Problems with shooting at night

Recently, I did a night shoot with Sera.  While the shoot was a lot of fun, I did encounter a major problem.  Being that light levels we’re rather dark, Exposure times for the shoot ranges from 1/4 of a second all the way to 1 second.  The trouble with long exposures is naturally going to [...]

A solution to my focus problem

During my shoot with Ella on Kauai, I still had some focusing trouble.  A problem I was hoping to fix.  I thought that the problem was that the shutter priority on my camera was turned on, allowing me to take a picture before the auto-focus had completed it job.  Well, during the shoot I figured [...]

Lessons Learned – September 2008

Well September was a crazy month as I wrote earlier.  I’m glad that I was able to do the shoots and work with the models I got to work with.  Now it’s time to sit back and figure out what I learned so I can avoid making the same mistakes twice.
The month started out with [...]

An interesting shot!

Do not attempt to adjust your monitor… the image is spinning, not you.
What you see in the image above is the result of something strange that started happening recently.  It’s happened a few times which is why I’m writing about now.  It actually started on a shoot I was doing with Ashleigh at the beginning [...]

Lessons Learned from 8/30/08

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post on what I’ve been learning. Not because I haven’t been learning anything, on the contrary. In fact I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had the time to really sit down and write much. So here it goes… What I learned from the [...]

Lessons Learned – 8/6/08

If you’ve been reading for a while now you know that I usualy write a post-mortem article about each of my shoots. I haven’t done one of these for a while mainly because the last few shoots I’ve been working on my confidence as a photographer and artist.
This was Ashleigh’s first time posing [...]

Upcoming shoot

I’ve got another shoot scheduled with the lovely and talented model you see at the top of the site(again I have promised to not use her name on the site). It was like a dream working with her last time so when my economic stimulus check came in I decided to spend it on [...]

Location Scouting

Pictures below
Yesterday I went out to scout possible locations. For some upcoming shoots. One place I wanted to find was a waterfall. The directions I got to the waterfall said that it was about half mile hike. As a experienced hiker I know that I can do that in about in [...]

Lessons learned from book project

Well I finally got the preview copy of my first book from the publisher.  I was shocked because the binding wasn’t all that great. It was basically staple bound.  I could’ve done that at home.  The second thing was that several of the images which looked fine on my computer screen but printed they looked [...]

Lessons learned from shoot on 3/8/06

For those of you who don’t remember which shoot this was.  I link to it here.
This shoot was really quite fun and a little bit of a nice surprise.  I wasn’t sure what to expect from the model.  I knew that she was a dancer so I felt that there were some things that we [...]