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Advanced Techniques: Single Flash

Bounce Flash: Mayoral candidate Bob McDavid answers a question at the forum held Wednesday evening on the University of Missouri’s campus. Audience members provided the questions for the candidates at the event jointly sponsored by the Missouri Students Association and the Associated Students of the University of Missouri. Renters rights and downtown security cameras were hot [ READ MORE ]

Advanced Techniques: Metal and Glass

“Bad Dog” A news aficionado’s nightmare – coming home to find that your dog Rocco or Princess let loose on the house and destroyed the Sunday paper before reading it – may soon change with the  industry’s uncertain future in print. And here’s the lighting plan. *** Part of me wishes this photo came out more stylized, and the [ READ MORE ]

Advanced Techniques: Classmate Portrait

Missouri senior Jonathan Hinderliter shows off his sunglasses during a portrait session on February 13, 2010. Hinderliter balances his love of fashion, shoes and shopping with his sharp personality, cynical tendencies and a penchant for arguments. Lighting diagram for my single-light portrait. I like arrows and stick figures. Reminds me of this. ***** Sorry for the unannounced intrusion, [ READ MORE ]

I’ve been a bit busy.

Way too many days have passed since I’ve last updated. Hopefully I won’t let that happen again. There are so many awesome things going on, and lots of pictures to go along with them. There’s also a ton of emails. My phone just buzzed again – it’s 11:43pm on a Friday night. Such is the semester. Somehow, [ READ MORE ]

Project365: The end and the beginning

day 365 :: year three When I started my Project365 three years ago, I had no idea it would turn into such a production. For the first few months after I moved to DC in late 2006, I realized I hardly took photos anymore. This was totally unacceptable. The project seemed to be a great way [ READ MORE ]

Soft focus

Trying to photograph a memorial service in the cold, pitch black night is not an easy thing to do. I tried to play up the back lighting, steam breath and halos around the attendees, but nothing really read well. The one photo I really liked made it look like there were only a few people there, [ READ MORE ]

Snowpants: A photojournalist’s best friend

It’s been cold here. Actually, cold is an understatement. The jet stream has gone haywire and arctic air that usually stays way up north is blasting the country with some abnormally frigid weather. My grandmother in Florida said that planes were delayed at Sarasota International Airport due to ice on the wings. The airport does not [ READ MORE ]

New Year’s can wait – first comes Seattle.

As you may or may not know, I am notoriously slow at posting photos of my adventures outside of my project365. So, while I would rather write a post about the exit of 2009 and entrance of 2010, I’m going go backwards a little to my recent jaunt to Seattle for the holidays. I’ve never been [ READ MORE ]

And then there was rest.

My first semester as a graduate student is complete. Holy moly and little fishes, it’s complete! It’s hard to imagine almost, remembering how I’d sit around all day long – when I wasn’t in class – reading article after article for class, falling asleep while reading said articles, and writing papers every week on what I [ READ MORE ]

I can see the light!

While this mess has since been cleaned up (mostly) and the paper handed in (I got an A-), it pretty well illustrates how my semester has been (and continues to be). Right now I’m waiting for 162 RAW files to process to place into a time-lapse of contra dancing. I hope it works. I’ve never done [ READ MORE ]