Photography

Turning a Crappy Photo Into a Keeper

Have you ever taken a photo that you thought was going to be awesome but when you get back to the computer and see it on the bigger screen it, well basically, sucks? This happens to me quite often, but here is what I did …
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Create Meaningful Home Videos

Over the past year Documentary Filmmaker David Hoffman has been doing an experiment with his home movies. I watched his first movie about his family’s trip to Paris and it inspired me to try the same thing my a family vacation (hope to have the footage posted soon). He recently did …
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This is Not Photography

This is a recent documentary about Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor. If you are not familiar with Jerry’s work you should visit his web site http://www.uelsmann.net/. He was creating interesting and artistic composites in the darkroom, long before Photoshop came along. His work has always been and …
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California Photo Festival

Click – The California Photo Festival is an annual event sponsored by Light Photographic Workshops in San Luis Obispo, CA. I was able to attend 4 days of this 6 day event this year. This conference is unlike any others I have attended. Besides classroom workshops, …
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Behind the Scenes – The Annulment and Love is Blind

Here is a first of many behind the scenes videos. This one is of the shoot that created the images “The Annulment” and “Love is Blind”. I didn’t have someone to man the video camera so just put it on a tripod and shot wide. …
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Ripples

I always have several ongoing photography projects. One of these is taking photos of ripples in nature. I’ve taken over 1000 images of this type but was never quite sure what to do with them. Individually an image might be OK, but rarely outstanding. I …
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Critique of my Photos

At the Google+ Photographer’s Conference they had a session of Blind Photos Critiques. Trey Ratcliff, Jeremy Cowart, Scott Kelby, and Matt Kloskowski were offering their critiques of photos sumbitted by the conference participants. I submitted 3 images. The above video is of the Blind Critique session. Critique of my photos …
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Supermodel Cleavage Trumps Good Photography

I was walking through my local shopping center one evening last week when I was stopped in my tracks by this Skullcandy poster in the window of the Tilly’s store. What stopped me was not the model (is this a sign I’m getting old?), …
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22 Useful Photography Cheat Sheets

Here is a post on PhotoPoly where they have compiled a list of photography cheat sheets. Some great stuff here. http://www.photopoly.net/22-useful-photography-and-photo-editing-cheat-sheets/
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Have You Registered Your Photos?

In the past few weeks I’ve had several photographer friends who have had their photos stolen and in one case one was put on a stock photography site. Neither of these photographers had registered their photos so the only recourse they really have is to …
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