Black & white at Sammy T’s

While having lunch with the wife…love the shadow of the Sammy T’s logo on the wall. If you ever find yourself in Fredricksburg, VA stop in for some good eats and local artwork.

Sunday, 29 January 2012 10:55 Written by tim 0 Comments

Photography’s new frontier?

Editing digital photographs is nothing new, but Kevin Karsch, a PhD student from UIUC, and his associates seem to be taking it to a new level. They recently released some details of a current project that goes beyond simple image editing. The project seems to be focused on simplifying the process of realistically inserting objects [...]

Saturday, 29 October 2011 20:02 Written by tim 0 Comments

Any One Can Cook

If you have ever seen the movie Ratatouille then you’ve heard the motto of the ghostly Chef Gusteau “Any one can cook!” that is the foundation of the movie. The movie is a story of ironies and inspiration telling the tale of a rat that ends up being one of the finest chefs in all of France. I [...]

Saturday, 29 October 2011 18:42 Written by tim 0 Comments

15 Tips for Selling Fine Art Photography

Photoshelter Selling Fine Art Photography

A while back Photoshelter released a free guide for selling Fine Art Photography. The guide included a collection of interviews with photographers in the Fine Arts field. Each interview listed some key takeaways to consider. After reviewing the guide I’ve paraphrased these key takeaways. If you find these interesting I highly recommend heading to Photoshelter and [...]

Sunday, 23 October 2011 00:04 Written by tim 4 Comments

Focus Magazine’s Bold Move

Tough times call for bold moves. Focus Magazine is trying something interesting for its issue 21. No its not the content. Focus is taking its issue 21 to Print. Yes good old fashioned print. This seems a bold move in a day in age when print magazine companies are going out of business left and right. I [...]

Friday, 21 October 2011 18:24 Written by tim 0 Comments

The Evolving Revolution

Lytro Picture Revolution Light Field Camera

Photography has been in a constant state of evolution since its inception dating back to the 5th and 4th centuries BC. At times it burst into an all out revolution like the means to fix a silver process image, method of reproducing colors, and capturing images digitally. Designzzz.com has created a nice “infographic” of the ongoing evolution. They do a [...]

Saturday, 15 October 2011 10:05 Written by tim 0 Comments

Artistic Photography Tip #2

2. Capture the emotional side of your subject. Whether you like it or not if your image does not appeal emotionally to someone it likely won’t be a success. For me this is a difficult notion to contend with as much (more like all) of my photography is of objects and buildings. We generally do not think of [...]

Saturday, 15 October 2011 07:20 Written by tim 0 Comments

Artistic Photography Tip #1

1. Don’t shoot the subject for what it is…shoot the subject for what of could be All to often we try to capture what we see. When you start to think about objects as something other then what they are then you open a whole new world of possibilities. I use the image below as my [...]

Saturday, 08 October 2011 04:16 Written by tim 0 Comments

The Jobs Irony

Jobs and Gates by Joi (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/)

Last night I watched a movie called the Pirates of Silicon Valley. The movie starts off with two nobodies in college and documents their rise to the tech giants of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The movie portrays Bill as a socially awkward geek and jobs as a rock star visionary. Now I understand its just a movie with many [...]

Friday, 07 October 2011 18:31 Written by tim 0 Comments

Its here!

So I’ve been preparing for this day for quite some time. The new web site is finally “finished”. There is still quite a bit of work to do, but I am well on the way. For those who may have caught the Sneak Peak you might notice the new duds are not quite exactly like the screen [...]

Tuesday, 22 February 2011 07:45 Written by tim 0 Comments