Ring Flashes ! Orbis or Ray

Hey if you are interested in "Ring Flashes", goto our V-LOG and check out 2 videos. One is from David Hobby of Strobist.com. David does a very quick "out of the box" comparison between 2 popular rign flashes for on camera mount DSLR flashes. Rockie ...

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Jean-Baptiste Guiton - Make up shoot !

This is one of the coolest product shot videos I have seen from a photographer! Makes one wonder why we all don't do cool things like this. But that is for another discussion, another time. Jean-Baptiste is a "sick" (stunning for all you regular folk like me) photographer. Jean shot this amazing poster campaign for T.Le Clerc in Paris. He...

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NEW CAMERA RAW Plugin for CS4 !

Just read this off of DPreview and thought you all might want to know about this if you haven't. Adobe has just released an new Camera Raw Plug-in for CS4. For those of you who are interested, CS4 was designed to help in utilizing quad-core capabilites for your desktop. The new Camera RAW 5.2 gives support to the newly released 5DMk2 due...

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Photographers vs Consumers (Are we really listening ? Do we really want to Change ? )

I recently joined an internet marketing study group online where each month we go through case studies and talk about the power of blogging and social networks and social media. In our recent study forum we had a video that truthfully depicted how we as photographers might be trying to "sell" our business. In this new age of technology, Marketing...

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What I Learned from Tiger Woods Prt2 and Ten Min Workout !

Earlier I wrote about what I learned from Tiger Woods and how it applies to our photography business. If you haven't read it yet, here is the Link. For part 2, I wanted to address our personal lives. That part of our lives that really is the center or hub our our creativity and passion in photography.Recently while working late into the night...

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Confidence and Passion : Do You Have It ?

One of my favorite Wedding photographers whom I had the privledge of meeting through Image Explorations is Scott Robert Lim. I just love this guys style of photography ! It has Life to it. But more than that, like with all our instructors at IE, I see a deep passion in him for his work and an unique abilty to share and teach clearly how to...

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2009 Image Explorations Instructors !

Just thought I would remind you all incase you have not heard who our 2009 instructors are. I will have more bios, images and course descriptions up shortly but for now here is a little slide show to remind you. You may even want to consider chosing your course now and pre-registering. I would say that his has quickly become one of our most...

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Making a Difference with Photography

Just came upon this article on the cnn.com site.The Article is about a photographer named David DeJonge and his quest to photograph the last remaining Veterans from WWI. This quest has taken him over the last 2 years to find and photograph the Veterans. Infact 8 of the last 12 he has photographed in the last 2 years are now dead.It really brings the question, "have you th0ught about how your photography can make a difference ?"...

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Attracting Business through Videos

Hey all.... so once again I find myself a bit behind ( abit of an understatement). Like you I am up to my neck in work. But I wanted to at least get off one good post for you all this week just in case I don't have time, so here goes.....For those of you who don't know this guy, this is David Jay.I would have to say David is one of my favorite...

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What I learned from Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods. Don't know about you, but I am just blown away at how gifted this golfer is. Not sure if there will ever be someone like him who will dominate that game the way he does. But for me I believe that Tiger's continued success was helped by him making one major decision in his career as a golfer and that was to "change his swing"....

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Romance Novel Posing (Part 2)

Here are some more covers with great ideas.Have fun practising them ! Rockie...

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Posing Ideas from Romance Novels (part 1)

Hey everyone,So... recently I made a bit of a trip out to Toronto and while there stayed at my relatives. The room I was staying in happen to have a ton, like almost wall to wall romance novels. I was like blown away by them all !I remember one day I think it was my good friend Scott Robert Lim who talked about how on the covers of Romance...

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Are You Tired ??? !!!

Hey Everyone,Sorry for the silence of recent. I have been freakin busy as I am most sure all of you are too. Do you ever think you don't have enough time in a day to get all that you have to get done, done ? I sure do.Well, I will have some new posts up shortly as well as our V-LOG should be up and running shortly also.Talk to you all so...

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Flash Video: Adding Gel's for Background fun !

Just ran across this great video by David Hobby from Strobist. If you have not seen or read his blog yet, you need to. It is one of the best resources for Flash Photography for Photographers.Have a look at this video and see if you can adapt what David is doing for your next gig.Don't forget to share wtih us what your shots look like.Blessings,Roc...

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Flash photography

Just found this image on google. It's pretty cool..... check it out. R...

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5D mk2 Coming Soon !

Don't know about you guys but I have to say I am pretty stoked for the arrival of the 5D mk2.Not only is it better with Newer technology..... but it is even more affordable than the original 5D was ! How crazy is that !It is 21mpix with iso rating as high as 25,000 and to top that off, it shoots HD video !Don't believe me ... check theses...

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If you really have time this weekend.....

Ok.. so I saw this clip posted by Darren Rowse from ProBlogger and man it was just fascinating. Now I know some of you might be thinking, "where is Rockie going with all this stuff and what does it have to do with Photography ?"All I will say is that there is a huge powerful social network out there that I believe photographers are not making use of to increase sales and growth of their business. My desire for all of you who read...

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Do you have a "LIKEABILITY" Factor ?

Recently I have been reading a great book about "Likeability" or the "L Factor". To be truthful, I orginally didn't give this book too much thought,but as I started to do my own little survey with friends and family members on why they chose a "certain" photographer over others they had met, I began to realize that "Likeability" was the...

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I.E. 2009 Instructors list !

Hey all,Some of you have seen the list already on our Facebook group (find us there if you have FB) or on our Myspace site.... but just in case you have not seen who is coming here is the list. We have a bunch of NEW INSTRUCTORS for I.E. and let me tell you... they are killer Instructors.I will have bios and images and web links up for you all just as soon as I get all their information.Until then check it out and if you have...

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Hello All !

Welcome to our NEW Image Explorations Blog Page !We are now starting our next stage of Communition with you all. We know that in the long run this will be both an benefit and resource for you all who attend Image Explorations and for those who are just finding out about I.E. !What use to be our Blog which was found on myspace is now our "V-LOG" !This has been a long dream of mine in bring us one step closer to having a great magazine...

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