Posted in 1000 Faces, Photojournalism on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
I attended a fund-raising event tonight at the Hickory Community Theater to make photos for the newspaper. Part of the entertainment on the schedule was The Lost Jewels of the Ghawazee ethnic fusion belly dance troupe. This is the second time I have seen this group perform, but the first time was quite [...]
Posted in Equipment, Tips & Tricks on Jun 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Over the last few years, I have come up with a set of curves for use in Adobe Photoshop that mimic some of the darkroom print toning techniques. The above image is a simple photo that was converted to standard black and white in Photoshop using the channel mixer at 100% on the red [...]
Posted in Equipment, Video Clips on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I decided to play around with the time lapse photography function of the Canon PowerShot G9 camera this afternoon. I needed to wash my car, so I figured that would be an interesting test of the capabilities of the system. I set the camera on my tripod and configured the time lapse system [...]
Posted in Equipment, Miscellaneous on Jun 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
I just wanted to take a moment to pass along this information to any of you who have your own blogs. If you are using the FireFox web browser, you might want to take a look at ScribeFire as a tool for your blogging. I have been using it here on this blog [...]
Posted in 1000 Faces, Photojournalism on Jun 6th, 2008 No Comments »
This is the time of year where my normal sports photography routine gets interrupted by high school graduations. Our local newspaper is covering nine graduations ceremonies this week. I had my first graduation assignment tonight at Newton-Conover High School. The ceremony was held on the school’s football field at 7pm, and the [...]
Posted in SOTM on Jun 4th, 2008 1 Comment »
When I was preparing to do my SoFoBoMo project, a friend showed me an interesting website. “Someone Once Told Me” is an intriguing photography project, and I’m looking forward to participating by creating a set of my own photos. The simple gist of the project is what you see in the photograph above. [...]
Posted in Art Photography, Miscellaneous on Jun 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
I had to work all day for the newspaper today to cover for one of the staff photographers while the other staff photographer is on vacation. The photo above describes the most difficult decision I had to make all day. I was really at odds with myself here. Six of one and [...]
Posted in Art Photography, Discussion, Miscellaneous on Jun 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
I was browsing the magazine rack at Barnes and Noble last week when I stumbled across a photo magazine that I hadn’t seen before. I’m not a fan of most photography magazines because they are more about equipment and technique than about images. One of my favorite magazines, which is now available by [...]
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