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Top 8 Tips for Macro Photography

On May 24, 2012 / Top 8 Tips / Leave a comment

I have compiled my most important Top 8 Tips on Macro Photography, I have used these and still do, these tips will help propel your macro photography to the next level. 1. MUST HAVE sturdy tripod Having a tripod that wont move, or fall over in a light wind is KEY. You need to find a tripod thats heavy but not too heavy for you to carry. I use Induro’s line of adventure series tripods, Excellent products. 2. If you want true macro If you want true macro photography, You must get a Dedicated macro lens, They are far superior then the other lenses that have “Macro”. Those lenses are not “really macro”, so they cant give the best results, I shoot canon, so I have one of the Best Macro lenses out there. Find the review here. 3. Invest in a

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

Gear doesn’t matter- Until it does?

On April 25, 2012 / Randoms / Leave a comment

I wanted to share this blog post from Petapixel.com. They are a great bunch of dudes and write awesome stuff! I wanted to share this post because I believe it also. If you follow any part of the photographic blogosphere, you’ve heard folks repeat this mantra over and over and over again: “Gear doesn’t matter.” The basic premise of that dictum is as follows: making great pictures is about the photographer, not the camera or the lens or any other piece of gear. A good photographer can make a great image with a point-and-shoot that an amateur armed with a Nikon D4 and an 85mm f/1.4 lens can’t match. I’ve personally repeated the “It’s not the camera that takes the picture” mantra to new photographers myself because I know it to be true, and because it helps allay

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!

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!

Shooting Macro Photography

On February 10, 2012 / Macro / Leave a comment

Today I gonna chat about macro photography. If you have read my blog you know that I bought my first Macro dedicated lens last spring. It was the Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro, This lens is amazing, I love how it’s built and its DOF. I have taken amazing images with this lens, but not without hurdles to jump and things to learn. The things I would say you need for macro photography is most definitely a tripod! It is so important to keep that lens and camera so still. When you shoot with this lens at the greatest magnification, The focus point almost paper-thin! That makes it so important you have something sturdy to plant everything down. I’m hoping to get out and shoot today, See if it happens I will I have new images tomorrow! Get involved and leave

Top 5 tips for stunning portraits!

On January 24, 2012 / Portraits / 1 Comment

Hey, today I wanted to get some tips on my blog, because I have a portrait shoot today. I wanted to get my top 5 tips for from my experience in portraits! These are my tips more will be coming soon. 1. Perspective: change your angle! Come from the bottom, to top the side etc. frank santra always said angles are attitudes! I agree with this so much, angles are very important, changes the way your subject looks! 2. Eye contact: catching your subjects eyes are so important! Eyes are the windows to the soul, as they say. Eye contact is crucial to making the image really pop! I love the images that have the eye the main subject, really makes me think what’s the person like, who are they, that kind of stuff. 3. Shooting candid: shooting candid can be the best images

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