Category Archives: Photography

Hard Drive Failure 2!!!

Well here I go again. My hard drive, with all my images on it decided not to work. Again! The hard drive did not die, it just got corrupted and could only see half of the 4 TB on the drive. Now this happened to me about eight months ago, with the same drive, and...

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Street Fashion Photography with Hot Lights

This past weekend in downtown St. Petersburg they opened up some new galleries, and I’m happy to say that I had a few of my photographs in the ArtOn Central Gallery. It was very exciting and there where probably over 3000 people to see this revitalization of the block that was supposed to be torn...

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Lightroom – Noise Reduction

There has been a lot of talk about Adobe’s Photoshop CS5 since it was announced a few weeks ago, but not much talk about Adobe’s Lightroom. I don’t believe that there will ever be a lot of big changes in Lightroom any time they upgrade the program. When they started out designing Lightroom, they talked...

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The HDR Argument!

There’s a lot of talk about whether HDR is really good photography, or bad photography made to look good. I find this argument, or question somewhat comical as whatever we do to photograph, specially in the digital world, weather using a plug-in, filter or different effects in Photoshop we are still creating a photograph, good...

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Photographing A New Hospital

I just completed four days of photography at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg Florida. I worked for four different companies, and it was spread out over three weeks because they were still working on the hospital. I found out that it takes more to be a photographer than just taking pictures, and so did...

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New Class and Workshop Schedule

I just posted my new classes and workshop schedule for the next few months. The winter and spring classes that I will be teaching are designed to push you to the next level. They are designed to make you work on projects, look where you photography is going and in the end produce photographs that...

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Photography Holiday Wish List

It’s that time of the year when you start your holiday shopping and I thought I would give you some ideas to make your holidays more photographic. So here is some of the thing I would like to add to my gear bag. Canon’s 17mm and 24mm Tilt-shift lens I had a chance to play...

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