A special “flashback” post sharing articles I wrote for the now defunct DEDPXL. My sixth article with DEDPXL, “The Archer And The Arrow”, talks about ignoring the noise, concentrating, and getting a clearer vision.
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A special “flashback” post sharing articles I wrote for the now defunct DEDPXL. My sixth article with DEDPXL, “The Archer And The Arrow”, talks about ignoring the noise, concentrating, and getting a clearer vision.
Read after the cut:
Read MoreA special “flashback” post sharing articles I wrote for the now defunct DEDPXL. My fourth article with DEDPXL, “This Boat”, talks about trying to get out of the hole of comparing your equipment to someone else’s stuff.
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Read MoreI was chatting with my buddy Don the other day and the subject of our everyday carry came up.
Everyday carry (or what I’ll abbreviate as EDC for the rest of this blog post) is simply the bag/backpack/whatever that you carry with you on a day-to-day basis. I have lots of camera bags that I lug around with me on jobs, but on days when I don’t have gigs; days when I’m going from the apartment to the studio or just out and about on the weekends, what do I have on me.
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Read MoreFile this in the "I'm-totally-late-to-the-Vagabond-Mini" party: After lugging around the original, 22lb monster that was the original Vagabond, I recently came across a good deal on a lightly used Vagabond Mini Lithium, and, man, where has it been all my life? I've done lots and lots of location shoots using small portable speedlights (heck, I teach a whole workshop around using minimal, small gear) but this little sucker weighs next-to-nothing, and it allows me to get a studio light out on location for a little more power if/when I need it.
The only negative is that the enclosed mounting bracket that Paul Buff includes is pretty wonky and doesn't feel very secure, so I went ahead and picked up a Vagabond Bracket (thanks to Bud Thorpe of the SOPHA for telling me about it) and this sucker is robust and excellently made. It works along with a Super Clamp and I can attach the Vagabond right to the bottom of my c-stand when working with it.
and a kinda-small shot of it being used on location:
I'll still use small lights when I can, and I always have at least 1 speedlight in my bags at all times, but with bigger jobs where I need more power, this little thing is fantastic.
Thanks, Vagabond Mini Lithium, for making stuff easier to do! :)
(not a paid endorsement - this is stuff I buy with my own cabbage and run it through it's paces. If it's cool I like to share it with others)
A FujiFilm X100s, caught in the wild, grazing near a lake at Beaver Brook Park, Hollis NH.
The last quarter of 2016 is going to see some major changes as far as my studio is concerned, and with that in mind I wanted to find some hard-shell gear cases so I could house and organize the gear I use the most. I’ve been using cases by Seahorse for the last ten months, and I figured I’d talk a little about them and how I’m using them.
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