An Update from Alaska…

Posted by on Jun 13, 2012 in Blog, News, Photography, Travel | One Comment

I managed to find a decent internet connection while doing some laundry (riveting, eh?) and figured I would shoot out a quick update with what we’ve been up to. And, I may even fill you in on what we’re thinking for the rest of the trip, although that changes about as quickly as the weather ...

Tampa Fine Art Scenic / Landscape Photography Prints - Steady

Posted by on Apr 19, 2012 in Blog, News, Photography | No Comments

There is something absolutely awesome about having someone love one of your landscape photographs enough to want a print / framed piece! While I definitely enjoy when a family loves a portrait that I’ve done, enough to buy a print, there’s an enjoyment I receive on a MUCH deeper level, when someone purchases a fine ...

Before & After: The Pier at Ballast Point

Posted by on Apr 3, 2012 in Before & After, Blog, New Photo, Photography | No Comments

This is the first full edit that I have gotten the chance to do with a photo from my D800. This particular Pier is the Ballast Point Pier which is at Ballast Point Park in Tampa. Pretty cool place that I didn’t even know existed till about a week or so ago. Really helped create ...

Why I’m Going to Colorado

Posted by on Feb 23, 2012 in Blog, Photography, Travel | No Comments

One of Dan’s Images called, ‘Magic Valley’   I LOVE Colorado. It’s gorgeous and offers so many opportunities for a landscape photographer. But this time around, I am going for a very specific reason. I am a graduate of the International Academy of Design and Technology in Tampa and have been to all sorts of ...

Just a quick update…

Posted by on Feb 19, 2012 in Blog, General, News, Travel | No Comments

I just wanted to put up a quick update on why I haven’t posted a lot recently. I have been traveling with my dad and the salesman from my family’s photography business to a few photography conventions out in Las Vegas. Since Friday, we have been at the PSPA and SPAA conventions (school and sports ...

Repose

Posted by on Feb 13, 2012 in Blog, General, New Photo, News, Photography | No Comments

I took this a few days back and have forced myself to edit it slowly. There are times my excitement to show a new image gets the best of me and I’ll rush to post it and find myself viewing it a week later filled with ideas for how I could have made it better. ...

Sequence

Posted by on Feb 7, 2012 in Blog, General, New Photo, News, Photography | No Comments

This is a three minute exposure of some old pilings on Clearwater Beach. It’s actually a reprocess of an older image. I’ve found that I have been going back and reprocessing old images a lot recently. Not because there’s a lack of new work coming in. (I have actually been shooting a decent amount recently) ...

Quick Tip: Keeping Your Vision in the Midst of Plugins & Presets

Posted by on Feb 3, 2012 in Blog, General, Photography, tips & tricks | No Comments

I am a huge fan of using photoshop/aperture plugins and presets. I think they allow you to work much faster, provide repeatable approaches to certain looks (for unified portfolio’s) and they’re just plain fun to use. My only reservation with plugins (I’m probably weird for feeling this way) is that I don’t want to ever ...

Thoughts on Aperture 4

Posted by on Feb 1, 2012 in Blog, General, Photography, Random Musing | 12 Comments

I’ve mentioned here and there for quite some time that I’m an Apple Aperture user. As a RAW image catalog and conversion piece of software, it’s great. I didn’t get the chance to use Aperture 1.0 but have been using the software since just after version 2.0 and have been extremely happy. There are other ...

Before & After: Steady

Posted by on Feb 1, 2012 in Before & After, Blog, General, Photography | 2 Comments

I wanted to give ya’ll another look into my post production with a before and after of my new image, ‘Steady.’ It is another black and white long exposure image of that boat ramp which is just off of the Clearwater Causeway in Florida. I (obviously) removed the signs, did some sharpening, local contrast and ...