Category Archives: Places to Photograph

I’m Just A Junk Yard Photographer!

I photographed in a junkyard! Yes, a junkyard and I had a great time. A fellow photography and instructor from the Morean Art Center, Chuck Vosberg, set up a photo walk inside a auto junkyard. This was quite an experience as it was 93° outside and in the sun with a lot of Florida humidity,...

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TAPPA Photo Safari

This past weekend Lee Burgess and myself led a photo safari for TA PPA in historic Ybor City. Lee is a commercial and fashion photographer in Clearwater, Florida and he was showing us some of his approaches to photographing models. We got one of the design students from the International Academy of Art and Design...

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New HDR Programs

There is a lot of HDR news coming out about new programs that will be released over the next few months. Adobe started this rush with upgrading their HDR plug-in in CS5 to HDR Pro. They had to upgrade because there old plug-in was just horrible and with HDR Pro they now have a program...

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24mm Panoramic with CS5

When I was teaching a workshop in St. Augustine a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to photograph a church early in the morning with a group of students. I had learned that Photomerge in Photoshop CS5 was able to put together a panoramic using a wide angle lens. Before CS5 you had to...

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"Vacation with Vanelli" What A Great Time!

I just returned from teaching at a workshop in St Augustine, FL, hosted and instructed by a friend of mine, most of you will know him as V, or Vanelli, his full name is Robert Louis Vanelli, but no one calls him that. V has a great workshop he created called “Vacation with Vanelli”, where...

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Vacation with Vanelli – A One of a Kind Experience!!!

I will be teaching a three hour “Break-out Session” on HDR and Architectural Photography that is open to the public for only $59. V is running a few contest for free “Break-out Session” tickets, here is the link:vacationwithv.com Vacation with Vanelli is a unique style workshop that teaches the art of digital work-flow covering the...

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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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