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Shadows and Light

I love shooting subjects that are challenging - subjects like the tech rehearsals held today at the Magic Circle Theater in Roseville. The theater company is putting on Fiddler on the Roof and I stopped by for a few hours to see what I could shoot from it.

What I love about things like this is that, because of the changing light (and, most of the time, the lack of it), you have to come up with alternative ways of shooting. Silhouettes are cool but if you have a steady hand (or a tripod), long exposures are something to consider.


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More Tess

Picture of Tess taken in Downtown Sacramento in November 2006.

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Leatherface from Off The Hook TV

Everyone, meet Leatherface. Leatherface, meet everyone.

Here's a dude that I went to high school with - his name is Leatherface. Well, not really, but that's his stage name. You see, Leatherface is a wrestler - he was featured on an episode of Viva La Bam as a special guest star (The Arbor Day / Treetop Casino Episode).

I ended up running into him first on Myspace and then at the SushiMasters event I shot in September. Last month, I got together with him and his buddy, The Executioner, to shoot some stills for a DVD they are putting out. Very nice guy with a very sweet girlfriend.
He was pretty quiet in high school but, then again, I didn't know him too well. Never thought back then that he'd be doing what he's doing now, though!

Check out what he's up to at his website:
www.offthehooktv.com
(Probably NOT work safe)

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New Tools Part 2...

Yeah - so, new monitors suck. After I meticulously worked on the brightness and contrast levels to FINALLY have a properly calibrated monitor, the computer went ape sh*t on me and decided that I should look at everything in contrasty black and white.

WHAT?!?!!?

So, I ended up breaking down (after working on the problem for the last week) and buying a Spyder2Express. The S2E (as I like to call it... well, not really) is a monitor calibrator. You plug it in, set the little eye dohickey on the screen of the monitor and let it do it's thing.

10 minutes later - perfectly calibrated monitor!

Good side - now prints are dead on all the time.
Bad side - $70 for the S2E that I'll use maybe twice.


Hey, anyone wanna buy a used monitor calibrator?


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