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Photographer Reggie Blatter Finds Success With STC and Model Noemi Kappel
STC attendee Reggie Blatter takes on a STC One-on-One session resulting in a whopping eight-page Playboy pictorial with model Noemi Kappel, under Jarmo Pohjaniemi’s direction. The shoot took place in a luxurious La Bougainvillea resort in the Bahamas where pictorial production […]
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Sexual Misconduct and Photographers
First, there was a poster boy Terry Richardson and some lesser-known names. Then came the Hollywood’s big boys starting with Weinstein and falling like a house of cards. I have quietly asked myself when and how the rest of […]
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A Final Farewell to Hugh Hefner by Gary Cole
Hello to My friends at STC. As all of you know, Hugh Hefner left this earth recently. Despite the fact that he was 91 years old, it came as a shock to me, something I found profoundly unsettling. His […]
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Sony a7R III Announced
Sony has somewhat surprised us with the announcement of a new Sony a7R III borrowing many features from the higher end Sony A9. While we have the same 42MP image sensor, almost everything else with the camera is new. While […]
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STC Attendee Ruzdi Ekenheim Continues Making Headlines at Photo Plus 2017 and National Geographic
Photographer Ruzdi Ekenheim is living exciting times in his career. The demanding Serbian not only won the best picture from STC Santorini 2017 which will be exhibited as a poster at Photo Plus 2018 by Hensel lighting. His winning streak […]
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Nikon D850 Sensor Review: First DSLR to hit 100 points
Nikon has been something of a trailblazer in super-high-resolution DSLRs, chucking a metaphorical hand grenade into the market in 2012 with the launch of the 36.3Mp Nikon D800. Since then, plenty of others have caught up, with a growing number […]
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Hugh Hefner, Playboy Founder and Leader of ’60s Sexual Revolution, Dies at 91
Both lauded and criticized by feminists of the era; the media icon convinced Hollywood starlets to reveal more of themselves on his pages than perhaps anywhere else. The interviews were great, too. Hugh Hefner, who parlayed $8,000 in borrowed money […]
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Dxomark: iPhone 8 Plus is the Best Smartphone Camera We’ve Ever Tested
The Apple iPhone 8 Plus has the main camera system truly worthy of a flagship phone. Similar to the iPhone 7 Plus, it features two cameras — a wide-angle 12MP main camera, and a 12MP telephoto camera with a slower lens […]
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Playboy Publishes a Whopping 4-Page Layout About STC’s Santorini Seminar
Playboy International published a whopping 4-page pictorial and story about STC’s workshop held earlier this year by Jarmo Pohjaniemi and Ales Bravnicar on the Greek island of Santorini. It goes without saying that we are very proud to share our […]
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STC Attendee Reggie Blatter Shoots Hensel Campaign in the Bahamas
Shoot The Centerfold One-on-One attendee Reggie Blatter and Jarmo Pohjaniemi escaped to the Bahamas to shoot a Hensel campaign pictorial and discover future publishing opportunities. The amazingly beautiful luxury resort La Bougainvillea served as our base camp and shooting location […]
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