The Nothing

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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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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just picked up a used Sigma 28-105mm F2.8-4 lens today.  Similar in focal length and better in aperture than the L glass I rented the other week.  Granted, it’s no replacement for L-glass, but it a good decent lens.  And, most importantly, the price was right!
I did get the Lowepro Fastpack 250 the other week.  [...]

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