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

Serving the Photographic Educational Community

High Expectations- Your students deserve them

It really is true that often students will only produce to your level of expectation. If you expect little of them they will surely deliver. If you expect the world of them, they just might surprise you! For seven or eight years now I’ve gone into Seattle at the end of April to work with [...]

Music Video Shot Using Still Camera and Studio Strobes- You have to check this out!

The old “Lights! Camera! Action!” verbiage took a different twist recently when New York-based Richard Patterson produced and directed a music video about Iranian rock band “Hypernova” using strobes instead of continuous lighting. “Sinners” by Hypernova is a fluid stop-motion video created by Producer, Director and Director of Photography Richard Patterson. The video is unique [...]

ColorChecker Passport- so convenient and portable you’ll want to take it with you to every shoot!

For the last couple of months I have been playing with a very cool new color control tool from X-Rite. I even gave a sneak preview of it to some of you while in Santa Fe at the Adobe Educators Summit this summer. Well, I’ve got to tell you, I’ve gotten very fond of this [...]