I love Photoshop. I’ve used it since version 2, own a copy of CS2 and work in it every day for both personal projects and my occupation. Now that I’ve said that, I have to admit that while it’s great for professionals, it’s not an ideal choice for many people out there. [...]

Finding the right light can be the key to a great picture. Here is one of my favorite tricks for photographing my daughter.  In the late afternoon, a sliver of warm, raking light comes in through the window in my front door.  There’s a sweet spot on the floor, and if I sit Chloe [...]

Go check out the photography comic “What The Duck“, by Aaron Johnson. Pretty funny.
via: Gob Galbraith.

Do you have a child like mine who gets so insanely excited when she sees a photo of herself you would have thought Elmo just appeared and asked her to be his best friend? Well, that is exactly how it is with my daughter. She is a narcissist to the highest degree. You think it [...]

Mike, our buddy over at “Capturing Your World” has a comment on an article over at Strobist (a good one, you should check out Mike’s site and link to the article).
This reminds me of the frets and arguments in the early days of “Desktop Publishing” and Postscript. “The printers will all be out of business [...]

Somewhere in the Backyard-Nebula lies a PODS….full. SuLoose was lost in all the debris that filled PODS-1.
The termite guys came and conquered the ravenous hordes that had tried to eat my house (since 1942) and didn’t succeed. Chalk one up for the good guys, no wood-eaters or metal-munching-mice on this planet.
PODS-2 arrives Friday, then it’s [...]

I found this shot in my files tonight. I took it a couple of years ago at Shayne’s 30th birthday party at our favorite watering hole, Lucky Baldwin in Pasadena.
It’s a still life of the aftermath of debauchery. But I like the shot because of the shadows and the amber color. It [...]

This the third installement of Two Cheap Studio Setups. In my last entry on this subject, I told you a way to get a cheap studio set up with some lights from Lowe’s. The problem with that setup was mainly time. It was time consuming to set up and tear down. [...]