So I finally found the time to really site down and redo the actually website part of the website. Blog and Client areas are untouched but now the website matches. Yay!!! It only took me several months to find an afternoon to really just do it. Also I have added a Sales Gallery where I can sell prints of some of my more artistic and pretty photos. Now you can buy my art! Well, as soon as I get some more galleries added. Currently I have some photos from Chicago up just to test it and give everyone a chance to play with it, maybe even buy one of them.
Archive for June, 2010
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Saturday, June 26th, 201042Below Update
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Congratulations to Mark Stoddard and all of Team USA. As it turns out Mark, from the Denver competition, was one of the top finishers in NYC and advanced to the finals held in New Zealand (home of 42Below). Team USA brought home the gold, congratulations to them!
The Challenges of Color Accuracy
Thursday, June 10th, 2010So one thing that a lot of photographers know about but I feel a lot of people outside photography don’t is color accuracy. I don’t know how many people have really sat down and worked on a photo, get the white balance right, get the saturation looking great, oh bump up those yellows a little, ah, finally it looks good. Then you print it or put it online somewhere.
Oh man, those prints can look absolutely awful, way over saturated, bright fake looking reds, but how, it looked so great on your monitor, you can even hold them side by side. This is not the photo you edited.
Well, I’ve seen this from time to time, more on the online side, since a lot of the work I do is online (websites, uploads to clients, emails) I’ve found that this problem extends well beyond printing. Monitor calibration can play a huge role in what the client and prospective clients see. Just this week I uploaded some photos from a Ron Zacapa event, I spent (more…)
Ron Zacapa Rum – Beaver Creek
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010So one thing about doing photography for work in your freetime is that sometimes you work all day and then you have to go work. It can be tough, especially when you have a 2.5 hour drive to get there, really kills the whole day, luckily I enjoy the work.
So Ron Zacapa, a 23 year old premium rum from Guatemala, had an event up in Beaver Creek. It was an event to celebrate a successful promo / winter season up in the mountains that had many promotions. A lot of people from the resorts and bars around the area were invited to sample some cocktails, have some food and just all around have some fun. They had giveaways, a photo booth and a DJ. All around a fun night for everyone.
I luckily carved out a space at the bus station in the kitchen to store my equipment, I carried with me my 5D2, 24-702.8, 70-200 2.8 , 50 1.4, and my 580EXII. Happy that at any given time I just had to have the camera with the lens and the flash. I also carried my flash bracket with me but when I was setting up my TTL cable broke, the part of the cable that mounts into the bracket was on a swivel, no good I the flash can rotate in any direction it wants to. I had to skip it as a result and am now in the market for a new TTL cable.
Zacapa in a glass illuminated from below
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