Building a Kick-Butt Photoshop PC on a Budget

  Preface: My Name is Christian Carroll and I’m a PC User This post will detail how I recently designed and built a computer specifically with Photoshop performance in mind.  The computer I ultimately put together (pictured above) was….wait for it… a PC!  <GASP>  What?  I don’t use a Mac???  Yes, it’s true.  I’m a photographer who uses...

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Dog Tired on the 4th of July

I love photography.  Whether I’m on a photo job or just hanging out with friends and family on the weekend, I typically have a camera with me everywhere I go.  Those of us bitten by the “photo bug” are accustomed to hearing things like, “C’mon, do you really HAVE to bring your camera this time?”...

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In The Recording Studio with BOWI

A couple weekends ago I had the privilege of joining a fantastic local band in the studio as they recorded their latest album.  Their name is BOWI and if you love kickin’ Celtic music they are very much worth checking out. Despite how it may look on TV, recording an album in the studio is...

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The Adventures of The BOWI Bottle » Christian Carroll Photography - [...] worked with a super-talented group of artists known as BOWI on a few projects.  Most recently I joined them in the recording studio as they worked on their latest album ‘Dry Land’.   Well, [...]

Cooling Off with CTO Gels

The next time you blow yourself up with a barbecue you might require a good aloe vera gel to help sooth and cool those burns.  But today we’ll be discussing how to cool off using a different type of gel. The above photo was taken in the middle of a bright sunny day.  Yes, shooting...

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The Adventures of The BOWI Bottle » Christian Carroll Photography - [...] at various angles and a reflector.  In some cases (like the first photo in this post) I used a CTO gel on the flash in order to turn the surrounding environment a cool blue [...]

Using Ugliness To Your Advantage

It’s true, some of us just weren’t born pretty.  Exibit A: the doofis in the photo.  But in this case I’m not talking about my mug, but rather the walls in my house.  My house was built by it’s original owner in 1942 using scrap wood from a local ship yard at the time.  In...

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John Karwoski - I like the “tiny red hat” and the walls! ;-)

Christian - Thanks John! Yea, the hat actually belongs to Amber. I stole it from her collection for this shoot. :)

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