If you want to look cool while easily reach the lens you need without all the hassle, here’s the ShootSac by Jessica Claire, “Named One of the Top 10 Wedding Photographers in the World by American Photo for 2008″.
Tha basic shootsac has 6 pockets that keep your 3 to 6 lenses safe as the neoprene acts as a glove, conforming your lens’ exact shape. It can even hold your 70-200 VR lens!.

They come in a variety of fashionable covers. You can change the look of the basic bag with the True Color Covers.

The Basic Shootsac start at $179 dlls

Go check out your shootsac at this link.

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I’ve been doing some of my slideshows online with Animoto, an online slideshow creator. Above is a collection of some of the weddings I’ve shot. It is not just a slideshow but a complete professional look slideshow which you can put in your own server, or their’s plus you can embed it to social networks, like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Blogger, Friendster, etc.

You can also download tto your iphone and even download for DVD for a $5 dolar fee. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user selected images and music. you can do mini slideshows of 30 sec. free of charge. Go make your first slideshow, click here.

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When I’m shooting weddings, I carry the Nikon D300 with the compact turbo flash power from Quantum attatched to it from the bottom. That makes it a little heavier, plus the Nikon SB800 flash also attached and add the Gary Fong Diffuser.

I like my camera to feel heavy instead of feeling it like a toy camera. But for that you need a strong arm. I remember I saw this gyroscopes in Sharper Image a long time ago. That ball really goes fast when you spin it and you barely can hold it.

I found this one on the web called the Powerball Gyrosope. What it does is that it emits resistance that is proportional to the amount of energy you give it whebn you try to spin it. It says that you can use it to rehabilitate sore or damaged limbs affected by Carpal Tunnel. I think I had that 3 times when I couln’t bent my hand, it hurts. I think that was because of using the mouse in a bad position. Correct me if I’m wrong.

You can check the Powerball Gyroscope in this page.

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Well not exactly, just the pictures on a micro stock agency Once in a while I get my Nikon D300 digital camera and shoot some images of my kids just for fun. They are so much fun to be with and I enjoy a lot taking pictures of them. These are my kids in the pictures.

Since I work in my studio, I shoot other kids and babies but some are hard to work with as they won’t stop crying or they think they are visiting the doctor.

Ever since I learned that you could make money out of microstock agencies, I upload some of my kids images to some of the stock agencies as well as other images I shoot specially for that.

By the way, I learned how to submit to the microstock agencies with this ebook, Camera Dollars

I really recommend it.

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I have seen these personalized photo throw blankets before on a photographic convention. I remember I wanted to sell the photo throws in the studio, or maybe as a gift to the bride and groom. I forgot all about it until I saw I today on the web.

I think it makes one of the best gift ideas and more at this time for a holiday gift. Throw measures approx. 54″W x 70″L and is made from 100% cotton. You can use any photograph - digital or print photographs, black and white or color photographs, and they weave the picture.

I found a good price for the 54″W x 70″L photo throw here for $79.90 dlls

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Being a wedding photographer, I always need a lens bag around my waist to exchange lenses fast enough during the ceremony or the reception. I work alone and I don’t want to leave my equipment on the car waiting for a thief to steal it.

I found this company who makes just what I need, the boda lens bag. (”Boda” means wedding in spanish.) You can fit upto 4 lenses depending on the model, even the large 70-200mm lens. So I think this will be my next aquisition for my next wedding.

Apart from holding our lenses, it also holds your flash media cards, cell phone, and more.

See Scott Sheppard from www.insidedigitalphoto.com interviewing Jim Garner from www.goboda.com.

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This time the WPPI Show (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) will be on february 14-19. Registration already started since october 1st. I didn’t attend last year to the WPPI show but I sure will this time.

You better register fast because some of the Master speakers are already sold out, like Jose Villa, Me Ra Koh, Beth Forester, Doug Boutwell and Jesh de Rox. See you in Vegas!!

Heres the page Click Here fore the WPPI convention and tradeshow

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Here is a tip for the maternity photographer with some maternity pictures I’ve shot for a pregnant customer. First I always try to do something different, not just the normal pose with her hands on her tummy and a flat lighting you see everywhere else.

I use normally 3 lights and a reflector as seen on the photo setup. I place the main light which is the 4×6 inch softbox, from the side of the pregnant woman to give more volume to the tummy and give it a more contrasty scene. 

In the setup image, you see the background with an orange light, this is an orange gel I place over my light that’s iluminating my background and it has a honeycomb grid to concentrate the light in the center and create a vignette. The kicklight which is the light in the back to her right side, has also a honeycomb grid with a “bastard amber” gel to give it that touch of amber lighting from the side. So try to do something a little different each time.

I’ll be posting some more tips later on so remember to subscribe so you get a message in your email when a cool post is being made. Cheers.
  

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Have you ever wonder how this kind of images are made, with the water splashing and the perfect ice cubes? Sure, a product photograper can shoot with real ice cubes and real water splashing. But then he would have a mess all over the studio for trying a dozen times to get the right shot and chainging ice cubes every second time.

Well, I found a place where you can rent or buy ready made splash that look better than in real life. The company is Trengove Studios in Ney York. Product Photographers can buy from acrylic splashes and pours to drops and spills, even bubbles. So to a product photographer this is a closely-guarded secret.

Source: Trengove Studios

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A few weeks ago, I was invited to give a seminar on wedding photography in Anaheim, CA. While speaking with other photographers, I was told that one of the potographers there, was generating a lot of income on trading. He had learned it from a course that cost him $11,000 dlls. 

I’ve never traded on the forex before, it seems it’s a little too hard for me but I keep getting these emails about ForexAvenger. While there are other forex robot traders like Forex Autopilot that you just leave the program running overnight and the software trades for you, the Forex Avenger is a course you can download from the internet.

This is what it says, “First, I am going to teach you the basics. Then I am going to explain my system in minute details. Then I am going to show you a load of examples. It may seem like a lot but you will probably understand everything you need to know in the first 30 minutes.

Next, just in case you didn’t get it. I have made over 20 videos demonstrating everything you will ever need to know about my system. In fact, when I showed it to my friend he told me I have gone into so much detail even a complete beginner would be able to understand how to get set up and running easily in minutes.”

Just in case you want to check it out, here’s the web page ForexAvenger.com

Price $97 dlls

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