We caught up with Elias Wessel on a shoot this week.  Here’s what he had to say: CK: How did you become a photographer?  Describe your career development? EW: I would have to say that graffiti was the catalyst for my love of art. At the age of 16 meeting Sigmar Polke at his huge [...]

And to beat the aberration of the Buggles ’79 hit right away with one breath to death: No, definitely not! Digital didn’t kill the Photo-Star! So if you’re one of them, don’t bother reading further, your status quo is secured! Take a break and enjoy the park! I have had several talks recently during which [...]

How did you become a photographer? Describe your career development? My father was a photographer, a commercial photographer in fact. He did weddings as long as I can remember, but it was his portraits that interested me most. I sort of “tripped” into photography with all the photographic gear that surrounded me. What started as [...]

I started taking pictures early on, around the age of 12. For both, my father and grandfather photography was a hobby. My grandfather was actually a serious amateur-film-geek. So I grew up with Super 8 and started to film occasionally on trips and family vacations when I was eleven years old. I loved the medium [...]

What are we going to shoot today? This is a portrait I was commissioned to do for new clients Joanne and Fred. I always want to have the final product reflect the people’s personalities and after getting to know the two of them… they like to have fun, they’re quirky and they both love to [...]

Broncolor is always pushing the limits in its R&D lab.  This time they built a completely redesigned flash tube to match the speed and power of the Scoro power pack.  The physical limitations of legacy flashtubes simply could not keep up with the extremely fast recycling Scoro power pack, firing every 0.4 seconds, or producing [...]

Stuff to Get Started With: Technical warning:  This post is really technical, but we tried to make it as readable as possible.  And if you can believe it, this is actually the dumbed down version that does not address the issues of how capacitor switching or pre-flash ignition work. We are regularly asked about broncolor’s [...]