Monthly Archives: July 2016

We Photographers can Get Asked for Really Weird Stuff

Yep, sometimes its just odd what we get asked to photograph, like this prospective diet book cover….Talk about your carrot and stick approach! By the way, I bought donuts at three different outlets, from Fractured Prune to Giant Grocery to Sheetz looking for the ”perfect” pastry.  Turns out best tasting doesn’t necessarily mean structurally sound....

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Product Photography – US Pedic

In an earlier post I mentioned that recently I’d not been keeping up with this Blog for a few reasons (or if you’d rather, excuses, but they make sense to me).  Basically, the template was changed and the redesign was very time consuming before it was close to my vision for it, plus being busy shooting. So, with...

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Focus on Excellence

There are times when an item gradually going out of focus is desirable in photography.  It’s long been customary in portraiture for the eyes to be as sharp as possible due to their importance, but allowing sharpness to diminish towards the ears, hair and beyond. Often, the tip of the nose will also be less...

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Peak Design Everyday Messenger Bag

I broke down and bought the Peak Design Everyday Messenger Bag which arrived today, hooray.  The very first words out of my mouth when I opened the box were “Oooo, this is nice!”  Then I opened up the bag itself and involuntarily exclaimed  “This is REALLY nice!”  And so it is. I had expected it to...

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Maryland Farm Life in Danger?

This is, quite literally, the view across the road from where I live. It is so wholly Americana, surrounded as it is by enormous fields and accessed by a lane at least 100 yards long, that it’s difficult to imagine that its up for sale for commercial development. Directly across the road from the farm...

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