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Photography

Chromasia

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My regular readers know that I like to use film. Especially if I want a specific look for an image or particular client. But when I shoot digital I go for a clean, crisp look to my wedding pictures. I’m not real big on washes for my photos, or stylizing them in Photoshop. But that [...]

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Put your wedding photos on Facebook

Austin Weddings

It seems like everyone uses Facebook today. I know a lot of photographers want to maintain control of their work and might have restrictions about posting professional pictures on the web, but I personally have no problem with it.  I actually want to see your wedding photos on the web.  I want you to post [...]

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photoshelter promo code

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ER3HE3P53H This post is more for photographers than brides. I might just be the biggest Photoshelter Cheerleader in the world. I’ve been using them for over 5 years (almost as long as I’ve been a wedding photographer), and I store all my client’s wedding images in special wedding galleries on their servers. Recently Photoshelter answered [...]

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Family Pictures

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Mainly wedding photography is my business. But every so often I get the opportunity to create some family photos for my previous couples. Most people don’t know that I do lifestyle photography. It’s not something that I talk about that much. How does it work? Quite simply, I don’t do the usual family pictures. I’m [...]

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Your photos in 30 years

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Where will Facebook be? or Flickr? Will computers have CD-rom drives? What happens when your hard drive crashes? Will you be able to read the memory card in your camera? Will you be able to find camera batteries to even power it on? But if you have a shoebox full of prints, or even an [...]

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How I photograph a wedding

Austin Weddings
Time Lapse Wedding

I had the opportunity to photograph a unique wedding in Austin yesterday. This time lapse movie is from a remote camera I set-up in the corner of the church. I try to be as invisible as possible, in fact, you can’t really even see me until the formals. Did you catch my assistant JP, at [...]

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Austin PUG

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  Earlier this week a bunch of us local Austin Wedding Photographers (and some Portrait shooter’s too) gathered at the funky South Austin Pad of Suzi-Q to hear two incredible wedding filmmakers. Joe Simon of Joe Simon Productions and Chris Jones of Mason Jar Documentaires brought in some samples of their wedding videos.  This is [...]

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Sketching in your Moleskin Journal

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Let me just say these three things before I begin: I didn’t draw the image above I love Moleskin Journals I can’t draw my way out of a wet paper bag Sketching photography ideas isn’t a new idea.  Lots of famous commercial shooters rough out concepts using a paper and pencil before a shoot.  But [...]

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The Austin Wedding Blog

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I’ve just discovered a great website for any bride, or groom (or mom), planning a wedding. It’s called the Austin Wedding Blog, and it has some great lists of wedding venues, vendors, and tips for anyone planning their wedding in Central Texas. It’s the same as a wedding magazine – except it’s a free wedding [...]

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Did you see me on CNN?

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Probably not because I wasn’t on TV – but I was interviewed for an on-line article about Rental Car Travel Fees.   I travel quite a bit for destination weddings, and have used Hertz almost 100% for the last 4 years.  I try to stay with a single company to collect as many rewards points [...]

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Sloppy Borders

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Don’t ever order glossy prints with sloppy borders.  It looks like crap. Share this post on Twitter

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Are you a wedding photographer using twitter? Read this!

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 Rebecca Weeks Watson wrote a brilliant article on VatorNews about how to use Twitter.  This may just be the information I’ve been looking for about how to successfully use the Twitter Service for weddings. Share this post on Twitter

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Organizing photos in Aperture

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As a former scientist, it is super important to me to have things well organized. I know exactly how many salad forks are in my silverware drawer, and they are arranged in such a way that I could find them in the dark – for those salad emergencies when the power goes out.  So when [...]

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Fine Art Prints – The Eiffel Tower

Fine Art Friday
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

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Lousy iPhone coverage at SXSW in Austin

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ATT is dealing with it. Share this post on Twitter

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Black and White Inspiration

Photography

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What is the best camera equipment?

Photography

I often get emails asking “What kind of camera equipment do you use”. That’s like asking a carpenter what kind of equipment he uses to build a house. There are lots of different things – at weddings and on assignment I use whatever I can, always changing depending on the situation – sometimes it’s digital, [...]

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South by Southwest 2009 pictures.

Photography

I’m a local austin event photographer, available for SXSW 2009 assignments. For the past several years I’ve been traveling in March, and have been unable to attend the SXSW festival in Austin.  But this year, I’m home and available for film, music, and interactive assignments at South By Southwest in Austin, TX. If you want [...]

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RAW wedding photos

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What is a RAW wedding photo, and why would I want a CD of them?

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How to get a photoshelter slideshow embedded in a wordpress blog

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Photoshelter has a great little feature that allows you to embed a slideshow of a public gallery into lots of different places. When you create a public gallery of your images at Photoshelter, there is a little red link you click called Embed Gallery…

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