Archive for December, 2009

New Lighting Diagram App for iPhone

New Lighting Diagram App for iPhone

My friend Stewart Smith posted a review of a new iPhone app that lets you do lighting diagrams on your phone, either to plan a shoot or to let people know how you set up a shot after the fact. It’s a little basic right now, but it’s a new release and I think it [...]

Alana – part 2

Alana - part 2

I’ve been finishing up the edits on the shots from Golden Gardens over the last 2 weeks. Most of the editing was cleanup of people in the backgrounds, posts and sign removal, levels and color balance, those sorts of things. On a couple of shots I went more deeply into touchup of hair, makeup, etc., [...]

Alana – Golden Gardens

Alana - Golden Gardens

These images are from a shoot I did two weeks ago at Golden Gardens park. It was really cold and Alana was a total trooper – it was about 40 degrees and the wind was blowing from the north so it was damn cold. The light was gorgeous – it was blue skies so hard [...]

Rockettes

Rockettes

I’m shooting a lot of events right now – it’s the season for holiday parties, charity auctions, etc – and in truth it’s  been the full range of experiences. Some are great, with good people, good causes, and interesting things to photograph, while others as you might expect are just a bunch of party pics, [...]

Pure Cirkus 4th anniversary show

Pure Cirkus 4th anniversary show

This was certainly one of the more interesting events I’ve shot recently – and technically very challenging. Pure Cirkus is a very alternative circus, full of fire-eating, razor-blade swallowing, nail-bed-laying, feats of impressive athleticism and pain tolerance, all set to a hardcore industrial soundtrack. Like I said…very interesting stuff. A couple of their performers were [...]