with editorial and commercial clients around the world and specializes in capturing authentic images in natural environments. With a passion for the outdoors and a strong commitment to producing quality work, Ryan has been able to consistently bring back commanding images that tell...
Guy Tal (www.guytal.com) is a photographer, writer, instructor, and philosopher who splits his time between all of these things and just living. He has been rather prolific in producing eBooks, and this one, Intimate Portraits of the Colorado Plateau, is a mix of philosophy, memories, and of course, images. His style and philosophy are refreshing in a world of highly...
Sean Hagwell (seanhagwell.com) is a celebrity and entertainment photographer who at a young age has started collecting a strong portfolio in the record and related industries. His work has appeared in Boston Magazine, Huffington Post's magazine "Olympic Issue," and for many companies including Sony Records and soon-to-be-released content for Warner Entertainment/Word Records. CONCEIVING THE PARACHUTE SHOOT "The Parachute image was...
Jacom Stephens (jacomstephens.com) is an award-winning commercial photographer based out of Salt Lake City with nearly twenty years of experience in the advertising industry. He has worked for many local and national brands and has built a reputation of creating stunning, impeccably lit images. Jacom specializes in on-location lifestyle photography, typically of people using products in various situations, but does...
Laura Siebert (www.laura-siebert.com) is a premier children's photographer, with two studios in Denver and St. Louis, Eyesmiles Photography (TM). As a former pediatric intensive care nurse, she is known for her special rapport with children and their families. She is sought after for images that showcase the connections between people and for her ability to make every child look and...
Consider this a fall 2012 cornucopia of workshops coming up: some are the classic fall landscape 'shops and some are the high end artistic stuff. We do enjoy pulling out some really interesting ones from time to time, like Maine Media Workshop's photographic journey on a boat, which (though pricey) may be a great way to travel and photograph the...
When Canon announced its release of the new 40 mm f/2.8 STM Pancake lens, the photographic community sat up and noticed. A lens that was flatter than a Canon 1.4 x Extender? And only $199? This I gotta see. I am very interested in high quality equipment and when that equipment is simplified and lightened in weight for my travels,...
MARRAKESH, MOROCCO Morocco historically has been one of the United States' long-time allies, with Morocco being the first country to recognize the United States as a sovereign nation in 1777. It also happens to be one of the safer countries in the Middle East for travel. Europeans flock to the country, both for its proximity with cheap flights and as...
With photos published everywhere from Powder and Bike Magazine to commercial shoots for companies such as Karhu and Black Diamond, Steven Lloyd (www.stevelloydphoto.com) has positioned himself as one of today’s leading action sports photographers. A Utah native, Steve Lloyd’s talent for photography has grown alongside his passion for the outdoors. He continually strives to capture the raw essence and emotion...
I have to be honest here. I have never been prone to use an on-camera flash. I do use continuous lights for video and portrait work, but I have always tried to keep it simple. In the landscape, I am used to natural light and positioning subjects in my travel photography in available light so as to maximize the...
Photographer Michael Kenna Critics and viewers and writers have all described Michael Kenna's (www.michaelkenna.net) work in similar terms: "serene" "mysterious" "intimate" "humane" and "powerful." Michael Kenna's black and white medium format work has changed little in terms of format through his career, but his subject matter has moved, as he has said, from the obviously "beautiful" things such as Venetian...
Kah Kit Yoong (www.magichourtravelscapes.com) is an Australian-based travel photographer who inadvertently picked up an SLR camera seven years ago. He has been the recipient of numerous prestigious international photography awards such as Veolia / BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Windland Smith Rice contest. His articles and photos have appeared in many publications such as Popular Photography, National Geographic, and...
Joshua Caldwell (www.joshuacaldwell.com) was born in Colorado in 1975. He studied art and architecture at the University of Utah, being awarded a BFA in 2003. Joshua attended graduate school at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. In 2008, Joshua completed his thesis on the Polaroid SX-70 camera and its influence on fine art photographers. He graduated in 2008...
Wayson Wight (waysonwight.com) creates dramatic imagery across the Western United States, in a fine art tradition. Based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, he has taken images from the towering peaks of the Rocky Mountains to the stretching coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Wayson’s goal is to create photographs that inspire the viewer to take the time to get out...
There are two types of "teaching" professionals in my estimation. Those who teach to teach, being compensated because they teach well, and those who teach to be compensated. This can further be broken down into those who are "good" at teaching and those who are mediocre. I make these generalizations (and I realize that they are gross generalizations) because I...
Nick Didlick's (www.nickdidlick.com) extensive career in photojournalism has spanned over three decades, two continents, and photographer positions at United Press Canada, Reuters, the Vancouver Sun, and the National Post. He has twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is a National Newspaper Award-winning photographer. He is now widely sought after as a speaker on digital imaging workflow, counting Nikon,...
Photographer Yun-Fei Tou Born in 1975, Yun-Fei Tou first encountered the art of photography in 1991, as a student at The American School in Switzerland. In 1998, he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a major in photography. In 2007 and 2008, Yun-Fei Tou received the Golden Tripod Award for Photography, presented by the Government Information Office, Executive...
Photographers are an opinionated lot, and those who are relatively new to the game may not see the reason one might want a fixed focal length lens (a "prime" lens) over a zoom lens. After all, shouldn't a zoom lens always be better in that it can cover more focal lengths? As with many things, tradeoffs exists between flexibility, contrast,...
Photographer Michael Clark (www.michaelclarkphoto.com) is an internationally published outdoor photographer specializing in adventure sports, travel, and landscape photography. His editorial and corporate clients include National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Men's Journal, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro, Climbing, Nike, Nikon, Adobe, Patagonia, Pfizer and DuPont to name just a few. He has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock...
Traveling around the islands of Hawaii is a photograph waiting to happen at any point. All the islands, are of course, fantastic for their blues of the skies and oceans and for their greens in the lush foliage covering the towering peaks. Rich black lava can add an extra element of contrast to many areas, as it does on Oahu's...
Dawn Kish (www.dawnkishphotography.com) is an Arizona-based photojournalist and outdoor photographer. She is represented by National Geographic Images and contributes as well to Aurora Photos and Getty Images. Her photographs seem to match her personality: interesting, exciting, and full of life. Her work has appeared on the covers of many magazines and she currently holds a position at the prestigious Arizona...
Tony Sweet (tonysweet.com) is a professional photographer, author, lecturer, and workshop instructor living in Eldersburg, Maryland. He and Susan Milestone own and operate Visual Artistry Photography Workshops, teaching throughout the US and Canada. Tony's photography is published worldwide in every medium and is represented by Getty Images. His iPhone photography is represented by Aurora Photos. Tony has authored five books on...
Photographer Marc Muench Marc Muench has been a professional landscape and sports photographer for over 20 years. After completing his studies at Pasadena Art Center College of Design in the spring of 1989, Marc immediately began photographing for book publishers such as Graphic Arts Center, Browntrout Publishing and Time Inc. Soon after, Marc represented Canon Camera in several ad campaigns,...
Lara Ferroni (www.laraferroni.com) describes herself as a "goner" when it came to taking her first photograph of a batch of raspberry scones. "My family quickly learned to ask first before digging in with their forks as I became completely snap-happy around any kind of food," she says. She keeps a very small, light-filled shop in Portland, Oregon. "I mostly do...
