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.

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, [...]

I have been using Cactus V2 Flash Triggers, from Gadget Infinity, to control my camera flashes. I’ve had a very good experience with them firing up to three flashes at a time. They’ve been a very good investment for me. They are inexpensive and the get the job done. However, I really don’t like the L-bracket flash foot adapter.

Picasa is free software from Google which allows you to locate, manipulate, organize and share your photo files.

If you don’t have Picasa, you can get it as part of the Google Pack. You can choose to only install Picasa, if you are not interested in the other Google software.

I found two of the best Photographic Lighting Books for basic lighting setups for people and still life photography.