WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DELTA DIFFUSER YOU ASK? GOOD QUESTION! It's done, and it's in the warehouse. We made a bunch of them. Do you know why they are not on my e-store and in camera stores? Because I am LAZY. It's tru…
WATCH THIS DEMO BECAUSE B4 IS AMAZING!!!You can download the demo FOR FREE but seriously watch this video and see how awesome this workflow is for speed and accuracy. I processed 480 images in minutes. For goodness sak…
NATIONAL MAGAZINE AD! (CLICK ON IT TO ZOOM)Thank you for your clever submissions! We are submitting to the magazines, I'm sure there will be a few tweaks before then and now. This is going to be the silliest full-page…
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Boneless New York Strip steaks (16 oz.); 4 Cowboy Bone-In Rib Eye
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CONGRATULATIONS JONATHAN AND MELISAFROM YOUR UNCLE GARY!!! I used a Canon 5D, 70-200mm f2.8 lens, Canon 580ex flash with Whaletail StudioI'm not really Jonathan's uncle, but for as long as he's been alive he has called m…
OK I CAN BE AN AIRHEAD(don't forget tomorrow is the deadline to submit your love my fong images toadcampaign@garyfong.com)I make fun of my lovable dingbat friends like Nicole Peach, but I can be the airiest of airheads. …
THIS IS THE LAST CALL FOR AD SUBMISSIONS!!!SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT!DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO BE FAMOUSBE IN MY AD CAMPAIGN!Thank you to the following Fongies! VERY creative!submit your image showing your love for your Fong t…
I DID THE STUPIDEST THING LAST NIGHT!I am too embarassed to talk about it, so I'm not going to. But it was SOOOOO stupid.
I ASKED DJ HOW DID YOU TAKE THIS PHOTO AND HE SAID IT WAS SO HARDAnd then I asked him why and he said well other than myself I don't have a tripod. And then I asked him if I could post this photo and Missy said, "oh it'…
THANK YOU JANEY!You look like you're really enjoying the whaletail! I want one now! You look so pretty thank you Janey!send your image with your Fong Unit to adcampaign@garyfong.com
AD DEADLINE IS THIS WEEKEND!!! SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOS FOR THE NATIONAL AD CAMPAIGN!!SEND YOUR PHOTO TO "adcampaign@garyfong.com"Great Jobs Amy Nave and Frank Torres!
OUR ENGAGEMENT SESSION #2 -CLICK HEREWe just got a link to our awesome engagement session from Jessica Claire. It's so weird to look at the images after being at the shoot and seeing how amazing the shots look. I reall…
SEND ME YOUR IMAGE AND BE IN MY MAGAZINE AD!Thank you to Tou Thao and the lovely and talented Jessica Strickland for submitting these images. Jess you look so pretty in this shot! Thanks you two WE NEED MORE!Don't you …
WHAT IT'S LIKE WHEN JESSICA CLAIRE SHOOTSToday we spent the afternoon and evening with our wedding photographer, Jessica Claire. She is an absolutely remarkable photographer with an incredible eye. We are huge fans of …
HOW TO CURE HICCUPSToday coming back from a dim-sum lunch with my dad and Bunny, I had the hiccups. A really bad case of it. So my wise fiancee tells me that if I hiccup again, she'll give me a quarter. (didn't work).…
THE BACHELOR IS FILMED RIGHT NEXT DOOR Those of you who have been onboard the HMS Kelowna will recognize the scene right to the right. To the right of the "Bachelor" if you could swing the camera to the left, you'd see …
WATCHING CHILDHOOD MOVIESWe are watching my childhood movies on DVD (just got them transferred from 8mm film). Rabbit has never seen these, and her reaction is hilarious. First of all, she goes, "where's the sound". D…
BULLZEYE 4 IS NOW AVAILABLE!!! TRY THE FREE DEMO!! (INSTANT DOWNLOAD) By far the fastest, most accurate color correction workflow tool has now just gotten MUCH faster because it has a new "thumbnail" view of the image …
I SURE WAS A JOLLY FELLOWLast time I was here in L.A., Melissa took this photo of me and my dad. This is how different my face looks after 35lbs of weight loss. That was about 35lbs ago. The part that is so weird is …
WHAT A GREAT SHOT AMBER AND NATHAN HOLRITZ!Never thought of the message that the Whaletail is romantic! This shot is adorable - thank you! Please submit your photos to me for my upcoming national ad campaign to:adcampa…
SUBMIT YOUR FUN PHOTOS FOR MY MAGAZINE AD!Thank you Jimmy Cheng and Robbie Gantt! These are fun examples of exactly what I'm looking for! (Robbie called this image, "Shakespearian" I agree! Everybody submit your fun …
THANK YOU MATTHEW PENNING AND GEORGE QUIROGAThese examples for the ad campaign are cool! Everybody send your fun/silly images of you with your Whaletail/Lightsphere to, "adcampaign@garyfong.com"
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN MY NATIONAL AD CAMPAIGN?I'm doing a "Love My Whaletail", "Love My Lightsphere" series of ads. I am basically going to have a mosaic of photographers with their Gary Fong diffusers. Please make …
JUST READ "THE TIPPING POINT"I read this book in just over 2 hours (I am a huge fan of Evelyn Wood Speed Reading). The book basically is about the phenomenon of a sensation, a fad, what makes something simply have the c…
MY PHONE CALL WAS HER MOTHER'S DAY PRESENT This is Jason and Jamie and their family. Jason wrote me the NICEST letter telling me about his wonderful wife and how well she is doing with pre-designs, and that she was a hu…
REAL ESTATE PRICES DROPPING RAPIDLY As you will recall if you frequent this blog, I've been saying for a while that July of 07 is when the egg is going to hit the fan with regards to the Real Estate market drop - it's SO…
ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE MOVIESpiderman 3 was SO BAD. How about a scene where you actually watch people cook an omelette ("I like bell peppers") and then they turn the volume up to "Do The Twist" (I quit wedding photography …
HELPFUL TIP OF THE DAY FROM CHICK MAGAZINESDid you know that (according to Mandy Moore) if you put two dryer sheets in your pockets, this scares away mosquitoes? I haven't verified this, but it sure makes sense because …
I AM SO EXCITED BECAUSEI have four products that I will be launching really soon that I'm working on. Two super useful software products, and three other photography products for the retail market. Please stay tuned to…
WATCH ME SHOOT WEDDING STUFFHey so here's a video of me shooting portraiture and a large group photo at a wedding. I've dropped in the stills straight from the camera - so pardon the quality but they aren't photoshopped…
MY FIRST WEDDING SHOOT WITH THE WHALETAIL STUDIOFirst of all, congratulations Melissa and Danny! And thanks to Marcy S. Rogers for letting me shoehorn in and shoot some images as she was the official photographer. OK n…
ADVICE NEEDED REGARDING FINAL CUT EXPRESS Hey I need advice from anybody out there who is good with videos. What is the best way to learn FCE? I've tried the tutorial and I just plain get hung. I really need more capa…
SUNGLASSES IN THE MORNING - GREAT IDEA FOR SLEEPYHEADS I'm a super morning person. Around 6am - BING - I am up and jump out of bed, ready to start the day. Rabbit on the other hand seems to wake up at 11pm, right when …
THE CASE OF DAN WATKINSI don't think many people read the comments, so I wanted to spotlight a little behind-the-scenes conversation I've been having with my friend Dan Watkins from St Louis. Dan is a really great guy (…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRYSTAL!Crystal Hutchinson is such a wonderful, warm, beautiful person. Whenever she is around everybody in the room is just happier. Maybe it's her warm smile, or maybe it's because you can sense she is…
36/201How does Jhoon Rhee do 1,000 pushups a day? You know that thing about muscle fatigue and waiting a day to recover? It's true and I should listen to the experts but I BARELY was able to get that 36th pushup - and …
MY MOMMy mom died in 1988, near mother's day. You are never ready to lose your mom. I remember for a long time thinking that all I wanted in the whole world was to sit on a quiet park bench next to her. We wouldn't ev…
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WHERE IS MIKE COLON? (read the hilarious comments!)Hey everybody - is Mike in town? He had a birthday recently and I sent him a couple of emails and left messages on his voice mail and haven't heard back. I checked hi…
FLY PREDATOR - A BRILLIANT IDEA! I don't know if you have much of a problem swatting flies, but now that it's coming into fly season, I've been thinking of how to reduce the fly population in our outdoor areas. While vi…
PUSHUP SITUP PROGRESS REPORTAren't you glad you tuned into this blog? OK so today I did 31 pushups - the 31st one was pitiful because well I was like shaking and shuddering. I really could only do 30 with good form. I…
ME AND THE MYSTERIOUS BRIAN FRY Many of you out there have spoken to or dealt with Brian, and until then nobody really knew what he looked like because I never had a photo of him either! Brian works from his home in Flo…
SITUPS AND PUSHUPS - LET'S DO THEM TOGETHER Jhoon Rhee is over 70 years old and he does 1,000 pushups and a few hundred situps per day. To be honest I thought - wow can anybody say "obsessed"? And all the negative, "I …
AWESOME, UNBIASED REVIEW OF THE WHALETAILThis one was on dpreview.com. Normally that forum really beats me up a lot, but all of the forums have been pretty great on the Whaletail. The DVD is 1/2 hour instructional, and…
TODAY IS AMY NAVE'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!Pictured to the right is our dearest, sweetest friend Amy Nave.I am so glad I met Janey because she became one of my very best friends quickly (they're both going to be my groomsmen…
THE $6,250.00 DINNER FOR THIRST RELIEF INT'LIf you follow my blog, you may remember that there was a charity auction for thirst relief international. We were pretty stunned when the bidding war reached higher and higher…
OUCH!I do not like to pose for photos, and so when I become this petulant little boy and pout, I get slapped. This makes me laugh and so now I do the proactive thing first and slap and then we slap each other and it's a…
HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE BOOSTING AND PILL ROLLINGSince I've seen such a difference in my skin softness, energy level and alertness through smart glycemic eating, I started reading more about HGH and how to produce more of i…
WHAT AN AWESOME TRIP IN NYCI am a photographic products manufacturer now. I've had many jobs over the years, from working in a photo lab to shooting your wedding to writing your software to improving your forehand to we…
DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING You know, for years I have heard about "diaphragmatic breathing". I took Zazen meditation for years, and sang as a tenor in the choir so I had vocal training and you know they always talked about…
WEIGHT LOSS REPORTSome of you have been asking how the weight loss is going. It's going fine, just slowing down as there is a lot less of it to lose. I'm down almost 30lbs since Feb 15th, so I'm 7lbs off my goal. I'll…
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