Christmas Card 2017
I’m running a bit behind this holiday season, but after much procrastination, here is the behind the scenes production of this years Christmas Card.

I’m running a bit behind this holiday season, but after much procrastination, here is the behind the scenes production of this years Christmas Card.

The inspiration for the above animation was driven by handcrafted quill type. If you Google “paper quill type” you’ll see samples and it’s quite amazing. Before the animation was conceived I first tried my hand at making a static rendering. I made the 2d shapes in Illustrator and then brought them into Cinema 4D to…
Here’s a sample of various portraits I’ve shot over the years. The one thing all these photos have in common is they were all illuminated using small portable Nikon flash units: SB-900 and SB-700. Most of what I learned about lighting tools and techniques came from reading Joe McNally’s book: The Hot Shoe Diaries. It’s a must read for…
Once again the Christmas season is at our doorstep and along with it comes this years Christmas card build! Though not as fun as the 2015 card, after all how often can you use a leaf blower during a photoshoot! The shoot itself went smoothly. Both models were well behaved and cooperated. The tricky part, as you will see in the…
Here’s a follow-up video to a very popular iOS Notes scanning video I made about one year ago. In this video you will learn how to add watermarks, signatures, text and other elements to your scanned documents.
This is the first image in what would be a ongoing theme for my holiday cards. It is evident by the obvious layout and title that I am a huge fan of Norman Rockewell’s paintings. I tried to capture the same feeling of his paintings in this image. Little did I know at the time…
I’m a big fan of the Nikon creative lighting system (CLS). I’ve been using it very successfully for several years now. In the past I was using an extra strobe (you know, because everyone has an extra strobe laying around) as the master strobe to command the remote units. That work ok, until I actually needed to…