Articles in the General Category

Del before school
Posted in General on 2 June 2009

Del

Originally uploaded by EricHolsinger

A quick photo of Delsin in the backyard before school.

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Isolated studio shots of handmade Purses
Posted in General, studio on 22 December 2008

Purse (3 of 7)

Originally uploaded by EricHolsinger

My wife paid a friend to made some make-up pouches and purses for us to give as gifts this year. They looked so good, that when we got them, I set up an impromptu studio and took some isolated silhouette-type studio shots.
I used a gadget infinity trigger to [...]

Cleaning house
Posted in General on 1 October 2008

I’m cleaning house - on the site, anyway. I’m going through my posts and pages cleaning up the topics. I may move some topics to my other website, EricHolsinger.net, which is now my general blogging site. I’m doing all of this in preparation of converting this site to photography related topics, exclusively.
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NEW Canon EOS 5D Mark II: full frame 5D successor; w00t!
Posted in General on 17 September 2008

Canon EOS 5D Mark II is the official name of the Canon 5D successor model, announced today.
Here it is.

Isn’t it beautiful?
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Currently Reading: Face to Face by Rick Sammon
Posted in General on 12 September 2008

I’ve been reading Face to Face: Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Photographing People. I picked up this beautiful book before my Strobist trip to NYC and read it voraciously during my down time on that trip. I just picked it up and started reading it again. I just had to write about what a great [...]

Early morning Photoshop Lightroom and Strobist practice
Posted in General, portrait on 25 July 2008

My son came into my office this morning and offered to let me take some photos of him. “For your practice”, he said.
How can you resist an offer like that?
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OK, a new Rebel XS announced, where’s the 5D successor?
Posted in General on 8 July 2008

Canon announced their newest digital Rebel body, the Rebel XS. Canon really seems to be making it easy for people to jump from point and shoot to D-SLR with these low end models.
But, where’s the beef?
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Astaco Amante, fake tilt-shift experiment
Posted in General on 7 July 2008

Astaco Amante, fake tilt-shift experiment

Originally uploaded by EricHolsinger

Took this from my parking lot at work, with my G9. I wanted to play around with fake tilt-shift. I should have spent a little more time with it. I may try this one again.
Part of my personal project to take a g9 photo for each day in [...]

Portland, ME Tips from the Top Floor workshop, focus on Studio and Portrait photography
Posted in General on 7 July 2008

Chris Marquardt will bring his “Tips from the Top Floor” workshop to Portland, ME in from August 28-31. This is a four day workshop on Studio and Portrait photography.
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Want to be part of LobsterLypse?
Posted in General on 5 July 2008

I’m organizing a local stock photography meet-up for iStockPhoto members. It’s tentatively called LobsterLypse, in the tradition of the “minilypse” events sponsored by iStockPhoto.
The idea is to get a group of photographers from Southern Maine, Portsmouth New Hampshire area to shoot some stock photography. I’d like to get at least one model, maybe two, [...]