Photoshoot and Beyond
I was recently at an interactive installation that had three theater lights – red green and blue shining on a white wall. The kids were fascinated by this – especially with how the colors mixed and how they could make different colors by casting shadows on the wall. This is a human scale representation of […]
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Hint: sometimes it is the camera… Last Sunday morning, my son Isaac was sitting at our dining room table eating breakfast with a typical seven-year-old too cool for school hairdo going on. My wife though that it would make a cute portrait, so she grabbed the camera and snapped the above portrait. Nothing special, natural […]
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If you’re a GoPro user, you probably have a whole pile of used GoPro adhesive mounts accumulating in your gear closet. Well, if you want to re-use them, there is a really easy and cost effective way to get your sticky back. Scotch makes a line of reusable, double sided adhesive tabs for mounting photos, […]
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Thinking back over this past year, there’s one thing that stands out for me as something that was immensely enjoyable, fulfilling and really helped me to forget about the day to day grind of running a photography business…I went on a photography vacation. For one week in July I clocked over 3000 miles on a […]
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I’m feeling very Christmasy today – shopping is done, gifts are wrapped, projects are mostly complete for the year and I’m looking forward to a little time off before re-booting in the New Year. I thought that it would be fun to kill two birds with one stone – I have a nice Christmas present […]
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When I was getting started with photography, I knew that I had to learn how to light a subject indoors, but I couldn’t afford studio strobes – or even a hot shoe flash. I ended up learning how to use artificial light by re-purposing a set of three 500 watt halogen work lights. They turned […]
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I recently had to do some rough photo adjustments on a computer that only had an older version of Lighroom installed on it (Lightroom 3). WOW – I had no idea how much I rely on some of the pretty fundamental tools available in Lightroom CC that were either not available or were not that […]
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I recently had to do some rough photo adjustments on a computer that only had an older version of Lighroom installed on it (Lightroom 3). WOW – I had no idea how much I rely on some of the pretty fundamental tools available in Lightroom CC that were either not available or were not that […]
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Every time I am at my local big box hardware store I always take a peek at the lighting aisle to see what is new and exciting in the world of home illumination. (Or more specifically, I check to see a manufacturer has finally created a big honkin’ LED light bulb that would be bright […]
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If an amazing light painting portrait has caught your eye sometime over the last few years, you’ve probably seen the work of Montréal, based visual artist Eric Paré. I first noticed Eric’s work when he released his LightSpin project back in 2013 – featuring groundbreaking and truly spectacular 360 degree bullet time light painting. Since then Eric […]
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