A Photowalk is a group of people walking around a specific area for about two hours taking pictures of the area. Popular photowalks occur in  Washington DC, New York, and even in small towns. On August 23rd, in over 100 cities around the world, people of all kinds will be participating in photowalks in their area. Even if you only have a cell phone camera, I encourage you to get out with a group and meet new people, have some fun, and ... Read More

We really appreciate other blogs linking to our articles and usually they copy the first paragraph so their readers know what the linked article is about. While technically this is a violation of the Digital Millinium Copyright Act, I would never take action since they are only taking a snippet of an article and linking back to the entire article. Where I really have a problem is people stealing my images that I took myself and people who completely steal the entire content ... Read More

If you are in the southern California area I would like to invite you to a special charity event for the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Walk. This skating event and after party are being put on by the V8 Vixens (my daughter is the third from the right) who you can learn more about at http://myspace.com/thev8vixens. This is truely a worthy cause as nobody should have to suffer through problems like breast cancer. These girls have already helped out a number ... Read More

For the most part I come home from a shoot and dump the images from the CF cards onto the computer and then do my backups. Once in a while I am gone for a weekend without the benefit of a laptop and I want to make sure I have my CF cards backed up every night. For this reason I picked up a Wolverine Flashpac several years ago and have been using it ever since. Since you should always make backups ... Read More

Your's truely was just a guest on the digital photography show podcast. Please stop by http://www.prophotoshow.net/ and download the podcast while myself, Gavin Siem, Michael Anderson, and Dennis Zerwas discuss the news, new products, Lightroom 2.0, and discuss issues like marketing, insurance, new cameras, and a bunch of other randomness. If you don't listen to the podcast, you really should. Read More

I have had the opportunity to shoot with a number of other people as both the "second" photographer as well as being the primary photographer. Today I want to talk about my feelings about shooting with other people as my own experience has covered the gamut from extremely enjoyable to absolutely horrible. So while this is not a technical article by any means, it is my own opinion as to how shooting with someone else can be both a rewarding, educational, and ... Read More

The home studio has been making amazing progress lately and we did some major work on it today to get it ready for it's first test shoot. The final width comes in at twelve feet and the shooting area is fifteen feet from the main shooting wall. The back wall was painted with gloss white for high key background that will mostly be used during product shots. For other types of shots a background support is in place with a ten foot ... Read More

The transformation of the garage is nearing completion and the L7 Studio is coming together nicely. Unfortunately its not going to be as nice as this shot of 8443 Warner, but hay, someday right? So where are we and what have we had to do so far? Besides tons of trash, lots of craiglist sales, and multiple car loads of stuff to Goodwill, there is only one pile of trash left. Continue reading to find out what it has cost to get ... Read More

Long time readers will note that I have been using a room in the house as my photo studio, alas I feel I have outgrown my humble beginnings, but what to do? My wife won't let me kick any of the kids out of their bedrooms and she won't let me take over the larger living room. This left two options, 1) Rent a space somewhere, 2) Build a new studio in the garage. Given budgetary contraints, I opted for number 2, ... Read More

If you haven't been visiting JPG Magazine than get over there and check it out. JPG Magazine is all user contributed content based on different themes each month and then readers vote on which images shoud be included in the magazine. So while you are over there, be sure and vote for me! Read More