Psychedelic Projection Project
One of my recent projects where the models are only wearing projected light...
International Car Forest
Model shoot at the International Car Forest of The Last Church, Goldfield, NV
Fun with the Mercury II half frame 35mm camera
Taken with Fuji Color 400 using a Mercury II made between 1946-1952
Rhyolite Ghost Town
Rhyolite Ghost Town with the Cooks Bank Building lit with colored gels at night.
Old film and mystery memories
Developing film that was shot 75 years ago or so found in an old camera...
Brownie Hawkeye – Conversion from 620 to 120 film
Modifying and Shooting the 60 year old Brownie Hawkeye camera...
This is not just my job, it’s a family tradition…
Some may ask why I would want to shoot a 80+ year old camera? The answer is a simple one, Because it's a family tradition.
Something cool
What happens when you mix the sounds of yesterdays cameras with today's technology? Something cool! Turn your sound up and sit back and enjoy.
Black and White Pictures with Colorful Friends.
So last night a few friends and I decided to go downtown and have some black and white fun. Not really looking to shoot anything, just to hang out, talk…
More Blacklight goodness
Here are a few shots from the second day at shooting at Sephora and Makeup Forever on the strip. Same model (Tara), same Makeup Artist (Lijha), Same Photographer (Me) :),…
A little blacklight shooting
I love playing with light, any kind of light... Here is a series from last nights shoot that combined an awesome model, Tara and Lijha who is one of the…
An hour at WPPI
Had to stop into WPPI today for a few quick shots of Nick Adams working, Nick is a well known photographer from Utah that is here for the WPPI convention.…
f8 and Be There… A Lesson Re-Learned…
I re-learned a lesson this weekend that I would like to pass along to you. f8 and be there… After finishing a shoot Saturday night in Miami, the client decides…
Understanding Image Licensing
There’s no denying the business of photography is a complicated one as photographers would be the first to agree. There’s the hourly rate, the daily rate, rates for editing, rates for renting, but most confusing of all, licensing. Why in the world would a photographer want to license an image instead of simply selling the photo and calling it a day? How could this possibly be customer-friendly?
Two Photos for Every Scene
When looking through blogs and flickr photostreams, one can tell who are learning and who are the more experienced photographers. How? If you go through many posts or pages of…
The Headshot
Like most photographers, sometimes I get asked how I took a certain shot, what my setup looked like, what camera and settings did I use. And like most photographers, I…
Cool photography opportunity, the Solstice Lunar Eclipse
Red Moon at Night, Photographers Delight!!! On December 21st there will be a total lunar eclipse, these don't happen very often and maybe for good reason. The moon will turn…
I’ve ran out of things to photograph!
Not really but after talking with several different people about this subject I figured I would write a short blog entry on the subject of running out of things to shoot.
There will be times you will think to yourself that is absolutely nothing around to photograph that you have not already shot. You say you already photographed everything in your backyard, in your local parks, around town.
Coming up with something new to photograph almost seems impossible huh?
This is where we are wrong in our thinking. Truth is, we may think we have shot everything in our backyard or the city or wherever, but what we don’t think about is HOW we may have shot it.
8 Ways to Get Out of a Photographer’s Slump
Over my life I have heard many of my photographer friends say they had become uninspired at one point or another. In sports, they would say the photographer is in…
Nikon announces the new 28-300mm VR lens
Nikon announced the release of the new AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR. Designed to provide FX format users with an equivalent of the company’s popular 18-200mm for DX, this superzoom includes two-mode image stabilization to the latest VR II specs and a zoom lock switch. The only problem… It will not be available until sometime in September.
This is great news for us photojournalists that need flexibility when on assignment. No more having to carry around two FX camera bodies to have the same range as the 18-200 has on the Nikon DX bodies.
The other thing that makes this lens a very welcome addition to us PJ’s is it accepts the standard and most common size filters, 77mm.
If you are interested in the geek speak and tech specs, click for more…
Flash is Our Friend
Last week when I was talking with a few friends that are new to photography, I mentioned using flash for outdoor portraits, I know a few of you cringed at…
Zoomify, WordPress, Paris Panorama
One thing about blogs that has always made be crazy was the fact that it was hard if not impossible to display large files in such a way that people can view the details of the image. Screen width and image theft are the two reasons most pictures are so hard to see.
As you already might know, starting with Photoshop CS3 you could export your large images to Zoomify and it would automatically tile your image, create your folders and also create your HTML code so viewers could zoom in on your image from your website.
For those of you that do not use Photoshop CS3 and newer you can still use Zoomify since they offer a free stand alone version. You can get that HERE if you need it.
However, the problem up till now has been a way to view Zoomify exports from within WordPress. This is no longer a problem.
Click on the below image to be able to zoom and pan for a closer look.
By using the WordPress plugin called “Shadowbox JS” you can configure your Zoomify page to display from within WordPress as easy as cooking a TV Dinner.
You can download it here by clicking this link: http://sivel.net/wordpress/shadowbox-js/
There are other ways you can use Shadowbox JS in your WordPress site however for this post I will stick with using it to display your Zoomify pages.
Yes, I am about to tell you how to do it. Coding and all… However you will need to click continue…
Gecko Camera Mount Test
One of the tools that I should be using more but haven't due to not having time to play is the Fat Gecko Camera Mount. This is a mounting system…
Coffee anyone?
When Canon came up with their coffee mugs during the last Winter Olympics, I thought for a moment that they may really have better stuff than Nikon. Today I got…
Tynt Insight helps you benefit from others scraping your site content
Depending on the content of your site, a certain percentage of your content is going to be copied. There are many reasons why readers may copy your content. It might…