(The last photo was taken by fellow classmate Eric. Proof I was in the same room with Master Zack) The three day studio lighting course with Zack Arias felt more like 3 months. SO much information…in so little time. It was a photo geek fest. Lights, exposures, cameras, lenses, modifiers, my new boyfriend the 7ft...
I Need Help from Rachel Thurston on Vimeo. If you follow me on my twitter feed, you might have all ready seen this. A few days ago I put together a little video tryout for a spot at a studio lighting class Zack Arias is teaching in Seattle for Creative Live…..AND WON! I am so...
image 1 image 2 image 3 image 4 image 5 (Niece Julia & nephew Jake. Sacramento is too far away.) I already got a lot of great feed back from my previous posts but I thought I would get the final say in one place. I am not promising that I will use the image...
We are off on our European adventure with a new friend…A Canon 310XL super 8 camera. Grant found this baby and we are excited to test our skills at movie making. I have pre- blogged and maybe if I’m lucky I’ll find time to share some stuff while we are on the road. xo.
The two days we spent here in January, were some of the most relaxing days of my life. No phones. No TVs. No people. Just me, my man and some mineral pools. All of these images are strait out of the camera (I cropped the last one slightly). Shot on my Hasselblad 501cm, 80 mm...
Excuse my Lazy blogging this week. A post with lots of photos tomorrow. I just tweeted about this but for those of you not on Twitter… Read This: Warning: 10 Deadly Post Processing Sins by Natalie Norton And please for the love of us trying to keep face, FOLLOW IT. (AND as long as you...
Leather Craftsmen is one of my favorite bookbinding companies. This is the 10×10 high end album I offer wedding clients but I think it would also be a nice book to fill with family or vacation memories. I just love the simplicity and timelessness it has. I prefer to lay the images out on the...
Nicole’s Classes are coming to LA! I am tempted to take an illustrator class…been needing to do that.
My profile pic was featured in an article from Digital Photography School on how to take a great photo for your social media site. (I hope it was an example of the good and not the bad) Read the article here. Thanks Natalie for featuring my noggin.
I am finally finding time to get to start answering some FAQ fellow photographers have been asking. Let me start by apologizing for not get back to all of you, or in a timely manner, or with tons of detail. please know I LOVE to help and want to have a one on one with...
this, this and this came in he mail from b&h this week. christmas in september! as a child there was no way of knowing how much I would grow to love “gear”.
I need to figure out a way to customize my blog so that I can show slightly bigger images. I DON’T want to have to use another site to make this happen….can’t I just configure the image size through blogger?! any suggestions? what has worked for everyone else? I’ve tried this, found on friend heather’s...
the question of using my images on my blog has come up a few times in the past couple of weeks. This is my take: if you want to “drag and drop” any of my copyrighted images from my blog to yours, I am fine with that AS LONG as you link the image to...
I was taught once, that there are three levels for categorizing photographic images. Level 1- Descriptive Every photo describes something. A red wall. A foot. Black teeth. Easy enough to grasp. Every photo every taken is a level one photo, it has to describe something…even if only to describe light and dark. Level 2- Story...
I entered a print competition in Utah this last weekend and did pretty alright. I entered the same competition last year with an organization I have been a part of called IPPA-Intermoutain Professional Photography Association. This group is part of PPA-Professional Photography Association that is nation wide and includes Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Utah. Last...
