getting to know your subject

June 25, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings, jobs | Leave a Comment 

A couple days ago I was able to spend a few hours shooting my neighbors, the Karp family.  Its nice to spend time getting to know people, if only a little bit.  We had some fun in the studio and then went to one of my favorite locations for some moody or happy portraits…depending on your perspective.  here is a shot of little olivia daydreaming…

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photocat results

June 22, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings, projects | 6 Comments 

we had about 60 riders swing through the studio for a quick 30second photoshoot on saturday night.  check out the photos from the other checkpoints on the photocat website.  what was really a blast was checking out all of the work project on the side of the elliot street pub and here the jeers and cheers.  talk about a street party….

here is a small sampling of the shots:

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photocat!

June 19, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings, projects | Leave a Comment 

hey all, dont forget to come out to cheer on the racers at the photocat.  swing by the studio between 6p and 9p this saturday or check out this spectators guide.  The race ends at elliot street pub and Atlanta Sedition Orchestra will be playing at 8:30ish.  the slide show begins at dark showcasing all the photography from 6 photo checkpoints.  I grabbed this shot at the east point velodrome a couple weeks ago.

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range

June 17, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings, jobs | Leave a Comment 

I cant speak for other professions, but in photography I get to work on quite a range of projects.  Last week I worked with a great crew, clients, and cast numbering 26+ shooting for an international brand (if I told you who I’d have to kill you).  Why choose between shooting on location or building a set when you can do both and build a set on location! Lots of lights, grip truck, computers, talent, the works.

Then, over the weekend, I had the chance to shoot a project with only my wife as both client and assistant in Branson MO.  One light, street casting for talent, very low budget-ish.  But either way it’s the never ending pursuit to make commerce into art  that makes every day around here interesting.

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photo cat!

June 5, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings, projects | Leave a Comment 

OK, so what’s a photo cat you ask.  we’ll, it’s like an alleycat, but with photos.  I’m super psyched that I’ll be one of the photographers shooting the photocatrace in a couple weeks.  check it out the details here.

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P 40+ with the phase one 80mm lens

June 4, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings, projects | 1 Comment 

the folks at capture integration were nice enough to let me test a camera yesterday.  we were looking at shadow detail and color fringing.  as some of you may know I love to shoot with the sun, a strobe, or HMI pointing right into my lens.  of course that’s a bad idea in the rule book, but who ever got anywhere exciting by following the rules.  check out this shot of sophie…I under exposed the shot with the sun blasting right into the lens, then did what I could in photoshop to make the image fall part.  it looks like it held up pretty well!  click here for a close up.

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the vendor/client relationship

June 1, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings | Leave a Comment 

how many photographers have experienced this in the past week?  thanks to steve skoll for posting this on APAnet.


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Atlanta INtown Paper

May 30, 2009 | Filed Under jobs | 1 Comment 

I had the chance to work with my friend, wendy binns, at Atlanta INtown paper recently and shot a story on the best hamburgers in Atlanta.  Check out the article on page 25+26

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little league

May 29, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings | 2 Comments 

Last week I had the honor of watching my nephew, Jacob Sugarman, trying to figure out what to do in center field.

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CHOA

May 26, 2009 | Filed Under jobs | 1 Comment 

Even though I’ve been at this photography thing approaching 18 year or so I still love getting the tearsheets.  This was a great campaign we shot with Julia Toth at JWT inside and propping of our cowboy by Courtney Watkins.

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memorial day

May 25, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings | Leave a Comment 

while enjoying the day with family and cookouts lets not forget to honor the more than one million that have give their lives for the United States of America.  This image was taken at fort indiantown gap, PA.

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May 25, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings | Leave a Comment 

My father served aboard the destroyer USS Haraden during WWII.  It’s always enlightening listening to his experiences during that time in our country’s history and even better to attend Memorial Day services with him.

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memorial day weekend

May 22, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings | 1 Comment 

oh the activities, and family, and fun…photo opportunities abound.

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burpee century at BTB

May 17, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings | Leave a Comment 

what’s a burpee century you may ask?  its like a squat thrust with a push-up in the middle, plus an oz of beer, one per minute for 100 minutes.  just something those crazy folks at BTB came up with.

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relay for life

May 16, 2009 | Filed Under blatherings | Leave a Comment 

well done everyone who came out last night for the 12 hour relay for life event.  it looks like $458,972.05 was raised to fight cancer.  A fun night was has by all at the BTB camp…you check out the rest of the photos here.

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