It's too hard to leave here, so i'm not leaving... I was supposed to fly back to L.A. today, but I extended the trip one more day. Here's the reason: (you can click on the image to enlarge it). If any of you are inter…
I got a call from a friend of mine here in British Columbia who owns the "Beyond Wrapture" chain of spas... asked me if I would trade out a shoot for her daughter in trade for spa treatments! ummmm... okay!!!! I think I…
(click on image to see it full size) Without a doubt, the most powerful reason to go to digital is because you can dodge and burn your images. Back when I spent my life in the darkroom, I lived on polycontrast filters…
FUJI ANNOUNCES NEW SOFTWARE FOR OSX! Just announced, FujiS2 pro software for OSX... " Allows you to connect the S2 Pro to your computer, take pictures from your computer's desktop and specify, photography settings such a…
More shots with the 50mm f1.4 - this was a shoot with two kids, took all of about five minutes... we just went outside the door of our studio and took these photos in the elevator lobby. I chose the elevator lobby becau…
Today was an amazing shoot day. Last time I cast for a national ad campaign, I honestly met 100 models and still couldn't find one that I liked- I had to go to real-people casting, and New York didn't want a brunette! …
CAN THE S2 SHOOT ACTION SHOTS??Kate Morgenstern of Indianapolis wrote today to ask if the S2 could do action photography. While it can't do 8fps sequences, if you understand the timing of the camera, you can nail the mo…
Some people have been asking for a comparison of color digital IR to the real scene... here it is:
DIGITAL COLOR INFRARED! Shooting the Fuji S2 with a #87 filter didn't seem to do a full spectrum digital infrared- for some reason, the only color you got was just a super purple magenta. However, when shooting with my…
THE PIXIM SENSOR!!! well, I thought Fuji's double sensor was really clever- and when the 700 gets here I'll have a full report on it, but now there is a new technology that has to be the ultimate... get this... one anal…
DIGITAL INTENSIVE NEW YORK IS SOLD OUT -I will be at the following cities next... SAN FRANCISCO September 8,9 - BOSTON - September 29,30 - CINCINATTI - October 6,7. These dates will be added to the shopping cart momentar…
Becker pulled down the lwphoto.com website... just so you know, if anyone uses your copyrighted material on the web, you can notify the hosting service with an official DMCA notification- stating under oath that someone …
The isight is so COOOOL. The more people you get on here, the better... unfortunately the first person I saw on this thing was [b], um... in the morning... so- now that Kristen is on it, I like it way better because sh…
A new use for Compact Flash Cards-! Today I got this cool thing, an 8 track digital recorder. It basically records digitally to a compact flash card (I needed to find something to do with those Lexar WA cards!!!). Any…
July 4th images- There was a huge throng of people at Marina Del Rey- the parking started at about noon for the 9pm fireworks show- no doubt because it was fantastic. I took the 10D out- set it at 1600 ISO. I got a lot…
Since I've been doing more ad work lately, I actually have an agent for commercial photography work now. It's interesting bridging from a wedding photographer to ad work, but the pay is really good for National ads, an…
It's obviously technology day at Marina Del Rey- it's because I spent so much time at the lake house not having some capabilities that I really wanted. So here's my chance to fix it. I had remote desktop working fanta…
Finally I think I have got the network calendar figured out. It is so frustrating dealing with PowerOn Software... their tech support is absolutely awful, but this calendar has been in my studio for eight years. The re…
Studio Conferencing - with Apple's isight. Thanks again to Becker for alerting me to apple's new AV ichat... you can literally use ichat as an alternative to long distance telephone- so far I've got Kristen Alexander h…
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