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Check out the amazing promo video for http://www.tententenwedding.com/ shot and produced by Switzerfilm. It was a blast to shoot and we think it shows off what a fun group we are! Special thanks to of course Switzerfilm, Browers Photography, April Schaeffer & Cindy Rushing, Justin @ Best Transportation and Designing Chefs for the location and lunch (yum)!!Stay tuned!!
In the event you've been stuck in a cave for the last few weeks, iTunes is now DRM-free. Finally!
Do you have Google's Gmail? Don't need it? Here's a little trick. If you don't use Gmail, sign up for a free account anyway and have it download all your email from your regular POP3 account automatically. You get enough storage space to store years and years of email. THEN, if you ever lose your Outlook file...and the backup file is corrupt...you can go to your Google mail account and search through years of email in a split second. Hopefully, you'll never have to use it, but if you ever DO need to use it, you'll be SO HAPPY you tooke the 5 minutes to sign up for the account.
If you are looking for a wonderful place to have your reception or a company to cater your reception, check out Designing Chefs. The are very, very good and priced extremely competitively. Plus, they're the nicest people you'll ever meet. 
Of course, they're happy to cater any event you have!! But hurry, they're booking up fast.
1/250 sec at f /5.6, ISO 400 (5D MkI, Lajuanna)
Check this out. In the past, whenever I had the itch to create a cool Pano, I broke out a specialized program (The Panorama Factory), but this morning, I decided to give Photoshop CS4 a shot. It did an absolutely freaking amazing job without ANY alignment, point selection, or anything. I didn't even have to put the images in order. This image was 5 separate images taken with the 5D. I was NOT careful in alignment, and you can't tell it isn't one photo. The resulting file is 12549x2509 after cropping. How cool is that! By the way, CS4 has a cool feature when you're panning around a huge image, it "coasts"....like an ipod... Nifty.
1/125sec at f /2.8, ISO 1250 (1DmkII)
I usually don't touch on current events much, since there is so much coverage in other places....but you have to be crazy impressed with the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549. Talk about a lifetime of training being put to the test...and he delivered big time. You have to love a happy ending! Mr. Sullenberger III ...IS a hero, whether he admits it or not.
1/250 sec at f /2.8, ISO 1600 (michael) - lighting-one sun
black and white version...probably the same as before. I'm sure lighting was still provided by the sun. I don't have to say it, but Karen is a stunningly gorgeous bride! Here, we simply used the wonderfully soft bounced sunlight coming from the window (to the right) and bouncing off the near wall just left of frame. Love it.
Okay. One more computer post and I'll drop it for a while. Lightroom is indispensable to many, many photographers, including myself and Lajuanna. I recently upgraded to the newest version 2.2. Imagine my disappointment when I started immediately experiencing lockups about 20 minutes into a editing session. Looking on the support forum, I wasn't the only one, and it was happening to Mac and PC alike. I thought I would just have to wait until a "fix" came along.
AND, when I finally get my hands on a DROBO....it won't see a single Wester Digital hard drive!!!
Just noticed Newegg.com has the 2nd generation DROBO for $442, with a $50 rebate, making it $392. Makes it aweful tempting and if you're in the market for a viable, secure backup solution, check it out. Just read a review where the guy had 4 (you guessed it) Western Digital hard drives in it and they ALL fried. He was a videographer. He was nervous and was looking at a $8000 bill to recover the data, but the DROBO company recovered all the data for him. Wow.
In a year or so, you'll probably see a DROBO - SOLID STATE DRIVE version....interesting. How dependable are solid state drives?
later, michael
Oh the intrigue!! "seious secrets" beat out "complete honesty" ...interesting. Not surprisingly, "little white secrets" is the norm in our little control group. But do tell....
Did you know that Microsoft has a Pro Photo Site? Just another great source of photography information. What's really interesting (for Windows users) is the download page.
From their site...
Here's the Studio B! super crew from the Dec 30th Studio B! Me, of course, the rather dashingly handsome dude on the left...Brishen, our new associate photographer who decided to get in on a little B! action...Lajuanna, who BTW, worked a Studio B! on her BIRTHDAY, bless her heart....our honored guest Studio B! babe, Sabrina from Proposing Dreams helped out and last, but certainly not in any way LEAST, our very own super cool, super nice Rich. As I mentioned before, this amazing crew handled about 1200 guests with miles of smiles. 
Hope everyone had a blast bringing in the new year! Lajuanna's mom is visiting and we wound up seeing "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" last night. It was a curious story indeed. Lajuanna and Yvonne loved it. I thought it was a great movie, but it was hard to stay awake watching it....and David positively thought it was the most boring movie ever, haha.
great! The images were displayed on two screens flanking the stage, and each guest had their photograph in hand before they entered the theater for dining.
