a jump to big lights
I’m a Nikon guy and I love speedlights. I love CLS and the built-in freedom we get as Nikon shooters to basically build an entirely wireless studio at no added cost. But sometimes you just need more power. Heck, even David Hobby agrees with that ;-) With a shoot coming up involving largish group shots [...]
pacific
I can’t move. For the first time in my life I’m completely, utterly paralyzed and empty. It’s a rut that’s been building and has now taken on epic proportions, affecting me not only creatively, but physically and psychologically. My studio feels like a cage where everything has gone dark and silent. Days are both fleeting [...]
Aperture bug follow-up: solved! Update
UPDATE: according to several Aperture forum users, this seems to be fixing a lot of issues such as constant thumbnail rebuilding, reprocessing of images and adjustments resetting. I also have to say that I didn’t have a single crash today while doing extensive editing with brushes. It’s a first so hopefully this is more than [...]
Water beads on tall green leaves
Shot with a Sigma 70-300 APO DG; lit with one SB-900 and a Honl grid.
Travel photography
A good checklist from Vistek for a photo trip: Great travel photography: The adventure begins.
out of darkness and into light
I haven’t been here in awhile. Haven’t been anywhere “social” really. Lots of things on my mind these days. I was out this morning and did some drive-by shooting. Feels like spring over here.
Aperture 3 the day after: nitpicks and bugs
I stand by my first impression: Aperture 3 is a great update. That said, now that the dust has settled and I’m over the rush of new technology, there are things appearing that are less than what I anticipated - as well as the inevitable bugs of any new version. Current 32 bit plugins don’t [...]
Aperture 3: big things, little things.
It’s been a verrrrry long time coming. But having spent the past hour playing around with the new version of Aperture, all I can say is: thank you. My stubbornness feels completely repaid. This upgrade adresses everything that was lacking and adds a ton of features, big and small. It’s as though Apple actually read [...]
drive-by shooting (reprint from JPG Magazine)
It wasn’t premeditated. I didn’t wake up one morning and decide to drive around with a camera in my hand. I was just stuck in traffic one day, heading for a shoot with my camera bag right next to me on the passenger seat. While waiting at a red light I took out my camera [...]
Photographer Emiliano Larizza in Haiti
Amazing and haunting photography in the midst of disaster: Photographer Emiliano Larizza in Haiti
Hope – televised.
A year ago today I was sitting in front of my television, watching history being made. A lot has changed since then and looking back, it’s hard not to feel a tinge of sadness. Change is hard apparently. To commemorate this day, I’m reposting through my plasma screen | a moment in history. It now all [...]
Where Hot Shoe Flashes Dare Not Go
Photo by Zack Arias Great post from Zack Arias about moving into big lights: Where Hot Shoe Flashes Dare Not Go
FAKEZINES – Fake magazines. Real pictures
I love Redux Pictures. I love the photographers and I love the blog where they display the magazine articles and covers where their work appears. And since I’m not yet a part of that exclusive group (!) I decided to fake it. Enter FAKEZINES – Fake magazines. Real pictures. The idea here is simply to [...]
the case of aperture and the stratocaster
For the past year – and more so these past months – the debate has been raging around Aperture and Lightroom, mainly from AP2 users who feel abandoned by Apple. The silence surrounding a new version of the application has been deafening, forcing a lot of users into the arms of Adobe for many reasons [...]
artist site
Alright, so I have this blog and my corporate site. Fine. So how about an artist site? I’ve just launched laroquephoto.com which is just that. A selection of big pictures, nothing else. I built it using flash because I wanted a quick way to allow scaling on any screen. But to be honest I’d rather [...]
the orbis arm
When I purchased the Orbis ring flash last summer one thing was immediately clear: it needed a way to stay attached to the camera without the need for constant handholding. There was already an accessory in the works promising to do just that. A few weeks ago it finally started shipping. From the official site: [...]
paper geek
As some of you may know, I purchased an Epson Photo R2880 a few months ago when I decided after much deliberation to do all my printing in-house (at least anything 13 in wide or less).The Snow Leopard debacle notwithstanding, I haven’t regretted my decision one bit. Sending my client’s photos to the lab always [...]
LR3 beta 1
Chris alerted me to it this morning in the comments: is this sad or what? Only bright side I can think of is the kick in the pants this is going to give Apple – if they care anything about our community and business. Some of the highlights of the new version according to Adobe [...]
defining style, defining yourself.
If you’ve never seen the following video by photographer and blogger Zack Arias do it now. I’ll wait. If you’re like me and every artist I know you’ve just felt instant kinship with Zack’s “problems”. Funny how we think we’re pretty special and yet… we’re all exactly the same aren’t we? I watched Apple’s Meet [...]
and the award goes to…
This is unexpected: I just won second place in the Faces of Canada – People category of Vistek’s Capture Canada contest. As of this writing it’s not public yet so consider this a scoop ;-) Here’s the winning photo (which you might recognize from another post):
montreal gazette
One of my portraits from the Miriodor sessions in a Montreal Gazette music article.
the junkyard
We’re on vacation for another week, but I thought I’d share a couple of pics… My father-in-law is a retired engineer and all around DIY guy. When we visited last week he told me he wanted to show me something that I might enjoy shooting: we ended up in a junkyard! He loves this stuff [...]
ring light, ring bright.
The ring light look has been a staple of fashion photography for years. It produces perfect catchlights as well as a very clean, shadowless look. Which isn’t something I thought I’d like to be honest, since I pretty much live for the shadows and the contrast between light and darkness. Yeah… I’m a bit of [...]
