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08:08 PM

Chewing Gum, Rain, and RadLab

Rad Lab

     What do chewing gum, rain, and Totally Rad!'s new plug-in RadLab have in common?  Really nothing, but it's the three things that came to my mind when I was fumbling around and found this image I took a couple years ago of Wrigley Field during a few really rainy days back in 2010.
wrigley field     It's amazing what you can have them put on scoreboard's these days, it's like they new the future.  This was a a simple 4 image panoramaic that I had taken after our tour of Wrigley Field.  I just want to say that I married the most wonderful woman in th

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06:10 AM

New Website

Chiseled Images Logo     I'm very excited to finally roll out my new website.  I have been so busy with doing work for everyone else that haven't had much time to work on the site.  Yet, finally it's ready to roll.   I was hoping to wait until I could roll out a little more functionality, but that must wait.  Hopefully to come I will add a simple ordering system and even give my clients access to accounts where they can manage their order history and see where any larger projects are in the workflow.  Possibly even being able to pay your invoices through the site.

     Another great feature of this site is the blog.  Although I still love WordPress, I think it's great to be able to have my blog right within my website.  It doesn't have access to all the fancy plugins, but I think it's going to work perfect for my needs.  Hopefully I'll be able to write up at least one post a week, but we'll see how it goes.  We all know how easily it is to let blogging fall to the wayside.  If you guys have any topics that you'd like to see me discuss, let me know.  I'm always looking for new things to talk about and discuss.

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06:19 PM

The Photographer and the Lab

 

     I hear many photographers disappointed in their current workflow. Digital was supposed to make processing images faster and easier, but it seems that digital makes things harder. There are so many details that are now in the photographer's control that used to be controlled by the lab. It use to be that we exposed a roll of film, packaged it up and sent to the lab. We then got a roll of negatives back with some pretty looking proofs or images on CD. No one was any the wiser that their images were too green or blue, or that it might have been a 1/2 stop under or over exposed. Our lab took care of that for us. They were consistent, they had standards, color and processing your images was their focus. Now, the role of the lab has become quite different.

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