Okay, I think I’ve just made up a new holiday or something. See, my entire morning was spent calibrating! New print heads, new inks, and not in one printer, but two! And when you swap heads or inks guess what …
Portrait Sessions with Rich Charpentier – Just in time for the holidays
This past weekend’s photo shoot with Jantina had a larger purpose in mind beyond getting some nice photos of one of my business partners. In reality, I was trying out a new lighting assistant and deciding weather or not to …
Photographing people in a busy downtown does have its perils!
Shooting around Prescott Sunday morning with Jantina was fun. I’ve got some good locations in mind for portrait work here in town, and that’s exciting. Often I see photographer after photographer here in the Firehouse Plaza, and I really don’t …
3 people wandering around with one light and a few cameras
This morning I went out to practice a little portrait work. Everybody needs practice you know! Jantina and Elliot came along to give me a hand. Jantina played model, and Elliot played VAL. VAL means Voice Activated Lightstand. Elliot did …
Just a few things to do this morning…..Translation….my oh my I’m busy today!
At it bright and early this morning. A good deal to do. Several paintings to shoot, and then found I was dissatisfied with my results so had to re-shoot. We’ll see what I think of the results shortly. On top …
Cleaning up from a positive film scan – Another step in painting reproductions
Recently I posted about part of the process in creating reproductions of paintings. Today we’re going to talk about another part of the process. Positive film scans Often painters have their large paintings photographed on 4×5 positive film. My partner …
So, here’s what bit me yesterday
The restore of the gallery Mac overnight was a success. It kept grinding away by the close of business, and I finally called it quits and headed home knowing the restore would continue. Happily when I arrived at the gallery …
Reasons to say no to updates
My first blog update from the iPod touch. How exciting! Well not really….. Currently I’m restoring a backup to my gallery Macintosh. See this morning I said yes to a few updates from Apple….. And kerplowie! Print issues, an installation …
The week ahead
Whenever I return from a trip with other photographers I’m usually pretty spent. And this morning I find myself wishing that I didn’t have to go to work. 🙂 Ah well, gotta get back to it, right? The upcoming week …