Archive for December, 2009

Happy New Year!

As we get ready to welcome in 2010, I thought I would post a quick reminder on how to use your camera to shoot fireworks tonight.  Here is a post I wrote for the 4th of July this year, and I thought it might come in handy.  Everyone be safe tonight and I look forward [...]

December 31, 2009 • Posted in: How To • No Comments

Merry Christmas!!!

This year has blown by.  I’m celebrating not only a year of this blog, but also the first Christmas with the new addition to our family.  I have a lot to be thankful for during this holiday season.  The new year should bring lots of opportunities for me to share photography, and sometime non-photography, tidbits [...]

December 25, 2009 • Posted in: General • No Comments

How to take AWESOME photos on Christmas using off camera strobes

I started to write an article on how to take the best photos on Christmas morning.  I was going to suggest a method that I have used at events for as long as I can remember.  As I started to sit down to write, it seemed as though I had already read what I was [...]

How to correctly bounce your hot-shoe flash

Most people buy their hot shoe strobe and think that it is just a more powerful substitute for the popup flash on their SLR.  NOT TRUE my friends.  This handy little strobe can be so much more than that.  Aside from the whole Strobist off-camera flash movement perpetuated by Dave Hobby, these little strobes can [...]

My Help Portrait Experience

I really should have titled this post, “How to Stop Paying So Much Attention to Myself.”  As a kid, my family was very active in our Southern Baptist church.  Sunday mornings and nights, Wednesday nights, and every time inbetween when the doors were open, we were there.  It was like a second home.  As a [...]

Camerabag Desktop ON SALE!

Nevercenter announced this morning via Twitter that one of my favorite quick edit software apps is on sale at 20% off from now till December 26th. Camerabag Desktop is now available for both Windows and Mac. The best part is your License Key will work for both versions. That way if you work on both [...]

December 16, 2009 • Posted in: General • 1 Comment

What has two thumbs and has been slacking on his blog?

THIS GUY!!!!! Seriously, I’ve been doing everything but writing the content that I keep thinking about.  I’ve resolved to get things back to normal though. To help me do that, I’ve made a short list of a ton of things that I’ve wanted to write about over the last 2 months.  So click the link [...]

December 15, 2009 • Posted in: General • No Comments