3 POINT LIGHTING
Three point lighting is often the best way to create a flattering portrait, shoot a great headshot and make an interview on video look professional. Here is the essence of three point lighting:
Key Light – This is your primary light source.
Fill Light – This light adds illumination to the shadow side [...]

The 30 Day Challenge still lives on. Today I received an email from Noella that she just joined the party.  It’s never too late to join.

I’ve been such a lazy blogger. About three weeks ago on a Thursday afternoon, Chloe turned into a toddler.  Something clicked in her and off went the baby switch and on went the toddler switch.  I’ve been running madly ever since. I also seem to have settled in for a long winter’s [...]

Remember when people used to send fun mail? I mean like letters and postcards and the like? In the age of email and online photo sharing, I’m sure there is a grandma or two who misses getting goofy snapshots in the mail in lieu of a link to a Flickr photo stream.
But then I came [...]

Nothing in particular today.  Just some recent photos I’ve favorited on flickr when browsing the interestingness page.

A few posts back, I talked about a great, free program called PhotoPlus from Serif Software. It’s a photo editing package with much of the power and features of Photoshop (including access to Photoshop plugins) without the cost. When putting together this post, I tried out pretty much every free image editing program [...]

As you know, I was on vacation a little over a week ago. We were visiting my family and my brother happens to be a studio photographer. They use very large 13 feet wide seamless background paper that is routinely discarded after use. My brother snagged an 8 foot section and had a fabulous idea. [...]

I’ll be off moving for the next couple of days, so here’s some shots from the Fontana Bike Races to show you what REAL movin’ is all about!
(all taken with Nikon D1x & D70 cameras, Nikon 12-18mm Zoom Lens, Nikon 80-400 Telephoto-zoom lens, SanDisk Ultra compact flash cards)