Noir photography

12 different cocktails, 4 friends, equals 48 cocktails. And we managed to get most of the photos in focus. This project was really just a good excuse to have a few cocktails with some friends. Cocktails have a classic, sophisticated and seductive feel. I wanted to create photos that matched that. Film noir came to... Open Post

Azra and Alister go retro. Camera: Ricoh GRDII Recently, and by popular demand, the Creative Photo Workshops Film Noir event was once again organised for our customers who missed out the first time. This time we called it Film Noir - Black Gets Blacker. We thought Back in Black might have worked but apparently some Aussie rock band had taken that one. I'll have to look into that. Our models were Azra Dedic and Alister LeToille. These two young people were wonderful to work with, but I wonder…

Moody, dark, and dramatic — the term "film noir" immediately invokes cinematic scenes of crime-solving detectives and notorious mobsters in our minds. Film noir is interesting as a genre in photography too. In this article, we take a look at how to shoot film noir style portraits inside a studio. This video comes from Adorama TV as Gavin Hoey takes us through his experience in

This is a picture of what a 1930's Hollywood Gangster looks like. I chose this picture because in the book Monster, the gang members are nothing like this "gangster". The gangsters in Monster and guys who wear oversized shirts with either blue as their main color, or red.:

I will be honest, the Men in Black phenomenon is not typically my area of expertise. I am usually more than happy to let my esteemed colleague Nick Redfern handle those bizarre and unsettling accounts, as he has had far more experience and a more formidable record of weird tales concerning these mysterious specters than

London was covered in "fog" at the beginning of the 20th Century, culminating in the Great Smog in 1952.

Use these spotlight photoshoot ideas to isolate and emphasize certain aspects of the subject or scene that you are shooting.

Walter Wanger was a successful independent producer who in the 1940's was married to actress Joan Bennett. Bennett was in several Wanger pro...