If you’re an avid follower of the Corner Blog (you can subscribe here), you may have noticed there were no “Video Corner” blog posts last week. But, to be honest, hardly anyone noticed. While they started off as a popular section to the Corner Blog, I’ve noticed lately they haven’t been producing as many views, and very few comments. So I decided to let a week pass without any Video Corner posts to see if people would notice - and not many did. We’re not going to kill off the Video Corner blog posts completely, but they’re no longer going to be twice weekly (no more Photoshop Monday & Photography Thursday videos). Instead, when I come across a good photography/photoshop-related video, I’m simply going to share them as I come across them. If you know of some good videos, feel free to send them my way, and I’ll post them up.

If you want to go back and watch some of the past Video Corner videos, a full list of them can be found here.

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today again looks in on Monte Zucker as he outlines his typical studio/lighting set up. He also goes over a couple of portraits and discusses the impact of the lighting and positioning on those photos.

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today watches in on photographer and photographic teacher (who passed away just over 4 years ago) Monte Zucker as he does post production work on a female portrait. Take note of the steps he takes and how, in just a couple of minutes, he can turn a good photograph into a great portrait.

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today again is with professional photographer Clay Blackmore. Instead of following along with Clay on a specific shoot, he walks us through a bunch of different portrait and tips. You’ll have to watch this one several times to get everything from it - he moves from subject to subject quite quickly, but there are so many good tips in this one - especially if you’re a portrait photographer.

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today again follows along with professional photographer Clay Blackmore. This portrait shoot is on location using natural light just before the sun sets. As always, he moves and talks fast, but this 6 minute video is packed full of great techniques and ideas.

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today again looks in on commerical photographer Jim Divitale (last week he showed us how he photographs electronics) as he walks us through how he sets up and photographs beverages. This video is packed full of useful little tidbits for commercial and still-life photographers, so get your pen & paper ready!

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today looks in on commerical photographer Jim Divitale as he walks us through how he photographs electronics (great tips for ebay photographers, or any commerical photographers who do product photography).

We’ve had a couple of past ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner’s hosted by Clay Blackmore before. He talks and moves fast, but his videos are always packed full of great tips (pose, light, life, refine). The video today discusses the ‘Female Formal Portrait Pose’ and the way he sets up each shot. It’s always great to watch other photographers in action, and even seasoned pros will find some useful advice from this one.

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today again follows along with professional portrait photographer Tony Corbell on a photo shoot. This week, he walks us through an outdoor photo shoot, and shows us several ways he controls the lighting to achieve optimum results.

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today follows along with professional portrait photographer Tony Corbell as he walks through setting up and taking outdoor portraits of a girl using ambient light sources and flash light together.

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today is on the longer side (over 8 minutes), and discusses more than you’d ever want to know about canvases and canvas printing. You may not ever do it yourself, but it’s neat to know more about the (trendy) canvas prints you see all over the place these days.

In the ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today, Monte Zucker reviews several retouched portraits and overviews the posing and lighting for each - a great look into how he specifically lights and poses subjects for portrait work with his “1, 2, 3 approach” (1 lighting pattern, 2 poses, and 3 camera positions).

Our ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today is just in time for Valentine’s Day next week. Monte Zucker walks us through two popular ways to pose and light couples.

Our ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner last week took a look at taking formal cap & gown senior portraits. Today we peak in on the same photographer as he takes some casual senior portraits. He moves quickly, but it’ll give you some great ideas for posing and lighting. Oh, and the video series that he mentions at the end of the video can be purchased here if it’s something you’re interested in.

It’s coming up to that time of year where portrait photographers can really make a killing doing senior portraits and more formal cap & gown portraits. The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner this week tags along with a photographer doing a fairly standard cap & gown photo shoot. Sure, he’s a little cheesy in his approach, but if you watch and listen carefully, you’ll pick up a bunch of fantastic lighting and posing tips (and you’ll see how quickly he can get the subject set up for each shot!).

The ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today follows along with photographer Judy Host as she walks us through how to scout out good locations for outdoor portraits.

Although technically a day late (I’m currently out of town for a family emergency), our ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today looks at how to best use natural light as a portrait photographer. We’ll follow along on a photo shoot with photographer Judy Host as she walks us through how to find and use natural even light for outdoor portraits.

In another fairly short - just under 3 minutes - ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today, Ken Skulte shows us some great examples of how he uses natural window light in portraits. If you do portrait work, or people photography in general, there are some great tips in here for you.

In another very short - just over a minute - ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today, Ken Skulte walks us through how he uses the ExpoDisc to obtain consistant white balance (the camera he is using is the Canon 1D Mark II, but the ExpoDisc works with most dSLRs).

In the (very short - less than a minute!!) ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today, Ken Skulte explains how to use shadows on objects to give them depth and dimension.