For the past few months, David and I have been creatively stuck. No new ideas were coming. Everything we shot felt flat. We knew we weren’t pushing ourselves creatively, and everything just felt stagnant. And when your whole life revolves aro...

David and I build wild, surreal sets for every shoot, and our posing is pretty unconventional. On an average shoot, when I’m directing my model, you’ll probably catch me saying things like, “Okay, now can you bend backwards and rais...

“Do what you can with what you have. Nothing more is needed.” — Rick Rubin I used to hate our deck. It’s old, splintered, and rotting in places. It's the kind of deck you apologize for when people come over. For years I saw...

Creating art with your partner is a pretty wild thing. It’s intimate, unpredictable, and constantly evolving. It’s not something David and I ever planned to do. It just sort of unfolded that way. In the early days of our relationship, I ...

Color and lighting are two of the most powerful tools photographers have. The real impact shows when you use them together. One of the easiest and most overlooked ways to do this is by playing with color temperature, or the “warmth” and &...

Lighting is the easiest way to instantly change the mood of a shoot. In this post, I’ll walk you through three different creative lighting setups we used on the same set with the same model and show how dramatically the look changes each time. ...

Is the World Better Through Rose-Colored Glass? That’s exactly what I wanted to find out when I got my hands on the Rose FX Filter from Prism Lens FX. This filter combines a soft rose-tinted glass with the company’s popular Nostalgi...

Our very first Think Inside the Box Workshop happened in Jersey City on August 23–24, and wow… what a creative, collaborative, wild ride it was! This was our first time hosting a workshop, and honestly, it blew our expectations out...