Gear Review, guest blog, Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience

Leonardo Loves Location Lighting Luxurious Cars.

Cool Cars + Great Friends + Canon + Godox = Amazing photos. Visual storyteller and Photojournalist, Leonardo Carrizo, shoots some environmental portraits of his friends with their luxury cars featuring Canon and Godox gear in this piece for Mpex-Experience. I have very cool friends with very cool toys! And by toys, I mean cars. Yesterday, […]

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guest blog, MPEX Experience

Following the Signs In Ireland. Capturing the Story Behind the Destination with Canon + Godox Gear!

Visual storyteller and Photojournalist, Leonardo Carrizo, covers event photography tips while capturing the friendly and inviting essence of Ireland and its people with Canon and Godox gear in this piece for Mpex-Experience. Sometimes the universe and the photography muses have a surprise for you, as long as you just follow the signs. Let me tell you […]

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MPEX Experience

Nature, Hiking and Landscape Photography Adventures in Iceland Captured with Canon

Our friend and visual storyteller, Leonardo Carrizo, toured the beautiful and wild country of Iceland with Canon gear in this travelogue for Mpex-Experience.  Iceland is a great travel destination if you are looking for glaciers, volcanoes, icebergs, waterfalls, ice caves, lava fields, geothermal energy, the original geyser and Viking history. For these reasons, and many […]

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Gear Review, guest blog, Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience

A Triumph of Triangles Part II – Magazine-Style Photo Shoot with a 1957 Triumph TR3

Our friend, Leonardo Carrizo, is a multi-media storyteller who travels around the world capturing the story behind the destination.  In this stateside 2-part blog entry, Carrizo takes us behind the scenes of a vintage car photo shoot with Canon and Lumopro gear! This is a follow up post to A Triumph of Triangles – A Magazine-Style […]

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guest blog, MPEX Experience

Traveling to tell a Visual Story with Leonardo Carrizo

Our friend and local Columbus Photographer, Leonardo Carrizo, checks-in and takes our blog on a visual journey through Peru! “The following images are from the Peru expedition and convey how traveling can take your photography to the next level.” I am approaching eight years of teaching at The Ohio State University and I love it. […]

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Hometown Heroes, MPEX Experience, Tips and Tricks

Photographing Luna and Neville: Two Adorable Squirrels Doing Human Things

As a photographer, it can be hard to come up with inspiration. It’s so easy to go online and see fantastic photos of exotic places, get complacent with our own surroundings and think, “What’s the point of shooting in my yard or neighborhood when there is nothing interesting to see?” Photographer Ashly Deskins has reminded us […]

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Gear Review, Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience, TJ Hansen's Blog

The New Sigma 85mm and 12-24mm Art lenses

Recent announcements from Sigma have made a lot of portrait and landscape photographers very happy- the question is, can the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art and the Sigma 12-24mm f/4 DG HSM Art  replace the current favorites from Canon and Nikon? The Sigma Art series prime lenses are steadily taking over the entire range of focal lengths. With the recent announcements, Art primes now cover […]

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Gear Review, Hands-On Impressions, MPEX Experience, Photography News, TJ Hansen's Blog

Hands-on with the Profoto D2 AirTTL, the “World’s Fastest Monolight”

When Profoto added TTL, High Speed Sync, and studio-level power to the Profoto B1 battery-powered monolight, it was revolutionary. But the newest flash, which the company describes as the “World’s Fastest Monolight,” is built to take the Profoto AirTTL system to the next level with even faster and more powerful lights. The Profoto D2 500/1000 AirTTL monolight may […]

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Hometown Heroes, MPEX Experience

Hometown Heroes: Leonardo Carrizo

Hometown Heroes profiles some of the best photographers from the Columbus area, showcasing the photographic talent of our city.  One of the most interesting things about working in a camera shop is that at any given moment you could be speaking to an absolutely amazing photographer. One of those photographers that you might run into […]

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MPEX Experience, TJ Hansen's Blog

TJ’s Daily Blog #58- Tiahna and Luke

TJ’s Daily Blog #58 Tiahna and Luke This image is from an engagement session with two friends of mine, Tiahna and Luke. Tiahna is a Wedding and Event Coordinator herself, so I am excited to be given the honor of shooting their wedding. We are all friends, so we had a lot fun, even though it was about 20 degrees […]

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