VerveCast

A group of Milwaukee-area photographers are working together to give something back to the community this year…

Help-Portrait is a movement of photographers, coming together in every major city, to use their photography skills to give back to the community. On December 12th, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need, and taking their picture.When the prints are ready, the photographs get delivered. Yep. It really is that easy.

Learn more about it at: helpportraitmke.com

Eyes are simply amazing. About 3 years ago I shot a macro of an eye for a client of ours and it’s stuck with me. Every time I looked at it I wanted to see more. My last fine art series were based on pears. Simple single portraits of all different types of pears. Well staying in the “portrait” theme I’ve embarked in my new series… EYES.

The series will be complete when I have 50 eyes. If you would like to be part of this series please let me know. I have about 15 shot to date. Here are a couple.

To be one of the “50″ eyes please email me… SUBJECT: “EYES” coryz@z2marketing.com

Over at YafaRay they’ve got a tutorial describing how to light objects in a room using their raytracing render engine. To help describe what they are talking about, they show a real photo studio.

You may recognize that studio. I know I did, because it’s a shot I took of the studio at Z2 Photo. :)

It’s Summertime!

And that was the theme for the 3rd Z2 Photo Challenge… although we were a bit worried we might not complete it before summer was over. When it comes down to it though, we get it done!

As always, the challenge is not about technical abilities with a camera or related equipment, but about how you look at things… how you see things.

The photos are below… Enjoy!

Photo by Jessica.

Photo by Justin.

Photo by Kerry.

Photo by Lauren.

Photo by Pete.

Photo by Dawn.

Photo by Cory.

Photo by Deb.

Photo by Dana.

Photo by Eric.

We’re all about branding at Z2, and couldn’t help but find it amusing to see a photo that Pete took in our conference room used in a Photopreneur article about how photographers should brand themselves as experts…

Read the article Brand Yourself as an Expert Photographer.