Re-evaluating LR3 vs Aperture 3
I just wrote a lengthy post on the Aperture forum about my recent tribulations with Aperture. I thought I’d post it here. I also suggest you read the original thread if you’re interested. I couldn’t help but smile a little when I read your post. Great coverage btw. I smiled because I’ve just spent the [...]
ze overhaul
I’ve just finished my portfolio site overhaul at laroquephoto.com. All done in WordPress 3.0 using a child theme based on Graph Paper Press’s Modfolio. I was admittedly inspired by NY photographer TONE. He shoots pretty cool stuff and I loved the stripped down one column look of his site – also based on a GPP [...]
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 [...]
Water beads on tall green leaves
Shot with a Sigma 70-300 APO DG; lit with one SB-900 and a Honl grid.
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: 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 [...]
A few (more) words on Apple’s iPad
Everyone’s talking about the iPad right now. So I’m not going to pretend I have anything to add that hasn’t already been said at some point during the last 18 hours or so. But for what it’s worth, here’s my take: This past year I moved my reading habit to my iPod Touch. I’m the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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):
