My friend Gisela Lacayo and her sisters were kind enough to allow me the photograph their holiday portraits. We decided to go to Red Rock Canyon and Blue Diamond. The photos turned out great and we had a great time. Oh and thanks go out to Chris and Brendan for assisting.
Bill.
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Well I decide to head to Rhyolite, NV and take some night photos. For those of who don’t know Rhyolite is a ghost town outside Beaty Nevada, about 2 hours north of Las Vegas. What a spooky and neat place to take photos.
I arrived around 7:30pm and started to take photos at the Goldwell outdoor Museum, that’s where Albert Szukalsk did his wonderfully version of “The Last Supper” with burlap and plaster.
After reading and watching Joe McNally on Kelby training. I was armed and ready to capture a fantastic photo. I now fully understand the McNally effect. The McNally effect is were you watch his training and run out and purchase way too many toys, thanks Joe.
I decided to tackle the Cook Bank building by trying to light up what’s left is this wonderful building. The commander mode on my D700’s on board flash did not have enough power to trigger the remote flashes a about 100 feet away, so I had to put on one of the SB-900’s on the camera to trigger the remote flash. Zooming the flash to 200mm I was able to reach the furthest flash, thank strobe the flash God. But I was down to one flash left to light up the building, oh well. So I decided to take a series of photos and merge them together afterwords in Photoshop.
I also now have a use for the onOne iPhone app. Basically what that app will allow me to do is remote trigger and view photos taken with my camera. No more take the picture go move the flash, take the picture. Just waiting for the Nikon version to ship. I guess the commercials are right, “There’s a App for that.”
Afterwords in post I used my tried and true method of merging photos using layers and layer masks to paint in the light. Then the light came on and I decided to try a new method. You know there are always new ways to skin a photo. I tried, and some of you will say duh, to use the lighten layer blending method. Wow that’s the beacon, it made it so easy and looked so good. Controlling the different exposures was snap using the opacity slider.
If you would like a print of this image click on the image above to be taken to my gallery site where you can purchase a print.
Bill
– Post From My iPhone
I have often wondered why we create New Years Resolutions.
- Is it because everyone does it?
- Is it because it gives us hope?
- Are we just too lazy or unwilling to start something right away and need a date to look forward to hoping it will never come?
As with just about everyone in the world I too have fallen for setting resolutions. Here are mine.
- Loose weight.
- Blog more
- Take less but better quality pictures. In other words plan the photos don’t get lucky.
I decided to start today, instead of waiting until the new year. I figured why not start right away if I am going to do this then waiting for a few days is not going to make a difference.
Best of wishes in the upcoming year.
Bill.
1. Ease of use for my customers. It was very important for me to find a service that offered a wide verity of products and a service that was easy to use and purchase from.
3. Unlimited space and bandwidth. It always amazes me how much space photos take up, so unlimited space was a big plus. With space comes more photos and more photos requires bandwidth, bandwidth is more important that space, the more photos and the more people visit the site the more bandwidth you use.
So go visit my gallery and purchase something will ya! 
Bill.
Just came back from photographing Cory Martin’s Victory in Vegas X.
This is the first time I have been to this event, all I can say is wow. Mr. Martin did a great job putting this event together, and who knew his daughter could sing.
I was able to get a bunch of shots and posted over 400 photos in my gallery, If you attended the evert and would like the see this gallery here is the link.
If you would like to learn more about his amazing school follow this link karateforkids/
Bill.
I opened an account on Event Gallery today to sell my photos that I will be taking at events. Currently I have 3 events to post.
Out of respect to the people at the events I will password protect the events and organize them by the group of people at attend.
If you received my card and are here looking for photos please follow the link to the Event Gallery and select your event and enter the event password.
If you have any questions or comments please send me a e-mail.
Bill
July 23, 2008
On the Road again.
After some packing we loaded the U-Haul and away we went. There are a bunch of trees in florida. We stopped to get dinner and at the orange citrus stand with the 13 FOOT alligator you see every 10 miles or so along the turnpike. Being from the big city we decided to ask about the 13 foot alligator, the conversation went like this:
Chris: Is that 13 foot alligator here?
Citrus Stand Dude: yep (in deep monotone voice)
Chris: WOW, where is it.
Citrus Stand Dude: It around the side (pointing)
Chris: Is it awake this time of night?
Citrus Stand Dude: Nope. (in deep monotone voice)
Chris: It is a bad idea to wake it up then I guess, right?
Citrus Stand Dude: Yep. (in deep monotone voice)
Other Citrus Stand Dude: We do have a electric prod that will shock it for shop lifters and such if you want us to wake it for ya.
Chris: Na, we will just see it sleeping its ok.
Other Citrus Stand Dude: Well then, suit yourself.
We then purchased our shot glasses and went to see the 13 foot alligator. There she was a 13’ stuffed alligator behind glass in all its splendor. (Shot glass tip: If you are purchasing a shot glass for someone else. Buy one with your name on it, that way they know who gave it to them.)
My buddy Chris and I are on our way for a road trip from Miami, Fl to Las Vegas. Work decided to move some equipment and I volunteered to help by driving the U-haul across country. I was lucky enough, and Chris was dumb enough to help.
Update:
Our day started with a flight from Las Vegas to Miami FL. Boy howdy its hot and muggy in Miami. We spend the morning traveling and the afternoon working, so we had only the evening to explore. Our hotel was located in the heart of south beach so we had plenty to explore.
Today was the 2nd annual Dumb Ass Open Inventional, held in Death Valley. Yep thats right play golf in the middle of summer in Death Valley. This year is was only 125 in the shade, so it was not too bad. This year there where 22 Dumb asses that decided to make the trip. We all had a great time and I can’t wait until next year.
