We often talk about cameras, lenses and lighting but rarely do we talk about what’s behind them–your eye. Not the organ, no, the part of your mind that actually helps you see the world and share it with others. This is what inspires you to capture the world with your lens, what drives you. To me, photography is a person showing how they see their world and capturing moments in time. A person’s “photographic eye” is something that is developed over time with training.
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Recently, I attended a photography event, This Is Studio Light, organized by my friend Scott Wyden and hosted by Dynalite. I am a big supporter of helping others learn the craft of photography, as well as learning as much as I possibly can and that’s what we did that day. We started the day with a presentation by Scott called “Photography Studio Lighting On A Budget”(free on Udemy). We then discussed light modifiers with Dynalite’s Jim Morton. Since a lot of Dynalite’s equipment has built-in 32 channel Pocket Wizard transceivers to enable wireless shooting, we had Pocket Wizard Plus III’s and X’s to use. While shooting I got a quick hands on with a few Dynalite products for the first time.
Here is what I thought.
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In a never ending search for new revenue, Microsoft has decided to enter the coffee market with an emphasis on photography. What do geeks tend to drink most in the morning? Coffee! Microsoft’s plan is to be the one stop shop for geeks. With xBox, tablet PCs and corporate PCs, it was the next logical step for the tech giant. And it’s too beautiful for Instagram! [click to continue…]
I’ve been doing some form of art for quite some time now. As far back as I can remember, drawing used to be my creative outlet. Even though I had been doing it for a long time, it has always been awful. It was something I would do alone and be ashamed of. To this day I don’t think anyone has ever seen my old “art” and that makes me ecstatic.
As I grew up, drawing was abandoned for the adventure of finding something new. I’ve always needed to do something creative with my free time. Creating music was my biggest venture after drawing and this was even more embarrassing. I attempted singing, keyboard, bass guitar, but none of these were for me. Besides being completely awful I yearned for that sense of instant creation that drawing gave me. Then in 2004, I found photography. [click to continue…]
The bag that started it all
It was on a late afternoon sometime in April of 2009 that I decided to poke around my basement. We had already been living in the house for two years by that point, but as is wont to happen with new houses, things got packed into boxes and bags and were shoved into corners and cabinets. Upon moving into the house in 2007, I claimed the basement as my dwelling as it was thoroughly large, and it felt like I had my own apartment. Yet, that also meant I lived among everything that would not be unpacked. And so, on that late afternoon in April, I opened a cabinet underneath my desk, and inside I found a black camera bag.
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It is a shoulder bag that does not scream ‘camera bag’. I have been considering a proper shoulder camera bag for some time now. My fellow team members suggested I should look at Think Tank. They were tired of my backpacks getting in the way at events. I haven’t been particularly impressed with any shoulder bags to date. The Think Tank Urban Disguise 60 V2.0, however, caught my eye. I needed something that could carry a decent amount of gear and supplies. I also needed something to take to work while disguised as my alter ego, a not too mild-mannered computer geek. The Think Tank Urban Disguise 60 V2.0 looked as if it could fit the bill. To break the bag in, I took it out on a task for our site in New York City as well as to my day job in Jersey.
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