Welcome to the NEW Aaron Anderson Web Site!

It’s finally here, and I have been working like crazy behind the scenes to launch this new website and brand identity! What’s new?!! Well, a lot. First thing you might notice is all the radical logo and design work, thanks to the incredibly talented Dan Sheridan! We’ve been working for weeks creating and refining the new brand and I am so excited with how it all came out. Keep your eyes peeled for new swag dropping soon and sticker giveaways galore on Instagram!

With the new brand comes my new tagline “Visuals for the Victorious” and “Defy Mediocracy”! This is a new spin on be awesome! and I hope it inspires you to create amazing things! Did you notice something missing? Photography. Don’t worry, I still take pictures…but that’s not all! I’ll be launching new directing and video work come 2019 ;)

With the new web page I am also launching a ton of new work featuring some incredible athletes, artists and human beings! You’ll also notice a new Lifestyle category, it’s still growing, and I am stoked to share the upcoming projects we have lined up.

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Wait! There’s More! I just dropped a new TUTORIAL and there is a bunch more on the way! I’ll be launching the next one in a week or so and I have a few new collaborations with Elinchrom in the pipeline!

Just in case that’s not enough shiny newness for you I am also launching a whole new section for SPEAKING! I would love to join you for your next workshop, seminar, retreat, panel, podcast, you name it! Education and speaking is something that I am passionate about and I am excited to continue this part of the journey!

PHEW! Catch your breath because I have more announcements coming in 2019, and it will be epic!

DEFY MEDIOCRACY.

Motivated...Light & Life - Part 2

Ok, so you took a deep breath jumped into 2018 and you read through my crazy blog post about life and the pursuit...now it's time to talk about photography! More specifically it's time to talk about motivated light. Let's start with a definition and then I will dive into it -

Motivated Light: A lighting style in which the light sources imitate existing sources, such as lamps or windows (source www.prezi.com)

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I wanted to start the year with this because I have had a fair amount of questions about why I light certain things the way I do, and this is the answer to a lot of it. I also have a slightly different definition to motivated light that I want to add, and that's light with purpose. You guys might have heard me refer to this as cinematic lighting, they are the same in my mind. So let's dive into it a little bit deeper and see how you can start to utilize motivated light in your images.

One of the most important things to know about motivated light is that you need to THINK about it. This lighting has nothing to do with how awesome it would be to use 12 lights to take a portrait, it is designed to be ninja lighting...emphasis on DESIGN. You want the viewer to look at the image and have no idea that you used lights at all, it shouldn't even be a thought. If it's a person sitting in a room by a desk lamp your viewer should be saying "I can't believe he/she lit this whole portrait with a desk lamp!". This is where things like flags, grids, scrims and a lot of other tools come into play. Don't put light where it shouldn't be just because it looks cool. Build your scene one light at a time and make sure you have complete control over each one, making sure there is no spill or bleed unless you want it that way.

You will need to be a student of light, in real life. Sun, shade, lamps, bathrooms...what do they look like? Can you make a picture look like that? One of the huge benefits of using motivated light is that you can re-create beautiful lighting in a studio environment. Just think, the more you practice at re-creating natural light the more control you have, the more you can serve your clients. You need a portrait that looks like they are sitting by a window on a sunny day? No problem! You need a moody shot of a dude sitting with a glass of whiskey in a dark lamp lit room? I'll have that in a jiffy Mr Client! If you're saying to yourself "Actually Aaron, I have no idea how to light like that...can you tell me?" my answer is a polite no. What you need to do to become an expert at motivated light is practice. Practice until no one has any idea what the heck you're doing or how the scene is lit. Practice until you need to draw diagrams of the lights because you can't even tell! This type of lighting is very deceptive because it looks so simple. It is not.

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Ok, so you can re-create light, that's awesome. Now can you compliment light?  Motivated light is more than just being able to make the scene completely with artificial light, it's also using available light mixed with your lights to create one seamless look. If there's a lamp in the room it better look like it's on. There are a lot of factors that go into balancing lights, but a lot of it has to do with the basics of how lights work. Knowing which controls on your camera control which kinds of light is very important, and it has become even more complex now that Hi-speed sync has entered the playing field. However, if you are using regular strobes without hi-speed sync you can use this as a starting point: Use your F-Stop to control strobes and your shutter speed to control ambient light. The reason for this is strobes fire at a certain speed, usually quite fast, so changing the shutter speed is going to have very little effect on them. The tricky part here is that if you're shutter speed gets slow enough the ambient light will start to change the exposure on your subject, so make sure you check exposures with no strobes. You can also use your ISO, but I tend to try and keep my ISO as low as possible, so this is my last resort. ISO will effect ambient and strobe, so make sure you watch that if you decide to change it.

My final thought is to become a composite photographer!  I love composite photography and I think it really helps when creating mixed lighting scenes. You can shoot exactly the right exposure for every piece of the puzzle and then splice them together in Photoshop. Composite photography is simply combining more than one image to create a final product, it doesn't have to be these crazy conceptual pieces, it could simply be a better reflection in someones glasses or a long exposure for lighting in a dark room.

With that we launch into the new year! We currently have 3 shoots in the works and 3 Tutuorials getting ready to be shot, so stay tuned as we grab 2018 by the horns! This is your year, get out there and be awesome!

Motivated...light and life - Part 1

This is it, the last blog of 2017. I was trying to figure out what to write about and I thought I would write about motivation. Not just in life, but in light. How do we stay motivated in this industry, and how do we make our light motivated.

Let's start with life, which is a pretty heavy subject, but I have been really faced with it in the last couple of weeks as we welcomed our newest addition into the world. If you know you me, you know how much I love being a dad, and how important it is to me. My kids are a great motivation to do well in my career, I don't want them to go hungry or not have a roof over their heads, but that's not really what I am talking about. I am a motivated person, but there is a line that I struggle with between motivation, working too much and depression. That might sound weird so let me explain. I think most creatives struggle with depression of some kind, what we do is personal, it's hard to show people a part of ourselves and hear someone say they don't like it. Even more than that, it's hard when feel like it's never enough. I sit with my kids and I feel bad that I am not trying to provide more, I start working more and I feel bad because I am not spending time with my family. Where's the line? What is work/life balance? Let me be the first to say that I don't have great answers to these questions, but I have some thoughts...which is why I have a blog ;)

First of all to you dad's (and mom's) that are out there fighting this fight, keep going. It's a good fight, and you can do it. The world needs people who care about their kids, who take the time to play on the trampoline and read them bed time stories, people who put down their phones and their iPads when their at the dinner table...shoot, people who sit around the dinner table! This might sound idealistic, but it's the truth. I might not have a lot of answers but there is one thing I do know, I will always choose my family over my career. I might work a lot, but I don't want to look back and realize I missed out on my kids or being best friends with my wife. I'd rather miss a photo shoot than first steps and birthday's.

Secondly, you will be tired and there are other things in life that will be sacrificed. I don't have a lot of free time, and I don't sleep a lot. I had to learn how to say no to a lot of things in order to be where I am. I don't remember who said this, but it's important that "we learn to say no to what is good, so we can say yes to what is great". I heard this a while ago and it actually changed my life, I say it to myself all the time. Are you doing work you shouldn't be? Are you saying yes to projects and clients that you hate working for or aren't really worth your time? STOP! Before you say yes next time take a breath, look at your schedule and your goals, then figure out if it's actually something you should be doing.

Finally, let it go. I would say my number one struggle in this industry and my career is what other people are doing. It might not come out in my tutorials, or my blog, but I am extremely competitive person. I can't even begin to tell you how many things I've stopped doing because I wasn't the best, even if I enjoyed it. I would look at the competition and know I would never be that good, so I would drop out. If I am being honest with myself, and with you, I will tell you that Photography is probably the first thing I haven't walked away from when I knew I would never be the best. I had to learn it wasn't about being the best, but what I really had to learn was to let it go. I need to be able to look at incredible photographers for motivation and inspiration without becoming depressed or losing motivation. What's the key to this? In my case it's two things. Probably the most important thing is not to compare yourself/myself to someone else, we all have different journeys and styles. Don't envy someone elses journey, you don't know what it's like. Secondly, be happy for them. Sounds weird right? Be happy that they have achieved success and move on. Most people, especially in photography, have worked really hard to achieve success...give them a little credit and move on with your journey!

I know this might not seem like it's about being motivated, but it is. I am not trying to give you a song that pumps you up so you can crank our some work, although I can do that if you send me an e-mail, I want you to wake up motivated. Motivated in life, with the passion to keep going even when it's tough and things look grim. If you wake up knowing you will do great things today, whether that be putting on band aids or taking photographs, you will wake up motivated. If you wake up and know you're doing mediocre things that you'd rather not be doing, you probably won't stay motivated.

So this is my challenge to you for part one of my motivation blog - "Say NO to what's good, so you can say YES to what's great!" In doing this, you will also be awesome ;)

Watch for part 2 of this blog, on motivating light, coming soon!

3 years ago...I started a business.

September was my 3 year anniversary of being full time freelance photographer, and I wanted to post something different about the journey thus far. Let me start with something positive, photography is a great career, I love it even more now then I did when I started. Photography doesn't look anything like I thought it would, and I'm ok with that. I believe that life is a journey and an adventure, that's what really gets me up in the morning, the adventure of it all. Let me be the first to say that adventure is not always fun, and if you are an adventurer yourself you will know what I am talking about. Sometimes adventures hurt, sometimes they're dirty and ugly and nothing goes right. Sometimes, in the middle of the mud, you stare up at a sky full of stars and realize you get to play in the mud, and mud can be pretty fun.

So Aaron, you might ask, why isn't photography anything like you thought it would be? Well, let me tell you! I think the first, and biggest problem that I had was spelling. I thought photography was spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y, and I learned very early on that it's spelled B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S. I don't know if I've ever met a photographer who said "I really wanted to be an entrepreneur who invested in a high risk start up company". I have news for you, that's what you are about to do, or you are doing currently. One of the first things I did was create an LLC, that stands for Limited Liability Company! A COMPANY! No one even asked me if I knew how to run a whole company, I just started it. Suddenly clicking a shutter seemed pretty simple compared to everything else I had to learn. I had questions, questions like who does the taxes? Who pays for everything? Who makes sure we don't run out of money? Who is the CEO? What is a CEO? What is a CFO? IS THAT LIKE A UFO?! I found the answer to all the questions, it was me (well, except for the UFO, it's not like a CFO).

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That's the first part, the part where you find out you own a company and you're in charge of the company. That's terrifying. There's a second part. And it's even more terrifying. Here's something nobody tells you when you start a company, after they tell you to start a company of course - NOBODY KNOWS YOU HAVE A COMPANY WHEN YOU START IT! So, let me get this straight, to be a photographer I need to start a company? Yes. Then, after I start that company people won't just start hiring me? NO. How the heck am I supposed to run a company if no one is hiring me? Good Question. Who's going to tell people about my company?! You.

Aaron, you might be saying, what's your point? Well, I'm glad you asked, because this is where I started having fun. You get to learn all this stuff! You get to run your own company! You thought you were just gonna click away and suddenly you're developing marketing plans, putting advertising budgets together, setting up networking meetings, you're learning how to write contracts, figure out licensing, find clients, and even making money. This is pretty great stuff.

What have I learned after three years of business? How to stay in business. I want you to succeed at this incredible career, and in order to do that you need to be savvy businessmen and women. Soak up every ounce of knowledge and wisdom you can from the people that you admire and respect, and that doesn't just need to be photographers, in fact I would say it shouldn't just be photographers. Talk to Accountants, Entrepreneurs (like yourself), Lawyers, parents, friends. Learn to ask good questions and listen to people who have paved the way before you. We live in a golden age of information, you can get wisdom for free, you can also get scammed for free, so be shrewd and keep your wits about you. On the last bit let me give you a little advice, there are not shortcuts. Furthermore, shortcuts cannot be sold and bought. If you hear someone say things like "You'll be making six figures in no time and have the career of your dreams while you listen music in your new Mercedes!" or "This software is sure to make you a better so and so!" I would be cautious of those people. A lot of people want to help, and they have great wisdom, but there are a lot of people who make money in the name of "helping". 

That was a little heavy, so let's get back to the bit about being awesome. I want to close with some points that I hope will help, tips and thoughts that might get you through when it seems impossible.

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1. Stay Lean - In the business world they call this "boot strapping". As in "Pull yourself up by your boot straps!" Notice the fact that there is no one else involved in the pulling up of said boot straps, it's just you. How do you do this? You drive crappy cars when it seems so easy to get a car payment. You use the camera you have instead of the camera you think you should have. You figure out clever ways to get new equipment, I used to buy one new stand with every paid shoot. You live within the constraints of your income. At first that might mean ramen and water, but it's better then a debt collector. STAY OUT OF CREDIT CARD DEBT! This is a vice you do not want to be in, avoid it like the plague. If you use a credit card make sure you can pay it off.

2. Be Realistic - Do you know what the average income for a photographer is in the US? Something like $32,000. Do you know what the average income of a "normal" person is in the US? Something like $36,000. Yup, you make less than everyone else. That doesn't mean you can't make a great living at this, I make a lot more than $36,000 and I'm relatively new in the photography world. I am not saying this to be a downer, I'm saying this so you know what the big picture looks like. Could you live on $32,000?

3. Surround Yourself with Wisdom - People start businesses all the time, people also close business all the time. The numbers I hear consistently are that around 20 percent of new business will make it out of their first year! Don't think you are so clever that you can do this alone. Great people have one thing in common (well, they have a lot of things in common but this is one of them) they are surrounded by GREAT PEOPLE! Your buddy who sits on the couch and says he could start a business if he really wanted to, he's not helping you. If you can't immediately think of people who are wiser than you than you need to look really hard at who you surround yourself with. People who want to see you succeed, who love you through thick and thin and want the best for you.

4. Put in the WORK - It's a lot of work. That's a fact. You have to do that work, all of it. Don't be the guy or girl who sits on YouTube watching tutorials and telling them how they could have done it better. Just go do it better. There is a time and a place for learning and growing, but there is also a time to put your nose down and do some work! There is no magic bullet. You are the bullet, go make some magic!

5. Photography is NOT just pictures - You might be thinking, Aaron you haven't really talked about photography very much. Actually I have, the business of photography. If you have decided to be a full time photographer I am assuming that you know how to take pictures. Fact of the matter is, the photos themselves are only a small part of what will lead you to success, and a small portion of what you will actually do every day. You need to be good at photography, I'm not saying that, what I'm saying is you should already be good at photography before you decide to make a business out of it. You wouldn't start a restaurant where you were the head chef if you didn't know how to cook first!

 Hope this helps some of you on your journey towards being stellar photographers and business people! Here's to the next 3 years, now go BE AWESOME!

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It's September...that was fast

Well, somehow August flew by and I am still not sure how it happened. We had some incredible shoots last month, but for this blog I wanted to feature our cover shoot with USA Triathlete Erin Storie. I also wanted to talk a little bit about producing a shoot and what goes into it, plus some things you need to think about before you go shoot!

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Our cover shoot with Erin involved four different shoots in one day, in three different locations. On the actual day everything went extremely smooth, but that had a lot to do with what happened before we got there! If you're just getting started, or you've been shooting for a while, here's a couple things to keep in mind when producing a shoot.

1. KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP - There are always a lot of people involved on shoots like this, starting with the Client/Art Directors etc, but you need to make sure that everyone is on the same page to begin with. I love starting the process with a face to face meeting or a phone call if possible and then following up with and e-mail. Then a few days prior to the shoot I send out a call sheet with everyone's info and the schedules. Some people include weather and hospitals as well. Do what you need to do to make sure everyone understands what is happening, and be open to change if need be.

2. CHECK ON PERMITS! There are a lot of great places you can shoot that don't need a permit to shoot there, but you should ALWAYS check before you show up somewhere and start shooting. In our case I also needed to make sure that we were also going to be able to splash around in the water, a lot of the lakes in Colorado Springs are non-contact. You can usually find a local film commission that will guide you if you can't find any info. Here is a link to on locally so you can see what it's like: http://www.visitcos.com/film/permits/

3. MAKE A LIST - If you end up shooting early in the morning or you are going on location this is critical. Make a check list of everything you will need to have on hand for the shoot. That way when you are packing up your car at 3 am you don't leave your camera on the desk. Also, don't check anything off the list until it's physically placed in your car/trailer and ready to go!

4. FOLLOW UP - If you've booked a location or you're working with talent I find it's a good idea to check in with them the day before, just to make sure everything is set and there are no loose ends. I am an over-communicator, but it's saved me a lot of headaches!

5. STAY ON SCHEDULE - Especially when working with athletes and celebrities, you only get one shot and you need to stick to what you say. If you're given 5 minutes, then you set up for 3 hrs, and shoot for 4 min and 30 sec. One of the things I hated the most was when I assisted people who weren't even close to on schedule. If you tell people you'll be done at 4 pm, then you better be done at 4 pm, if you think you need more time then build it in before hand.

6. FEED PEOPLE - Even before I made money as a photographer I liked getting paid in food. It is a simple fact of life though, people who are hungry are not happy. I tend to forget this, so I have my assistants remind me that we need to stop and eat :) Even if you're doing a personal project and people are volunteering their time, buy them lunch or dinner, it will make your shoot that much better.

Those are just a few things that I try to remember when planning a shoot, if you're interested in hearing more just leave a comment below and I will try to get a follow up blog that's more entailed in the near future! Now for the fun stuff...photos!

Before you take a look check out this radical video from our day by Storyteller Creative:

Now you can look at the final images ;)

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That's gonna do it for today! I will try to get another blog rolling this month, and there is a lot of really exciting stuff in the works over the next couple of months...even in 2018! Get out there and be awesome people!

The Not So Lost Art of Printing

When was the last time you held your work in your hands? I don't mean picking up your phone, I mean holding a piece of paper with your work printed on it. There is something special about seeing your work in print, and you're not the only one who wants to see it that way. Today, I want to talk about why you should print and give you a few different resources that I use to print my work.

When was the last time you held your work in your hands?

I've been asked by a few different people where I print my promos, and I did a podcast about the importance of self promotion with The Creative Freelancer, you can check that out here: http://www.thecreativefreelancer.com/aaron-anderson/#.WVo4UekkpPY

For starters, why print your work? In this digital age there may be some argument that print is dying, and I have an iPad portfolio that I carry with me for meetings, but I will tell you from experience that the response is not the same when they open up my 11 x 17 print portfolio as when they swipe through photos on my iPad.  We look at photos and videos on phones and tablets so often that it's lost it's luster, but my luster paper still has it :) When my clients are able to fully immerse in the work, that's when they remember. If you can combine the senses to create a memory of you and your work, that's what we're going for.

When clients are able to fully immerse in the work, that's when they remember

When I first started I was like many of you, I thought print was a waste of time and money, I didn't realize that it isn't just for other people...it's for me too. I retouch literally thousands of photos a year, and it's easy for the images I create to sit on a hard drive somewhere. I finish and say "That's Cool" then I back it up twice and move on with my life. However, every once in a while I print an image, or better yet, I see an image in print for a client, and it's a visceral experience.  It's not a "That's Cool" kind of experience, you feel things like pride, enjoyment, achievement. I think this is much more rewarding than flying past your image on an Instagram account. Even printing your first promo, seeing your work displayed to be sent out into the world to people who create incredible campaigns, it's exciting!

This brings me to my next point: Clients want to see your work in print! There are a lot of different reasons why you should send printed work to clients and potential clients, the first, and one of the most important reasons is, they want to know your work looks GOOD in print!! If you're doing a campaign for a big client, the chances that your work will go to print is pretty high. Let your clients know that you know what you're doing and that your work translates well. Secondly, let them know you're alive and well, that you're active and moving in the industry. Sending out cool print promos says "Hey, I'm still doing cool stuff and I can do cool stuff for you too." Yes, you're promo is probably going to be used as a fire starter on a camping trip, or maybe thrown into a pile, but at least they had to carry it to the camp site and physically throw it across the room...that's more interaction then a check box on an e-mail that never got opened. Finally, you never know how you're printed work will impact a future client.  I bring a copy of a coffee table book that we made from our series with homeless people in our community, this has not only opened up incredible conversations, it's also gotten us jobs. So even if you feel like no one cares, they do, but you have to be consistent.

Seeing your work sent out into the world...it's exciting!

Printing can be kind of an overwhelming idea, between color spaces and monitor calibration to test printing and picking paper. Everything I just mentioned are things you should know, and if you don't know them you can learn them! I took classes on these things, but you can certainly learn from places like YouTube, Lynda and many more. Being able to speak with authority about color space and printing in general is something that comes along with photography. Even if you are hiring someone to print for you, it's enormously helpful to be able to communicate what you're looking for and deliver files that are easy to work with.

Alrighty, now I've talked about the importance of printing, let me tell you about a few places that I've used and how you can get into printing your work.

GET STARTED!

I know this sounds odd, but a good place to start printing is Costco. I would use them as a starting point to look at color correction and doing test prints. They not only have color profiles you can download but they also use archival quality paper. You can download color profiles specific to your store here: https://www.drycreekphoto.com/icc/ 

Modern Postcard - is an awesome hi-end printer that is geared towards photographers. They offer color correction and matching (for an additional cost), they aren't the cheapest, but they do great work. https://www.modernpostcard.com/

MOO - has awesome business cards, I have never used them for postcards but based on the product they put out I would be comfortable recommending them. Again, they aren't the cheapest, but I dig the end product. https://www.moo.com/us/

My Publisher (now Shutterfly) - If you're thinking about printing a book, which you should do at some point, they were great to work with. I have not printed with them since they transitioned into Shutterfly, but I would think they have similar if not the same results. https://www.shutterfly.com/

Blurb - I did a magazine promo with them, and it was awesome. Biggest warning with them is it seems cheap at first, but you'll need to upgrade to the higher quality everything to make sure your photos look good. I also had some color issues with them, but the had great customer service and the final product was worth it!  http://www.blurb.com/magazine

Klo - I wanted to mention them because they made my super radical custom portfolio, just the cover not the prints. This is an investment, but so worth it. They do printing as well, but I would just use them for the portfolio cover itself and print somewhere else. If nothing else just look at their site, they have some awesome stuff on there! http://kloportfolios.com

Canon Pixma PRO 100 - This is the printer I use to print my portfolio...and it's awesome. Not only can this print 11 x 17 no problem it is extremely affordable and has a great plug in for Photoshop that allow you to do color variations and fine tuning before you print. I can't say enough about the customer service, and the quality of print is amazing! https://shop.usa.canon.com/shop/en/catalog/pixma-pro-100

Phew, I know that's alot of stuff to handle so I am gonna call it for this blog. If you have any printers or products that you dig I would love to hear from you! Throw a comment out there or shoot me an e-mail! Now go put some ink on paper and be awesome!!

Get Out There.

I have been working like crazy over the past couple months, massive retouching projects andsome really epic shoots, but there is something on my mind that I want to discuss with you guys. It's the idea of doing, not thinking about how awesome something would be, but doing things that are awesome.

It's Possible!

Lately I get questions like "do you think this would work?" or "could I use this instead?", my response is usually, go try it! We live in a culture where there is so much information, people can learn anything, anywhere, anytime...but how often do they apply what they're learning?! I am getting ready to release some new tutorials and behind the scenes videos, but they don't mean anything if you don't go out and try it yourself! My challenge to you would be this, when you learn something new, immediately go out and try it. Don't waste anymore time learning the next thing when you haven't even started doing the first thing. If you have ideas, go do them now, don't wait until someone tells you if it's a good idea, or if it's possible for you to do it. It's possible!

You are a creative, and by very definition that means you need to create stuff. It's not always going to be good stuff, but it needs to be stuff. If you get blocked then think about what got you started in the first place, why do you want to create? Is it the light at sunset, the smile on peoples faces, the feel of being on set and creating with lighting? Whatever it is, go do it, and keep doing it until what pops up on your screen, or your paper, is exactly what you envisioned.

GO BE AWESOME!

Right now on Instagram we are doing something I am calling BTS week, where we feature cool behind the scenes images from some of my favorite shoots. One of the main reasons I am doing that is so you see what's possible. Most of the shoots are personal projects, some of them aren't, but a lot of them are. They are huge projects, some of them have crews of 7 or more people on location with tons of gear, and it's all because we decided to go do something awesome. That was it, no money, no one telling us to do it, just to create.

So, as I get ready to launch new videos for you to look at make sure you are getting out there and doing it yourself...don't just think about being awesome, GO BE AWESOME!

Matching Light and Shooting Backgrounds

Well, so far 2017 has been a whirlwind of awesome, and I hope that it's bee the same for you! I wanted to take sec to talk to you guys about the latest set of tutorials we released and give you a quick thought on how to use them. Last year we launched a video called "Intro to Lighting Modifiers for Composite Photography" and that was intended to give you a starting point to choose how to simulate different types of light, or just know what the heck different modifiers do! If you haven't seen that one yet give it a quick watch before you continue with this blog:

So now that you know what they do it's time to start working on a composite! We just recently released a video explaining how to shoot a background for a composite, it will help you get some of the basic practices down to make sure your composites go together seamlessly. Check that one out and then keep reading for our latest video:

Got it? Good! Now, for our most recent video we are heading into the studio to show you how we shot the model for the background! I'll be launching a more in depth Photoshop tutorial in the next couple of weeks showing you how I pieced together the final composite for this one. While you're waiting for that go out and shoot some composites, but first, check out our latest video below:

Would love to hear any feedback from you guys and I am working on better sound and color for you all in the next set of tutorials! Also, we'll be launching another video on how to light a subject, and place them into backgrounds that you don't have the measurements, for coming really soon! Go make stuff, and be awesome!