Smash Planet Photo Shoot

Here are a couple shots from a recent shoot with Jen Fromal and her partners. She will be using these images on here “Smash Planet” blog. Everything was shot a my Canon 40D in Raw. Obviously shot on green screen and the bookshelf file was inserted later. I used FXHome Photokey software to do the green screen removal and add the backdrop. I’ll be posting more images from the shoot as soon as they are ready.

Iphone Wallpapers

So I wasn’t able to get out and shoot this week, so I decide as a little treat I would optimize some of my images to be used as iphone wallpapers. I grabbed 10 images I thought lent themselves nicely to the iphone platform. Please download and tell your friends. All you need to do is click on the image you want, when the larger image opens give it a right click and save it to your iphoto library (on a mac) or your my pictures folder (on a PC). Then sync your iphone. This is really simple to do, If you want to try it with your own pics all you need to do is crop your pics to 320×480 at 180 ppi. ENJOY.

“Sunday Shoot” Textures

This “Sunday Shoot” was not exactly shot on a Sunday. I know it’s called “sunday shoot”, this week  life just got in the way of photography. So here it is finally on a Tuesday, my “Sunday Shoot”.

For this weeks post I was thinking TEXTURE.  Turns out texture is everywhere, you can’t go two feet with a camera and not find an interesting texture.  So I decided when shooting digitally I need to start thinking FILMALLY (i just made that word up). What I mean is, it has become so easy to shoot and shoot and shoot with a digital camera.  Remember when we had to buy film in 24 or 36 exposure rolls, maybe you don’t but I do.  Those were the good old days, you actually had to be selective in where you were going to spend those shots.  So I’m making an effort to limit how many exposures I make.  What I have done is taken a small CF card like 512mb or 1gb and set my camera to Raw+Jpeg this gets me around 25-50 exposures and thats it. Once those shots are taken I’m done, I don’t erase in camera or bring another CF card.  I find this makes me really take an extra second before I press the shutter release and decide wheather or not it’s worth taking.  When shooting this week I actually only took 36 exposures.  After reviewing my shots I found 11 that I’d like to share with you.  I think if I shot 136 exposures I still might only have 11 to share. Stepping back into the film world is helping me see better pictures before I take them.  Quality not quantity.

f4, 1/40, iso 400

MiniTT1™ Transmitter 5 Reviews and Video

1. Rob Galbraith “We’ve been shooting with beta units for some time, and can sum up the experience like this: these are killer new tools for the working photographer.”

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2.PhotographyReview.com “They are much more than they appear to be and truly offer photographers increased performance and functionality.”

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3.Cameratown.com “now you can get perfect off-camera flash photos in any environment”

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4.Photographybay.com “PocketWizard has dropped a bomb in the lighting world with their new FlexTT5 and MiniTT1.”

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5.Strobist “they re-set the bar in announcing their new flagship models, the Flex and Mini.”

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I know the MiniTT1™ Transmitter has been out for a few months now, but I thought you might want to hear what people are saying in case you missed it.

How to make a Super Contrast image with style in Adobe Photoshop

Working in Photoshop CS3 but this can be done in any version of Photoshop. First Step create two background copies. You can do this by hitting command + J on a mac and ctrl+J on a PC

Sunday Shoot Sepia Tone

I think this will be the first edition on “Sunday Shoots” a new feature on my blog.  I’m going to go out and shoot every Sunday or at least try.  Then do some post production and get the shots online for your viewing pleasure.  Each week I shoot I would like to have some kind of theme in mind so the images have a consistent feel.  Today when I decided to go out and shoot I had the idea that all my finished images would be B&W when I started working my post production magic, I felt the images lent themselves more to sepia toning than B&W. So today you get 8 sepia toned images.

Photography is hardwork

So I decided to start a photo blog.  This Blog will be a place where I can share tips and tutorials, my work and other fun stuff related to the photo world.

I invite you to be a part of this creative process with me sharing creative ideas on photography, making money with photography and critiques.

Remember their is no such thing as a stupid question (comment).  I urge all readers to give input on things you would like to be discussed.

So this being my first post let me give you some history about me.