Joel Grimes was first introduced to photography his freshman year in high school and from the very beginning it was a perfect match. By the time he began college, his passion for the photographic process was all consuming. After receiving a BFA degree from the University of Arizona in 1984, Joel served a three month assisting stint in LA and soon after set up a commercial studio working out of Denver Colorado. For over 26 years he worked...

A few months ago, Kevin Kubota was interviewed by [FRAME] while they all went out and did a photoshoot. It looks like Kevin recently met up with the Adorama Photography TV crew at the Mirage in Vegas to do an interview. In this video, Kevin talks about how he went from your regular wedding photographer who did more than 40+ weddings a year to becoming the CEO of Kubota PhotoDesign. Of course, he did elaborate on a a few key things to...

Normally, when you look at a time-lapse video, it’s usually on a building, river, street, Milky Way, stars… pretty much anything landscape, astronomy or architecture. These videos, they have a completely different point of view: it’s macro. How cool is that?! When I first started out in photography, macro was always my number one interest. In fact, it still is. When I saw these videos, I was quickly amazed of how simple...

AdoramaTV presents Flashpoint. This week Mark shows the Flashpoint 620M Wedding Portrait Monolight Kit. It’s a great studio lighting kit for beginners – and it costs less than $500! Mark reviews the entire kit, and shows you what’s possible using the various included accessories as well as its strengths and weaknesses. The Flashpoint M series allows you to choose AC and or DC powered operation. Flashpoint Monolights are...

If you could recall, a few weeks ago I posted a few time-lapse videos done by farmer/photographer Randy Halverson. Randy apparently had been working on another video project called Tempest Milky Way. One of the challenges in making this video was trying to get good storm and star shots. The opportunity doesn’t come along very often, and the storm has to be moving the right speed and the lightning can overexpose the long exposures. At...

A few days ago, I posted a video of a stop-motion within a stop-motion done by Dave Wallace. Today, I ran across another video like that on Youtube done by Eran Amir. This time, the 110-second video was made by 500 people from all over the world, using 1,500 photos. The massive amounts of work, creativity, and planning that this project must have required is mind-blowing. I really think they can go one more level deeper and make a...

This is the continuation [and ending] of a series of lighting lesson videos. In part 1, Jay P. Morgan talked about myths and facts on different types and sizes of soft boxes. In part 2, he talked about how to create a simple three light set up to shoot a model. Part two shows how to apply the science of part one to a real life situation. The art of creating light is a language all its own. The language of light is the emotion that light...

Widely published professional glamour photographer based out of Dallas, TX, Jose Luis is 35 yrs old and has been shooting for about 6 years now.  He is one of the original members on Model Mayhem (3-digit status, guys). His vision of female: beauty, gorgeous, inspiring, unforgettable, classy and SEXY! Jose’s work has been featured in a lot of big magazines such as Hustler, Playboy, Esquire, Maxim, etc. His work is really remarkable....

Here’s a mind-bending video in which someone created the famous checker shadow illusion in real life. The optical illusion takes advantage of the way our brains process lighting and shadows. This illusion has been around for a long time but always in the form of an image. The illusion works because of the “shadow” that falls on the checkerboard. Let’s think of the square that the shadow falls on. Now picture that the...

Who needs a video camera when you’ve got 2335 photos? Follow the adventures of two young photographers, Brian Van Wyk and Laura-Jane Tressider, as they meet and create memories together. Freelance videographer Dave Wallace made this creative stop-motion video for ClickPixx using 2335 printed photos. By patiently swapping the photos in and out of 10 picture frames arranged on a wall, Wallace managed to create a stop-motion video...