Get Lit Workshop recap
Saturday we had 19 awesome students join us for the first “Get Lit” workshop at ASA Photographic in Billerica. We kicked off the morning session with 2-hours of demos and slides before breaking for lunch and the afternoon’s hands-on part of the day.
The above photo is Kenley, an awesome, last minute addition who kicked some [...]
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 [...]
Get It Off! Recap
Well we did it. After a few months of work and some long nights spent creating some totally dorky self-portraits (for demo purposes of course), yesterday the Fed and I spent were joined by 12 amazing photographers for the first Get It Off! workshop.
Those of you who know me know that when I walk into [...]
Finishing a Photo in Lightroom 2
When I started blogging, I thought I would do more tutorials, but to be honest, other photographer’s do it so well, I didn’t really think there was much of a demand for another learning site.
When my good friend, Florida photographer Tim Darby, e-mailed me last night asking for help with an image [...]
Fake a Fisheye
Always wanted a fisheye lens? Not sure you want to drop $500 on one? Well here’s a technique I just picked up that will let you fake the fisheye effect in Photoshop.
This technique works best with images that have a defined horizon, so I’m going to work with this recent shot of mine from Sandy [...]
A little on retouching
OK, so I guess this post is going to be a little bit of one of those games, “what’s different in the photos” – but here goes. I’ve been taking Scott Kelby’s class on digital retouching over at Kelby Training and thought I’d follow along with an image I shot. As most of my portraits [...]
Another Man from Mars Example
I don’t have this technique perfected yet (the jacket is still a little too purple for my taste) but overall I am liking this technique.
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Color Correction and The Man from Mars
See, I told you I was going back to Kelby Training for some learning. Here is two versions of the same image of some random ugly guy, taken by Shyla last weekend in Portland. The first image is straight out of the camera (JPEG), the second is after I applied Dan Margulis’s “Man from Mars [...]
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 [...]
Quick Hockey Portrait
I got this assignment late last night. The story is about two girls who play on the boys hockey team at nearby Stoughton High School.
You know me, as soon as I read the assignment I’m thinking, “How can I light this?”
Practice was supposed to start at 8, so I rolled in around 7:30 thinking I’d [...]
More High School Hoops
Just got done shooting the Mazzeo Tournament at Hull High School. I shot two games, the consolation and the final. After I got my “safe” shots in the first half of the first game, I threw the fisheye on my monopod and experimented some (top photo). Exposure for all of these was 1/180 F/2.8, ISO [...]
The Man Gets Around
In addition to his blog, and his book, Joe’s now got a YouTube Channel. Very cool.
(I love shooting, but you won’t be seeing me on top of the Empire State Building anytime, um, ever. I don’t do well at heights above, oh, 10 feet.)
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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 [...]
Alec’s Bar Mitzvah
I write this after a loooong day (that’s not over yet) from my hotel in DC. I’m down here for the weekend to shoot my cousin Alec’s Bar Mitzvah. As you aren’t allowed to shoot in the Temple on the sabbath, we headed over this afternoon after we got into town to do the formal [...]
Ready for Spring
I got home yesterday and had the photo itch, and as it wasn’t exactly spectacular outside, I decided to play with my strobes. The above photo used two strobes – an SB-80DX snooted and pointed at my hand/ball at 1/4 power and my SB-600 camera above-right pointed through my shoot-through umbrella.
EXIF was as follows – [...]
Gymnastics and some Noise Reduction
Well, I don’t own a D3. That said, my D200 and >ISO 800in poor light don’t really get along. One of the first things my editor said to me when she assigned me to shoot gymnastics last night was, “Oh, and you can’t use flash.” (It seems my obsession with Strobism precedes me). Why no [...]
Behind the Scenes Tiger Woods Shoot
Check out this link for a very cool behind the scenes look at Sports Illustrated photographer Walter Iooss Jr. shooting Tiger Woods for Golf Digest magazine.
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How I make HDR images
I spent today creating a two-part tutorial discussing how I make my HDR (high dynamic range) images like the one above for my friends over at Lightcafe. The first part covers the actually making of the HDR images, and part 2 is the finishing of them in Photoshop. For part 1 click here, and for [...]
The rest of the story
Following yesterday’s “Attack of Mother Nature” post, I thought I’d finish the story now that I’ve finished processing some images and have something to actually show for my troubles. Erin and I left at 5:45 and go to Scituate by 6:30 (sunrise was at 7:10), and while it looked like sunrise would be spectacular there [...]
A Model of Advice
I first stumbled across Don Giannatti as part of the Flickr Strobist group a few months back and today I came across what I think are his very insightful and potentially helpful thoughts on how to work with and photograph models (you know, those pretty girls that wouldn’t date you in high school or college). [...]
More hoops, and *#$*&)(#! Wow!
First, let me start with the #$*&)(#! Wow! I’m not much one for swearing (OK, that’s a lie) but you HAVE TO (that’s right, all caps and bold) watch this video. It’s basically one part Superman, one part B.A.S.E jumping, one part death wish and ten parts “Levy would never be caught doing this for [...]
High School Girls Basketball
Tonight I shot Stoughton at Sharon high school girls’ basketball. It was my first time shooting hoops, and the results were so-so. It took me much of the first quarter to get my exposures to a point where I was happy with them, despite getting there a half hour early and shooting warmups. That was [...]
A holiday party at Gillette
So my editor called me today and asked me if I could shoot an event tonight and write the story, saying, “You can do both. Just find a couple people to shoot. I have faith, and you need the dough.” The man had a point, so off I went.
The event was a [...]
