Grayscale Identity Plate in Lightroom

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Gavin Gough is a freelance travel photographer who came up with a great idea. Instead of having a name on the top of a Lightroom library, why not find out if your monitor is calibrated correctly. Gavin created the perfect sized Grayscale Identity Plate graphic for Lightroom. I’ve been using it since for a couple [...]

New Jersey Photographers & Make Up Artists, Join me in Help Portrait

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Recently on Scott Kelby‘s blog photographer Jeremy Cowart announced the details of the much anticipated “Help Portrait in a very well made video. New Jersey photographers, join me on December 12, 2009 at a location (to be determined) in New Jersey and help promote the event Help Portrait event so people who really need a [...]

A Photographers Interview with Kevin G. Wong

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Please tell us about yourself as a person and as a photographer. Where did you grow up and what sparked your desire to photograph? Were you active with the photography department in high school? Where are you living now? I grew up in Princeton Junction, NJ, not too far from the university, and am actually [...]

A Photographers Review: BlackRapid RS-5 Strap

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I was excited to try the new BlackRapid strap because the first few versions caught my attention and the new RS-5 has a lot of storage built in. After few photowalks, gigs and various photo-ops using the RS-5 strap I decided to go back to my regular Think Tank camera strap. This is not to [...]

Greetings from Atlantic City, NJ

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Well..not quite yet. In one hour I will be on my way to Atlantic City, NJ. Somehow I managed to visit Las Vegas three times while living in New Jersey for 27 years I have never been to Atlantic City. I hope to get some great photos while I’m there. Be sure to subscribe to [...]

Canon G11 or bust

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As everyone most likely knows by now Canon announced the new G11 camera to replace the G10. But did they succeed in doing so? The Canon G10 is a 14.7 megapixel (too high for the average person anyway), 5x optical zoom with IS. 28mm wide lens and a 3″ LCD. The Canon G11 is a [...]

Sign the DNG petition

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I was noticing a lot of talk on social media sites about photographers who prefer DNG over any other RAW format. There has been much debate over which is better, etc.. Because of this I have created a DNG petition on IShootInRAW.com where photographers who prefer DNG over any proprietary RAW format can post their [...]

A handheld, not time lapse, fun video of the Bellagio fountains

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While walking the Las Vegas strip Melissa and I stopped in front of Bellagio to see the fountains. Everyone has probably seen the fountains on TV and in movies so it’s most likely nothing new to you but seeing them in person is just so incredible. Some of the canons shoot the water stream higher [...]

A Photographers Interview with Rich Legg

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Please tell us about yourself as a person and as a photographer. Where did you grow up and what sparked your desire to photograph? Were you active with the photography department in high school? Where are you living now? I currently live in the Salt Lake City area of Utah. I grew up in Chugiak [...]

Nikon D90 “Watch” Video

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Nikon D90 w/ 50mm f/1.4 lens on movie mode

Photographing a Bat Mitzvah Time Lapse

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On May 25th I wrote briefly about a Bat Mitzvah I photographed with Andrew.  During the party, Andrew and I set up one of his Canon 40d’s above the bar via a Bogen Superclamp.  We used Andrews Tamron 11-18 lens and set the timer on 30 second intervals.  Please enjoy the fun video that Andrew [...]