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Photography

Busy bee…

by Jonathan 16 April 2011 Photography

Things have been a little busy around here lately. That’s definitely a good thing. The poor blog here, though, has suffered a bit. I’m trying to remedy that tonight by writing and scheduling a few blog posts over the next couple of days. That will let me stay busy, and the magic of the internets [...]

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The Scene and the Snapshot: Episode Two

by Jonathan 11 March 2011 Outdoors

I’m pleased to release the next episode in my odd little series called, The Scene and the Snapshot. Here in the second episode, Jenny and I visit a couple of areas overlooking the City of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is in a unique situation, in that it has a bunch of nice, tall hills around it, making [...]

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A Trip to the Sugar Shack

by Jonathan 6 March 2011 Outdoors

It started-off innocently enough. My Dad and I were out for the day on Friday. We had my truck piled high with cameras of all sorts, tripods for everything, and a box of Cheez-Its. Our intention was to go out somewhere, find some interesting photo opportunities, and make some interesting pictures of both the moving [...]

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The Scene and the Snapshot: A New Project

by Jonathan 22 February 2011 Photography

I’m happy to announce the first episode in what I hope will be a new series. I’m calling it The Scene and the Snapshot, and it is a bit of an experiment. The whole series is going to be an experiment in videography, photography, creativity, production, workflow, and who knows what else. The premise is [...]

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New Promotional Materials!

by Jonathan 31 January 2011 Photography

My Dryrose Creative promotional materials were in dire need of an update. I had printed a pile of business cards for myself a while ago, listing all of the things that Dryrose can do. That was too much on one card, for starters. It looked confusing, and didn’t have any of my current logo or [...]

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Video: A Short Trip

by Jonathan 21 January 2011 Photography

I’ve been playing with some video stuff lately, working to learn more about Final Cut Pro and my shiny new Panasonic HMC40 video camera. As one might expect, I’m also ironing-out a new workflow for video work. While a lot of the steps are the same as they are for photo work, the video workflow [...]

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Pittsburgh Boudoir Photography Sneak Peak!

by Jonathan 18 January 2011 Photography

We had a wonderful boudoir session with the fun and fabulous CA and friends this past Saturday! We started simple and ended with oh-my-gosh. It was a great evening, to say the least. On a shoot where everything seemed to work well, one of the stand-out features was CA’s hair stylist, who was there for [...]

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Exciting times!

by Jonathan 12 January 2011 Photography

I’m quite excited to have CA’s boudoir shoot this Saturday! We’ve been chatting back and forth in email about details, and it looks like it is shaping up to be a really fun evening. I’d say something cheesy like, We’re going to be bringing sexy back in Pittsburgh Saturday night, except I have a feeling [...]

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Multiple Layers for Building Contrast and Image Enhancement

by Jonathan 22 December 2010 Photography

I recently read a guest blog post on the Chase Jarvis blog that talked about using multiple layers in Photoshop to build contrast and enhance an image. I realized that I did this sometimes, but didn’t really talk about it much, and also didn’t always see all of the possibilities for an edit. So, I [...]

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