http://spotstudio.com Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:55:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was in Hawaii a few weeks ago on vacation. Well, a vacation with 40 pounds of photo gear. . . .  My wife and I were blown away by Volcanoes National Park. We were told to come back around 6:30 to see the glow from the lava pit. By ... http://spotstudio.com/2011/10/volcano/ I was going through some boxes of papers and photos that my Mom left behind and came across this little gem. This is Miss Corkern's 3rd grade class at Richardson Heights Elementary in 1962. Yup, that's me, looking off camera and probably wondering if that key light is at a ... http://spotstudio.com/2011/04/miss-corkerns-3rd-grade-class/ I had a chance to do another large banner project for the YMCA. This time it's for a 13x17ft rear-lit sign to hang on the corner of their newly remodeled building in downtown Dallas. The last banner job was going to be viewed from close enough that I decided to ... http://spotstudio.com/2009/11/just-a-little-retouching/ My son plays tuba in a rock band that's been practicing at the studio for the last few weeks. I thought it might be fun to shoot some pictures at one of their rehearsals. I didn't want to spend a lot of time setting up lights and wondered what I ... http://spotstudio.com/2009/10/one-big-light/ Like most people, I love fireworks. And like all of you, I love taking pictures. So at least once a year I find myself with camera in hand, trying to capture some interesting photos of explosions in the sky. Last Saturday night my wife and I met some other couples ... http://spotstudio.com/2009/07/playing-with-fire-works/ In my bio I mention that I got involved in the motion picture special effects area of motion control for a while. What I built was a large Cartesian (XYZ) robot that could fly a camera around a 9x14 foot area. When I moved into the Spot last year I ... http://spotstudio.com/2009/07/gantry-robot-for-sale/ I was invited to speak to the Dallas Camera Club last night. I was really amazed to see almost 60 people attending the meeting. The DCC has been around for 75 years and has a very active calendar of meetings, competitions and field trips.They are a great group. I spent about ... http://spotstudio.com/2009/06/panoramas-at-the-dallas-camera-club/ Well, here's a product I didn't know existed but was happy to find. About a year ago I built a new machine for the studio, mostly to run Lightroom. I like Lightroom and want to love it, but have had speed problems with it since day one. So I built ... http://spotstudio.com/2009/06/gefen-dvi-detective/ I have a collection of toy and cheap cameras that I started about 30 years ago. My rule for the first couple of years was that I would't spend more than a dollar. Sometimes I would find 5 or 6 at a thrift store. Then my family started looking for ... http://spotstudio.com/2009/06/moldy-cameras/ I've had an Epson 7600 for a few years and always thought of it as a big machine with an appetite for ink and a producer of impressive big prints. Up to 24" wide by any length. Boy, have I had to recalibrate that thinking! I just got through shooting ... http://spotstudio.com/2009/05/really-big-prints/