Building a Post Apocalyptic Fantasy World Image
I don't get to work on a lot of personal or particularly creative work while race season is in full swing but this past weekend was an off weekend for the Maritime Pro Stock Tour and the planets all aligned to put me in the studio with some of the…
A Word on Copyright…
I've been considering what to include in this post for a couple of days now. I didn't want to make it sound like a rant or just another whiny internet post, but I felt it was very important to help educate our friends and clients. It's important to us and…
Taming Your Photo Library – Part 3
So we've covered a lot of information over the last few weeks including organizing your library, renaming files, automating your backup process, archiving and even some recommendations on what hardware and software to use to help streamline your workflow. So in this final chapter on the topic, I want to…
Lighting • Shooting • Retouching
Join me the weekend of April 23rd and 24th at Aperture Studios with two professional local models to explore lighting with a purpose with special Early Bird pricing until April 4th!! We will discuss many different lighting techniques with studio strobes, small strobes, natural light and even continuous lighting. There will…
Taming Your Photo Library – Part 2
AKA - Archiving Your Valuable DAM ... Photos ;) Last week, we discussed organizing your images on both your HDDs and your Lightroom catalog in a way that makes it easy to maintain *and* find your images. Here is a link back to the original post. To briefly recap, I…
Taming Your Photo Library – Part 1
AKA DAM the Lightroom Catalog!! I recently hosted a mentoring session for the Sackville Photography Club at my home and was, once again, surprised by the number of people who tell me they struggle with managing their photography library. I had intended a session for a handful of people to…
2016 Racing Schedules are Online!!
It's going to be a very busy summer... Today both the Maritime Pro Stock Tour 2016 Schedule and the 2016 Scotia Speedworld Weekly Racing Series are now posted and you can plan your summer around the dates. :) For all the location and race details, at least as much as…
Welcome to 2016... I know. But better late than never. ;) 2015 was a tumultuous year for my day job life. Without getting into the politics and details, in early November, immediately after Hal-Con, I quit my day job after 11 years with the same company. (more…)
Black Friday Sale!!
Since the American tradition of Black Friday has been gaining traction in Canada, I've also gotten lots of requests to join in with specials on some of our most popular products... So, this year, I decided, why not? ;) (more…)
Hal-Con 2015 Is Coming!!!
Well, as recently announced on Facebook, due to changes in the policies of Trade Centre Limited, we are not allowed to utilize the "open spaces" that we have used in previous years for our photo booth. That in conjunction with Hal-Con's limit to 3 tables and at this late date,…