Archive for the ‘photo’ Category

So you want to be a professional photographer?

Photography is a very over saturated market. Anyone with a handful of cash can go get a professional camera and start calling themselves a photographer. But a fancy camera and a self imposed title doesn’t make you a professional. When it comes to photography lighting is key. Stop shooting natural light for portrait photography and […]


Apr
10
2015

Craig Swag Open for Business

Craig Swag is up and running. After 8 years and a 100gb hard drive filled with my photography, I figured it was time to open up a shop. After all thousands of cool images are just sitting on my hard drive doing nothing, might as well get them out into cyber space and share them […]


Jun
14
2012

Jewelry Photography on white?

So everyone knows that the internet shops like their white backgrounds. But is shooting jewelry on white really the way to go? I will admit done right shooting products on white create a clean look. Now with gold, white might not be a bad thing to shoot on. But with silver, well it gives off […]


Jun
05
2012

Irina Werning goes back to the future

I was surfing the web today and stumble on to a great photographer’s website. Irina Werning, she has a very amazing concept on her website of some “back to the future” images. Basically she took some 10-20 year old photos of people and replicated them now.  Very cool stuff.  Below are a few examples.   […]


Jan
13
2012

Wakeboard Photography – Fstoppers

I recently came across a very cool photography website that has tons of cool videos on a variety of photography subjects and shoots. This video shows the creative process of developing an idea and taking it to the studio for execution. There are alot of people who think that the creative process is fast, and […]


Jul
20
2011

Macro Photography on a budget

Affordable Macro Photography setup I am going to share with you some good macro photography tools and equipment, for getting great macro shots on a limited budget. Usually I am not one to promote, cheap equipment, but in this case you can get great results from good quality affordable marco equipment out there. Marco Equipment […]


Jul
03
2011

Dallas Spring Weather

Summer is ahead of us, but in the mean time I have been enjoying the spring like weather. Flowers are blooming, and butterflies are loving it!


May
20
2011