5511 Project – Creepy Guy Self Portrait

HDR Tennis Game 11 Result

I was bored and waiting for Lost to come on and decided to take 5 minutes and do some self portraits.  I had the Nikon 14-24 lens on my D700 from the previous day at the NY Auto Show so I decided to leave it on.  I placed an SB900 underneath the camera aimed up [...]

The ongoing battle of service from Comcast

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It’s been a little bit since my last Comcast post but Comcast Steve of the Comcast Cares team is making things happen and I appreciate it. The latest is that Comcast came out (10pm at night however) and gave me a new modem in hopes that the problem was that simple. So far so good, [...]

Posterous raises the bar with commenting

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I have been using Posterous for my Phone Blog and my Gathered Blog. I recently incorporated it for easy posting to Photowalklist.com. Why did I title this “Posterous raises the bar with commenting”? Visit any Posterous blog post and you will see that they now offer many ways to post comments. Guest Posterous Account Twitter [...]

The perfect camera strap

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In my opnion the perfect camera strap would be a mix of the following, with the key features being a must. The Mix Think Tank Photo Non Slip Camera Strap BlackRapid R-Strap RS-4 UpStrap Pro National Geographic NG 3030 Camera Strap Key Features Comfortable (like the UpStrap) Professional Look (solid black is fine) Will not [...]

Happy Anzac Day

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Tonight I am off to my friend Jade’s house to celebrate Anzac day with her and some friends as she is from New Zealand.   For those who don’t know what Anzac Day is, please visit the Wikipedia site for details! “Anzac Day is a national public holiday in Australia and New Zealand, and is commemorated [...]

Textured photographs

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I’ve never been one for going overboard on post production but I had some free time and decided to play.  I spent a good amount of time tweaking a bunch of texture files to create the following two images. One is an old portrait I took back in college of another student.  The other is [...]

Promote yourself when shooting events

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As I do not reguraly photograph events I do not advertise it at all.  However, this is what I do when I am shooting at an event.  In fact, this is exactly what I am printing for a Bat Mitzvah I am shooting in May. The front of the card I will be giving away [...]

Land Rover and Twitter #LRNY

Land Rover & Twitter

Last Rover decided to hop onto the Social Media train by advertising to post your thoughts on their vehicles on Twitter.  The handrail definitely catches your eye since everyone is used to plain black rails.  Is it a good marketing campaign?  By how large Twitter is growing why not do what you can and get [...]

Happy Earth Day & One Year with Melissa

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One year ago today was a very important day.  Not only was it Earth Day 2008 but I also met my girlfriend Melissa.  It’s great being able to celebrate the time you spend with someone and the relationship you have, but it is even better to do it on a very important day.  Earth Day [...]

The type of Tweeps that annoy me

Nikon D700, ISO 100, 70mm, f/2.8, 1/200

Tweeps who you send a reply to asking a question and then send a direct message back in a pretentious mannor and do not follow you so you can direct message back Tweeps who join Twitter, follow you and that is it.  That is an instant block in my book. Tweeps who ONLY retweet.  We [...]

Designed a teaser video for work

I designed a teaser video for work to send to dealers.  Now that the marketing kit is just about complete, the teaser video is now public.  This was done in Keynote. There is something happening… from Mack Camera on Vimeo.