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Strobist Contest Winner – Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2009 – 9:10 am

Here’s an image I created a few years ago for a Strobist contest “Shoot Your Jack-O-Lantern” that won the top prize. Click here for the original post. Happy Halloween!

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Adding a Second Speedlite to Your Macro Photography…

October 6, 2009 – 1:44 pm

This was shot in my backyard for the macro section of my new Canon Speedlite Digital Field Guide set for release February 2010. It shows the benefit of adding a second Speedlite for the background (triggered by PocketWizards) to counteract the tendency of the background to go black when shooting macro images at high f/numbers. [...]

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I So Believe in Karma…

September 3, 2009 – 4:21 pm

I am continually amazed at the good things that happen in life and today was one of those times. Without going into all the details, 29 years ago (1980), I paid a fine for a friend who was, let’s say, unable to do so. I was living in Arizona at the time, planning to move [...]

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Studio Portrait with A Twist…

August 28, 2009 – 3:17 pm

Had a floor covering client in the studio this week that wanted a variation over a standard studio portrait. He wanted something like a trade show/showroom feel that he could use for his marketing and web sites along with some social networking. After discussing a variety of ways to do it, we incorporated a banner [...]

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Canon 5D Mark II Digital Field Guide…

August 12, 2009 – 2:31 pm

My book is finally out in the bookstores! As many of you know,  this spring I wrote a digital field guide for an exciting new Canon camera, the 5D Mark II, for Wiley Publishing. I hadn’t wanted to blog too much about the process while I was writing it because part of me wasn’t sure [...]

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Jenna Fallon Make-up rocks…

August 4, 2009 – 11:55 am

I was reunited recently with a makeup artist I had worked with a year or so ago on a Nike shoot with distance runner, Kara Goucher. Jenna had called to reconnect and it was perfect timing because the scheduled makeup artist cancelled that day before my shoot for INUR magazine the next day. I quickly hooked her [...]

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Bi-Mart 125 @ Portland International Raceway…

July 21, 2009 – 10:18 pm

NASCAR West came back to Portland this weekend, coming to PIR after many, many  years. I had gotten up early to finish staining the decks and hoped it would work out that I might be able to get to the track to do some shooting. Had a lot to do that day and finished up the staining about 9:30. [...]

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Family Portraits & Charity Auctions…

July 13, 2009 – 2:19 pm

Families are starting to call and book the portrait sessions they won in the charity auctions I contributed to this year. Donating the sessions to groups I care about is a great way to give back to the community, increase awareness of my brand and create some exposure about another style of photography I do. As much networking [...]

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Environmental Portraits…

May 18, 2009 – 3:04 pm

Wow, interesting. The last three people who came to the studio for portraits, took one look at my wife’s creativity in the garden and all opted for outdoor portraits (what, you don’t want a boring seamless background?!). My wife is an excellent gardener (I just mow, that’s my creative input!) and I was proud of [...]

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Glass Photography Lighting Workshop…

May 12, 2009 – 10:54 am

Trekked up to Everett, Washington last weekend to do a lighting workshop for the Fire and Rain Glass Bead Society. After a long drive it was great to pull in and see so many smiling faces. We had a great location and set up multiple lighting scenarios with different backgrounds and even though I showed [...]

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