The Nothing

Next week or so is going to be a lot of fun.  I’m in the process of closing down my pBase account and moving everything over to Flickr.  As much as I love everything about pBase, it’s just not cutting it.  Flickr has a million more users, and it’s much easier to find people with [...]

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Finished up the production work on the wedding last night.  Finally.  No more worries about that.  Now have to hunt down the newlyweds, show them the proofs, and get a check.  I won’t do any more work till that happens at this point.
In other news, I also shot a car show last weekend. Just out [...]

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i’m STILL going through some post processing on last weekend’s wedding.  I’m close to done though… only a hundred-some-odd shots to go.  I suppose I should really call it pre-processing.  I’m only cropping and doing some color/exposure correction.  Nothing major.  Then we’ll sit down, go through some images, pick some out for prints, then i’ll [...]

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Weddings, I found the other day shooting my first, are fun.
Weddings, I found yesterday the other day shooting my first, are stressful awful reminders of how crazy people can really be.
Some of the things I learned:
1 - if you’re going to rent gear, don’t thinks “its going to be there.” Make a freaking reservation. PPS [...]

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just finished shooting my first wedding.  It was fun.  I’ll probably never do it again.  Certainly doubt I’d do it for someone I didn’t know…
I impressed the wedding co-ord and the DJ though.  Both had no idea that it was my first wedding.  Said I was handling thing very well and getting what should be [...]

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First song I heard this morning, and ironically enough it’s very suitable.
This weekend is the  first wedding I’ve been hired to shoot.  I have a Canon 5D rental that arrived on Tuesday, and tonight my lovely wife is renting me some glass.  24-70mm f/2.8L and 70-200 f/2.8L to be specific.  Also grabbing the EFS 10-22 [...]

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Took some time last weekend to get some shutter actions.  Walked all over PDX, and avoided the Red Bull Flutag event as much as possible.  It was a nice day out, so I knew a good percentage of Portland’s population was down on the waterfront watching people jump into the river.
The image attached is one [...]

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I up and fell off the frame of the photograph back in May.
I got frustrated, and, well, scared.
I was almost fired because of my photography.
The rundown of what happened:
As you may know, I like photography - I’m particularly fond of reptiles. I’m not going to call myself a good photographer, but I’m learning and am [...]

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You’ve heard it all before - back up your images.
Yes, do it. Right now.
DVD burner? can get a lot images on a DVD… CDR? not as many images, but works just the same. Multimedia server (ie networked harddrive array) think thats the route I’m about to go.
Over the weekend I lost my C: [...]

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it’s not too often I post something without a picture, and this is one of those times…
Yesterday while doing some research on Mangrove Snakes (Boiga dendrophila) ended up digging through a large box of old magazines.  An online search revealed a Boiga article in the Nov/Dec 1995 issue of Reptiles and Amphibians magazine.  While seeking [...]

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