This is sort of a follow up, or part two, to my last post on how to create a script to mirror two external hard drives. So, if you haven’t read that article yet, please check it out first.
After creating a script using rsync to mirror two hard drives we can take it one step [...]
Using cron to automate rsync
How to mirror external hard drives on a Mac
This backup technique is pretty simple but can be intimidating for those who are not comfortable with using the terminal. At the core of Apple’s OS is Unix and one of Unix’s utilities is a free nifty program called rsync. According to the manual page on rsync, rsync can “transfer just the differences between two sets [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Paperless Wallpaper for your iPhone and iPod Touch
How to use iPhone Wallpaper
For Macs, right click and select Add Image to iPhoto Library. Then add the image to an Album in iPhoto and sync that Album to the desired iPhone or iPod. On the device, under Settings, General, Wallpaper, the album should show up and be usable as wallpaper. For Windows… well I’m [...]
Video of Piper and me
This is from a shoot with Piper over Memorial Day weekend. I attached a camera to a light stand and grabed some footage. It’s not exactly what I would like but it gives you an idea of what’s going on. Keep an eye out for more images from that shoot.
Read the rest of this entry »Slave To Fashion 2
Awesome colors. I always like Akif Hakan Celebi’s work.
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Nerviosismo: NSFW inspiration
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Read the rest of this entry »May 9th Shootout Photos
Here’s a few shots from Jen May’s second shoot out up at Paramount Ranch. For those who don’t know, Paramount Ranch has a bunch of left of Western set pieces used to shoot television shows. So, there’s all sort of great little places to shoot up there. A lot more people showed up than last [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Epic Fashion
I was reading Strobist this morning when I came across a post about Drew Gardner. He’s a UK based photographer who does a lot of location based lighting set ups. I particularly like his Forest set of the Epic Fashion series. It has a sort of unreal painterly feel that I enjoy.
Anyway, here’s video showing [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Jen May’s Photography Event
Ok, I’m a little late. I admit it. However, here they are anyway. These a couple shots I took during Jen May’s Photography Event, March 29. Basically, we met up in Studio City, took the Red Line to Downtown and began the photo madness. Afterwords we met up, had pizza and then reviewed what we [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Doodles
Well, they’re not exactly doodles. However, they are in essence the same. Plagued by boredom, I began to experiment with artificial backgrounds. So, I picked a couple images and then slowly began to build them up. This quickly (or no so quickly looking at the time) led to a confusing and cluttered background. So, after [...]
Read the rest of this entry »One light simplicity
Here’s a simple set up from a recent shoot I did. As you can see from the set up image, I set this all up in my apartment. It’s just a matter of having just enough room. I also didn’t have to worry about leaving something at home. Which is always nice.
Read the rest of this entry »My Thoughts on Shooting Tethered
I don’t often shoot tethered. It’s mostly because it doesn’t do what I need when I’m shooting. As I mostly work with people I need to be quick and mobile which tethered greatly constricts. That said, there are times I do shoot tethered and I wanted to talk about those times in particular.
First and I’m [...]
Things Photographers do when they’re bored
After recently aquireing new clothes, I recently found myself with some free time. And a beauty dish and powerpack. Anyway, I did some color work on it and some minor retouching but my post work was fairly small. The idea spawned from the hat. The hat spotted me and then I discovered I had no [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Overview of The Visitor
A while back I was asked by a friend to do this shoot for here. Before the shoot I knew I wanted to turn it into an illustration and here’s where I ended up.
The lighting was fairly simple. A medium softbox to the camera right and then up and behind her I had a silver [...]
Chase Jarvis Video
Chase Jarvis posted a video on his blog about one of his photoshoots. It’s a good video that goes through the steps he went through to do a shoot for the LPGA. I definitly recomend checking it out.
Read the rest of this entry »3 Lights + Ambient
This shot was a combination of a key light, two rim lights, artificial shade and sunlight. I used a beauty dish up close to the camera left to provide the main light. I exposed the key about a stop above the sunlight to darken the background and make it more moody. I then used two [...]
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Printers and Paper
Trying to get a good print can be a nightmare, or it like trying to give a cat a bath. It’s possible. It really is, but it can be difficult, frustrating and expensive. The first thing to consider when printing is the printer itself. While low end printers are getting much better at [...]
A quick and dirty effect in Camera Raw
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While understanding lighting, framing, posing and everything else that goes into taking a picture is important, now images can be greatly enhanced in post production. In fact, most images in the media are tweaked after their taken to the point where we’re used to and expect it. That aside, here’s how I get [...]
Basic Selection Tools in Photoshop
Photoshop is one of the most powerful tools available to a digital photographer who knows how to use it. The ability to mix and match images together to create one super composition has allowed many new ideas, previously unthinkable, to be carried out. Our imaginations have been unleashed in a sense, at least for those [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Lightroom 2 BETA released
Lightroom 2 BETA has recently been released. For those who don’t own Lightroom, go buy it. Seriously, it’s a great tool for every digital photographer. Anyway, if you don’t own Lightroom already, you can download the beta for 30 days. For those smart people already using Lightroom, well they get to use the beta until [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Sharpening
As with everything in Photoshop, there’s several different ways to sharpen images. However, my first recommendation is to start with sharp images. A unsharp image going into Photoshop will come out of Photoshop unsharp. The techniques I’m going to talk about will only help so much. Also keep in mind that, there each image might [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Speeding up Photoshop CS3 on a Mac
I’ve been working with some larger than normal files and I noticed Photoshop was slogging trying to catch up. So, I did a little research and found an Adobe article on optimizing Photoshop. If you want to speed up Photoshop, take a look.
Optimize performance in Photoshop CS3 on a Mac OS
I found it useful [...]
The Super Scary Histogram
The Basics
Histograms seem to be the big mystery among many photographers: casual and not. However, once you understand the basics, the histogram becomes indispensable. If you’ve ever opened Photoshop then you’ve probably at least seen a histogram. If you’ve used Levels then you’ve directly worked with the histogram before. So, what is it? It’s [...]
My Digital RAW Workflow
Here’s a quick guide to my digital workflow and it’s important points. First off, my workflow is based around RAW files and Lightroom. That’s how I shoot and manage my files so if you don’t use RAW or Lightroom your workflow is going to be different than mine.
Workflows in the sense here, are ways to [...]
