The Slanted Lens does a test with pulling stills from video footage. The basic run down is that it's a fight between slow shutter speeds which look good in motion but blurs when you try to pull a still. Love the camera though. Great vid.
Photoshop is a city for everyone: how Adobe endlessly rebuilds its classic app
Photoshop has grown and changed over the last two decades, becoming something new and unexpected. That’s great: it means new functionality and (in theory) better performance. But if, like my dad, you’ve been using the app from the beginning, when it was a tiny village that did one thing and did it well, you might be suspicious of all this change. Or at least wonder what it’s good for. Photoshop today seems basically feature complete, and totally unassailable. It’s more than just the best professional image editing app: it’s kind of the only professional image editing app. It’s the city that, to do your job, you have to live in.
Work on World Basketball Festival and Olympics.
More to be seen on our Behance Portfolio.
Congrats to Robb Long
Congrats to Robb Long for the 6th Annual Photography Masters Cup Nominee title for the Fulton Beer project we worked on with him on. Check out the before and after.

Photoshop is a city for everyone: how Adobe endlessly rebuilds its classic app
Photoshop has grown and changed over the last two decades, becoming something new and unexpected. That’s great: it means new functionality and (in theory) better performance. But if, like my dad, you’ve been using the app from the beginning, when it was a tiny village that did one thing and did it well, you might be suspicious of all this change. Or at least wonder what it’s good for. Photoshop today seems basically feature complete, and totally unassailable. It's more than just the best professional image editing app: it's kind of the only professional image editing app. It’s the city that, to do your job, you have to live in.
Still life study with grapes and thread
Diftwood, Neskowin Oregon.
From a great trip with my good buddy Jason from Oddball Studios a few years back. In a Minor White style.
Eagle Creek Hike, Summer 2012
It’s all in the lighting, baby!
In this blog entry I’ll take you through and compare various lighting techniques of Annie Leibovitz, Patrick Ecclesine, Jill Greenberg, Dave Hill and Martin Schoeller. Strap on your seatbelts boys and girls, it’s gonna be a long but thrilling ride. So without further ado, let’s dive right in shall we?
Map Photo Assistant breaks down a bunch of lighting styles with diagrams and examples. Good stuff.
Wahclella Falls, fall 2012
Photos around Cully 3
Is it a photograph OF something or ABOUT something?
Nice viewpoint.
Walking around Cully Again
David Hockney: Photoshop is boring
David Hockney: Photoshop is boring from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.
Interesting interview with David Hockney. Magazine photography is boring, I agree. But I don't blame the tools, I blame the culture surrounding commercial photography. No one is allowed a singular vision. Everyone has a opinion on how the images should look so you get a bland, watery mix where no one vision stands out. A select few can can tell the AD, producer, writer and designer to jump in a lake, shut the fuck and leave it alone. But most are just happy to have a pay day and sit back.
That's why many, many, many years ago I went into the darkroom and did not want to shoot photos for money. That is my two cents anyways, LOL!
Objects around the house
The PC isn’t ready to die, it’s ready for a rebirth
Desktops sales have slowed because manufacturers have let their designs stagnate, but the need for a comfortable machine you can work on hasn’t gone away. Who will reinvent the PC and reap the rewards?
Every other week, there seems to be story about the PC dying. This week, it was because Intel is planning on exiting the motherboard business. The screwy thing is, I think the exact opposite is about to happen. Not only is the desktop not dead, it’s about to go through a resurgence. We’re just waiting for that visionary vendor who realizes that bigger is still better, and this Lemming-like agreement that the desktop is dead is holding people back. Here’s why.
I want to scream this from a mountain top. I hope, beyond hope, that Apple pulls it's head out of it's consumer driven ass and makes a great new PC. I need a new desktop like you would not believe.
Walking in Cully- Jan 2013
More blogging?
So I plan to attempt to do a bit more blogging this year so with that in my I will be posting more about my personal photography and trying to work in more danklife retouching and illustration when I can. I am also trying to focus on getting my typing better and have found a fun little game to help called Ztype. And I am horrible at typing...
So that's that for now.