Shane is in Dublin at the moment & will get back to blogging very soon.

UGCX Conference.

I spent Monday & Tuesday of last week down in San Jose at a User Generated Content Conference it was put on by these people. Some of the Microstock companies were there like iStockphoto & Fotolia as well as some rights managed stock companies like Jupiter Images who represent me.

I have made a several thousands of $$$ in the past from my images being licensed & still continue to get royalty checks in the mail a few times a year.

It seems with the growth of microstock industry & the current economic climate the RM sales have slowed down.

As most assignment photographers including myself would never think of submitting images to microstock to sell for a $1 or less there are hundreds of thousands photographers around the world making a living form this industry.

Our whole world & industry is changing rapidly on a daily basis & rather than turn our backs on theses things its important to embrace change & see where we fit in and can profit from such things. 

Everything can have its place.

New Work for Marketing Book.

Even though I have been neglecting my blog I have being busy lately.

The images above I shot in December  of model Sarah Ellis who I have worked with before.

Simple idea just to shoot some lingerie style test shots, I kept things really simple using available light or just one Kino Flo light shooting everything wide open.

The images are going into a BLURB book that I am printing that is going to be used for marketing.I hope to get the book finished by the end of February and will sow the finished product on this blog.

Forgive me.

Dear Blog,

Forgive me for not posting to you earlier. I promise to get better at this.

In the meantime here is a video of the recreation of the below Helmut Newton image.

More to come.

The Tattoo

I have been meaning to post this for a long time now,as the year is coming to an end I feel the pressure to get all those little to do's of my list.

When I was in Miami recently on a shoot.I got a Tattoo. I had been planing this for a while and put a lot of thought into it.I have always loved the work of Helmut Newton & have one of his prints hanging in my house.

After weeks of going through as many of his images I finally narrowed it down to his iconic image for French Vogue taken in 1975.

I found an amazing Tattoo Artist  called "Pride" who had some amazing work as well as many name clients.

Here are the picture's.

Shane's work is in APASF Something Personal Exhibition 2008.

I recently found out that I got two of my images accepted into this show.

If you are in San Francisco & free that night please come by.

You can get in free by printing an invitation here. 

Some Miami Work.

Next stop Miami.

Off to Miami tomorrow for 10 days of shooting.

I will try and post when I am down there.

Bye.

Where did Tat's Tattoo's go!!!!!!!

When I was shooting on the SS JEREMAIH O'BRIEN recently. (see post below).

I met a gentlemen that worked there who is in his 70's and is covered head to toe  in tattoo's.

I asked him if he would sit for me for a TinType session. 

Well it was pretty crazy as we started to develop the first few plates you could not help but notice that all his tattoo's disappeared when shooting only with the Tin's.

I discovered that then plates are sensitive to blue & did pick up the blue ink on his Tat's.

He was even more shocked as he had not seen himself without tattoo's for some years.

Letter From Client.

Its very nice to get one of these.