Archive for March, 2009

Take a closer look

I shot this image one day in my back yard, right after I got a new lens delivered. I was in a hurry, not paying much attention to what I was shooting, just getting the feel of the new lens. When I viewed the image on my computer later, I found that there was a [...]

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Say Cheese!

Last week, we shot Dance School. This image is not from that session. Seven days of hundreds of little girls in tap shoes, tap tap tapping me into submission. Seven days of networking and Wi-Fi problems. Seven days of long, long hours. Seven days of mayhem. I do enjoy it. I enjoy coming up with [...]

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The Art of Smoke

I came across an article today that completely changed my view of smoke photography. I’ve tried it once or twice, and came out with some pretty decent images (or at least I thought so at the time). There are some Flickr groups that are dedicated to smoke photography, and there are some very beautiful images [...]

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Flickr Frustrations

I used to keep all my theatre images on DotPhoto (some 60,000+ images). Everything from before summer 2008 is still there. Although they say they have a 1GB limit on albums, they’ve never removed older images (although they’ve threatened to once or twice). I upload full resolution images, and once in a while someone orders [...]

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Perspective

Zack Arias, an Atlanta-based editorial photographer, was asked to do a guest post on Scott Kelby’s site. As a person who juggles photography, theatre, family and a job that pays the bills, this video gave me a little perspective on things. More on Zack’s blog.

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Website Troubles

I think I’ve finally got my website back together. My last webhost (Webstrikesolutions) closed their doors after four years of relatively trouble-free hosting for me. My sites got transferred over to EasyCGI webhosting, and it didn’t take long before I knew it was not going to be a pleasant experience. The support is absolutely terrible. [...]

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