Hal-Con 2017 is HERE!!!
Wow! Where has the last year gone??? Hal-Con kind of crept up on me this year, especially since it's usually in November, but I managed to get everything updated, packed and ready just in time for setup at 7pm on Thursday. Whew! What a week! Anyway, we're partly through day…
Maritime Pro Stock Series Schedule is Now Posted!
It looks like another exciting year is fast approaching for 2017 and one of the biggest surprises is that all races this year will be at least 150 laps! Yay!! (more…)
Happy Holidays from McCarthy Photographic
Happy Holidays to you and yours from McCarthy Photographic At this joyous time of year we wish you all the best for 2017, may it be a year full of family, health, hope and love.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Bad Boy 300 at NHMS in Loudon, NH
Most people know me as the Scotia Speedworld & Maritime Pro Stock Tour staff photographer, some even know I'm a long time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series fan as well. I even have a race used tire from Jeff Gordon's #24 car hanging above my home office desk. As a regular…
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…