Shayne was showing Chloe the light outside our window this afternoon while I was on the phone with my friend, Galit. I saw them standing there through the reflection of a mirror on the wall and the light looked gorgeous. I grabbed my camera while still on the phone and started taking [...]

I’m confused, am I on day 10 or day 11 of the DP Blogs photo-a-day challenge? It’s been a long day and I’m super sleepy. Here is my entry for the day.  I shot these paint brushes this morning at church with my Nikon D70s set to Auto with a little flash [...]

My favorite store on the planet is Historic Lighting in Monrovia, California. I worked there on the weekends a couple of years ago out of sheer love of the place, and because it fed my addiction to Arts & Crafts lighting and furniture.
I went in today to hang out with my best friend, [...]

We have the best stove ever. It’s a refurbished O’Keefe & Merritt stove from the 1950’s. In the morning, the sun comes in through the blinds and hits the stove. I love it when that happens. So, this is my first Picture of the Day submission with my NIKON D70s!!!!! [...]

Yesterday was a big day. First of all, it was my birthday. Second of all, I worked all morning on a new feature article about shooting products for eBay and building a diffusion panel for product shots. Stay tuned for this article in a week or two. To demonstrate this lighting [...]

Last week I wrote about a portrait I took of my Captain Hook Pez Dispenser. Well, it’s still trapped on a negative waiting to be transferred to digital. But I wanted to see if I could duplicate the shot using some simple tools and my point-and-shoot digital camera.
As I mentioned in my [...]

So, you’ve had your digital camera for a year or two now, but you’ve never pushed the little flower button? The flower button, aka the Macro Button, is one of my favorite digital camera features. The Macro feature allows you to shoot things very close-up and still maintain focus. With the [...]

My brother Clark and I are total dorks. We love all the ridiculous stuff from our childhood in the 80’s. When I visited him a while back at his apartment in New York, he had amassed a veritable toy store worth of stuff for me to shoot with my digital [...]