- How I Photographed Superheroes On The Edge Of A Skyscraper Every child has dreamed of being a superhero It’s a fantasy we’ve all had at some point. We imagine ourselves standing on the edge of a building, overlooking the city, hair blowing in the wind. As we get older, we stop dreaming. We stop believing that anything is possible because we’ve seen too much of what […]
- What It's Like To Shoot In A Real Life Disney Library Walking into Stift Admont was like entering Disney’s Beauty & the Beast library. Never before had a creative photoshoot been done in the Admont Abbey, the oldest monastic library in the world… yet here I was, standing at the entrance of what can only be described as the most magical mix of architecture and art […]
- From Fear To Success Oh. My God. Those clothes are absolutely phenomenal. How did you find that amazing costume?! In this case, it all began with me posting out a call on Facebook: “Anyone cool I should work with in San Francisco while I’m here?” I got a bunch of responses but the one that stood out was a […]
- 20$ Trick To Epic Portraiture SmugMug: “I’d like some black and white portraits of our employees doing something sporty” The first thing that comes to mind when one thinks black and white portraiture is old school, classical, traditional… but the Von Wong filter translated that into: edgy! impact! extreme! special effects! With only a couple days to pull something together, […]
- I Wrapped And Delivered Myself To Australia… In A Box To Surprise This Boy. One year ago, a boy by the name of Tyler Grace left me a comment on my fan page that made me realize for the first time that as a “public figure“, I had the power to change peoples lives. – Fast forward to February of this year, I received an email from his sister […]
- UltraViolet Insanities Two Years In The Making Ever since I saw Michael Rosner‘s work on fstoppers on July 14th, 2012, I made it a goal of mine to one day work together with him and produce some images together. Video by Kelly Zak How it came together: I began by stalking him on his facebook page, finding out that he was in the […]
- 2 Models, 7 Divers In An Underwater Shipwreck – Part 1 Teamwork – A word that truly begins to mean something when you’re shooting 25 meters underwater and your model tied to a 50 year old shipwreck in the middle of Bali where the slightest miscalculation could spell disaster. My job as the photographer is to make sure that regardless of the conditions and challenges, I […]
