Ed Hidden is a graphic designer, photographer, code-monkey, blogger, cubicle dweller and motorcyclist (often referred to by his online moniker: MotoEd). While interested in photography for about half his life, he focused on it as a career 4 years ago. Primarily the goal is shooting stock photography, but has been known to shoot some wheeled sporting events, portraits and anything that tells a story.
So, I was just hearing reports that the Zune has captured 9% of the “mp3 player” market. For a product launch, that’s not to shabby. It’s going to take a bit to tackle the dominance of the Apple iPod in that market. But it’s off to a good start.
It makes me wonder, how good is […]
I saw this ad in PDN and was looking at it pretty closely and some things looked familiar. It was shot by Clay Blackmore, a wedding and portrait photographer from Baltimore Maryland (not far from South Central PA).
After closer examination, I thought I recognized this location as the fountain behind the state capital here in […]
If you are going to be at PhotoPlus Expo in November. Be sure to stop by and say hello.
I will be on a panel discussing the Microstock photography business. (search for Ed Hidden on that page). Come see me get tarred and feathered for “ruining the industry”… lol. (I think it will be […]
For my model friends,
On our Studio Lighting podcast available (for free download) at StudioLighting.net. We interviewed a great photographer who talked about commercial modeling.
It was a great audio article and wonderful for people who want to get into commercial/advertising modeling.
For me, sadly it will possibly talk some of you out of doing TFP or TFCD […]
Posted at Studio Lighting.net
Bill and I posted a full review of the Alien Bee Ringflash at Studiolighting.net as a compliment to our recent interview with Paul Buff on the LightSource Podcast.
What do I think of it? You’ll have to read the article to find out… but here are a few samples to whet your apetite.
A recent shoot down with JamieT from ModelMayhem.com. We did a few business concepts using the Pagoda in Reading as a backdrop for a little bit of an international flavor. There are many more yet to finish up from this shoot, but they require quite a bit of photoshop work since they are practically illustrations.
Maxim photographers get some really interesting looks in their images. Have you ever wondered how to get them youself? I have kept this article as a reference and use many of the techniques learned in here to enhance images from a shoot.
How to shoot Maxim-Style
Behind The Scenes with Mike Brochu (available at OneModelPlace.com)
At one time […]
My boss got this magazine for the Raven’s football team the other day and opened the cover and found one of his employees sitting inside the front page.
Read more about why this is really ironic
I did a photoshoot with two models from some online model sites. (Valerie Kelly from ModelMayhem.com and Nicky from OneModelPlace.com.)
These are just a few samples from the shoot.
I need to credit this ideas where it belongs. I was watching my contacts on flickr and saw that Mariano Friginal had an interesting style tip from a recent wedding shoot. He was wearing Sweatbands. You know, the type that tennis and other athletes use. At first, I thought it was for pure style, but […]