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Human Rights Campaign and Discounts for Gay and Lesbian Couples

On March 19, 2013 / News, Wedding Tips / Leave a comment

Today I heard on a local radio show that a very nice young woman could not find a photographer in Marietta, Pa, which I would normally find easy. Since there is so many photographers in the area! She then continues to say that they (photographers) keep hanging up on her and they won’t shoot her special day, After a few more minutes she explains that she is marrying another young woman who’s in the military. Now I have been a very long time supporter of gay rights and gay marriage and I find that some of my colleagues being professional artists cannot support equal rights and something as simple as love. Be it man to man or women to women. I am highly offended by to hear such horrible things coming from my fellows in this passion/profession. That is why

Ten Years ago Today

On February 2, 2013 / News / Leave a comment

On February 1st, 2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia, NASA OV-102, disintegrated upon re-entry at the end of its 28th mission to space. The tragedy killed the seven brave crew members, in a moment of national sadness we’ll never forget. Space travel has always been a feat of pride for humans. It shows how awesome we can be. We might be small in the universe but we’re capable of feats much bigger than us. It makes the moments of our successes in space more triumphant and the moments of failure intensely sad. I’ll never forget where I was when I heard about the Columbia disaster—I was working at a Starbucks in the Chevy Chase Pavilion. May they rest in peace and forever be remembered for what they accomplished. I was at home, watched it on TV, Very dad indeed. Source: Gizmodo

A Photo in Review, A Wedding Photo that Expresses love!

On January 14, 2013 / News, Portraits, Reviews, Tutorial, Wedding Tips / Leave a comment

Welcome back, after a long time off I am returning to bring great new content back to JMaccPhotography! I took off for a few months to get back on track, to center my Chee. I really wanted to get my creativity back and I believe I have don it, so lets get too it! I took this photo last year at my best friends wedding, he was looking for a photographer in his price range and couldn’t find one, he of course knew how creative I was and loved my art, so he gave me a call and this photo was the result! He and his and his bride had their wedding on the very beautiful golf course Dauphin Highlands in Harrisburg, Pa. This course had the most beautiful grounds, they have great scenes and great photos spots! I

The Website redesign, Start to finish

On April 26, 2012 / marketing, News / Leave a comment

A few days ago I decided to give my site a complete redesign. I really wanted it to reflect my new brand and give it a modern and fresh feel. The old website was blocky, old and not following my brand strategy, (Which I will be doing a post on here later.) It’s really important to follow your brand, for sure. OK, So I was looking at the old site and checking out the features and really messing around with layout and just hated it. I didn’t like the layouts or the features. So I went to the best place for WordPress themes, which is ThemeForest.com. Themeforest is in my opinion the best place for really awesome themes. I took half a day to look through the books and see what theme would fit my needs. Which if you remember

IDEAS for breaking photographers block!

On April 3, 2012 / News, Tutorial / Leave a comment

Recently I have been so busy with work as an EMT and working around my house and having my daughter with me at home, I keep putting taking photos aside. Then when I go to take photos, I don’t have any ideas of what to shoot! So today I have come up with a few ideas I wanted to give and try, and that might help you out. I was thinking of different subjects from colours to shapes. Then for some reason I thought about shooting doorknobs? Doorknobs, those little things we touch every day without even thinking about it. Think of different shapes – All kinds of shapes, squares, triangles. Try anything Different colors – I am planning on doing this my self. Picking one color and just shooting that colour. It will really get your creativity going!

POLICE Harassing Local Photographer!

On February 23, 2012 / News / Leave a comment

I was shooting a time-lapse which I’m still working on, I arrived at this site around 9 and was there for about 3 hours until these two cops rolled up! At first I was calm and refused to give ID, After the second cop was breathing down my neck and really threatening me. I gave in and tried to get them to leave. Then stuff got heated. The first officer (Charles Tobias) was nice but just couldn’t grasp what I was doing after 4 explanations, He started to become angry when backup arrived, I guess so his fellow cop knew he was tough and could handle me? I gave him my ID even though I knew I didn’t have to, to try to make them leave asap, After the second cop (Cleland) notice I was recording become very upset, I

Leafing it out! 1-5 Series of Macro work!

On February 19, 2012 / Macro, News / Leave a comment

This image is my latest in my macro work, this winter has been pretty dull, Snow wise and I’ve just lost my motivation to go shooting. But Recently I pushed my self and went and shot some macro work. this is the first image a series of 5. I used my Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro lens and my Canon 50D body. I love how I caught the reflection in the water, I love this one. Get involved and leave comments below!

Lightroom 4

On February 2, 2012 / News / Leave a comment

Lightroom 4 is about to drop and I wanted to lay out some of the cool features coming to the new program. I have been using Lightroom for about my entire photography career. I love the ease of use and the organization of the library. I like using Lightroom on a large screen! It’s important to me because I like to have all my tabs out so I can double check everything while I work. These are a few of the features I think are gonna be awesome! Highlight and Shadow recovery: (brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.) This is going to be a great add on! I have been waiting for something like this! Local Editing Controls: or (LECs) LECs are giving you the option to reduce noise levels and

Canon EOS Concept SLR Will Shoot Killer 4K Video

On November 28, 2011 / News, Reviews / Leave a comment

A Canon EOS 4K SLR is on the way. We just learned about the $20,000 Canon EOS C300Digital Cinema Camera due out in January. Canon has also released some details about a video-oriented SLR, and we’re drooling. The Canon EOS 4K SLR is just a concept now, but it’s pretty exciting. We do know that it’ll have a full frame CMOS sensor, and that it’ll record 4K video at 24 fps, but that’s about it. No word on pricing or availability, but Canon is definitely targeting the professional production set with the concept camera. When I first saw this camera, Man I all I wanted to do was shoot video! Soon Enough!

New App From Canon Coming Soon! Photographers Block

On November 11, 2011 / News / Leave a comment

Cool new app from Canon promises to help photographers with inspiration. This app is aimed at hitting creatives right where we need it the most. At our “creative blocks”. Canon is looking at becoming a partner of inspiration and we could all use a little help with inspiration from time to time. Of course they worked with some of today’s top photographers in a round-table discussions to come up with great ways that they could help structure your thinking about projects. It’s pretty impressive really. Here’s a quick video I shot of the app and some of what Paul and I discussed. Excuse the glare. You turn on the app. You’re presented with fields to fill in. The fields are location, subject, feeling, and technique. You then hit done and it creates a great little graphical inspiration type poster