Post photographer Stephanie Cordle’s food setup-in-the-making using Director of Photography Larry Coyne’s pickup truck.

Want a sneak peak to an upcoming food story on football tailgating? Here’s your chance as Post photographer Stephanie Cordle goes on location — to the Post-Dispatch…

Photo Mechanic browser window for St. Louis Fashion Week edit.

What’s the best photographic workflow for a newspaper photojournalist? We could go back and forth for hours on that question, and everyone here in the photo department would have a different…

The last drops of sunlight fall on the leaves of ‘Autumn Blaze’ Maple trees late Monday evening at Hoette Farms & Nursery in New Florence, Missouri.

There’s been a wonderful amount of feedback regarding Tuesday’s front-page photo of these ‘Autumn Blaze’…

Digital manipulation of models in advertisements is nothing new in the world. While the practice is contrary to our editorial work (we don’t digitally manipulate or stage any photograph for any reason other than a clearly stated photo illustration), the…

Red umbrella & palm, photographed with a white iPhone 3GS, copyright Erik Lunsford

Oh, is there anything this funky Seattle photographer can’t do? As PDN reports, commercial shooter and hardcore Nikon user Chase Jarvis “has managed to land at the intersection of…

On assignment, people often ask me what times during the day are best for photography.  I have the same answer repeatedly - dawn, dusk, and noon.  Noon? Definitely, as sometimes when the light is brightest and highest you can capitalize…

A few weeks ago I was trying to think of a creative way to light an outdoor, night situation without using a strobe. It made me think back to college when my friend Michael used a giant, super bright flashlight…

“Do yourself a flavor,” Snowcone stand, south St. Louis County. Photograph by Erik Lunsford

I never want to miss a good photograph, so myself and many other photographers carry a camera everywhere — Call it paranoia, or maybe it is a…

The newspaper world is a lot like baseball’s major leagues. Wait, don’t laugh — there is a good explanation (although we don’t generally end up on baseball cards). See, newspapers are a national job market. Generally, you start fresh at…

Aptly as the headline asks, how do you feel about tabloid magazine OK! paying $500,000 for the exclusive rights to use a photo some are calling the “Michael Jackson death photo” on both national and international editions?

See the cover here or…