The Nothing

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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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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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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Continuing to worry over focus issues, I spent some time at work taking some photographs of animals that I hadn’t taken pictures of already. Some things occurred early in the week that prohibited me from taking as many photos as I had hoped, but I did find myself with a bit of time on [...]

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The Misses and I headed out of town for a weekend getaway to Bend, OR. The hopes was to go out and see if we couldn’t catch a few reptiles for some great shots, but, alas, the weather didn’t cooperate. The other weekend it was 80F. The weekend we chose to go [...]

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Managed to get the Skyport receiver working after a little abuse.
Today, as I mentioned yesterday, was another PDX Strobist meetup. The venue was Vegas Dance Lab with models provided by SugarQ Burlesque Troop. Needless to say, some good fun was had.
The above picture was one of the last of the day for [...]

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Pictured is a Black Milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum gaigeae) that I did a small photoshoot to prepare an ad to be posted on KingSnake.
I’m not happy with it.  This was the best of the whole shoot (granted, on a few shots) but there is no clarity.  Every shot was focused on his head, and not a [...]

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Having the best wife in the world, she sent out after work on Friday to rent me a lens I believe I want.
She picked up the Canon EF 24-105mm F4L. It has USM ultrasonic focusing and IS image stabilization. I had a chance yesterday to fire off a few rounds while in Oceanside, [...]

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Yesterday, March 16th, was the March meetup for the local Strobist group. This time we flash-mobbed Jimmy’s Sports Bar in Multnomah Village. They opened a bit early for us so that we can get things setup before things got too busy which also allowed us to do some things the Oregon Liquor Control [...]

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