Monthly Archives: September 2008
October 7, 2008 - 11:08 am
Great mix of photos that show the emotions and also the details of the day.
October 4, 2008 - 9:10 am
Hi from the [b] school! You do nice work. ~Kristina
October 4, 2008 - 1:02 am
Wow, I love these shots! Love the Bride coming out of the attic (?) shot!! These are beautiful and it looks like an awesome wedding and a FUN one at that!!!
October 3, 2008 - 10:45 am
The getting ready shot with cowboy poster = amazing. Very cool stuff
October 2, 2008 - 1:45 pm
Great images, I bet they LOVE you!
October 2, 2008 - 1:39 pm
great stuff as usual Mark!
September 24, 2008 - 12:12 pm
That cowboy picture is so fun! And what a beautiful church!
September 23, 2008 - 7:17 pm
I LOVE the one with the Tim McGraw poster! It looks like he is saying “hey baby” to the bride!
September 23, 2008 - 3:24 pm
Man, that bride and groom are really good looking people!!!
September 22, 2008 - 5:33 pm
Lovin’ the cowboy / girls getting ready shot!
J.C.
September 22, 2008 - 11:47 am
All of your images rock.
I discovered you prior to the [b] school & am glad to see you taking on a supportive role there.
I really like the BW’s above. My wife will love them when she sees these because the guy looks like Tim McGraw.
Great work!
Kirk, Yvonne, Dixie, and I had a blast at Fair Hill Nature Center.
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October 4, 2008 - 1:03 am
WOW!!! LOVE these, love the DOG and everything about this session. I adore the fact that they were troopers and got in the water!!! AWESOME!
October 1, 2008 - 1:13 pm
Hey Mark:) I found your blog and I am in love with your work. I love all the images in this set. ALL OF THEM:)
September 22, 2008 - 4:06 pm
Love these shots!! You can really tell that the dog is part of the family!
September 22, 2008 - 11:40 am
Mark, what captivating pictures! Makes ya wanna go jump around in a river. I simply love them!I don’t know which picture I like more, the dog shaking or the one with the dog and the stick!
I’ll admit it, there was a time I used to visit some of the more popular message boards for soon-to-be brides. I thought it was a place where I could find out more information about what was cool and hip in the wedding planning world, but quickly decided it wasn’t for me.
So I recently stumbled upon a blog which I find very entertaining, chances are you will too, especially if you happen to read or participate some of these message boards (you don’t have to admit it).
So grab a cup of coffee and click here too see the funny bride re-enactments
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Guilty as charged…I am a gadget junkie!
Here is my chance to give my real thoughts and opinions on what I think are some great products. As you may already know, some products just don’t live up to the hype. I’ll share my experiences with the junk that bought because I fell into the trap that is cool commercials, hip music, and great actors with a sense of humor.
I normally just review gadgets, but I’m so excited about some of the tools that Fundy has come up with to help photographers with workflow, and album design. So if you are into this stuff you owe it to yourself to check out Fundy’s blog Solutions On Steroids
Canon Powershot A2000 Digital Camera
This little camera may just be my next purchase. It’s super small, with a huge 3″ LCD, 6X optical (that is important), 10 mega pixels (which IMO is seriously overkill, but whatever), it also shoots 640×480 30 frames per second video clips, that’s cool. Most importantly, I think is the user selectable (or Automatic) ISO. Which makes it take great images even in lower than normal room light. Now keep in mind, if you try to take pictures in a dark tunnel, without some type of additional light, your pictures will look like they were taken in a dark tunnel…blasted with flash. Anyway, I really like the specs on this camera, and would recommend it to most shutterbugs who need a great camera for vacation pics, or everyday use.
Google Sitemap Automator by Rage Software
This little piece of software has to be my best purchase this year. It has without a doubt made my site much more Google friendly, and makes it a breeze to keep my Sitemaps up to date. I simply enter my URL, click the button to generate the sitemap. It then scans all of my web-pages and records all of the links and pages associated and creates the sitemap for me to upload to my server, simple, and automatic.
I’ll start off by saying I was a bit skeptical at first, but figured I’d at least give it a shot. To my surprise this little beauty works as advertised, and that’s a very good thing for the way I want to implement this into my studio photography workflow.
I had two hiccups right off the bat which left me feeling a little deflated. The instructions were easy to read, but if they would have included one additional word I would not be writing this part of the review. More on that in a second. I inserted the SD card and USB adapter (included) into the USB drive on my Mac, but the actual software was nowhere to be found. I was able to overcome this obstacle by going to the Eye-Fi website (www.eye.fi) and downloading it from the support page.
The second hickup came as I went to setup my Eye-Fi card, where I was not given the option to create an account, just a login page. Here is the part about one additional word added to the instructions would have saved me a headache. I’ll add that the customer support folks were super fast in answering my initial email, and helping me to troubleshoot my problem. So they get an A+ for the customer service, Kudos. As it turns out, you must use a powered USB port, the key word being “powered”, once I had that squared away the set-up is a snap! I was literally shooting and watching images appear on my laptop approximately 12 seconds later. Pretty cool.
Here’s actually how I’ll be implementing the into my studio workflow. Since I shoot with the Canon 1D Mark III series camera, it has the ability to record images to two separate memory cards simultaneously. The first card, Compact Flash, will be reserved for RAW files, while the Eye-Fi SD card will be used for the small JPG files.
As I am shooting a session these small JPG’s are flying across my wireless network directly into a preselected folder on my Macintosh desktop, where my assitant or editor can quickly go through and get a quick preview ready for the client almost immediately after the shoot, or simultaneously print images on our Sony SnapLab. Pretty cool.
I’ll soon be doing a review on this amazing large format printer, the Epson 4800
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February 20, 2010 - 10:21 am
My own favourite of all my cameras – the Nikon F90X ( N90S) film camera, far prefer it to my digitals, as I know that the pictures from it will be fully visible in 20 years time . And even better for shooting outdoor portraits in a hurry – the Canon EOS 300V, fabulously lightweight with a damned good 28-90 kit lens .
Digitals – I much prefer my Panasonic Lumix Leica ( 36 – 432 mm ) 12X zoom, much lighter, faster and better than any DSLR ( I have the Fuji S2 Pro ) .
But the best, is it my Bronica SQA or my Maniya 645 ?
Naw, I’ll go for my Minolta Dynax 40 35mm slr with 28-100 lens, a real killer 
, got it for fifty quid brand new ( almost ) .
Love your blog for what you come up with too !
Best Regards, Michael
Michael McGrath,
The Studio,
Kilkenny City
IRELAND .
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