Cynthia

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Charles

Here are a couple portraits I took of a man named Charles King for POZ magazine about two months ago. The issue came out last week, so I can share them with you. I was pretty happy with them.  They’re lit by a skylight above his head and a wall of windows behind me.   Read More

Annie’s book

There aren’t many living photographers you can refer to by first name. In fact, Annie Leibovitz might be the only one.  Certainly the only modern photographer any non-photographer has ever heard of.  I’m not a fan of all of her work, but most of it is beautifully done.  So when I heard she was coming out with a book about her ‘at work’ I went and pre-ordered on amazon that day. Well it was released last week and while I can’t highly… Read More

Wes

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Great Email

I got an email from a reader of the blog the other day, thought I’d share: I’d just like to say in my defense, that it was totally unintentional. <grin> ———— Bill, Something was unsettling about your portrait of Malcolm Gladwell. I couldn’t put my finger on it untill I woke up the next day and found the answer (check the slant of the eyes) Read More

Photoshop CS4 thoughts

Ok, CS4 is now released and available, so I thought I’d write a little about what I like and don’t like about it.  I’ve been using it over CS3 for about 4 months now in beta form, and it had (as most beta software does) a few rough edges until the last few builds. Let’s start with things I like: – GUI is now rendered by your video card, so zooming includes a zoom animation, and odd percentages look smooth.  For example, in the past if you… Read More

Malcolm Gladwell in TIME

I shot author Malcolm Gladwell (Blink, The Tipping Point) for TIME a couple weeks ago and it’s in today’s issue if anyone wants to take a gander.  Below is a scan of the magazine as well as the original version and my favorite portrait from the shoot.   Read More

Quandary Decisions

Ok, so I’ve made some computer decisions that I’ve been complaining about for months (sorry about that). First things first, I’m going to stick with Vista x64 instead of moving my desktop to OS X.  I’ve never had Vista crash on me, and it can actually use the 8GB of RAM I’ve got installed, as well as the fact that 64 bit Photoshop is Windows only for a while and I’ve come to really like CS4. I’ve also decided to not replace my desktop,… Read More

Neil Gaiman

I had the chance to shoot author Neil Gaiman for 5 minutes last night.  Here are the results.   Read More

Kathleen

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