Category: Misc
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Email is the place where information goes to die
Email is the place where information goes to die So, I’ve been accused of using the title for this post — “Email is the place where information goes to die” — quite a lot. I figured I should probably claim it by making this blog post.
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Posing Tips – Waistlines, Thighs and Bustlines
Posing Tips – Waistlines, Thighs and Bustlines Learn a few tips from red carpet celebrities on how to get your subjects looking their best when photographing them.
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14 Tips for Great Candlelight Photography
14 Tips for Great Candlelight Photography Have you ever tried to capture a candle lit scene with your digital camera? The results can be stunning with the warm glow of flickering flames reflecting off your subjects face (can you feel the romance?) but the shooting in such a low light environment
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Settings for Indoor Photography
Settings for Indoor Photography How to Achieve Great Indoor Photography Results
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Urban Landscape Photography Tips
Urban Landscape Photography Tips Last week I was reading an issue of Digital Photographer Magazine (issue 50) which had a good feature on Urban Landscapes. In it they interviewed an urban landscape photographer (Mark Bury) and asked him for his top 5 tips on his craft. I thought I’d sh
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Assessing Contrast – The Squint Technique
Assessing Contrast – The Squint Technique Here’s a surprising little tip that a pro once shared with me when thinking about contrast in images. It’s not really conventional but it works!
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4 Tips Regarding Converging Lines
4 Tips Regarding Converging Lines When framing a landscape shot one of the types of environmental features that many photographers look for an like to incorporate in their shots is converging lines.
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How to Choose the Right ISO for your Digital Photography
How to Choose the Right ISO for your Digital Photography Changing the ISO setting on your camera changes the sensitivity to light of the image sensor inside of it.
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How to Pose Hands in Portraits
How to Pose Hands in Portraits The hands and fingers are often giveaways to how the rest of the body is feeling.
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Photoshoot With Natalie Pagnucco
(cross-posted from my Vancouver Fasion Photography blog over at www.staticphotography.com) We recently had the chance to do a fun fashion editorial photoshoot with Natalie Pagnucco. We used several impromtu Vancouver photoshoot locations including an alley along Water Street in Gastown, and Matthew Good's apartment. Congratulation to Natalie, she has recently been picked up by the
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Bluff it as a fashion photographer
Bluff it as a fashion photographer Whether you’re interested in a career in fashion photography, or just want to take impressive portraits of your friends, this is your essential guide to the latest techniques that photographers are using to get their work noticed.
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Countdown to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
Countdown to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics Today, in Vancouver, shortly after noon, the Olympic countdown clock was revealed to the public in an event attended by supporters and surrounded by the chaos of protesters chanting and protesting the coming of the Olympics.
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Are you Bloggable? Northern Voice and Moose Camp coming up!
Are you Bloggable? Northern Voice and Moose Camp coming up! Here in Vancouver, groovy high-tech start-ups are blossoming and a true community of collaborative-minded folks are brewing up all sorts creative entrepreneurial endeavours. One of the noteworthy events of the year for this community (and like-minded blog
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Grace Park Photo Used On Wikipedia
Grace Park Photo Used On Wikipedia Someone from Wikipedia dropped me a note today to mention that they used this picture of Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica) on her profile. Thx guys! 🙂
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Fashion Photoshoot for Discollection
Kdon over at Discollection is an amazing designer and stylist. I've been using her for lots of Static Photography shoots lately and was even more impressed than usual in the job she did styling the Ashley-Rae photoshoot with awesome designer vintage clothes from her store.
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Photography Featured in Beyond Robson
Photography Featured in Beyond Robson Thanks to Matt for featuring my photography in a recent post on Beyond Robson.
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Vancouver Olympic Protest Flickr Group
Vancouver Olympic Protest Flickr Group Photos and discussion of anti-Games resistance. Includes protests, posters and signage. You don’t have to be against the Games to participate in this group.
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Fotolog overtaking Flickr?
Fotolog overtaking Flickr? Quick! Which photo sharing site community thingie is more popular: Fotolog or Flickr? You might be surprised at the answer…but first some history.
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Minimal Lime MySpace DIV Overlay
Minimal Lime MySpace DIV Overlay With over 22,000+ downloads to date, the Dark Minimal MySpace DIV Overlay has received a great amount of success aiding MySpace users in covering the default eyesore. After coming to the realization that the overlay was due for a fresh revision, I decided