Winter Cabbage 02 I was home for the holidays, and while I was there I took the opportunity to shoot my dad’s garden. Obviously this time of year, the garden is pretty well dead and the frost on the plants resulted in some beautiful colors and textures. I’m in the process of going through a [...]
I started taking headshots of our employees about a year or so ago and until recently they were more of a waste of time for me, rather than a learning experience. They are dead boring – 3/4 pose, facing the camera, blue background. For the most part, they are basically point and shoot – to [...]
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I’ve reached a lull in my photography education, mainly because I’m between shoots – at least as far as studio shooting. I’ve been doing a lot of reading and a lot of research, along with a lot of existing photo analysis, but very little shooting. The problem is that even though all I want to [...]
Anyone who travels these days will know the pain in the ass it is when you forget that tube of lip balm buried in your bag somewhere, and you hassled by the security folks at the airport. This craziness just keeps getting more ridiculous as passengers must restrict their liquids and gels to 3oz bottles [...]
There is this kid on my bus each morning who is completely sports crazed. He gets on the bus with his mom each morning and spouts off a non-stop stream of sports statistics, names, etc. He’s young, perhaps 6 years old, and apparently has great retention because he’s able to list off batting averages, player [...]
One of the largest problems I’ve been facing thus far with my own personal studio photography set up has been the inability to trigger my strobes remotely. As just about anyone who has used a camera should know by now, on-camera flash usually results in overexposed, harsh photos that look like they were taken by [...]
Just to prove that I am, in fact, taking photos and not just talking about it, here is an image I shot tonight in my apartment while playing around with my Alien Bee B800 which I just purchased. So far the my Bee is everything that the forums say it should be – cheap, reliable, [...]
Jonathan Gayman is a St. Louis photographer who specializes in corporate, commercial and food photography. Exhibit5a was Jonathan's first blogging adventure but is largely dormant at this stage. For more recent postings check out Jonathan's new St. Louis food blog called Shoot To Cook