Category: Misc

  • Summary of the violent acts and punishments inflicted by God, according to the Bible

    Summary of the violent acts and punishments inflicted by God, according to the Bible Where is the good and just God Christians say they worship?

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  • Aperture vs Lightroom

    Aperture vs Lightroom We’re in an era of transition in the way that we manage digital photographs. A year ago, we were mostly stuck with the filesystem and tools that built on top of it. That experience sucked. Enormous books were written about Digital Asset Management (DAM) w

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  • Social Media Club Vancouver at Bryght Offices

    Social Media Club Vancouver at Bryght Offices Social Media Club is being organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media. This is the beginning of a global conversation about building an orga

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  • Fighting comment spam with Drupal

    Fighting comment spam with Drupal Recently, I asked a colleague why I couldn’t comment on their fancy, new, corporate blog and this was their response

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  • The Flickr Camera Guide

    The Flickr Camera Guide Popular photo sharing site Flickr has published lists and graphs of the most popular cameras used on the site. The results are an incredible camera guide.

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  • lomokev – Your flickr superstars, interviewed.

    lomokev – Your flickr superstars, interviewed. Lomokev lives in a world of LOMO and Drum’n’Bass. He is one of the last LCA users doing real lomos on flickr. His photos are full of life, colors and high contrasts.

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  • Use your photographic skills to show your support for Creative Commons!

    Use your photographic skills to show your support for Creative Commons! Creative Commons is hosting the CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr from November 6, 2006 through December 18, 2006. To enter, take a cool, creative picture of your favorite Creative Commons swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. — all available from the S

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  • Discollection’s Designer Vintage and kdon Photoshoot

    Discollection’s Designer Vintage and kdon Photoshoot This past August Kris Krug and I collaborated with Margie Torgerson, Shai Dhali and Petrina Torgerson on an innovative photoshoot in the alleys of Gastown. Margie got her hair done by Shai at Prepwork, after we met at discollection for styling and make-up

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  • How We Do It Video: Blogging as We Travel

    How We Do It Video: Blogging as We Travel In the video we mention a number of resources. Our camera is the Pentax Optio WP. Our computer is the Sony VGN-T350. This site runs on the Drupal platform, which is hosted and supported by Bryght. Our graphic design was done by Rain City Studios. We

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  • Basic Photographic Lighting Techniques

    Basic Photographic Lighting Techniques Learning lighting setups for portraits, glamour, boudoir, etc. can be expensive and frustrating. Especially if you set out to do it by the trail-and-error method. The cost of film and processing alone, while you are learning, can be staggering. And the re

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  • Lighting for Still Photography

    Lighting for Still Photography The behavior of light is not well understood by many photographers. This applies both from a technical as well as compositional standpoint. It must, however, be comprehended, at least in principle, if one is to master the art. This paper will attempt t

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  • WTB: Photography Light Kit and Tripod

    WTB: Photography Light Kit and Tripod I don’t know that much about this stuff so any advice or recommendations would be good, but really what I’m looking for is something selling mid-range used gear for cheap. Please point me in the right direction if you hear of anything or know anyone.

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  • Hardcore Superstar Photoshoot

    Joseph Briante and Theresa James just started a boutique legal valet service in Vancouver called Hardcore Superstar and wanted to make a big splash. We shot these fun and sexy pics for their website on the streets of Vancouver. Check out the rest over at Flickr and read more about their novel business concept below

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  • Nitobi Photoshoot

    My friend Andre Charland’s (AKA Captain Ajax) company recently underwent a branding change. They’re old name was eBusiness Applications and thier new name is Nitobi. As a part of the renaming and rebranding efforts they wanted new pics of their executive team to corresponding with changing face of the company. Nitobi is an agile, honest,

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  • Raincity Studios Photoshoot

    Raincity Studios is an awesome web design and development firm here in Vancouver that I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the past couple years. They’re a team of Drupal and Ruby On Rails ‘rockstars’ as they like to say and wanted street-style edgy photos that represented they’re attitudes and projects. We took these

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  • Nick Douglas Leaving Valleywag

    Nick Douglas Leaving Valleywag It looks like Nick Douglas, the personality who over the course of the past year became synonymous with the Silicon Valley gossip blog, won’t be reporting there any more.

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  • “Made in Vancouver” Photoshoot

    Thanks to everyone who collaborated with me on the recent Made in Vancouver‘ photoshoot… especially Shai from Prepwork, Kim from Discollection and Jesse from ModelMayhem. Check out some of Static’s other fashion photography in our portfolio. (Cross-posted from my “Made In Vancouver” Photoshoot post over at Static Photography.)

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  • Evan Biddell Photoshoot

    Bids made some new jackets for El Kartel and hired me to come shoot Kimberly Nelson and Lauren Glazier wearing them. Check out the rest of the pics on Flickr. (Cross-posted from my Hardcore Superstar Photoshoot post over at Static Photography.) (Cross-posted from my Evan Biddell Photoshoot post over at Static Photography.)

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  • Denyss Halo Photoshoot

    I recently had the chance to shoot for Denyss Halo of The Black Halos and have a 2nd booking with the whole band coming up soon. Thx to kdon and Patron of Discollection for styling the shoot! (Cross-posted from my Denyss Halo Photoshoot post over at Static Photography.)

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