June « 2009 « David Weaver Photography

What is an A-List event?

I get asked this question a lot when I’m out in the field shooting. The A-List on http://www.austin360.com is a major customer of mine. I wear a branded shirt at every event I shoot for them so I am readily identifiable as a shooter for them.

This question isn’t well answered at an event I’m working [...]

Flexify Tutorial for Tiny Planets #2 (FOV)

Part #2 is designed to help you play around and better visualize what Flexify can do in the creation of stereographic projections from equirectangular panoramic images. This part is specific to changing the FOV (Field Of View) in the Flexify control panel

Let’s start with this image I built in Photoshop.

Basic Grid – ratio [...]

Flexify Tutorial for Tiny Planets (and other photo fun)

The Flexify plugin for Photoshop, and other programs, is a very interesting and remarkable tool. As with any tool it can be put to both good and bad use.

There are a lot of options for Flexify. For this post I’ll show some interesting things that you can do with Flexify and I’ll show [...]

MFA or not?

Scrabble at the Beauty Bar

Dear Friends and Followers,

Should I go get my MFA in photography?

My major thoughts on this:

It’s important to love what you study and practice. I’ve been shooting since I was six or seven years old. My first major publication was in the Los Angeles Times Home Magazine when I was [...]

Wordpress Plugins used on this site

More documentation on setting up this site.
Here is the current list of plugins. I’ll update this as I add/modify/remove plugins.

Akismet
Exec-PHP Temporarily deactivated
FeedBurner FeedSmith
Google Analytics for WordPress
Google XML Sitemaps
Hello Dolly
Widget Logic
WP-reCAPTCHA
KB Robots.txt
Twitter Counter
WP-Sticky <–some great plug-ins I want to go back and review later

You can get plugins at the Wordpress Plugins Directory

Installation notes for plugins.

It’s [...]

Problem (solved): I can post but I get 404 errors on all pages

Can’t get the wordpress loop to display anything? But, the main page displays okay? Me neither until yesterday. After beating my head against the desk for a couple days (aka: knock on wood) I finally logged a support request with the folks that host my WPinstallation and pointed them to my .htaccess [...]

Out of Control Photography (and camera mounted strobe shooting)

I’m a Joe McNally fan. If you are not familiar with his books I’d say go get them but wait…

Joe is a seasoned veteran in the biz. His books are great IF you are the right audience.

A newbie or pro-sumer that does occasional work for friends or family might be disappointed in his [...]

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