One on One with Zack Smith: New Orleans filmmaker, photojournalist, and muralist Crista Rock! I have been knowing Crista for long time and it was only up until the last few years that I have seen her talent truly shine…where have I been! Well – consider yourself SERVED with creative angles, powerful stories and damn …
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One on One with Zack Smith Photography Episode #1 is in the books…thanks to my buddy and all around one of my favorite photographers Lucius Fontenot. When I say favorite – I mean that – I always look forward to what Lucius is photographing as he is always telling the stories I am interested in …
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One on One with Zack Smith Photography #2 is here – Up close (1:1 and 4:1 – haha) with photographer David Scarbrough – BokehNola Photography – and we got into some detail about is stellar macro photography. Look and share!
If you live in New Orleans, LA or Orleans, France you have seen Kathy Anderson’s photos…trust me! Kathy is a photojournalist, wedding and portrait photographer who works and creates in New Orleans but her images and stories are seen worldwide. Her photographs were the way you saw and felt the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in …
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Sometimes a big sweeping global edit is not the right touch your photo needs. The adjustment brush in Lightroom allows you to make fine tuned and calculated edits to any portion of your image with ease! I remember the days when Photoshop was all you had to make minor but very important edits to your …
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As New Orleans, Louisiana begins the reopening phases of business in this COVID19 virus landscape, Zack Smith Photography Studio at 4514 Magazine Street is dedicated to providing a safe, creative, and socially conscious shooting environment for all clients. Headshot Studio Reopening These last few weeks have been hard for everyone economically and emotionally all over …
During these strange COVID19 times, we have the most unique opportunity as photographers to examine our business, creative process, and dreams from a perspective we have never known. With our normal lives as artists, teachers, and shooters paused, we can now revisit our goals, restructure our archives, tweak our workflow, and most of all view …
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How is it going for you? How does it feel right now? How does having this new global perspective effect the way you view your world, much less THE world in a way you never have? My thoughts could turn to how bad it is in one country vs my own. I can be thinking …
I had worked with New Orleans musician John “Papa” Gros a few years ago to create some new portraits for his press needs. We rented out Luke Winslow King’s house (another notable NOLA talent) for some rustic and royal portraits in his century old creole mansion in Arabi, Louisiana. For this recent album artwork job, …
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Try this easy exposure trick for opening up or stopping down your light without losing the connecting to your subject and camera! It’s so important to remain connected to your subject at all times – directing, observing, and then photographing with your adjustments. The best photographers can observe and direct at the same time, with …
