Category Archives: Technique

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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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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Is This a Ring Flash Which I See Before Me?

Look deeply into my eyes…you’re getting sleepy….sleepy…sleeeeeeeepy.  Okay, maybe not.  But if you’re looking into my eyes you might see catch-lights which kinda resemble a ring flash.  But is it a ring flash?  Well the answer is both yes and no.  The truth is that I don’t own a ring flash (although I REALLY want...

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I’m Starting With the Zombie in the Mirror

Ah Zombies.  Who doesn’t love the sweet n’ cuddly little guys?  This particular self-portrait shoot was something I had been wanting to do as a personal project for quite some time.  Personal work is a really important thing to me as a photographer for two main reasons.  1) It serves as a constant reminder of...

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Shooting from a Unique Perspective

Green Goodness

This will be the first in a series of articles where I post photos from a recent project along with several “pull back” shots in which I’ll do my best to explain how I set things up and why. I’m currently participating in a facebook photography group which has weekly photo assignments for one year. ...

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