Photopreneur

March 22nd, 2007

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Branson, Day 5

March 18th, 2007

Here are a few pictures of Branson on day 5 …

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and again, a few of my favorites… (Click on the first one to see it larger)

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More pictures…

March 15th, 2007

A few quick notes:

1) my full photography portfolio was recently updated over at the f8fotos.com site.

2) Branson photos are shown below (and linked again at left)

3) I recently found a great site if you love photography: photocritic.org, with excellent critiques, reviews, and how-to’s… I’ve become a daily reader, you should check it out. (And thanks to Haje for the 300 article pick-up as well)

4) and finally, look for major content changes on The Calendar Factory website in the next month or so.

Branson’s First Hour

March 13th, 2007

Here are a few pictures of baby Branson’s first hour outside the womb:

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and a few of my favorites.

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He’s healthy and peaceful. They had the neonatal intensive care nurses in for a bit because they were worried about his tough birth (something like 40 labor hours!!) … but they said he’s fine, and he’ll probably be sent home with mom.

Branson arrives!

March 13th, 2007

Branson finally decided he’s ready, and arrived at 7:23 pm on 13 March 2007. I, being the “5th wheel,” am waiting in the lobby, but I heard him crying over the cell-phone call from my Aunt. Apparently Branson wasn’t breathing when he came out, so they whisked him away and got him going real fast, but everything is fine … he was crying pretty loudly from what I could hear.

Pix are coming within the hour … by 10pm PST … so stay tuned.

The Movie 300 - Photoshop Talk

March 13th, 2007

While I’m waiting in the hospital lobby, I wanted to see if anyone out there had seen any good techniques for recreating the effects in the movie “300.”

The directors talked about the post-processing of the film as “The Crush,” where they crushed the blacks down to increase contrast, then enhanced the saturation. But it’s clearly more than that … they’ve also color-graded the film, lit it specially, etc. Here’s a good sample:

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I was inspired to create something similar. So I played around in photoshop Read the rest of this entry »

still waiting…

March 13th, 2007

BabyWatch2007: My sister started her “serious” contractions about 36 hours ago …. and has been in the hospital since 8pm last night … but we’re still waiting! It should be anytime now, but then again, I’ve heard that before…

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March 12th, 2007

Wow, this kid doesn’t want to give up his nice comfortable womb just yet … looks like it’s going to be possible 10 more hours or so … but who knows. It could be 1 hour or 15, that’s just the nurse’s current best guess…

Uncle!

March 12th, 2007

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Well, as the picture makes abundantly clear, I’m an Uncle!! Hmm … well, okay … I -will- be an uncle, sometime after I finish the last of the bottle of Veuve here, wait a few hours, then head over to see my sister, who’s now at the hospital in labor as we speak. (Since we’re not actually speaking, it’s about 9:30 pm PST on Monday Mar 12th, 2007.)

Anyway, I’m hoping for the safe, healthy birth of nephew Branson in the next few hours. I’ll update you as I know more. For Tiffany’s pregnancy pictures, click here.

Portfolio Overhauled

March 5th, 2007

At long last I’ve comprehensively overhauled the f8 portfolio. You can see it over at www.f8fotos.com. Let me know what you think … good and what you’d do differently! Thanks.