Our first workshop was a huge success (you can read reviews here), and so we’re going to get one more done before the season starts in earnest. This will be the last weekend workshop I’ll be able to offer for a loooooong time.
It would be great if life were always fabulous, if the light were...
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Next Workshop! April 16-17th, 2010
Five-page feature on me in What Digital Camera magazine!
I feel incredibly honored to have a five-page spread featured on my work and photographic history in the magazine What Digital Camera. The spread was in the August 2009 issue, but since it primarily sells overseas I didn’t see it until now! There is an extensive look at the gear I use and a nice...
The Breakdown: Feb. 6 “How to Shoot Like MacGyver” Workshop
On February 5th and 6th, 35 avid and awesome photographers came to 2 Stops Brigher Studios to talk shop and learn about some of the crazy stuff I get up to as a photographer. I figured I couldn’t teach a workshop about how to be fabulous, since I’m just a pretty normal guy, or how...
Reviews of the workshop!
I couldn’t have had a better time at Saturday’s workshop, and was absoutely thrilled with how everything went — my staff, Isla and Thomas, did a killer job throughout, Phillip Stark could not have been more gracious a studio host, and our models and couples were top-notch! But, as they used to say in Reading...
Putting the “AQ” in “FAQ”
A couple weeks ago, I got hooked up in the “Ask me a question” Formspring meme that was going around, and you can see all my answers (and ask me more) here. While I didn’t get as obsessed with it as some photographers … *cough* Jonas Peterson *cough* … it was a lot of fun...
Thank you for the #haitirelief comments!
I still have to do the final tally, but thanks to the attention of so many I will be donation hundreds of dollars to Water Missions International, a charity with good presence in Haiti that focuses on the crucial issues of clean water and sanitation. If you’re interested in taking more action, Charity Navigator lists...
On being a “green” wedding photographer.
I’m a pretty bad marketer. I know it. That’s why it took me years of sitting around, seeing other people successfully brand themselves as “green” wedding photographers without thinking about it until, about five minutes ago, I realized I’m pretty much the greenest wedding photographer I know. How many other wedding photographers choose not to...
Album: Kindiya and Thomas
Generally, this time of year is devoted to putting together sample albums from the previous year. I may delay that a bit, because I’m mostly working on making sure my February 6 workshop is as great as possible, but I couldn’t resist putting together a sample album for Kindiya and Thomas. You may actually see...
I will give $1 to Haiti relief for every blog comment this week
Like many of you, I have been sending money to give some help to the devastated country of Haiti this week, but I thought I could do a lot more, and I figure it’s always nice for people to be able to help out with a little bit of time and no cost to themselves.
So,...
I have a photo in Newsweek!
I have a photo featured in the cover story of this week’s Newsweek! The story, “The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage,” is a remarkable story written by Ted Olson, the Solicitor General under George W. Bush.
Also featured was a photo by my dear friend Charlotte Geary, a great wedding photographer from Colorado Springs. (She took...
I have a photo in the NY Times!
If I made any New Year’s resolutions, it’s that 2010 is the year I might finally start submitting photos to publications — you know, like every other photographer does. But for now it’s always great to be surprised when major media comes calling! One of my photos is in the New York Times’ Book Review...
A New Look
I finally got around to cleaning up the blog — now, it should not only look nicer, but load faster and be more user-friendly. I know that my Web 2.0 and 3.0 presence is a bit scattered — people can leave comments for the same image on my Facebook page (two of them), my Flickr...
Learn to Shoot Like the Ultimate Wedding Photographer
No, not me … this guy:
Long story short: I’m offering a workshop in NYC on February 6, 2010. Click here for a PDF with more info. If you want to sign up, e-mail me here.
I have always thought that, if commercial photographers were like scientists in a lab, wedding photographers were a bit like MacGyver....
On Facebook, nomenclature, and getting bloggy
I think about twenty minutes after declaring on one of my two favorite wedding photography forums that I would never, ever start a Facebook Business Page, I started a Facebook Business Page. You can find it here.
Why? Technical issues. When I post preview photos after each wedding (and, for the 2010 season, I will also...
On Borders
For most of my digital photography career, I was pretty anti-border. They’re so … artificial. But, long story short, I show a lot of my work on Flickr, and Flickr has a terrible user interface for the display of art. I needed something to separate my photos from the other design elements. And the same...