Printing Prints

Printing can be for the birds

Printing your own stuff is expensive. It is actually VERY expensive, but it gives you complete control.  If you have prints made they can also get pricy.  Here is what I do with prints I make and how I figured out how much it costs to print and mat [...]

Yes Virginia, I am a Food Photographer too.

French Onion Soup

Shameless plug: If you are a possible commercial client please contact me to discuss shooting your food / establishment.

It has been darn cold here in Austin.  With record lows not seen in decades and some new records set in the last few days.  I’ve also been out shooting in it at night, [...]

Trey Ratcliff, HDR, Kittens, The Austin Photography Group

You kill a kitten every time you post a bad HDR image.

Blog post should be succinct and limited in scope. I’ll try. No promises.

The Austin Photography Group holds a meeting the second Sunday of every month here in Austin. Their meetup website: http://www.meetup.com/photo-438/ I’ve been wanting to go for months [...]

Happy New Year

No So Happy New Year's Eve

One of the pics I’m not sending to my editor over at Austin360.com.   It was a pretty quiet night for cops on 6th Street as far as I could tell.

New Year's Resolution

Sushi from one of my cleints – DK Sushi – Yum!

Okay. I’ve been busy. Between working F/T for myself AND going to grad school (again) and taking on a P/T job to pay for grad school I just don’t get over to this blog very often.
So one of my resolutions is to [...]

Happy christmahanukwanzaakah!

Austin's 37th Street Christmas Light Display

and Festivus too

How to make 'TEA'

I’m working on my MFA and the best part of the program, so far, is that it forces me to do work I generally don’t do.  I get to be a little more…well…artistic!

So here  is the first image I created for an assignment:

Lighting is so-so…let me try some different lighting.

It’s okay. I don’t like [...]

The Four Most Important Things when reading about the Ten things...

Lots of sites seem to provide a short list of 10 or 8 or 15 things to consider when shooting, printing, visualizing, et cetera.

Blah.  I even saw a post today about shooting the triangle.  Sure, it’s a compositional technique but it misses the point that it is one of many compositional and design techniques that [...]

Moving your Subject

Simply asking your subject or subjects to move a few feet so you can change the background lighting can dramatically improve your pictures.

Photography is all about light. Understanding all the light around you can really help you when shooting. We generally know where the sun is when shooting outside during the day. [...]

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 [...]