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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Amazon’s Studio Lighting Patent – What’s Wrong With This Picture? 0

  After Shoot the Centerfold broke the story on the Amazon Studio Arrangement patent (Patent Number 8,676,045 or the “045 patent”) on May 2, 2014, the story went viral on the internet causing a worldwide commotion among both photographers and […]

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Posted on: 06-24-2014
Posted in: Photography

AWESOME TRAVEL SPOT FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS: A Small Town in Morocco That’s Covered in Blue Paint 0

Traveling and its benefits is something that successful photographers know all too well. It’s like in the good old days when you took your family somewhere outside of your comfort-zone and brought back pictures that you then shared with your […]

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Posted on: 06-23-2014
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Dizzying Panoramas and Time-Lapse Photos of Stars That Will Amaze You 0

  Just when we thought that we have seem all the possible ways to capture time-lapse photos of stars, we find ourselves staring at Vincent Brady’s “Planetary Panoramas” like we have never seen anything quite like it. And that would be […]

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Posted on: 06-20-2014
Posted in: Photography

Victoria’s Secret model Barbara Fialho Photographed by Gavin O’Neill for June 2014 GQ Australia 0

  Photographer Gavin O’Neill gets it. He took Victoria’s Secret model Barbara Fialho to a beautiful island with a fabulous palm-tree formation beach and captured one of the most stunning features a female has to offer. We asked Gavin, “How […]

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Posted on: 06-20-2014
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Shoot The Centerfold’s 3rd Annual Worldwide Model Search: Destination – Africa 3

This year’s Shoot The Centerfold faraway dream destination will take us back to Africa, for a two-week long photography safari extravaganza. If you think that you have what it takes and are ready for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, send us 6 – 8 images for […]

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Posted on: 06-19-2014
Posted in: Photography

Adobe Overhauls Creative Cloud and Why it’s an Important Update for Photographers 0

At Adobe’s annual MAX conference today, the company announced a major overhaul of the ten-year-old Creative Suite, which will now be known as Creative Cloud. From now on, you won’t buy CS6 or CS7—you’ll buy a $50 per month subscription […]

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Posted on: 06-18-2014
Posted in: Photography

Kanye West blasts Leibovitz, says wedding Instagram took 4 days 4

  Kanye West says famed photographer Annie Leibovitz practically RUINED his honeymoon with Kim Kardashian … because they had to spend days fixing the now-famous floral wall wedding pic. Annie was supposed to shoot the pic but she pulled out entirely […]

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Posted on: 06-17-2014
Posted in: Photography

How to Take Care of Your Camera: Cleaning and Maintenance 0

Here is a great video that demonstrates some basics of camera care. System checks, cleaning, strap threading, and general maintenance are all covered in this video published by Canon USA. But don’t let the excessive Canon logos fool you, these […]

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Posted on: 06-16-2014
Posted in: Photography

The 23 Winning Shots From The 2014 iPhone Photography Awards Are Incredible 0

  Famed photographer Ansel Adams once quipped, “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.” Examples of Adams’ sentiment abound in the winning shots of the 2014 iPhone Photography Awards. The contest is now in its […]

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Posted on: 06-14-2014
Posted in: Photography

Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image 0

One holiday snap has been manipulated thousands of times on thousands of computers. Here’s how a woman on a beach in Bora Bora taught the whole world to tinker with pictures It hardly looks like an image that shook the […]

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Posted on: 06-13-2014
Posted in: Photography