Team Yu: Some fun in the dark…
This seems to be the week where I blog about shooting all my friends, which is awesome. Anytime another photographer asks you to shoot photos of them and their family, you can’t help but be flattered. Also, let me add that Kristina and Jess are serious pals. As in, if Jess were younger they’d have [...]
One light in a hallway in Lowell
I spent the afternoon today hanging out with Rich, Ash and Anne up in Lowell. Rich, Ash, Mark and I have some fun plans coming up with the Help Portrait project, so stay tuned for that, and it was great to see Anne’s new studio space and play with her Profoto setup. We took the [...]
Behind the Scenes: Element Hotel: Lexington
I got a call late last week from the PR group that represents the Element Hotel chain (they’re a Starwood property). The Element in Lexington is starting a new program where each room will be equiped with a Nintendo DS loaded with recipe software. The program will then talk you through various meals you can cook [...]
Back home, and hanging with the D3X
Writing this post sitting in Syracuse for a few days. Truth is, I haven’t been back up here in the summer, well, ever, and I haven’t been back in town much at all since I graduated in ‘03.
But when Jess invited me, what was I going to do? Say no? Hellllll no. So here we [...]
Cody & Jude
Last Saturday I had the chance to spend some time over at casa de MKD, shooting with Cody and Jude. In addition to a few shots with their crazy homemade ringlight, I got to play with their 47″ Octabank (man I’m a sucker for toys). I’m usually not much of a fan of the soft [...]
Aliens have landed!
Alien Bees that is. While my Vagabond II won’t be here until tomorrow, the bulk of my new lighting kit just arrived and I had to post a blog real quick before I start playing some.
After last week’s Chuck Hogan shoot, I decided I needed some more power, and that for all my projects the [...]
My New aStore
Just a quick post in between wedding edits (check back soon, I’ve got lots in the pipeline), to announce I started my own aStore at Amazon. So if you want to know what my favorite photo books are, what lenses I use, or are just a gear junkie like me, click on over and take [...]
Friday Speedlinks
Lots to blog about today, as I’ve finally begun saving the cool links I stumble across each week on the Web, and a cool project/trip as well, but more on that a bit later.
Let’s start here with the behind-the-scenes Golf Digest video of a cover shoot with Annika Sorenstam.
Next I’ll send you here to a [...]
A little ISO comparison
I’m not big on writing camera reviews or overly techie stuff, but we got rained out today, and I figured I’d do my own test. I shot both of the below photos at 1/125, F/5.6 and ISO 3200 with my 17-55 F/2.8 lens on both my cameras. I shot in RAW mode with my tripod [...]
First Date with D300
I took the new D300 out for a spin tonight to really see if I could put it through its paces and figure out some of the differences between it an my old D200. I’ve been using the D200 for a little over a year now, and while I wasn’t upset with its performance, I [...]
Boston Sea Rovers
(Warning, geek and gear heavy post below).
I dropped in on the Boston Sea Rovers annual show tonight at the invitation of Jamie, and got to play with some cool new Nikon toys. Mmmmm Nikon toys.
I met Bob Watts from Nikon Professional Service who had a few goodies with him including the exotic 200-400 VR and [...]
Wedneday Odds & Ends
Two weeks until spring training! I can’t wait for baseball and I’m excited to hopefully shoot in Florida with Laurel and Aaron while I’m down there.
What else…shot some hoops last night, and I’ve got hockey scheduled for tonight. Hopefully it will be warmer than last week, when I swear it was warmer outside than in [...]
What’s in my bag?
Because so many of you have asked, I thought I’d do a cliche photo blog, “What’s in my bag?” post. Click on the bag for a larger view with details.
Also, with spring training fast approaching, I got an e-mail today from major league umpire Rob Drake asking me to check out his new Web site [...]
The Moment It Clicks
See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil – brought to you by uber cousins Jake, Eve and Rachel. Thanks to Uncle Mike for the idea.
Tonight I picked up Joe McNally’s new book, “The Moment It Clicks.” I write this at 3;38 a.m. (don’t ask), but I finished the entire book in one [...]
A Weather Feature
Well, it snowed so much at today that we got out of school early (1:05 or so) and it then took me a half hour to travel the 1.5 miles (not a misprint, 1.5 miles=30 miles) to my house. One of my editors had asked for some weather featurey type shots, so off I went. [...]
D300 (no, I didn’t get one) and some other links
I opened my Google reader just now to find that Scott Kelby has posted the most comprehensive review I’ve seen yet of Nikon’s new D300. For the full review, click here. Scott’s review encompasses thousands of shots with the D300, including a beach shoot in Hawaii with Nikon uber-photographer Joe McNally. I came this close [...]
Ken Rockwell, You’re a Fool
I don’t do this often (ever?) because it’s totally not an example of, “treating someone how you want to be treated,” but I totally can’t help myself here.Ken Rockwell, you’re a fool.
We’ll leave off how you write of the excellent Nikon 17-55 2.8, “In some ways [...]
Of Love & Discounts
I think that at any time in business, but especially with new businesses, there’s a temptation to giving into our friends when they ask for discounts/freebies. This is a mistake I have made, and I’m just as guilty as everyone of this, to this point. We love our friends, we want to keep our friends [...]
I just turned around and saw…
I just turned around from my workspace, sitting here plugging away, and just needed a photo. Click here for a larger version with explanations of what each box once held. Apparently my teddy bear now lives in a house of camera gear boxes.
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Some exciting new developments
I’m pleased to announce that I’m now offering matting and framing for my photos – just in time for the holidays. To start off I’m going to keep it simple and limit it to black, brown or silver frames with white matting – I may get more fancy in the future, but for now I [...]
A little Friday inspiration
Just a little inspiration before I head out to shoot my good friends Jon & Vanessa in Cleveland Circle this afternoon. Click here to see what I mean. Also, in other exciting, exciting news, my new 80gb engraved Ipod just arrived. I only ordered it Tuesday! And it’s here and synching as we speak. I’m [...]
Odds & Ends & NYC
A few things off the top today.
I just joined the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. They’ll hook me up with all kinds of sweet discounts (like at the Apple store and B&H Photo).
Can you believe this? It seems Sony is using a photo from the 1960s to advertise for it’s new A700 SLR.
I just got [...]
More Strobe Sports
Tonight I shot a state high school tournament volleyball game. I was determined to use my new Pocketwizards and some Strobist ingenuity to nail the shots for the game.
Shooting in manual mode with my D200 and 70-200 2.8, ambient exposure was ISO 1600/2.8 was 1/30. Now 1/30 is nowhere near fast enough for sports, and [...]
