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Webinar: Fine Art Travel Photography with Andy Katz

Photographer Andy Katz discusses traveling with your equipment, finding the shot in faraway places, composition, using light, and managing color. He talks about how he communicates with people, listens to their stories, and creates the relationships that allow him to capture beautiful and revealing portraits. \ WATCH THE WEBINAR

Webinar: Creative Storytelling Portraits

Photographer Bobbi Lane joins PocketWizard for a webinar in which she creates a series of storytelling portraits for a high school senior. The concept of a storytelling portrait can elevate the quality of your photography by adding another dimension, adding impact, and making your images more personal. \ WATCH THE WEBINAR

Breaking In Interview: Food Photographer Lucas Zarebinski

There’s a kind of photographer in this world who will make you want to trade your lunchbox sandwich away, sharpen your knives, and book a reservation at Per Se: the food photographer. We’ve all been titillated by this tempter’s stock in trade—glistening sauces, toothsome fruits, crickets encased in glossy lollipop . . . wait, what? Today’s most cutting-edge young culinary shooters are showing us a new angle on tastiness. So we asked one of them what it takes to be in the business of putting deliciousness on the page these days. Polish-born photographer Lucas Zarebinski talked to us about how he got into the business and what helps innovative shooters do their best work in this competitive field, and gave us some insight into what young photographers coming from abroad will find in American work culture. \ READ THE INTERVIEW

Interview: Cinematographer Ryan E. Walters

Cinematographer Ryan E. Walters talks about how the role of DP is evolving, how to rig a Red to a helicopter, and where the market is headed for filmmakers. \ READ THE INTERVIEW

Breaking In Interview: Conservation Photographer Morgan Heim

As the New York photo industry was reminded last November when Superstorm Sandy swept into town, no matter how urban our habitat may be, we all live in the natural world. The current status of our relationship with it? It’s complicated. And while many of us may pause to contemplate the complications only on a rainy day, for some photographers exploring them is a vocation. We asked Colorado-based conservation photographer and multimedia documentarian Morgan Heim, who in her early thirties is one of the younger associate fellows of the International League of Conservation Photographers, about how she has forged a successful career in this specialized, topical, and sometimes dangerous field. \ READ THE INTERVIEW

Jeff Curto's Photo History Podcast: Szarkowski and How To See

Jeff Curto discusses the great curator and photographer John Szarkowski and how he changed the way the world saw photography. \ LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

Library

Visit the stacks to find educational material on photographic techniques, technology, and practice — and to get acquainted with some of the best writers, authors, and publishers in the world of photography. In addition to articles by independent experts in the field, our library offers book excerpts from publishers such as Focal Press, Rocky Nook, Peachpit, and Amherst Media, as well as articles from Resource Magazine and liveBooks RESOLVE.

Tricks of the Trade: Freelance Producer
Producer Lavanya Radhakrishnan talks about what's indispensable for a production, who takes the lead on set, and where to do a shoot on an impossible budget.
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Jim Zuckerman on Composition: Light's Influence
Photographer Jim Zuckerman explains how to observe light and use exposure and tonality to create engaging images in the fourteenth article of his sixteen-part series on composition.
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