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 ...

The Secret Behind ‘Gravity?’ (among other things…)

Posted by on Dec 6, 2011 in Blog, Photography | One Comment

Honestly, my glass photography was born almost completely out of curiosity. I was doing some research while in photo school and stumbled across a photo that had some similar waterline effects to my ‘Gravity?’ image, but it lacked the technical detail to be able to live up to it’s potential visual strength. I tend to ...