Of the many, many events I photographed during my newspaper career, graduations are the most fun.
The degree of fun or fun factor is directly proportional to how cooperative my subjects are about being photographed.
To date no one has ever objected to me taking their picture at a graduation because it is always a happy affair. Continue reading Cameras at UCR 2012 school of business graduation
For this post about Father’s Day, I searched high and low to see if I could find a picture of my dad and I.
I believe I have mentioned this, I have only found this one.
And I’m quite lucky to have this actually.
It’s not uncommon for folks to not have pictures of themselves with their parents.
In fact, this generation runs a very risk of losing all their pictures because every image is on a lone hard drive.
A theft or a crash is all it takes, folks.
Don’t be so cavalier about your memories.
They are irreplaceable.
In fact, if you get a chance, start making books out of your photos.
Those photo books are attractive, environmentally friendly (doesn’t require you to fire up a device) and archival.
Many online photolabs have easy templates you can use to make beautiful photo books. Continue reading Happy Father’s Day
I’ve been using Apple’s MobileMe a while.
Some of it’s features like the virtual hard drive or iDisk actually works well for me because I let my students and friends share files with me through the public folder.
But all that is going away end of June.
So Apple has forced my hand encouraging me to move up to Lion OS 10.7.
Locations account for a lot of the feel and mood of a portrait.
That’s why time spent location scouting is always worthwhile.
I keep a digital notebook/ folder on my computer of images filled with promising or interesting locations.
Within this folder are images I capture with my cellphone when I’m out and about.
I usually grab a picture of the closest road sign showing the intersection so I can retrace my steps and find the place again months or years later.
I usually include some notes like “picture taken facing north etc” and where the sun might be in the evening or morning.
With the internet, Google’s Street View and Google Earth, location scouting has become a lot easier.
The downside?
Choice places to shoot are fast becoming crowded or harder to find.
Does that mean you ought to keep some of these places secret? Continue reading Scout locations for more interesting portraits