moving to WP

my blog is now moving to Wordpress starting Wednesday . The url is www.geraldfaisonophoto.wordpress.com. update ur links please.

Another Tethered option

Today I found a new tethered shooting option for use in Lightroom. Its made by Mountain Storm. It allows you to manually control you camera and it imports the file directly into Lightroom. The best part is it works for Nikon and Canon cameras. Its also free! You can download it here.

Feature

In photojournalism class we had to go out and shoot a feature assignment. I decided to the local skate park in Mountain Park of Lilburn, GA. Here was my selection for the assignment.

Off the Glass!

Remember that old McDonalds commercial that had Micheal Jordan and Larry Bird get into competition over a Big Mac:

Well here is a photographers take on that featuring legends Joe McNally and Scott Kelby:

starting up

Today I found a great article about starting up a photo business on prophotolife.com . It focuses on starting up for less than $2000 and on what equipment could get you by and make you some money. It can be found here.

Post Processing

Recently on the "Ask the Photographer" blog I found an article on Dustin Snipes post processing of recent assignment for Sports Illustrated . The shoot was of over 70 of the top high school basketball prospects. He had to shoot it two days and only had the hotel as his shooting location. The images are great and he didn't do whole lot of photoshopping to them. They are lit well and mostly burned and dodged . The article is here.

Dustin Snipes

A few years ago I was looking through the Sportshooter.com web site and found who is now one of my absolute favorite sports photographer Dustin Snipes. I first saw his work as it was critiqued to the 2006 Best Student Portfolio. The year before he was a runner up in the competition. See his work here.

Lighting Set Ups

Since I've been using lights I'm always thinking of different ways to set them up for different effects for my photography. I recently found this video from Snapfactory.com owner\photographer Mark Wallace about different lighting arrangements.

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 11 from Mark Wallace on Vimeo.

Shooting Finally!

Lately I have not had a chance to shoot anything except for studio stuff. Today I went and shot for my feature assignment as well as for myself. I went to the local skate park and had blast. Here are a few from the day.

Other options

Since we have had our lecture on fill flash for photojournalism a lot of students have started to look for ways to move their hot shoe flashes off camera. The "industry standard" are Pocket Wizards. This uses radio waves to send the signal to trigger you lights. But these empty out your wallets at the price of $169 each a you need two. But there are other options. First there are Radio Popper Jrx's. You can pick up these for $120 for the basic set for $140 for the studio set. The only difference is the studio set allows you to control your studio flashes from you camera(yea "the industry standard" won't let you do that!)Here is a review from Strobist.com

Next up is a set up triggers from Paul C. Bluff(aka Alien Bees) called the Cybersyncs. These also use radio waves to transmit their signal. These retail for $59.95 for the Transmitter and $69.95 for the reciever. You need both.