Teddy and I

We are in the middle of shooting Holiday Portraits now and today was my first day of shooting. We were not very busy, but thankfully Rosira let me shoot her family so I could at least get something. Here is a shot of myself and my friend Teddy. Come out and get your portraits done! See when you can stop by HERE.

Color-Managing Firefox

In the quest to make the internet make sense, I have learned a way to make Firefox a color-managed browser! Most web browsers ignore color profiles, witch the exception of Safari. As some of you may have noticed, Safari is much better displaying colors correctly than Firefox. However, this is about all that Safari is better at (for instance, Blogger is extremely buggy on Safari, and much better on Firefox). Without getting overly complex here, this all has to do with how the web browser you are using handles embedded ICC profiles. While this solution does not fix the issue for the general Firefox (or other non-color-managed browser user), it does allow me to work on my blog and see a mostly color-accurate image without having two browsers open. Color management is available in Firefox 3, but must be enabled. It is supposed to be done by default in future versions of the browser, which I am looking forward to, for the the sake of my viewers! Below I will list steps on how to convert Firefox 3 to accurately handle ICC profiles, but you can find out more about this by checking out this article...
To convert Firefox:
1. Point your browser (Firefox) to about:config in the URL address bar
2. If a warning message appears, just tell Firefox that you do indeed know what you are doing (even if you don't)
3. Scroll down to gfx.color_management.enabled (or type that in the "Filter" bar at the top to save some time)
4. Double click on gfx.color_management.enabled to change the "Value" column to read "true" instead of the default "false"
5. Have fun looking at images that actually look somewhat like what you uploaded!

Once again, if you have any questions, feel free to let me know!

Getting Ready

This past Sunday, as part of our 1 year anniversary, Lauren and I went to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Being a contract lighting and sound guy, this was quite possibly the most jaw dropping show I have ever seen or heard of. I just wish they would have let me bring my camera! Anyway, this is a shot I took of Lauren getting ready for the evening.

Yummy DOF

After all the rain the past few days, I wanted to play with my new lens some more, so I shot this messing around with the depth of field. I have fast glass (I also use the 16-35 f/2.8L and the 50 f/1.4 lenses), but the focal length from this lens just does beautiful things to the background if so desired. I am really excited to get to try it out shooting some people!

Embed An Audio File

Okay, so the task of embedding an audio file into a blog without any annoying advertisements proved to be quite a challenge. Mr. Jones and I have signed up for countless hosting sites, giving nothing but frustrations. After finally coming across Boxstr, we thought there might be hope, but alas, there was either a cheesy ad or you were forced to download the file. After perusing the coding of the embedded player, I removed the reference to the image for the advertisement, and here is how you can do the same:

1. After uploading your audio file to Boxstr, go to the file's page (from the home page, go to "Files" and then "Manage Files" and click on "Share" next to the file you wish to share.
2. About half way down the page, where it says "Embed This Player" there is a line of HTML code. Copy that and then paste into your blog post using the "Edit HTML" tab.
3. Now we need to remove the ad image. About 2/3 into the coding, locate the part that says this:
"&image=http://boxstr.com/templates/default2/images/icons/boxstrmusic.gif"
4. Highlight and delete that text from the HTML code (be sure to leave one of the "&")
5. Publish the post
6. If Blogger gives you an HTML error message, check the box under the error and hit "Publish Post" again.
7. You should now have the full audio file in an ad-free embedded player on your blog!

If you have any questions about this feel free to ask me!

Interview with Josh Kelley

This is a quick interview I did with Josh Kelley, a fellow photography student. You can see his blog HERE.

Got my lens!

I got my 70-200 f/2.8L IS!!! I picked it up from my fiance just a few minutes and snapped this picture real quick to play with it, but I wish it the weather wasn't so crappy. I am really excited to have this lens! I love finally having a lens longer than 50mm and being able to seperate the subject from the backround like this!

Fill Flash

This is the image I will be turning in for my fill flash assignment. It is a shot I took of my brother on an overpass near downtown Atlanta. He was a good sport while I tinkered with my flash!

Adam

This is a quick portrait I took of Adam, who does all of the front desk work for Kolo. I shot this as another posibility for my fill flash assignment as he was trying to rush to the post office before closing.

Holiday Portraits Part Deux

We start shooting Holiday Portraits this week and this is the final set design. It has come a long way and we are all proud of our hard work! Be sure to come by if you get the chance to check it out and get a portrait done! You can see more information about the Gwinnett Tech Holiday Portraits HERE.