Bob Barker (the dog) came to the studio for a shoot with National Geographic kids earlier this month. Perhaps be best behaved - most flexible dog - that's ever set foot in the studio. He was a treat. Check him out here.
Read MoreNGLive! The Art of Photographing Food
I'm hosting an NGLive! event in the studio on December 2 @ 7:00. Click here for more info about The Art of Photographing Food.
Read MoreMeet the National Geographic Staff Photographers →
We’d like to introduce Mark Thiessen and Becky Hale, staff photographers for National Geographic. While they work for the magazine, they are also the photographers for the entire society. This allows them to work on a variety of stories and concepts for all of the divisions. Check back for regular posts to go behind the scenes with Mark and Becky and get tips on how to become a better photographer. In the meantime, get to know them below.
Read MoreA Seamless Way to Build Your Own Studio →
Most people don’t have a studio at their disposal, but shooting a head-to-toe portrait on white seamless is a lot simpler than you may imagine.
Read MoreYourShot: Self Portrait →
Link to the selects: http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/stories/self-portrait/
So many of you rose to the occasion of crafting a beautiful self-portrait. Thank you for sharing them with us and with the National Geographic Your Shot community. Some of your submissions were simple, straightforward images that we couldn’t stop looking at. Some were stories in and of themselves. They were revealing and poignant. Many of you really took time to think about your caption, giving us yet another way to access who you are as photographers.
Until we viewed our selects in their entirety, we didn't realize how many black-and-white images we gravitated toward. Many of the black-and-whites are successful because the portrait is reduced to its simplest elements of shape and form.
The most compelling images you sent us were minimally post-processed. They stood on their own, without needing filters or frames to make them seem interesting.
In the Studio: Simply Redheads →
I'm surrounded by redheads. Husband, daughter, son, mother, and father-in-law. The list is long, and I have a soft spot. So, when my editor called and asked if I’d ever photographed redheads, I thought, yes, daily.
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