Photo School Guy: Bill Gratton and MAC-On-Campus

Serving the Photographic Educational Community

PocketWizard Introduces Some VERY Cool New TTL Units

PocketWizard digital radio slaves have been the gold standard for remote triggering of strobes and cameras for decades. Professional photographers using them rave about their reliability and versatility. They have literally changed the way that we as photographer can work and enabling us to be much more creative. One of their only limitations has been [...]

ColorMunki – A Welcome & Simple Cost Saving Tool @ Schools

One of the greatest frustrations that photographers face today is getting the same image from their printer that that they see on their monitor. Obviously the key to doing so is to introduce a color managed workflow.  Doing this is perhaps one of the biggest challenges for today’s photography educators and administrators; how to teach [...]

Portrait Lighting Set-ups and Tips from a Modern Master – Tony Corbell

Recently Profoto teamed up with well-known photographer, author and lecturer Tony Corbell to created a series of short videos that are full of useful techniques and tips on portrait lighting. Tony, in his inimitable, relaxed yet informative style, provides a lifetime of lighting experience and education by demonstrating simple one, two, three and four light [...]

A $25,000 Opportunity For You and Your Students

The MAC Group is proud to be a sponsor of Blurb’s Photography.Book.Now international juried competition. Photography.Book.Now is a celebration of the most creative, most innovative, and finest photography books – and the people behind them. There are three categories in which you can enter — Fine Art, Editorial and Commercial. You may enter in one [...]

What Happens To Your Photo Students When They Leave?

Photo District News (PDN) recently published a very interesting feature entitled, “How Photographers Are Launching Their Careers.” It includes the results of survey of 200 “emerging photographers”.  While, there appear to be some fundamental flaws in the survey and its procedures, I think that there is some very interesting and valuable information contained within the [...]

Looking to Control Lab fees and Printing Costs? Check out CheckBox

In today’s economy more and more schools and students are concerned with their labs fees and the money that they spend.  Often a student will ask how come their lab fee is the same as another student in the class who prints three times as much as they do. Many schools have sought solutions to [...]