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!
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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 [...]
Laser Xpressions photo shoot
A while back I was asked to photograph products for Laser Xpressions in Freehold, NJ. This project was done on site and I got to see behind-the-scenes of how these laser engraved products are created. Very impressive process! There is a large piece of equipment that very carefully beams light into a piece of glass [...]
Retouching a group panorama
This particular series of photos was taken by Kelly Formus. I was asked to work my magic bringing two images together and blending them into one long panorama. I also wanted to bring in a lot of the tones that were missing on the original exposure. I have a particular process I use involving Lightroom, [...]
Lindsey & Al Ferreirra’s wedding
On September 10, I traveled to northern New Jersey to shoot a wedding with Jay Li and Dean Michaels. I have photographed ceremonies and receptions before, so it wasn’t a huge leap to shoot the whole day. The night before I did the usual dusting of lenses and charging of batteries. You can never charge [...]
Pantone huey™PRO monitor and printer calibration
Color consistency between monitor and print is important. If your prints are drastically different from what you see on your monitor, chances are you need to properly calibrate your monitor. Jacking up the brightness/contrast is NOT properly calibrating your monitor. The Pantone huey™PRO definitely improved color consistency between my two Acer V233H monitors and my [...]
Hurricane Irene panorama
Hurricane Irene rocked us like a hurricane this past weekend. I could not stop hearing “Rock You Like A Hurricane” by Scorpions throughout the event. I was driving home from Lindsay’s house tonight and saw a ton of people watching the sunset on the Goodkind Bridge that connects Edison to New Brunswick in New Jersey. [...]
I met Sam Jones and Melody Anderson from the “Flash Gordon” movie!
One of my favorite movies growing up was “Flash Gordon”. It is so over the top in every way imaginable! The characters, set design and soundtrack by the almighty Queen set it apart from just about every other movie I’ve watched. And I watched it. Repeatedly. Like every time it was on tv. It was great [...]
Lindsey and Dave engagement session
On November 7, 2010 Lindsay and I met with Lindsay and Dave to take engagement photos. We drove up to Washington Rock in Green Brook, New Jersey. The weather was a bit overcast and quite cold, but everyone was a champ about it. There were several families around at the time, so we spent a [...]
We, The Chosen “What Your Eyes Said” music video
It’s been a long time coming. The video for We, The Chosen’s “What Your Eyes Said” has finally been completed. I wanted this to be an amazing video for a band that deserves a lot of success for doing what many bands cannot accomplish. WRITING AND RECORDING QUALITY MUSIC. It’s a lost artform. New Jersey [...]
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