For this image, taken to show form, I used some clocks my dad made. This is more of a still life than a product shot (I left the glass on; were it a product shot […]
Category Archives: Technique
Cheese-N-Crackers
A food texture shot. That’s a pizza stone under it – I liked the color 🙂 Simple lighting setup in a classic 1-light configuration, with a reflector to fill in shadows (somewhat – we still […]
Hollywood Glam
It’s interesting that when one first embarks on a journey is when one is most free to experiment. The less experience, it seems, leads often to focus, to risk taking, to experimentation. Harkening back to […]
I Faked It!
I loved this pose by Jyothi, which was shot in studio. The thought had crossed my mind that it would look great in a water setting. I had been anxious to try a composite with […]
Gadgets
Photography is known to be gadget-rich. Lots of stuff. There’s even a term for it – GAS – as in Gear Acquisition Syndrome. When you light, as is my preference, GAS seems to proceed exponentially. […]
Outdoor Portrait Using HiSync
One of the challenges when using strobe outdoors is obtaining wide aperture to get a shallow depth of field. Why use strobe outside in the first place? There are a variety of reasons, although the […]
Router Magic
Sometimes less is more. The Bosch 1617 is a classic. It does not have variable speed. It is not a plunge router. Yet it works. Well. Feels good in the hand. And I love those […]
You Gotta Have Shoes
At least that’s what someone told me once, in reference to having lots of them. I suppose so … I’m personally partial to Nike (I pronate and the LunarGlides are my running shoe of choice). […]
The Seam in Seamless
Slowed a little bit by my recovery, it’s taken a while to get back into the swing of things photographically speaking. I needed some full length images (of myself) for social media purposes. Having recently […]
The Print
There’s nothing like holding a photograph, or viewing one printed on paper. That’s the way it was always meant to be. Although I don’t do – nor like – “analog” photography (film and silver gelatin […]