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...

Photographing a Living Legend

I grew up in the days before fitness gurus were everywhere you looked, in those days when fitness could be summed up in just three words…Jack…La…Lanne… When I was growing up I start off each day watching “The Jack La Lanne Show” before heading off to school. As a portrait photographer, there is nothing cooler […]

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Advice to Photographers Starting Out

FIRST: Most importantly…Shoot what you love to shoot. Work that’s from the heart will always be your strongest work. NEVER FORGET TO HAVE FUN! SECOND: The next most important thing you can learn is how to relate to people. Even if you are a still life, architectural or landscape photographer who never shoots people you

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Fine Living Network: Me vs. Me

My thanks for Jason Brewer and all the staff of Screaming Flea Productions for putting together such a great show about Sports Photography for the Fine Living Channel’s Me vs. Me. I teach a Little League mom how to become a Big League Sports Photographer. Watch me struggle to find a way to create a

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Communication Arts Photo Annual Awards Brian Smith

Communication Arts Photo Annual Awards has just awarded recognition to my portraits of Nudist Golfers photographed for Sports Illustrated. Even though I photograph famous athletes like Shaquille O’Neal and Dwyane Wade, more often I get the call to shoot more unusual aspects of sport like the Gatorade scientists, female boxers or 80-year-old surfers. With the

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Profoto AcuteB 600

When photographing portraits on location, we use lots of Profoto 7B 1200 w/s battery strobe packs. At times we rent as many as ten of them on our bigger shoots. It’s a great pack and practically bulletproof, the only drawback is that one of the thing that makes it bulletproof is that it’s powered by

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