Photos from the workshop...

I finished the photos from David Tejada's Small Strobes, Big Results workshop I took on August 23rd. I'd like to thank Dephedre from Model Mayhem #775164 and Colin Cheadle for letting me shoot them.

Small Strobes, Big Results workshop

Last Saturday the 23rd, I took David Tejada's Small Strobes, Big Results workshop. This was absolutely fun!!! Besides there being a bunch of great photographers from around the country there, David and his assistants are a blast to spend the day with. I made several new Photography friends who got to witness me attempt to drink a 64oz. margarita. :-O



David explained lighting in a easy to understand way. I fully believe that after taking this workshop I have the confidence to light any location with any creative idea that crosses my mind.

If you want to understand and control your light TAKE THIS WORKSHOP! You can find more information at Small Strobes, Big Results.


I'll have some behind the scene video as soon as i'm done editing it down.

Vivitar 285HV mod for PocketWizard.

Last week I was educating myself on Strobist and found instructions for a modification to the Vivitar 285hv flash. Over at Shutter Snap Studios they posted a way to modify these flashes so they could plug straight in and fire them without the Vivitar proprietary jack.

This has been the number one reason why I can't trust my 285's 100%. Once I read the article, the light bulb went off to change their design from a female 3.5mm (1/8")mono jack to a male 3.5mm (1/8")mono jack. This would make it so the flash would fire 100% of the time when connected to my PocketWizard receiver.

I decided to make a video of what I did so everyone out in webland can see what all it takes and how easy it is.

**** I am not liable for any damage you do to your flash, camera or gear. By following these directions you take full responsibility.****

Light Education....

I'm so excited for this weekend to come. I've signed up for the lighting class Small Strobes, Big Results, with David X. Tejada. He is an amazing photographer who can command the light to do exactly what he wants.



The class is all day Saturday and I cant wait!!! I want to see how he gets such great lighting with only little speed lights. He uses the Nikon SB-800s, and even though I have only 1 of those I'm looking forward to using the 4 Vivitar 285's I have.

If you haven't seen what David does check out his blog and watch his videos he's putting up on Youtube.

I'll let you all know how the class goes next week. I'm also looking to go downtown for the Democratic National Convention and see what I can get.

The Hottest Wedding this year...

Back on Friday August 1, I shot the Fanta-Huff wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony at the Denver Botanic Gardens . Since it was in the gardens which don't have air conditioning and Denver was on its 20th straight day over 90 degrees it was HOT!



Back to the Wedding... It was quite beautiful and Tom and Barbara are wonderful people. They have a terrific set of family and friends. Athena and I had an absolute great time. I am pleased to have been a part of their wedding.



Earlier this year I shot another wedding by myself and swore I'd never do that again, so this time I begged my wife to be my foto assistant. She happily accepted and off we went husband and wife wedding shooters.....



I set Athena up with my second camera the D50 and a rented a 105mm F2.8 AF-S VR G micro lens I had for the weekend. I rented it from Camren Photographic Resources. This place is pretty cool and their prices are great.



I've been working all weekend on the fotos and I'm uploading them to the web gallery right now. Once I have permission I'll open it up to the world for viewing but right now it's a private gallery.