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Photographer for an evening

by Jonathan 8 April 2010 Photography

I got to play photographer for an evening tonight. One of the classes at Duquesne needed quick portraits taken of students in a class. The class was on Photoshop, and the students would then retouch their own portraits as part of the class. My Dad normally does them, but this year I mentioned that I’d [...]

Tagged as: Duquesne, Photography

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New photo toys arrived, and it looks like we’ll have to cover the flowers tonight

by Jonathan 25 March 2010 House and Home

My new Induro carbon-fibre monopod arrived today. It matches the material and construction of my tripod, which is awesome in multiple ways. I only have one set of maintenance and setup tools to carry with me, and motor-memory won’t have to recall settings depending on the support device in use. I also got a Manfrotto [...]

Tagged as: data, data recovery, disaster recovery, flowers, media, Photography, spring

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SanDisk Extreme FW800 Reader = AWESOME

by Jonathan 21 March 2010 Photography

Last week, I purchased a new CompactFlash reader for my photography stuff. I had been using a USB reader, mostly because it was generally compatible with everything. Some of my longer photo sessions were taking a looooong time to import, though, and I was getting tired of waiting. I elected to go high-speed, so I [...]

Tagged as: compactflash, data, Photography

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Today was Awesome

by Jonathan 18 March 2010 House and Home

I had an entirely productive day today. Things got rolling with work-from-home work today. I was busting-through things left and right and it was good. I got some development work finished, did a little bit of analysis, and got a lot of catch-up reading accomplished. During lunch, I went over to Arnold Feed and asked [...]

Tagged as: business, gardening, Photography

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The Grey Suit (Professionalism and How to Treat People)

by Jenny 21 July 2009 House and Home

I entered the Johnstown business world wearing a grey, pinstriped, unlined Wal-Mart suit that cost me about $35.

Tagged as: Career Moves, How to Treat People, Insurance, Johnstown, Photography, Wal-Mart

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A Revival?

by Jonathan 4 May 2009 Photography

A revival of sorts this is. I’ve been letting this blog languish for a bit too long here. I started to spend a lot more effort twittering small updates, and ran myself out of time to work on larger updates for the blog. At the time, I decided to add my twitter feed to the top of the blog here. I checked it, then logged-out and moved on with the busy part of life. Today I noticed that the twitter feed hasn’t updated in weeks, partially due to a configuration bug that was introduced when one of the machines where I have this blog hosted was upgraded. Argh.

Tagged as: blog, Photography, theatre

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Busy times

by Jonathan 22 March 2009 Photography

Hi happy readers. It has been a little while since I posted here. We’ve been pretty busy. I’ve been working on a show for Riverview school district. They’re doing Jesus Christ Superstar, which is quite possibly one of my favorite shows. That is going well, and will probably be the subject of a few longer posts later. I’ve also been busy learning my new camera, which has been quite fun.

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A new camera, a picnic, maybe some other new technology, and a collapsing retaining wall

by Jonathan 7 March 2009 House and Home

Jenny and I just got home after a most delightful picnic. I am working as Sound Designer for a show over in the Riverview school district (that’s in Oakmont, PA, in case you’re not from these parts). There was a tech work session today, so I was busy over there for that. I was done with my part right around 15:00.

Tagged as: blog, house, Photography, picnic, Technology

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Photos for sale (in case you’re bored)

by Jonathan 5 February 2009 Photography

I have been playing with Apple’s Aperture software a lot lately. Aperture is a photo management package that implements a feature-rich library management system and some nice tools for white balance, color correction, cropping, basic retouching, and a slew of other photo editing actions. It isn’t Photoshop, but does not pretend to be. I needed a great library management package, and really wanted something to make it fast and easy to import, modify, and manage RAW format photos.

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Pictures from St. Louis!

by Jonathan 4 February 2009 Photography

I have finally posted the pictures from St. Louis. There aren’t a whole lot of them–we really only had part of one day to explore during the daylight. I didn’t take the big camera to the blues club, so the one picture from that is an iPhone picture. Click on the picture above to head to the gallery to check out the rest! You’ll even get to see my friends from work J and N there!