Photo Shoot with Dana Zipkin
Dana Zipkin needed new photos for her web site. Dana happens to be a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant and you can learn more about her on her web site. She also happens to be the lady that married Lindsay and myself. Downtown Nutley, New Jersey served as our backdrop. The photos of Dana sitting on the steps [...]
Photo Shoot with ChocoVision Mini Rev
I get excited when I get to combine two of my favorite things; food and photography. Sometimes food photography is a lot of trickery to get a good result. Weird things are added to the food to make it look better on camera. Not the case here, folks! One huge semi-sweet chocolate bar was melted [...]
A Real Honor Regarding My Photography
This is something I did not expect. My cousin posted this yesterday about “Bring Your Daughter To Work Day”. She brought her daughter Grace. “They were asked Whom They Most Admire…. And ummm this is what Grace drew…. My Cousin Christopher…. Because she feels she would like to pursue photography and bring out her inner [...]
“The Rain Forest Party” book trailer
This is the second book trailer I created for illustrator/writer Lorraine Dey and it features Hector-Armando and all of his rain forest buddies. I animated portions of the storybook in Adobe After Effects before importing the footage into Adobe Premiere Pro for final editing. My voiceover was recorded using Adobe Soundbooth using a Behringer B-2 [...]
“A Sweater for Duncan” book trailer
Tonight I completed work on the book trailer for “A Sweater for Duncan”. My lovely wife Lindsay assisted me with a wonderful voiceover. The trailer has a very Levar Burton/”Reading Rainbow” feel to it. Completely intentional. Loved that show growing up! The book is available through stores such as Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Go [...]
Getting Back To Black & White Film
I’ve been having a lot of fun developing rolls of black & white medium format film taken with the Holga camera. The process for developing film keeps me focused on creating compositions instead of having the ability to fire off 1,000 shots on digital. (Not that I do that!) When I started taking photographs, digital [...]
I Am Selling All Of My Camera Equipment
There comes a time when some photographers realizes “I like this as a hobby, but I don’t think I’m cutting it professionally.” After staring at my pile of equipment for the past week, I’ve decided to put it all up for sale. I have an XTi and 7D body along with numerous lenses in pristine [...]
Baby Photo Shoot with Sammy
Today I had my first baby photo shoot! Thankfully little Sammy was professionally fed and burped because she was pretty damn happy having her photos taken! We even convinced her that the mini bathtub was a good idea because it wasn’t filled with water. Apparently she hates the stuff. But she smelled pretty good so [...]
Photo shoot at Studio 212 with Daisy Kwayke and Heather Dorian
I returned to Studio 212 in Metuchen, NJ to shoot some female models. There is a giant cyclorama wall and lots of props and sets to choose from. Our two models were Heather Dorian and Daisy Kwayke. I highly recommend both of them for being professional and keeping in touch with me during the planning [...]
Full Moon in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Taken last night. The city lights were no match for this wonderful night sky.
American Phantasm Football poster
Lindsay went out for dinner tonight and it was lovely, but the people yelling in the background about a silly football game fired me up creatively. The team can’t hear you yelling. Nor do they really care about your undying love for them. They’re mercenaries for hire. It’d be great to raise the stakes of [...]
Kim and Ming “Trash The Dress”
On Saturday, October 9, 2010 I was invited by Buko Media to photograph a couple in the style of “Trash The Dress”. We shot at the magnets.com warehouse in Jersey City, New Jersey. The place had a lot of character to say the least! A posh office, a warehouse with excellent graffiti tags, and a [...]
A Life Once Lost @ The Note in West Chester, Pennsylvania
My friend Adam used his worldly musical powers to summon a photo pass for me to shoot A Life Once Lost last Friday night @ The Note in West Chester, PA. It was a sold out show and the club was wall-to-wall people. I shot with both my 7D and XTi plus my entire collection [...]
New Year’s Resolution…NEW MUSIC!
Today I was enjoying a nice relaxing day at home and I broke out my Fender Stratocaster and condenser microphone to experiment in Propellerhead Record. For anyone familiar with Reason, Record is a sequencing software that works harmoniously with Reason. Thankfully I found a patch for hooking up the vocoder because that thing is a [...]
Toshiba Thrive 10.1″/16GB tablet
I recently sold my Toshiba Satellite and replaced it with a Toshiba Thrive 10.1″ tablet. I needed something with enough power to handle my daily chores like photo editing, emailing clients, web browsing, video conferencing, etc. Must have played with every damned tablet currently available on the market. What sold me on the Thrive was [...]
Black and White Photography in Delaware
During Thanksgiving vacation I visited my parents in Frederica, Delaware. The day after Thanksgiving I walked down to McGinnis Pond around noon. It was unseasonably warm and people were out enjoying the weather. I decided to use my Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 and take some landscapes of the pond and surrounding areas. The pond was a [...]
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20% OFF ALL PRINTS!
It’s that time of year where people search far and wide for holiday gifts. Enter coupon code “GIMME20″ at checkout and save 20% OFF your order of $10.00 or more. The prints are already very affordable, but this deal sweetens things quite a bit! Purchase a few and decorate your walls at home or work. [...]
I am a B&H Photo Video affiliate!
Great news! I am now a B&H Photo Video affiliate. What does that mean? My site met qualifications for web traffic and content. This allows me to bring you advertising for the finest store known to man. If you have never been to B&H in New York City, you are missing out. It’s an amazing [...]
Discreet Denim photo shoot
Designer Rick Meeker came to downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey and we did a photo shoot showcasing his work. The models had their hair and makeup done by Karen Buttacavole (Life Is Better With Lip Gloss) and Elizabeth Jones (The Updo Guru). I had hoped for a little bit of rain to get the streets [...]
Tutorial: Cropping a photograph
Composition is an important part of photography. The right lighting and all the bells and whistles in the world will not make up for poor composition. It’s also important to imagine a composition if it were to be cropped. A “bad photo” is almost always directly tied to poor composition. The most important thing to [...]
Tutorial: HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography
HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is a fairly new trend in digital photography. It’s also one of the most exploited and poorly used techniques when placed in the wrong hands. The positives of HDR certainly outweigh the negatives. It can elevate a photo to an entirely new level with added clarity and detail. Two things [...]
Photography workshop in warehouse
The five of us (Eric Gautier, Kelly Formus, Richard Flores, and Andrea Figueredo) got together in June 2011 for another photography workshop. This time it was in an abandoned warehouse. Vacant warehouse. We had two models named Aamira and Heather. Andrea handled makeup duties and did a fantastic job! I try to keep my equipment bags [...]
