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New One On One Service – Aperture + Photography

Here is the big news. I will be offering a new service to help readers that need a little more specific or intensive assistance than a blog comment or an email. A dozen or so people have asked me for this kind of assistance and I have been hesitant to provide it. Actually I have provided it for free. Rather than doing it on a hit or miss basis, trying to schedule it around my “real” business I have decided to offer it as a service integrated into my...

30 January 2010 | Apple Aperture, General Photography, Site News | , , , , , , , | 9 Comments
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Flickr Group

A few readers and I have been discussing the creation of a new group on flickr. The purpose and focus of the flickr group would be the sharing and growth of all of us. Not a popularity contest, not a group focused on an particular subject matter but a real honest to goodness critique. I think this would be great and the couple of people that I have discussed this with believe that there is a need and desire to get sound feedback from others that love photography. The...

17 July 2009 | Site News | , , | 3 Comments
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80% of Everything You Read About Photography Is Complete Nonsense

Had some interesting philosophical discussions this weekend via email and real in person live Sykpe person to person stuff to. Anyway I felt compelled to share this a few thoughts with loyal readers. Philosophically the motivation for this site for me is education of people that love making photographs. I really get a big charge when I see the “light bulb turn on” for someone that was not “getting it”. I learned this a while back when I decided to hold a couple of workshops. I learned way before...

08 June 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments
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Photography – I Love Art, I Cannot Stand The Art ‘Culture’

So here is my latest creation. I just happened to be playing around with a couple of lights in the basement while getting blasted. One of my favorite weekend activities. I perfectly captured the way my girlfried acts when I tell her that I am absolutely not refinishing the basement and no I do not want to see the latest chick-flic with her friends tomorrow. I think this is an awesome shot considering I had 5 martinis

23 April 2009 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , , | 19 Comments
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Christmas Wishlist For Santa

For the Holiday season I thought I would post a lighthearted look at things that have been on my Christmas wishlist that I have never found under my tree on Christmas morning. Keep in mind most of these things are really insane and would probably do nothing to make my photography any better or more rewarding, well some of them might insprire me to make some photographs that I could make anyway. These are things that I have photographic gear lust for, maybe just plain old really nice object...

21 December 2008 | Articles, General Photography | , | 5 Comments
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Podcast Rant Follow-up

I received a couple of e-mails asking the question “Okay, so what were the podcasts you actually liked…?” based on this podcast rant that I published a while back where I mentioned that I did actually enjoy a couple of podcasts out there. I do believe that that came up in a few comments on the post and I did link them but it looks like they disapeared when my server had a run-in with some lightning a number of weeks ago. Here are a couple of podcasts that...

06 December 2008 | Articles, General Photography | , , | 2 Comments
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Aspect Ratio Insanity

Just a quick holiday, at least here in the USA, thought before venturing off to the family dinner. I had a conversation the other day with an enthusiastic friend who had just acquired a brand new DSLR upgrade from a P&S digicam and I happened to mention that she would not have to worry as much about the crop anymore when printing to 4×6 paper (as she does most of the time). At that point she asked me what I was talking about. After a long deja vu like...

27 November 2008 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , | 3 Comments
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Lessons From Other Genres

Way back in the 1990′s I took the plunge and attended a workshop. Not just any workshop, I had this thing in my head that I was going to take a workshop that had nothing to do with commercial photography. After looking through the Woodstock Photographic workshop catalog I settled on one. Unfortunately I had no idea they were impossible to get into if you didn’t sign up and get accepted within the first week that enrollment opened up, March or something like that. Cutting to the chase, I...

04 October 2008 | Articles, General Photography | , , , , | 0 Comments
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The Joy of Photography

Today while I was waiting for the light rail in one of the the grand old Pennsylvania railroad stations, a place that I have been in and around countless times, thinking as I alway do, “I have to bring my camera and take some shots of this place soon”, guess what happend. I saw someone that actually brought his camera and who was actually taking pictures. I sat and watched him for a minute or two and felt compelled to wave to him as my train arrived and I...

25 September 2008 | Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, General Photography | , , | 12 Comments