May 8th, 2012
I just ordered a hard copy and a Kindle copy of Scott Kelby’s Lightroom 4 book for digital photographers. The hard copy is in stock and shipping at Amazon. I’m in the habit of getting an updated edition of this book every time a new version of Lightroom comes out. It makes a great reference [...]
April 3rd, 2012
I used to have a page on the blog that listed books that both readers and I recommended. I can’t even remember why I took it down. It was probably because a space crunch on the top menu bar along the top of the blog. I’m constantly trying to decide which pages are most important [...]
February 15th, 2012
As of 8 PM Pacific time on February 15, 2012 I’ve updated the Photography For Real Estate ebook to the 3rd edition and I’ve emailed an update link to everyone that has ever purchased this ebook. Here’s what the primary updates to the ebook are: The ebook has been reformatted to a landscape format which [...]
December 13th, 2011
Several years ago, I pointed out John Harrington’s great book, Best Business Practices for Photographers. Since that time he’s put out a second edition that has even more great information on photographic business practices so I think it’s worth pointing out again. I highly recommend John Harrington’s book even though it’s aimed more towards the [...]
May 15th, 2011
Last week I got a request from Fire Control-man First Class, Robert Kendzierski aboard the USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55), a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser conducting air defense and anti-piracy operations off the coast of Pakistan and Somalia in the Arabian Sea, with the US 5th fleet. Since Robert is a photographer, when he’s not deployed, chasing Somalie [...]
March 13th, 2011
I’ve just finished a significant update to my Business of Real Estate Photography eBook. For existing subscribers to this eBook, I’ll be sending out download links in the next few days to everyone that has ever purchased this eBook. The download link will go to the e-mail address you used to originally purchase this book. [...]
January 10th, 2011
As a student of video I’m always on the look out for good information sources on video and shooting video. I recently noticed an article at dpreview.com by Uwe Steinmueller titled, Understanding Compression, Codecs, and Transcoding. A lot of good geeky video stuff to get your teeth into in this article but at the bottom it [...]
January 5th, 2011
Mike Miriello over at realestatephotographypodcast.com recently interviewed Scott Hargis about his e-book, Lighting Interiors – Techniques for lighting with small flash. Scott talks about the content of the e-book and his philosophy of shooting light and fast with small flashes and about the fact that this ebook covers the fundamentals and theory of flash. Also, about [...]
November 10th, 2010
I just sent download links for an update to Scott Hargis’s eBook to everyone that’s purchased that eBook. This update has no content updates, just updates to punctuation errors, and a few spacing fixes. Nothing really earth shaking unless you are an English major. I’m letting everyone know that I’ve sent this update because I’m [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Jamie Flournoy, a San Francisco Bay area Realtor, who purchased Scott Hargis’s Lighting Interiors eBook asked me this morning if she could use her Canon 580EX II with Pocket Wizards like Scott describes in the Figure 2.5 diagram (on pg 18 – click the image to the right for a larger view) that shows how [...]
