Chinese New Year Parade, Vancouver 2012
With the weather forecast predicting a torrential downpour, I nearly skipped the Chinese New Year Parade. An hour before the scheduled start time I realized it was clearing and decided to run down there to see if I could capture some of it on film. I arrived a little late, the skies were grey, it …
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Lightroom Keywording
Part 1: Lightroom Catalogs, One or Many? Part 2: Lightroom Collections So you’ve loaded all your photos into your catalog(s), created some collections, and are now ready to take the next big step in organizing your photos and being able to access them when you need to. That step is easily the most work, the first …
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The Plus Side of Google
I was never a fan of that big social networking site that starts with an f. No, not that f-word, although I’ve used it to describe the place a few times; I’m talking about the one with your grandma and your elementary school friends. I was on it, had a few hundred friends, but never …
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Lightroom Collections
In the last post we talked about merging catalogs into one single master so we could use Lightroom’s organizational tools. If you’ve decided to put all your images into one place, the next step is figuring out how to find time. While I’m speaking in terms of Adobe Lightroom 3, many of these principles apply …
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Now Selling Prints and Stock
Over the holidays I took some time to go through my South America archives and set up a stock and print sale site with PhotoShelter. Using the Purchase+ link above, you can go to my Featured Prints or Stock Archive to view a wide selection of images for web, editorial, or commercial use. Any image …
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Lightroom Catalogs, One or Many?
Remember back in the day when you’d shoot a roll of film, have it developed, maybe put some of the photos into an album, and then dump your negatives into a giant box or drawer full of other photo store envelopes loaded with negatives? Did you ever go back to try to find a single …
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10 Favourites from 2011
While doing a little year-end clean up in my Lightroom catalogs, I decided it might be fun to go through and pick out ten of my favourite images from the past year. The final selection is listed below in order of capture date. Each image represents either a technical or artistic highlight from my last …
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Balmacarra Neutral Density Filter Test
Today I experienced one of those forehead slapping moments when I finally realized the value of neutral density filters as the images hit my LCD. On some level I’d always understood how they affected the ways certain elements could be photographed in the middle of the day, bud I’d never fully appreciated how dramatic the …
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Standard Action Promo Cards
Further to my Standard Action Poster Design post, the cards are in from the printers and I’m happy to share the finished product. As creators in the digital age, we spend a lot of time dealing with our images on the computer. It’s really a wonderful feeling to be holding your work in your hands, …
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Standard Action Poster Design
Earlier this year I had the extreme pleasure of shooting some set stills for the folks behind the comedy-fantasy webseries Standard Action. Shortly after, I approached them with a concept for the promotional poster you see below, and we gathered in the woods to shoot the base images for several layouts. This was a first …
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