Archive for October, 2006

Photo Plus Expo Seminar Next Week

November 2, 3 and 4th is the Photo Plus Expo in New York. If you are interested in archiving you can catch my seminar at 3:45 Thursday. If high volume commercial workflow is more to your liking, that’s on Friday at 3:45 with celebrity photographer Michael Grecco as a co-speaker. More info here. [...]

DirecTV MyWorld Behind The Scenes Videos

Talk about strange surprises. When I got the call that I was going to be the tech on another DirecTV shoot I was braced for another older gentlemen celebrity, not the three girls from the popular new media based reality television show MyWorld. MyWorld is a DirecTV produced series following these three girls [...]

Scorsese part 2 - interview with Michael Grecco

This is part 2 of the Martin Scorsese shoot story. The following is a Q and A with photographer Michael Grecco about this shoot:
Q: When you were hired for the Scorsese job was there an initial idea or did you base the concept on the location?
A: The concept is from my vision of how [...]

Saturday morning cartoons workshop wrap up

Thanks to everyone who came out so early on a Saturday morning for the APA Digital Bootcamp. We covered a lot of ground in 3 hours and you guys (and girls) had a lot of great questions.
Because you can’t learn everything in a short seminar we are putting together a more intensive [...]

The #1 Hardware Secret to Tethered Shooting: The Cables

The Infamous No Name Silver Firewire Repeater Cable

So how do you shoot more than 15′ away from your computer? Well, it’s a bit of a problem with firewire. Firewire doesn’t normally allow you to have single cable lengths over 15′. Meaning you have to improvise a bit when you want to put distance between [...]