With my recently broken flash transceivers (read about that here) being just a few months out of its 1-year warrantee I decided to open it up and attempt to fix it myself. During the process I found some interesting things I though I’d share. I have two other Cactus V6 transceiv

For as long as I can remember my Dad, a 30-yr+ wedding-video-veteran, has told me “you always need a backup”. He had backup batteries, tape (S-VHS), lights, cables, etc. He would even take a second (massive JVC DV500 camera) with him on single camera shoots “just in

My friend and fellow photographer Josh Thompson had an idea for a cosplay shoot. His wife, Vanessa (aka Scarlet Spitfire), and their friend Darby would cosplay characters from Batman. Darby would play the infamous Joker and Vanessa would play Harley Quinn, the Joker’s therapist turned

Linwood had been seriously working out for a few years now and he wanted some professional fitness shots taken. I decided to go into full studio mode for this shoot, environmental portraits of him in the gym etc would be great but require much more planning and setup than we had time

I’ll be posting Behind the scenes photos, lighting diagrams, and notes from some of my past photo shoots so you can see what goes into the images I create. Some are very simple and others require weeks of planning. I’ll start with this photo of my friend and fellow photographer Todd o

I finished editing the portraits of my wife and of the client (Vince) from my NYC trip. I posted this photo of my wife before with her “Blue Steel” look going on. I was trying to get her to smile, just a little bit but it was still cold in NYC and she was not having any of

My wife and I drove down to Atlanta this weekend to photograph two of our musician friends who are getting married in October. This is my first time shooting musicians. Instruments can provide their own challenges with shiny and reflective surfaces. I had a few concepts for how I want

New page is up in the projects section. I detail how to photograph paintings to create a color accurate digital image with a minimal amount of gear. Check it out here!

Went to NYC for the weekend to see a show, pick up a new jacket for my wife, and photograph a friend in his office. I convinced my wife to model her new coat for me while we were there.     My wife and I ran around my friends law office trying to find an interesting poi

Testing out the Fujifilm X-T1 mirror less camera.  I wasn’t sure why I liked the design so much until I pulled out my 30-year-old Canon A-1 film camera. The controls are nearly identical in both function and position. I can even use a simple adapter to use existing FD mount