STC January 27th-29th Miami Seminar Workshop

Thank you STC Santorini 2023

We wish to thank the attendee photographers who joined our STC Santorini 2023 seminar by keeping the seminar publishing alive as a steadfast guide for those who believe that nothing is impossible.

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STC January 27th-29th Miami Seminar Workshop

Master your poses with STC posing guides

Master photographers at the Shoot The Centerfold have developed these guide books based on the very same poses they have used and developed over years of experience and meticulous fine-tuning.

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Master your lighting

Master your lighting

Many aspiring photographers set out with the Machiavellian mantra “Pity the student who does not surpass his master.” Plastered on billboards, printed in magazines, and hanging in galleries all over the world are beautiful images.

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STC Archive

Shoot The Centerfold Individual Digital Lighting Books

Now you can purchase individual lighting scenarios from Shoot The Centerfold's series of Lighting Diagram Books. STC has made obtaining your lighting diagrams as easy and wallet-friendly as possible.

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WPPI NYC OCT 26 - 28

The Ultimate Ring of Light – The RingMAXX

Shoot The Centerfold and Chimera, the premiere innovator of light modifiers, is introducing a new 48” ring light.Inspired by international master of lighting Jarmo Pohjaniemi.

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Watch Our Intro's

Watch Our Teasers

When you are searching for information, sometimes it seems you must look through masses of documents just to get to the ‘heart’ of the story

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STC Archive

STC Archives

Check out all of our past posts in the archive!

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STC Archive

Start your photography career here

Shoot The Centerfold is excited to announce One-on-One sessions are now available between our seminar/workshops while you wait for the next STC seminar/workshop to come around.

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Becoming a Better Photographer – Gary Cole 0

With Jarmo’s encouragement, I started writing this blog on the general subject of “The Business of Photography” a few months ago. And I will certainly keep plugging away in the weeks and months ahead on the nuts and bolts of […]

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Posted on: 04-23-2015
Posted in: Photography

STC Dream One-on-One: All The Way! – Part 1 0

Shoot The Centerfold One-on-One sessions are one of the fastest ways to learn photography and to get your images published. We do several different types of instruction based on each request assuming that it fits our guidelines and we can […]

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Posted on: 04-22-2015
Posted in: Photography

Adobe updates Lightroom with facial recognition, GPU enhancements and more 0

Adobe is describing Lightroom CC as all new, with ‘lightning fast’ performance and new tools for editing, enhancing and displaying pictures. Mobile, ‘connected’ imaging is an increasingly large part of Adobe’s plans, and while users will still be able to […]

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Posted on: 04-21-2015
Posted in: Photography

Are You Shooting Video? If not, why not? – Gary Cole 0

My iPhone 6 shoots pretty decent video so I’m sure that most of you are using camera equipment that has video functionality. If not, you probably should be thinking about upgrading to a camera that does shoot high quality video. […]

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Posted on: 04-21-2015
Posted in: Photography

GoPro’s Nick Woodman – America’s highest paid CEO earns $285 million 0

 Apparently GoPro’s “extreme” culture even applies to how much money it pays its founder and CEO Nick Woodman, the surfer turned billionaire, is about to become the highest paid executive in America. The 39-year-old GoPro (GPRO) CEO was awarded a […]

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Posted on: 04-20-2015
Posted in: Photography

Nikon Discovers Fraudulent Products 0

It is often said that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Camera manufacturer Nikon recently released a press statement that they have been finding imitation and fraudulently modified products coming in for service. These products […]

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Posted on: 04-20-2015
Posted in: Photography

Check or Carry Your Lenses on Flights? 0

Some years ago, I was unpacking my luggage and gear after returning from Central America from a Playboy shoot when I realized that one of my lenses that I had packed into my well-padded Pelican case had cracked right in […]

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Posted on: 04-17-2015
Posted in: Photography

How’s Your Website? The Editor’s POV – Gary Cole 0

There is no more important marketing tool in a photographer’s arsenal these days than his website. Have you examined yours lately? And if you have, are you thinking about it from the perspective of your prospective clients? Or is your […]

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Posted on: 04-17-2015
Posted in: Photography

Nikon Rebates and Displays Updates at NAB 0

For those of you attending the NAB Show next week, April 11-16, 2015, in Las Vegas, you’ll be able to see the latest and greatest in the world of broadcasting and video. We recently reported that Canon would be there […]

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Posted on: 04-10-2015
Posted in: Photography

NAB/Canon new video cameras 0

The April 2015 NAB show is swinging into full action mode in just a few days. The NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) tradeshow is a dream come true for videographers and photographers alike. As their site explains, a person can […]

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Posted on: 04-9-2015
Posted in: Photography