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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