Add Some Bang To Your Images

Heres is a great video tutorial that teaches you how to add some nice dramatic color to your images! It’s about 8 minutes long and what I love about it is, it isn’t using lightroom or PS. Don’t get me wrong, both of those I love, but it was cool to find something a bit [...]

Portraits From The Past

Portraits from the past, is a huge passion of my wife’s. In addition to her fantasy portraits, these old time reproductions are  her second largest seller! Be it Vintage Pinup, Medieval Knights, Renaissance Wenches, Cowboys, or Reproduction Victorian, the masses seem to love those old nostalgic portraits. “I love the old time portraits, I’d have [...]

Top Ten Photography Techniques

I thought today we would look at a great article about some of the top photography techniques. In addition I compiled a list of my top favorites as a photographer from my fav gear to quote! So to start here’s a glance at some of my favs! MY TOP TEN My fail safe lens- Canon [...]

Setting The Studio Mood

Do you play music in your studio during your session? No, why not? I found that when I put on music my client seem to relax more, and some even seem to transform into a totally different person. Playing music during a session became a practice for me after one client actually asked me to. [...]

HDR Portrait Photography

Have you heard of HDR? Of course you have, it is becoming more and more popular everyday. My love of HDR photography came when I first saw photography by David Hill. I instantly fell in love with it, and searched forever, with no luck, on how to do that. But since them I’ve come across [...]

Create Some Sparks

I found this funny and educational video I wanted to share. It shows how to make some pretty cool sparks for photography. I can think of a bunch of uses for this..No, Really!  The video not only tells you how to make some awesome sparks, but gives you tips for actually photographing the wonder you [...]

How To Photograph Fireworks

The 4th of July is mere days away, and one thing we all do, is grab the camera for some fireworks shots. The next thing a lot of us do, is look at the images in confusion and wonder what happened. But we are going to help you make sure your images this holiday turn [...]

Amazing Things You Can Do With Today’s DSLR’s

It seems like more and more people are making video with their DSLR’s. With footage like this, I can see why. I was talking to a videographer friend of mine the other day and he was telling me about the price of some HD video cameras. Some up to $30,000! Then he told me, you [...]

Find Out Who Unfriended You On FaceBook

By Following these simple steps you can find out who unfriended you on facebook. That’s right people, you thought everyone loved you, never suspecting or noticing your friend count slowly plunging below 2,000. But now with this nifty little plugin for firefox, you will know when you are unfriended. Here are the steps: 1. If [...]

HDR Photography Tutorial by Scott Kelby

In this video Photoshop Master Scott Kelby explains HDR. High dynamic range imaging is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wide dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent [...]

Tilt-Shift Videos = Very Cool

Coachelletta from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo. Everyone knows I am a huge fan of Tilt-Shift, photography, and videography. I really have to stat shooting like this. Sam O’Hare used D3′s to shoot around 50,000 images with some exposures up to 2 seconds long. (night shots). Here is another video by O’Hare. This is a video [...]

Bullet Time

Bullet time is a special and visual effect that refers to a digitally-enhanced simulation of variable-speed (i.e. slow motion, time-lapse, etc) photography used in films, broadcast advertisements, and video games. It is characterized both by its extreme transformation of time (slow enough to show normally imperceptible and unfilmable events, such as flying bullets and space [...]