Posts under ‘Photography’

    Remembering David Attie When I was thirteen, my father thought I might enjoy spending part of my summer, working as an intern for David Attie, a commercial photographer. Dad was an art director for IBM, and hired David many times for his projects. He loved David’s creativity, both behind the lens and in [...]

A new addition to our Smiles Are Free bag of tricks, courtesy of Mike Abshier, is a virtual background system. I was put in charge of the equipment, and asked to test it out. Being the skeptic I was doubtful this would work, and be a viable piece of equipment. Although I have to admit, [...]

After being inspired by the latest Perfect Inspiration video by Brian Matiash, I remembered a shot I took of an old rusting tractor in 1999. I thought I’d go back and re-visit post processing to enhance the shot further. I loosely followed the steps on epsiode 16, getting lost, but changed a few things to [...]

Canon’s EOS 7D firmware v2 upgrade. The release will be coming in August. Here’s the list of new features: • Improved maximum burst for RAW images (up to 25) • In-camera RAW image editing • In-camera Image Rating • In-camera JPEG resizing • Maximum Auto ISO setting (ISO 400-6400) • Manual audio level adjustment in [...]

My first post in a series that show some of my photography, before and after processing. This shot was taken last year in October. It was a cold, dreary day, and we decided to drive to Brooklyn and take some shots of the bridges by DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). This is an [...]

I enjoy the privilege of photographing performances produced by Bergen County Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts, in Hackensack New Jersey. BCA is a magnet school where my eldest daughter, Alexandra attended and graduated in 2008. The most recent show the school produced was Rogers and Hammerstein’s The King and I. It was magnificent. [...]

October 27 -29, 2011 was the PDN PhotoPlus expo at the Javits center, in New York City. On Thursday, Oct., 27th, I went on a photowalk with by RC Concepcion and the founders of 500px. RC is one of the “Photoshop” guys from Kelby training, a great photographer and all around good guy. Evgeny Cheboterev, [...]

Just announced this morning, October 18, 2011, Canon announced their new flagship DSLR, the EOS-1D X. Based on rumors, I new there would be a new hi-end DSLR announcement today, and this one did not disappoint. I’ve been hoping that Canon would finally step up with a body that can compete with Nikon’s amazing D3 [...]

Catherine Hall, a pro photographer, blogger, and host of the TWIT Photo podcast, commented on Google+ about a post by Nikon on Facebook recently. The post said “The photographer is only as good as his equipment”.  Nikon, Seriously? What’s weirder, there are over 1,600 people that “liked” this on the Facebook post! There’s some speculation [...]

I’ve been retouching photos for many years, and always found retouching portraits to be tedious and difficult. I found that my old habits die hard. I easily fall back on methods that work, but take forever to accomplish. Photoshop has evolved and keeping up with all the new tools can be daunting, unless you take [...]