photos. and stuff.
Anyone that knows me is probably sick of me ranting on and on about the Nikon D4 by now. You see, I’ve been waiting for over two years to move to full frame and, with the various disasters in Japan and Thailand, that wait kept getting pushed out and out. When the D4 was finally announced in January, I completely fell in love. It was the latest generation Nikon full frame body, fully...
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I’m not so sure about the title, but Glamour Photography just ran a piece on me and is showing some of my glamour and art work. A word to those used to my usual Flickr stream, now you’ll know why it’s been quiet for so long. My work shown here isn’t exactly Safe For Work, but I hope that some might find it beautiful, alluring, or at least interesting. I’ve had the...
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs. It’s 8pm on a Wednesday night and I’m bawling my eyes out. I just watched TWiT’s coverage of the passing of Steve Jobs and I don’t know what to say. But I have to say something. It seems silly, but when you think about it, I work in entertainment. I fancy myself a creative. I can’t remember a day that I touched a computer and it didn’t have...
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It looks like there may actually be some hope. I’ve been ready for a full-frame camera for some time.I want the added control of DOF mostly, as well as the image quality you see from FF sensors. I don’t know what it it, but there’s definitely a quality that can can be exploited with a full frame (or bigger camera). I’m a Nikon shooter and would have already purchased a...
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pBack in December, it seemed that the best solution at the time was to USB tether the camera to a computer on the same network as the iPad and then have software on that computer push the images to the iPad./p p...I believe these new cards may also be easier to setup as they dont require a computer to bind the card to your WiFi net, but for studio application the old card works fine for me and I am really excited about the possibilities./p
read moreI’ve been troubled for a long time by one annoying side effect of using external editors or plugins with Aperture. Anytime you send an image to a plug in, or to an external editor like Photoshop, Aperture loses certain keyword metadata, most notably lens info. This most likely happens as Aperture converts the image to a tiff, losing the bulk of the image metadata, as it passes the image to...
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Had a fantastic shoot today. Leveraged the ringlight extensively and loving every minute of it. Maybe it’s a bit cliché but it definitely makes a statement with the shadowless fill and telltale shadow. Fun...
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You gotta love Craigslist. Where else can you save 75% on cool photo gear? This week I was fortunate enough to pick up an AlienBees ABR800 ringflash for a song. The ring flash look is famous in fashion photography for giving a shadowless on-axis fill and absence of shadow. I’ve been wanting one for quite a while and have used one of the popular speedligh ring flash adapters, but nothing...
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Don’t get me wrong. I love Aperture. It is my application of choice for cataloging and storing my photos, and for the most part, editing and finishing too. However, lately I’ve been finding myself doing interesting things in Photoshop that require layers, compositing multiple images and such, and have been frustrated with getting my RAW .NEF (Nikon’s RAW format) files out of...
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It’s been a whirlwind few weeks. New job, no time, too much to do. Fortunately, the stress was mitigated last weekend when I discovered one of my favorite models from Model Mayhem was in town from the East coast. A few emails and phone calls later and she agreed to a concept shoot that I had been wanting to try for a long time. I’ve long been inspired by Los Angeles photographer...
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In the drizzle and gloom I headed off to the Pomona Auto Swap Meet today. I love cars, mind you, but my heart just wasn’t in it today. My pal Mike was searching for US made tools and I didn’t really need anything but a cold beer and the LA auto crowd. It drizzled all day and I barely brought my camera out. I have a tough time finding interesting photographs in cars anyway. Today I...
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Just a couple more HDR’s from the Friendship Bell. Maybe it’s going a little too far, but the detail and vivid colors of the memorial just cry out for the...
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