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As a photographer, Zack Arias is a name you must know. He is a photographer, teacher and author who is known for his candid take on the state of this industry that we all love. Every time I have come across him – as a public speaker at a conference or randomly on the streets of a city – I am always left in awe of his humility and his generosity towards photographers.

Zack Arias - Get To Work - DEDPXL Business Primer Our first eBook takes you through the beginning stages of starting your. Zack Arias Photography - Know Your Aperture & Shutter Speed Zack Arias Photography - Modifiers: Octabank, Softbox, Strip Bank, Umbrella Zack Arias Photography - Gear, Money, and Building Your Studio. I'm an alum of both the OneLight DVD and Zack's OneLight in-person class. I pre-purchased this course because I knew it would be amazing. I was a bit worried that there would be overlap from his other course offerings but was pleasantly surprised.

Several years back when Zack was on the road, visiting city after city teaching his simple approach to off-camera lighting to photographers who were either confused or scared of their strobes, I managed to attend first his workshop in Boston and then later in New York City. These were the famous OneLight Workshops that I may have referred to here on this blog from time to time. I can honestly say that Zach was one of the first people to demystify off-camera lighting for me. If you went to his workshops let hear a collective “Amen” below in the comments because I think only you folks know what I am talking about.

Instead of dreading my Nikon SB-900's, I embrace them, play with them and treat them as toys. I keep making creative mistakes and learn from them. It's really the very foundation of Zack's teaching, I believe. Now, my memory is fading so forgive me if I get my facts all tangled up. Either the workshops came first or his OneLight DVD came first, but having experienced both, I felt I was in lighting heaven. Again, if you attended a workshop and own version 1.0 of the OneLight DVD, please comment below. I want to know who you are.

Zack just announced a new project called DEDPXL that I want you to look at if you are serious about embracing off-camera lighting.

Zack also announced OneLight 2.0 (though this time it will only be available as a download). Check out the intro video below for it. From what I can tell, DEDPXL is both a store and a school. The first assignment and all those that will focus not so much on technique but in guiding you to see better. If you are serious about constantly improving your photography, I would take Zack up on this monthly assignment and join the Flickr group to post your images.

The video is 7 hours long! I thought version 1.0 of the OneLight DVD was exceptionally produced and I am willing to bet this new version is going to rock your socks off. [I do not make a dime for saying so … just passing on a resource you shouldn't miss.]

Right now, OneLight 2.0 is available for pre-order at the crazy low price of $50. I recall the original DVD costing $150 or so and was still a great deal. So, if you are looking for a great resource to learn off-camera lighting, THIS IS IT. The full video download will be available on March 31st or soon after.

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So, you are probably wondering if I am going to buy the new version of OneLight. Is that your question? You bet I will because with me, the learning never stops. How about you?

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• Portraits Of A Community In America - April 11, 2019
• John Gress Will Teach You To Light Your Subjects For Impact - January 30, 2019
• Using Backdrops, Custom Hand-Made For Portraits - December 25, 2018

Detailed notes on Peter Hurley's The Art Behind the Headshot

So it turns out I had so enough notes to exceed Reddit's 15,000 character limit. You can find the text document on my Dropbox here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ds2lluaq52rgcxq/The%20Art%20Behind%20the%20Headshot%20Notes.rtf?dl=0

A few comments to start with, somewhat related with and prior to the notes I took from the DVD:

I've taken detailed notes and you can learn a ton from them or use them as reference, but they don't really replace actually watching Peter work. There's lot about how his process I can't properly express in words. If you can't afford the DVD, at least go check out these videos: http://youtu.be/TpKsuP0NlzI and http://youtu.be/EIhn8C1HqCI

These notes are organized by how much emphasis he places on concepts throughout the video, not linearly. I toss in little things I've picked up that he doesn't go over, advice from other great photographers. In particular I draw from Zack Arias and Sue Bryce, each of whom have tutorials out that go over aspects of portraiture that Peter doesn't touch on as much. Yeah, he's the master of expression, but he lets lighting take the backstage and completely disregards posing for anything outside of headshots. Zack has a dynamite, free tutorial on white seamless that I link to under the lighting section of my notes. Sue's workshops are available through CreativeLive. I think both of those resources are important unless you just want to copy exactly what Peter does, only headshots and a ripoff lighting scheme. If you shoot anything wider, you need Sue's styling and posing advice. If you're developing a lighting scheme, look through Zack's blog or grab his OneLight book. For the business side, get a copy of David DuChemin's Visionmongers. It's got all of Peter's advice but with way more depth. I won't even include most of Peter's business stuff here, since I think that's just a disincentive against purchasing Visionmongers, and that book's about the best thing you can do for your profession.

If anyone's got some other awesome resources on people photographer, drop us a line in the comments. Okay, I've got my two bits in. Go check out those notes.

Edit: Fixed Dropbox link