Professional Photographer Magazine

From metering and light shaping to documentation and client-ready execution, Ab Sesay teaches photographers how to create stronger images through intention, consistency, and professional control. Great photography is rarely accidental. In Ab Sesay’s teaching, strong images come from understanding what the light is doing, making deliberate choices, and building a process you can repeat with confidence.

February 4, 2020 External Drives This Looper is trying to find a quality external hard drive. After having her Western Technologies drive go bad several years ago, this looper made the switch to Seagate drives five years ago and never looked back. Everything was going fine until her Seagate backup drive started to malfunction and now she can’t retrieve any of the files on the drive. To avoid this situation again, this Looper wants to know what kind of hard drive the PPA community recommends.

For working photographers, insurance is not just a nice-to-have. It is part of running a professional business. From stolen cameras and damaged lenses to client accidents on set, the right photography insurance helps protect both your gear and your reputation. That is where PhotoCare Equipment Insurance and General Liability Insurance coverage from PPA come in.

June 22, 2026 PPA members have a new way to keep learning, growing, and finding creative inspiration. Through PPA’s newest member benefit, members can now save 40% on purchases from Rocky Nook, an independent publisher known for educational books that help photographers and artists build their skills. This collaboration brings together two organizations deeply committed to supporting photographers at every stage of their creative journeys.

The Professional Photographer podcast delivers a month of strategy, innovation, and inspiration. What if March became the month everything shifted in your photography business? Not because you worked more hours. Not because you slashed your prices. But because you thought differently.

Nature and wildlife photography asks photographers to do more than master their gear. It demands patience, adaptability, observation, and a willingness to keep learning. In his PhotoVision content, Kevin Dooley shares an approach rooted in preparation, persistence, and creative curiosity—the kind of mindset that helps photographers create stronger images and stay inspired along the way.

The new Profoto B20 and B30 flashes are designed essentially the same, differing only in maximum and minimum output. The B20 power range covers 250 wattseconds to 0.25 watt-seconds; the B30 is a 500-0.5Ws flash. These power-range differences also affect flash duration and recycle times between flashes. Both use the same removable Profoto Li-ion 4S1P battery. The maximum number of full-power flashes, size, weight, and price also differ.

Even Kaylee Greer can’t believe this is her full-time job. The well-known commercial dog photographer and star of the 2018 Nat Geo show “Pupparazzi” spends six months a year traveling the country in an RV photographing shelter dogs for her nonprofit The Dog Breath Foundation. The foundation is a spinoff from her Boston studio Dog Breath Photography, which she opened in 2010.

“Stunned … absolutely stunned!” That’s how Brad Toms describes his reaction when he learned his landscape image “Cypress Haze” (below) was one of the top four images in the landscape category of PPA’s International Photographic Competition (IPC), which was judged in January at Imaging USA 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. “Actually, you could have knocked me over with a feather,” says Toms with a smile.

Who is in your circle? Do they help you move forward or do they hold you back? Jamar Jones, who runs branding and media organization Foureva Media and wrote the book, “Change Your Circle, Change Your Life,” helps his entrepreneur clients monetize their brands and build their businesses. Part of his process is having clients ask themselves questions such as: Who are the people in my life? How am I connected to them? How much time do I spend with them?