Last week I woke up real early (roughly 3:30am) to get a shot of Space Shuttle Endeavour lifting off from Kennedy Space Center on the last scheduled night launch for the shuttle fleet. It was an absolutely beautiful launch! I’ve seen countless launches since they started in the early 80’s but each one I see [...]
I was given the opportunity to attend the HDR workshop instructed by Trey Ratcliff and Scott Bourne yesterday in Tampa, Florida. If you don’t recognize those names, you should. Trey Ratcliff is the man behind the most popular travel photography blog Stuck In Customs and is the author of the latest HDR photography book to [...]
One of the things that I have been wanting for a long while is to shoot with studio quality strobes outside of the studio while on location for a photo shoot. The only problem is that there is usually no power available where I am shooting or the power there isn’t good enough to trust [...]
Join me on February 20th, 2010 in Melbourne, Florida for an all day HDR Photography Workshop!
This one day course will teach you how to get the best HDR results like the pro’s.
• Learn to identify a good scene for HDR photography
• Learn the best techniques for capturing multiple exposures for HDR processing
• Learn to use HDR [...]
This review has been a long time in the making and I am excited to finally getting it online. It hasn’t really been a secret that I’ve been testing some of FOBA’s newest tripod heads. This is especially true for those that have been on a photo walk with me or ran into me at [...]
I had to go up to Boston last weekend for business and decided to go up a day early so I could walk around the city with my camera. My friend Hali Sowle from Rhode Island drove up for the day to play tour guide for me. I am so glad that she did too [...]
I’ve always wanted to get some of my work printed on canvas to hang up around the house or in my office but I never really put a whole lot of effort into researching it and finding a good place to print it for me. Printing on canvas has been around for quite a [...]
Heather and I arrived in Las Vegas yesterday afternoon to attend the Photoshop World conference that starts on Thursday morning. After getting checked into the hotel we piled into a car with Vanelli, Scott Larson, and Ron Pepper to go shoot at the Valley Of Fire State Park which is to the north east of [...]
When I first got started in photography I remember how I didn’t want to collaborate with any other photographers. I had this huge misconception that sharing ideas and tips somehow took away from the artistic vision of the individual. When I started shooting with my buddy Vanelli and in recent times collaborated with other photographers [...]
When I was in Tampa shooting with all my friends (I’ll be posting about the trip soon) I happened to be the only one there with a Canon D-SLR. Everyone else was sporting a fancy little point-n-shoot camera. Just kidding… they each had a Nikon D-SLR of some sort. We got to talking about shooting [...]
I’ve started to go through my best images and prepare them for print sales; something I have been meaning to do for a few years now. I will have a new page up on the blog with all the wall decorations available for public sale soon. But to get things started, I am announcing a [...]
Jason Anderson and I were discussing some images that he shot a few days ago of a lightning storm passing through the area he lives. We were talking about various topics like merging the images into an HDR image and so forth. It got me to thinking that the images he shot would be perfect [...]
A few days go I posted about my trip to the Morikami Japanese Gardens. While I was there I shot quite a few exposure sets that I merged into HDR images and processed this evening. All of these images were generated from 9 exposures using Photomatix Pro for the HDR merge and tone mapping. Photoshop [...]
Last week I found myself in South Florida on a mixed purpose trip with my buddies Robert Vanelli, Sandy Foster, and Norm DiCrocco. We made the trip south to do a small photo shoot with Bill “Superfoot” Wallace who is a legend in the martial arts world and a good friend of Vanelli’s. Since we [...]
One of the things I love most about Firefox is the large amount of plug-ins available for it. There are plug-ins to do darn near anything you would want a web browser to do and a few things that you wouldn’t imagine it could. One plug-in that I really like is Greasemonkey. This plug-in allows [...]
Regardless as to whether you think it is a blessing or a curse, the fact still stands… technology has evolved enough to open up the photography industry to anyone and everyone with a few hundred dollars to spend. Most small corner stores are selling low end point-n-shoot cameras and large electronics stores are selling mid-range [...]
Today was the 2nd annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk. We had a really good walk in Melbourne, Florida which was lead by Robert Vanelli. We were booked full but between a few cancels and a few extras that showed up, we were right at 50. Other than being a little hot out it was a [...]
After many scrubbed launches, everything came together this afternoon for a beautiful launch of shuttle Endeavor. At 6:03pm the shuttle left the pad and sped off towards space and its eventual rendevous with the International Space Station. My brother was able to get me and a few friends to the turn basin to watch the [...]
I’ve lived in Central Florida for most of my life and have always been a huge fan of the space center. I cannot even count how many shuttle and rocket launches I have witnessed. Some I’ve seen from up close and others from a distance. For this launch my brother, a NASA employee, was able [...]
The Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk is looming ever closer. We are getting close to the one week mark! Scott Kelby announced that his assistant, Brad (the guy with a sweet freaking job) is going to be posting some tips on the worldwide photowalk blog every day next week. It is something that you should check [...]
I think most everyone has heard about the upcoming Worldwide Photowalk put together by Scott Kelby. July 18th will be the second annual event and more than 17,000 photographers will be attending photowalks all over the globe. Photowalks are a wonderful social event for photographers and can also be very beneficial from a networking perspective. [...]
A few weeks ago I saw a tweet from a photographer about seeing a car accident on his way home and he was torn between whether to jump out with his camera a shoot some frames of it or not. This is something that I have thought long and hard about in the past and [...]
A few weeks ago I was hanging out with Vanelli and Jeff King talking about camera gear. Jeff is the king (pun intented) at customizing camera gear and re-purposing non-camera gear for use in a photography related way. During our gear conversation we got to talking about camera straps and how over the shoulder single [...]
My family took a spontaneous trip to Busch Gardens in Tampa this weekend. I didn’t take nearly as many photos as I thought I would. I was having too much fun hanging out with my family! But I did take a few and also shot some bracketed exposures for HDR’s. Here are a few of [...]
This morning I shot with a model named Faith. Within two minutes of meeting her we established the fact that she is a US Marine too. She went to boot camp in 2001 right about the time I was heading overseas for the second time. Small world! The shoot went really well and was a [...]
Today is Memorial Day; a national day for remembering those who served in our armed forces and gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. During my 13 week stay on Parris Island, one of my Drill Instructors would cite a bible verse every night before Lights Out and it has stuck with me ever since. [...]
This is another HDR image from exposures I took yesterday morning. I had driven by what is left of this house a few times in the past and kept making a mental note to return to it with my camera. I finally got around to doing it. This is all that is standing of a [...]
I woke up at 5:45am this morning due to my alarm going off. I had set it just 5 hours before with the intention of going out for a nice morning of photography. So I woke up, turned off the alarm, and immediately climbed back into bed with full intention of going back to sleep. [...]
A few weeks ago I finally became a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). I decided to join for a multitude of reasons which I will not go into in much detail. But more importantly I want to give my opinion of my NAPP membership now that I have been a member [...]
Last night I decided to take a relaxing night off and hang out with my daughter. We started with a little racing on the XBOX and then sat on the back porch with the fire pit burning, orange juice in our cups, and just talked about whatever random stuff came up. Then I got an [...]
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