I normally think about photography in terms of making pictures, where one carefully plans out the composition and light, but sometimes you just get lucky and a photo just appears in front of your camera. For this picture, I had setup on Santa Monica beach with the intention of photographing the pier and ferris wheel at night. This couple happened to be walking on the beach in front of my camera (I almost didn't notice them until it was too late) and I just snapped the picture before they left the ...
Archives for April 2014
Last Night in Prague
I took this photo on my last night in Prague. Before visiting the city, I came up with a shooting list and I knew that I want to create some iconic images of Prague's bridges. I had already shot the Charles bridge but hadn't yet seen a good location where I could have multiple bridges in an image at once (there are 17 bridges in Prague that cross the Vltava river). ...
File Naming Systems for Managing Your Image Collection
Once you have more than a handful of images it's going to be very important to use a systematic naming scheme. Having an organized system for numbering your files will allow you and your clients to identify images precisely. Instead of a client asking for a picture of that "prison cell in Alcatraz" (I have about 160 images of Alcatraz and most contain prison cells), the client can just look at my website and say I want to license image #22140. Given the ID number, I can quickly find the file in my Lightroom ...
Baby Sea Turtle Struggles to Reach the Ocean
Went I went to Costa Rica, one of the events I was very lucky to witness was the hatching of baby sea turtles on Tortuguero Beach and watching them make the long crawl from their nest to the ocean. Tortuguero is the largest Atlantic nesting site of the endangered green turtle. Green sea turtles nest from July to October. The mother turtle will crawl up the beach during the night to dig a nest in the sand with her hind flippers. She will lay from 100-200 eggs which are each about the size of a golf ball. ...
An Edible and Very Delicious Camera Cake
The cake my wife got me for my birthday: It's all edible including the camera body, lens, and even the book covers (I think these were made with some type of edible ink). ...