New Jersey Photographer
Now long after Scott Webb announced that his website, Nuwomb, was invited to join Carbon Ads, the blog that you’re reading right now (Scott Wyden Imagery) received the same invitation. Being asked to join such an exclusive community of creative websites is an honor. The Photography Circle: is a filled with professional photographers and eager [...]
It was a last minute decision to have a meetup/photowalk in Westfield, NJ on a really cold Sunday afternoon (December 5, 2010). Yes, it was really that cold….seriously, look. There were five of us from the NJ Flickr Group walking around town, shooting up a storm and having fun. Here are some of the photos [...]
Every day I’m sent emails asking questions and advice about various photography and website topics. I try my hardest to reply in a timely manner, with as much detail. The follow question came from Erik Kerstenbeck, a photographer and contributor to HDRPhotog.com. Erik asks …would you have any guidance regarding watermarking images posted to Blogs [...]
I was offered a great photo gig on February 12th to photograph an event with Miss America. I started organizing my gear for the event, charging necessary batteries, etc… I will be using two Nikon D700 bodies. One with the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 and the other with the Nikon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 lens. Both bodies will [...]
I’m honored to share that I am judging the first photo contest on CurrentPhotographer.com. When Trevor asked me to be a judge, I jumped at the opportunity. Trevor is an awesome guy with great knowledge of the photo industry. The other judges include Ana Ramirez and Joseph Cristina. Make the Ordinary Extraordinary The topic of [...]
Mozy sent an email out today informing of policy changes. Mozy was once the best (in my opinion) solution for a photographer to backup their work, offsite and in ‘the cloud”. It was affordable, at $5 a month. Now, Mozy wants to charge $6 for 50GB of space. Yea, that could be one PSD file. [...]
A revolutionary new mobile video experience From the people behind Justin.tv, Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. The new application makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life’s moments with friends and family. Some say it’s the Instagram of video [...]
This is a guest post from fellow photographer Rob Hanson. One of my favorite techniques that I use on many HDR images is a trick I call Shadowmapping. Credit goes to Christian Bloch for this technique, although I’ve made a few changes to the original recipe to suit my personal style. I use this primarily [...]
Since writing this article, I have disabled CommentLuv as a process of optimizing the website for speed. CommentLuv does not slown down the website by much, but every plugin enabled does impact loading times CommentLuv is a unique blogging tool. The reason I call it that and not a WordPress plugin is because CommentLuv is [...]
This has been an interesting week for my fiance and I. We listed our condo for sale and hired someone to come fix up a bunch of things around the place before I photograph and allow people to come see it. What you’re looking at here is what was left from removing DVD cases from [...]
