My good friend David left his corporate job many years ago and took up car appraising in British Columbia, Canada, with Oceanside Appraisers. He regularly teases me with pictures of the pristine old cars he gets to see and work with. He often visits collector car shows to hob-nob with owners and let them know…
It’s funny, you never know what people are going to like. As a photographer, you know what you like and what makes a good photograph technically speaking, but in the end will people like it? If you’re a professional, will people pay for it? I put some photos up on a website called ViewBug this…
I was texting with my daughter the other day and we got to talking about some old family photographs I’d recently posted on FB — photos she’d never seen before of she and her late mother. I could tell she was affected by them and she said happily that it was like rediscovering her childhood….
Wow… this film business stuff is pretty neat. Evie Warner, the writer/director/producer of our Indie film, Awakening, could not make a promo event today and she asked me to fill in. So, I ended up on blogtalkradio.com (podcast since deleted) talking with host Brian AND with CHRIS BERRY from 12 Years a Slave(!!!…) about what…
“Whatever you do in life, it’s important to have a brand. You’ve got to give people a reason to remember who you are.” Darren Heath is one of the world’s best in racing car photography. In this interview with Mario Muth, he shares experiences and lessons in this difficult field of endeavor. You can see more of…
When I started using digital cameras to shoot racing cars, I used a Nikon D1-X and a wonderful Nikon 300mm f2.8 telephoto lens that I’d picked up second hand. Even though using a 2X multiplier restricted it to f5.6, it was still a fantastic lens. Assuming I did my job correctly, everything was tack-sharp. It…
While I’m not great at doing video yet, it’s fun to try. Especially when the subject is one of your favorites – the 2015 12 Hours of Sebring car race in Sebring, Florida. I was at Sebring to shoot still photographs for Automobilsport.com, and took advantage of the proximity to the track to try capturing…
Making our indy-film Awakening was a raucous time. Many of us on the core team were first-time filmmakers, including writer/producer/director Evie Marie Warner of RenRaw Films. We were mostly learning just by doing — and by soaking in as much as we could from the “real film people” that dropped in to help us from…
“Necessity is the mother of invention,” they say. Or perhaps they should say poverty instead of necessity. Awakening, written, directed, and produced by Evie Warner and starring Ali Ferda, Titus Young Wolverton, John Bradley Hambrick, and JoAnna Lloyd, is the story of Amy, a young woman recovering from a traumatic kidnapping and the loss of…
I ended up working yesterday with Burnmill Productions and some friends on a day of shooting for a short film about zombies. You always learn something working with other professionally-oriented people. It wasn’t planned; I was still in my jammies in front of the computer when I got a message from my wife’s boss – did…