Take one – take both! Register early to save $10 on each.

For everyone who cares enough about photography to invest in a digital SLR camera there’s a lot to learn. To really make the most of your camera, it helps to know the basics. Our Digital Basics Workshop is a great place to learn more about your digital SLR camera and how to get great photos. We’ll also teach you the best practices for organizing and keeping those photos in your computer. Bring your cameras to class so you’ll leave knowing how to use them! Learn more.



What do you have to share online? Do you have a collection of hand knits you made, or antique buttons, or garden gnomes? No matter what it is, the first step is a good photo. We created a brand new workshop just for you – You Made It – Now Shoot & Share It. Using any simple camera – the one in your cell phone, iPad, point-and-shoot camera or a digital SLR, we’ll show you how to take a great shot using simple materials you have around the house. Then we’ll teach you how to get them online, and even help you shoot the first pic in this brand new workshop. You don’t have to know much about your camera or camera phone to take this class. You just need the desire to photograph stuff for sharing. Learn more.

Saturday, June 30, 2012 | 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Are you finally ready to learn how to use your digital camera? Register now for the June Digital Basics Workshop and save $10. Learn more.

This is our most popular class! Bring your camera!

• Learn how to use all the most common settings to take better photos
• Find out what an f/stop is and why you should know what it is
• Learn about shutter speeds
• Learn how to get great color
• Learn how to take better photos of your kids
• Learn how to manage all those photos in your computer
• And much more – Register here

New eBook Available

Forget Mugshots, 10 Steps To Better Portraits is for every photographer who’s ever wanted to make stronger photographs of people. Written by David duChemin, a photographer whose living and calling for the last 6 years has been creating compelling portraits and people photographs for clients all over the globe, if he could tell you only 10 things to immediately improve your images, these 10 steps or concepts would be at the very top of the list.

This 35-spread PDF eBook discusses the value of waiting for that great moment (and how to make sure you don’t miss it), how a true smile differs from a fake one, and other solid insights that are guaranteed to give you tangible ideas to make the most of your next portrait shoot. Combining these steps with Portrait Profiles and Creative Exercises, Forget Mugshots will help you photograph real people in the real world, leveraging the techniques and best practices that have made David’s portraits known around the world.

Special Offer on PDFs

For the next five days only, use the promotional code MUGSHOTS4 when you checkout so you can have the PDF version of Forget Mugshots for only $4 OR use the code MUGSHOTS20 to get 20% off when you buy 5+ PDF eBooks from the Craft & Vision collection. These codes expire at 11:59pm PST March 17, 2012.

Chimping – when you stop shooting photos to look at the shots you just took on the LCD screen. If you’re chimping, you’re missing other shots.

Pros are having a harder time than ever making a living at their craft with so many organizations using free images from amateurs. This is a worthwhile video about a few award-winning photojournalists. Take a look.

Chimping from D Perez on Vimeo.

[via PetaPixel]

What a camera! Canon pulled out all the stops on this one…

• Full Frame 22.3 Megapixel CMOS Sensor with DIGIC 5+ Image Processor
• 61-Point High Density Reticular AutoFocus and 6 AF Point Selection Modes
• High Dynamic Range Mode and Multiple Exposure Mode
• 6 Frames per Second Shooting using UDMA CompactFlash Cards
• 3.2 Inch Clear View II LCD Monitor with 170° Viewing Angle

Learn more

Email if you’re interested in the new 5D Mark III. Don’t wait if you want one. We’ll start a waiting list and sell them as they arrive. Would you like to buy one of our used 5D Mark IIs? They will go on sale as soon as the new body arrives.

Renowned L.A. celebrity portrait photographer, Greg Gorman, giving a presentation at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art March 16th

Kansas City born photographer, Greg Gorman, will present, A Distinctive Vision, at the Atkins Theatre, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on Friday, March 16th at 7 p.m. The lecture is free of charge. Registration is recommended to be certain of a seat: ASMP-KC.org

Over four decades, Canon Explorer of Light, Greg Gorman has continued to master the art of photography. From celebrities to portraits, advertising, magazines and fine art, Greg has developed a discriminating and unique photographic style.

One of Greg’s strengths has been photographing celebrities from: Alec Baldwin, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Di Caprio, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino and Keira Knightley, Elton John, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Divine, Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, John Waters, David Hockney and Bette Midler, to name a few.

Born in 1949 in Kansas City, Greg attended Pembroke, then Shawnee Mission East High School. He majored in photojournalism at the University of Kansas, and then moved on to the University of Southern California, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in cinematography in 1972.

Check out Gorman’s Photos

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We just love Craft and Vision books because they are so inspirational and well done. The latest book is no exception, especially for beginner photographers. The descriptions are clear and precise, and the photo examples are beautiful. Check it out.

We’ve received so many requests for the Digital Basics workshop that we brought it back. It’s being offered four times this year in February, June, September and October.

The workshop is now more interactive so you’ll retain more of the information.

Do you have a new camera?

Do you want to learn more about the basics of digital photography?

Then this workshop is for you. You’ll also learn the best practices for managing your digital photo files.

Save $10 – if you register early!

Learn more and register online here

While we are sharing videos, we might as well add one of the all time best!

http://www.ted.com Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4