Business Verification

I’ve seen a lot of advertisements lately for companies that offer business verification. Even the phone book is getting into the act I guess the idea is that they are adding value to their service by making sure you’re not an unscrupulous business owner. I’ve been fairly suspicious of these sites but recently (as in this morning) [...]

Traveling to The Guest House at Lost River

Where it’s at As usual I’ve been a little too busy to blog regularly but I had to make an exception to mention an amazing place that I escaped to a few weekends ago. The Guest House at Lost River is located in Hardy County, WV and is nestled in the mountains between Moorefield, WV to the [...]

Jonas Lara Legal Update

PDN, and a bunch of blogs are now reporting that Jonas Lara, the LA photographer that was facing charges related to his documenting graffiti artists, has been cleared of all charges! The judge dropped the case and ordered his gear returned to him which ends a case where he was being accused of a number of different [...]

Keep a Level Head

I came across this tripod head the other day: The Acadalus tripod head. It self-levels your camera with the horizon for only $5K. That’s a little less than what you’d pay for the Nikon D3X and a little less than what you’d pay for a digital back to fit a monorail view camera but it’s not going [...]

Jona Lara: Art Documenter Needs Your Help

I was reading through my usual list of blogs when I found the story of Jona Lara on PDN Pulse. Jona’s situation is serious and is one close to my heart as someone who works to document the art work of others. Jona was arrested on charges that have changed a bunch of times while [...]

Raw Image Conversion Software

I shot another wedding this weekend with my good friend and assistant Sarah. Sarah always shoots in .jpg large and I’ve never asked her to shoot RAW because .. well … I’ve never needed her to. Sarah is a great shooter and I do rely on her to be my sweeper, to catch anything that [...]

Shooting Tethered

Wow – I’ve found my new most absolutely favorite programs in the entire world (well sorta). I don’t have a huge need for shooting tethered* but just like working on a car if you don’t have that one specialized tool that you NEED to get the job done then you’re screwed. I’ve got an assignment [...]

A Word From Our Sponsor (disguised as a blog post)

I just have to share this with you all. I have a google alert set up with “need, photography, Pittsburgh” and I don’t normally get a lot of good results for that but sometimes it does provide leads so I keep it active. The other thing that happens occasionally is that it brings back interesting results like [...]

DIY

So I’ve been hounded since this past summer by both SEO companies and companies that want to “sell me leads”. I received both a phone call and an email today from such a company. When I googled them I found this page which is a complaint board for questionable businesses. In the event that you don’t want [...]

The Decade in review

This is the oldest photo of myself that I have easy access to, it’s from 2006 and was shot by Marcy Echoltz at the Art Institute. This was taken in maybe Jan. or Feb. so it was close to mid-decade (give or take a year). Why was I looking for old portraits of myself and [...]