Photo Tip: How to stitch a sequence shot.
Rather than just post a recent photo, I wanted to share a tip that I used to produce this last photo. A couple weeks ago, I attended an event known as, River Rock, which had lots of freestyle biking, kayaking, along with other action sports. I took this opportunity to shoot some sequence shots, only [...]
Maymont Park (Still Snapping Away).
Recently, I’ve been spending more time going on walks, shooting aimlessly, just to see what I come up with. I guess you could say I’m extending my portfolio, really, I’m just doing it to stay shooting constantly, if I get some great photos out of it, so be it. Seeing the photo gigs have slowed [...]
Getting Locked Out Of Your House Is A Good Thing.
Friday afternoon (April 9th), I was packing my car, preparing to leave town for the weekend. I spent the weekend shooting engagement photos for my cousin, Matthew, down in Blacksburg, VA (woohoo, go hokies!). Anyways, any of this even happened, I was throwing camera gear, clothes, the necessities into the car. Everything was ready to [...]
“Shut Up and Make Better Pictures”
I can across an article the other day that couldn’t have spoken more truely. Browsing through the blog of Tim Tadder (one of my favorites), one of his entries entitled “Shut Up and Make Better Pictures“. Briefly, he goes onto saying that photographers, as visual communicators, need to spend less time focusing on updating our [...]
Timelapse Photography
Timelapse Reel# 5 from 599 Productions on Vimeo. I came across a great post on commercial photographer, Kevin Winzeler’s blog, which discussed the topic of timelapse photography. This is one type of photography I’ve always had an interest in but when it came to execution, fallen short. Included is a great video, along with a [...]
Guidelines for a great photo assistant
As a photographer, many of us started out as an assistant, working under other photographers: setting up lights, carrying camera bags, the list goes on. I’ve gathered some tips that I’d like to share that will help you succeed as an assistant. Some through experience, others by having to make mistakes, regardless, using these tips, [...]
Keeping yourself moving in slow times.
If you’re like me, December and January are reasonably slow times for a freelancer, whether a photographer or designer. I find that when times are slower, when the cash flow is slow coming in, i’ve been finding ways to keep myself occupied that could also potentially bring you more exposure and possibly more income. Keep [...]
More snow photos.
Seeing that we’ve received snow for two straight weeks, I’ve had plenty of time to play around with my camera. Here are a few I shot while I explored my backyard, armed with a speedlight covered with a zip-loc bag. No more mishaps with the camera gear.
How to photograph snow.
If you live on the east coast, you know we’ve been hammered with snow over the past month, mainly the past 2 weeks. Lets just say, I’ve gotten my fair share of practice when it comes to photographing snow. There was a period of two days when snow literally came down non-stop. We kept the [...]
Preferred settings of sports photographers
I recently found an interesting post online having to do with sports photography. It is a series of graphs that display the trends in camera settings for photographers. Interestingly enough, I use the same settings as the majority. That depends on what I’m shooting though and the results I’m looking for. I’m not surprised, typically [...]
Photo Sequence: Chase Jarvis
This is one the latest on-location video from Chase Jarvis, one of my favorite photographers. In this video, he goes into detail about how to shoot a sequence shot, in this instance, shooting some action with a skier. This was right up my alley because sports and action is exactly what i want to do. [...]
Photographing the World’s Tallest Tree: National Geographic
I saw this a while back, but recently watched this video again and decided to post it up. I’ve also had a huge interest in remote cameras and rigs, which is why I wanted to share this. National Geographic went on a mission to document the world’s tallest tree, a redwood. Photographing a tree thats [...]
Sunset at 42nd Street
This is a photo I took earlier this week at my favorite spot on the James River, 42nd Street. I am still in the process of editing it, theres still a few things i’m not particularly happy with, I probably need to crop it a little tighter as well. However, I did want to post [...]
Orchid Still Life
I’ve had a little more time on my hands lately because of the holiday (work has slowed down a little bit). So I wanted to take the opportunity to look through and edit some photos that I enjoyed, but didn’t have the time for. This is a still life I had taken of an orchid [...]
Other Great Blogs
Sorry for the delay on posts, but the past week or so has been real busy with photo jobs and traveling out of town for the holidays, so I fell behind at keeping up with posts. I’ve been spending a lot of time reading other blogs that relate to the strobist/speedlight theme and i wanted [...]
Vcu basketball
The past two days was all prep for basketball, testing, cleaning, packing and finally setting everything up to shoot. It’s been a while since we’ve done the basketball setup so I had to work off the rust. It takes a little bit to get back into the flow of things, had a few miscues but [...]
DIY Sunbounce
I recently found a link that gives detailed instructions on how to build a California Sunbounce. It will take a little bit of ingenuity and a saw, but your efforts will save you around 600 bucks. I had looked into saving up and investing in one, I’ve seen the quality of photos you can create [...]