Thursday, March 11th, 2010

When you run the Flying Pig 1/2 Marathon you get a nice metal at the end.  This sucker is heavy and well made.  This is a nice reminder of the effort to get ready and do the run.
The medal on metal was something I came up with when I was looking for a backdrop to [...]

The beauty dish is a light modifier that provides sort of an intermediate result between a soft box and a bare bulb.  The beauty dish has been said to provide a light for beautiful people because it can show all of the imperfections in skin – especially if used wrong.  This is true when used [...]

I want to do white background portraits and found a excellent tutorial by Photographer Zack Arias HERE out of Atlanta, GA. Thanks for all the info Zack. This is my attempt to create a similar but smaller scale version of his setup.

The setup includes two incandescent shop lights behind foam boards (used to block their [...]

This was a weekend for working at the lake.  It was deck building time.  James helped (okay designed, procured, and implemented) me to build a deck on the back of the lake house.  It has been a long time coming and we’re not quite done yet – we’ve still got the decking, the rails, and [...]