Brian Smith

Miami photographer Brian Smith is the luckiest guy on the planet. He won a Pulitzer Prize at 25, he's told Bill Gates exactly what to do for an entire hour, appeared on The X Factor, exhibited at the Library of Congress, dined with the President and 3,000 of their closest friends, shared cupcakes with Anne Hathaway, gotten drunk with George Clooney and married the most beautiful woman he ever laid eyes on...

AdobeMax2014

Celebrity Portrait Photography Talk at Abobe MAX Los Angeles

Join me at Adobe MAX 2014 in Los Angeles to get the inside scoop on what goes into a celebrity photo shoot. I’ll reveal the stories behind my photographs of Hollywood’s A-list, along with lessons learned in 30 years of photographing celebrities, billionaires, and people in all walks of life. I’ll also share celebrity portraits

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Lens Design 101: Interview with a Zeiss Master

For all you lens geeks out there, here’s a fascinating interview of Zeiss’ Dr Hubert Nasse by Matt Granger where they talk about lens design & optical technology with simple basic terms like “undesired lightpass”, “anomalous partial dispersion” and “anti-reflective limits of multi-coating for suppression of brightness” for elimination of “ghosting” and “flare”…ok, those last

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