Archive for August, 2009

The D300s … introducing video

Posted by scott at 28 August 2009

Category: news, reviews

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What Am I Introducing

So we’re not really introducing video to cameras,

But we are itroducing video to this blog.

And I am introducing the D300s

Since now I own a camera that does video it makes it so easy to record video, upload to smugmug and imbed that video here on this blog.

My disclaimers are:

This is the first video on my blog, my first video I’ve recorded for a blog. So I did several takes because I wasn’t about to spend the time to edit and splice stuff.
But I still made verbal mistakes and since I only have owned the camera for a few hours I still don’t have a handle on the focusing.
I also did hand hold it…
So basically don’t get too after me about the quality of filming.

But I do aim and can promise I will get much better.

D300s

Rundown on new notable features.

  • Video
  • 7 frames per second without grip
  • faster access to live view – 2 button clicks to start recording
  • on camera mic and plug in for external mic
  • better d-lighting
  • quite mode – means take a picture without much noise. (forgot to mention on video)
  • dual CF and SD slots
  • Better latch for memory card slots
  • the cool center button I love (like introduced on D700)

If you want me to talk about anything else… I might be persuaded to make a few more videos.

This blog also happens to be a test of the amazing video features of SmugMug – the place where I happen to put all of my pictures.

I searched for a while to figure out how to embed video into this blog (it being my first time) there were ANY good resources I could easily find online (we know how a mess the internet is)
So I’ll quickly say I grabbed the embed into web code from smugmug much as one would get the embed link for a picture.
You must keep in mind this is code and not a URL or link… so you switch over to HTML on your wordpress editor and drop it into its place.
This suposes you know how to do a lot of what i just explained. But for me that’s exactly what I was hoping to find out that took me 20 minutes to figure out on my own because there were no good sources.

Shameless plug: Who wants to buy a used D300 (or even a much less expensive D200)

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Just that good … hehehe ;)

Posted by scott at 26 August 2009

Category: ! Favorite Posts, Bridal Pictures

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Ladies and gentlemen…

Props to the bride for not only being willing but more than happy to go out to the stinky gnat infested waters of the Great Salt Lake.

And to her Mom and two sisters and niece that came to help.

And to my wonderful Intern Heidi who braved the swarms of mosquitoes that came out about 5 minutes prior to this shot

Annika (the bride) had no problem going out into this little area in her beautiful wedding dress and in between being sucked dry by mosquitoes she even posed and smiled.

Now for the exciting part…

Usually I spend a good 10-20 seconds editing pictures… but I was happy to see with the great lighting and flash assistance from Two directions

There was NO Editing on this picture.

(It makes me happy to be able to say that)

I didn’t have time to really even review pictures because we had overstayed our welcome with the blood suckers. So I was just hoping things would be in focus.

And to top it all off it was pretty much the very last picture of the night. Huzzah

I kinda wonder what we could do to it if i do decide to edit it…
what a beautiful sunset and what a beautiful bride.

I will post the rest when i get to them i suppose… but for now back to the weddings from a few weeks ago.

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Engagements in the Garden (park ward)

Posted by scott at 26 August 2009

Category: Engagement Pictures

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These pictures were taken at the Garden park ward in SLC, Utah

I actually went assistentless for this one and did the whole thing with a light stand.
It’s kind of funny because for years I did everything without assistants or lightstands.

I hope I’m not chained to lights forevermore.

Anyway I thought it was funny.

See the Full Gallery

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So many of you know the trick but for the rest of you… go high f/stop for the star effect.

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More pictures after the Jump

Or just go to the full gallery

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Snell Wedding

Posted by Adele at 25 August 2009

Category: Wedding Pictures

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This is an old wedding phoot back from June.

I’m working a lot of getting the August weddings edited, so I thought I’d throw in an old shoot that has already been done.

Enjoy

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To view the full gallery go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8936121_reGjq (more…)

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Salt Lake City Formals

Posted by Adele at 23 August 2009

Category: Bridal Pictures, Wedding Pictures

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Here’s another photo shoot I did about a month ago and they’ve since gotten married
It was in a week or two span that every bridals i did she had the groom come along as well.

It’s a break from tradition but it seems that they specially enjoy it if they’re not big fans of getting pictures taken by themselves, or if they want pictures up at their reception.

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To view the full gallery go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8942191_9W2ay (more…)

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THE Photo-House

Posted by scott at 16 August 2009

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A “why not” attempt to create the coolest photography house in Utah.

UPDATE: The owner sold the house 2 days before I was to move in… can’t blame him I suppose… it was a great rental price but way overpriced to buy, so good for him if he was able to sell it.

But now I’m looking for a new place… and if possible even another option for another PHOTO HOUSE

So I ran across this house for lease and went to look at it and take some pictures.

see full gallery here

It was perfect!
But a little bit too spendy for just me and my lonely self.

So…. I had an idea

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Planning

I’ve been talking with the owner about leasing it and then renting out the other 4 bedrooms.
He’s down… now I just need to see the interest for renters.

The Idea

The coolest photog house and hangout in Utah

A place for photographers to live, eat, breath photography

As a place to live or as a place to have an office/studio

Indoor studios, outdoor locations, rooms to rent, office space, place to live and have photo related events

To live in the house it would probably need to be single folk like myself.

WHERE

It is a very secluded house that happens to be very near Everything

See it up-close on Google Maps

It’s located in Lehi, Utah

2.0 miles from American Fork/Lehi shopping area on state st.
Including countless restaurants, Walmart, Costco, you name it!
All are under 2.5 miles away

2.2 miles from freeway on-ramp to I-15

12 miles to Salt Lake county (Draper, Bangerter hwy)

13.3 miles to University ave in Orem

30 miles to downtown SLC

Very close to tons of photographic locations in Utah county.
(The house comes with a list of all of these locations… haha )

The best indoor lighting possible

There are 20ft+ vaulted ceilings with a wall of big windows
Both of the bottom rows have a built in diffuser because of the style of shades.
And we can set up another room as a dark studio for when it’s not night.

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Big studio and Workshop room

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Summertime Engagements

Posted by Adele at 16 August 2009

Category: Engagement Pictures

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I took these a little over a month ago… thought I’d share them.
The pictures were picked by my PA Adele.

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I did this photoshoot with a lightstand. Usually I have an assistant there to hold lights.
But this made me consider the location of the of camera flash a little more carefully since I’m kinda lazy.

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To view the full gallery go to http://jarviedigital.smugmug.com/gallery/8942464_jqBTB

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Andie – Trevor & Working the reception

Posted by scott at 12 August 2009

Category: Reception Pictures

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FULL GALLERY

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New Opportunities at JarvieDigital

Posted by scott at 11 August 2009

Category: news

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I am looking for Interns, possibly a Personal Assistant, and web programmers.
See more info in the full blog post below.

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The Zombie Hunter (Disturbing)

Posted by scott at 10 August 2009

Category: Events

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I got about 500 shots off at those zombies and quite a few of them landed. Here are the results.

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BRAINS… BRAINS… BRAINS!!!!!

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So I went and shot Zombies

Here are the results.

To see them all (as I get them done) GO HERE

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There were a lot

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Whatever became of the old farmer and his pitchfork?

(SEE tons more after the jump or on smugmug)

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A Series of Fun Faces

Posted by scott at 8 August 2009

Category: Formals (Pre-wedding Portraits)

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In the last post we showed some of the regular pictures

In this one I’ll show a series of pictures taken in a 90 second span.

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And Normal

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This technique involves the following:

Tell them each click they need to do a different face.
They can’t coordinate. (Because it’s funnier that way and it goes faster that way… they’re more spontaneous)

This is a good exercise to loosen them up for the rest of the photoshoot
or a good way to finish up a night on a really fun note.

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Steppin’ it up

Posted by scott at 8 August 2009

Category: ! Favorite Posts, Bridal Pictures, Formals (Pre-wedding Portraits)

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‘Things are clicking. (Pun intended)

I’ve got some fancy new toys like new lenses and lighting stuff.

I’m working better with all the people coming to assist.
It’s a lot of work getting each person to know what to do specially when it seems i have to deal with someone new each time.
But i’m getting better at it and showing them their job faster and better.
While still keeping the connection with my clients.

Things are starting to get even busier around here with 3 weddings each week for the next few weeks.
It’s just about the right time to start getting in a groove.

And I think I’m in a groove, taking things to the next level.

I’ve been spending a bit more time on lighting my pictures.

ALSO, after years trying to get faster at editing… I think I’ve slowed down.
Sometimes I’ll edit all the pictures then go back through and see what I missed.
Checking a second time to see how I can improve the pictures.

Yes maybe I don’t have tons of time for it at the moment but i think it will help step up the level for times to come.

The plan is to do Fewer jobs and focus on them a little more.
(Which happens to mean an increase in price, but shhhh don’t tell anyone. haha)

I hope you all have enjoyed what you’ve been seeing these days.

The following set is from the SLC library in case you wanted to know the location.

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Finding and working a new location on a whim… Pays off.
Don’t you just love the reflection off of the glass.

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The one on the right looks almost fake. For some reason it just came out that way. I did add a bit of vignette.

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I admit it’s not the perfect wedding picture, but as a regular kinda modely picture for some reason I love it

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Girls love their veil, their ring and romantic moments… so that’s a 3 in 1

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Utah Photo Editing Showdown – UPES

Posted by scott at 6 August 2009

Category: UPES, lightroom, news

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To join the UPES group on Flickr go here

The plan is to set up a seperate Blog for this monthly competition.

To highlight pictures and have guest contributors talk about how they reached certain results.

When I get a couple moderators for said blog helping out and assigning other photographers to get that done I’ll do the wordpress install and get that Blog going.

But for now I’ll use my blog to show the winners of each picture.

The winner this month was David Daniels

The event took place at the Pictureline in Draper

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And the Winner is…

Posted by scott at 5 August 2009

Category: news

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Drawings soon to come

I will do drawings for the 2 at large spots later today right after my mid-morning photoshoot.
If all goes to plan let’s say 3pm on the jarvieDigital page I’ll announce it … kinda live.

Other spots will be announced shortly after.

How I figured it out.

Well I spent about 3hrs figuring out the rush of points that hit right before midnight.
I checked and double checked and added points.
I did this all while never viewing the total points for any of these individuals.
Because some of these points are somewhat subjective and I didn’t want where they were to affect how I gave them.
When I had checked and double checked all I could sanely check and re-check.
I was done and the spreadsheet stated who it was.

But for the moment you’ve all been waiting for, …

The winner and all around champ is…

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What they learned – And what I learned

Posted by scott at 5 August 2009

Category: Tips For Photographers, news

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7 People wrote blogs about what things they learned from their recent exploits with the Jarvie Game
See what they wrote and then see what I wrote about my experiences with JaG

Disclaimer … It’s 3am… But I wanted to get this out before I post my next blog post announcing the winner of the JaG game.

I will re-edit this post later.

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