Beautiful Model Beautiful Light!

Saturday was another great lighting workshop with Don Giannatti! Mia and Judi supplied the beauty and Don supplied the beautiful light. If you've not attended one of Don's workshops you don't know what you're missing; they are the best I've ever attended and I've been to a few. Check out the workshop schedule by clicking here.

A Perfect Thing...

Sometimes perfect happens in our imperfect world. Enjoy the perfection of Bill Evans as he plays "My Foolish Heart".

LaCie Kicks It Up A Notch!

Is your computer drowning in a sea of images? Is your hard drive so full it can't even burp? Has megapixel madness put a frown on your face. Well buck up Spanky, LaCie is ready to turn that frown upside down!

Their new 2-Terabyte Ethernet Big Disk with storage space for 13,333 15MB photos will put a smile back on those chops. A slender 2x7x11 inches in size, it can be networked , via a Gigabit Ethernet port to share it's considerable capacity among several computers. Connect it via Ethernet to your router and it becomes a wireless home server.To use it as your personal archive, just connect a cable to the USB 2.0 port and plug it directly into your computer. A second USB 2.0 port allows you to expand the capacity further by adding in another hard drive and it has full support for Windows, Mac and Linux. Price: $1,099 Available: Later This Month. For more info click here.

Underwater Glamour Shoot? Did I Miss A Meeting?

Choose Your Wedding Photographer Carefully!

Check Out This Cool Video By Chase Jarvis!

Check Out Karen French!

Karen French is one of the world's most published wedding photographers and a former Photoshop student of mine. Check out the beautiful portfolio images on her web site!

Check Out Sarah Silver @ ImagingInfo.com!

Click here to read the article. Click here to check out Sarah's web site.

Feel Free To Add Your Own Tag Line

Found this image, on a site named mladenpenev.net while meandering the web, can't find a photo credit, if anyone knows the photographer please drop me an email. What a great image!

Too Cool For School - Manfrotto Neotec

Awesomely fast and easy to use, the 458B has the innovative Neotec rapid opening and closing mechanism - just pull each leg downwards to open and automatically lock it in any position, with no screws, knobs, or levers to tighten or loosen. Then to fold it back up again, press the mechanism release button and push the leg closed. To learn more click here.

Too Cool For School - Olympus 770 SW!

Shockproof. Waterproof. Freezeproof. Crushproof. Introducing the world's most durable digital camera — the Olympus Stylus 770 SW. You can drop it (from 5ft), dunk it (to 33ft), freeze it (-10°C/14°F) or even try to crush it (up to 220lbf). But the 770 SW isn't all brawn and no brains. It features a bright 2.5" Hypercrystal LCD so you can easily compose, view and capture your images underwater or in direct sunlight. Digital Image Stabilization (DIS) creates sharp, blur-free pictures, even if your subject is moving. The 770 SW has 27 Shooting Modes, includes movies with sound and a street price just over $300! Get Out!

To get more info click here.

notyouraveragejoe.com Is Not Your Average Web Site!

Check out Joe Grisham's web site... very cool!

Check Out Parish Kohanim!

copyright Parish Kohanim
Double Exposure is a great web site that I check out often. This month's issue has a feature story "Parish Kohanim: The Pursuit of Beauty" (very nice work) click here to check it out and check out Double Exposure, lots of great info and beautiful images.

Edge Of The Earth Corner Of The Sky - Book Review

Published in August 2003, with Forewords by Robert Redford and John H. Adams, Edge of the Earth/Corner of the Sky is the first landscape based photography book that Art Wolfe has produced since Light on The Land. It's subject... our earth.

Of the fifty-six books that Wolfe has produced in his thirty year career, Edge may be the most ambitious. The book is physically imposing at 11" X 14", with 130 images on 240 pages, (many double trucks), in landscape format.

The five sections, Desert, Ocean, Mountain, Forest and Polar open with a 2,000 word essay by Art Davidson. Normally the essays might keep me from getting too interested, (I'm an image guy and make no apology for my bias), however, in this case they really make the book. The slant is certainly towards environmental conservation but that's OK, they say so up front. And while I'm an image guy, I'm also a conservationist. The essays are beautifully written and not at all "preachy".

Edge of the Earth/Corner of the Sky gets 4 out of a possible 5 Stars. The book retails for $75.00 but the good news is... it's probably at your local library, that's where I found this copy!

Check Out Create Network!

Building "community" seems to be the next "half caf double latte" of the web world. This one, aimed squarely at creative professionals, comes to us via those wonderful folks who gave us Create Magazine . Click here to check it out, interesting and very well done.

Visualville Kicks It Up A Notch! (Shameless Plug)

Visualville is proud to announce the Xtreme Quad-Core Digital Darkroom! Our latest build features the Intel Pentium Quad-Core Extreme QX6700 1.66-8MB Processor currently the worlds fastest processor!

Intel Quad-Core processors are ideal for multitasking environments because there are four complete execution cores instead of one, each with an independent interface to the frontside bus. Quad-Core processors deliver the resources of four full processing cores giving you greatly increased capability to accomplish tasks with performance-intensive programs like Photoshop.

To check out all the spec's click here.

One More From The Workshop

This one of Kassi by David H. Smith

Another Pic From The Workshop

Another Great Lighting Workshop!

As I've said before, my hometown of Phoenix Arizona is home to some incredibly talented photographers and Don Giannatti proves my point. This past weekend I attended another great lighting workshop led by Don.

Over the years I've attended many workshops by some of the best our industry has to offer. Don is on that short list we refer to as "the best of the best". Seriously, if you can fly, drive or crawl to Phoenix come and experience his workshop in person, if that isn't possible, check out his latest DVD.

LaCie Kicks It Up A Notch!

Looking for a new monitor? Check out LaCie's latest... the LaCie 526 Monitor employs a wide 25.5-inch H-IPS panel with 1920x1200 resolution for displaying two A4 pages at full size. It's wide gamut supports 95% AdobeRGB and 98.5% ISO-coated color space. Integrated circuitry features a 12-bit Look Up Table (LUT) and 16-bit processing for smooth display of color gradients.

The included LaCie blue eye pro software allows for hardware calibration in a single click, without further user involvement. Post-calibration, an extensive set of tools is available for advanced users who want more precise control. This includes manual fine-tuning of the white point, Test & Report to verify profile accuracy, and profile switching without the need to recalibrate. Users may also conduct a quick Ambient Light Analysis, which analyzes the light in the room to better understand whether an environment is ideal for color work.

The LaCie 526 Monitor will be available end of April via LaCie's specialized dealer network for $1,999 MSRP. Also available in a bundle with the LaCie blue eye pro colorimeter for $2,299 MSRP.

To learn more click here.