I work in the Financial District area of Manhattan, New York; namely, at the corner of Water St and John St. There are at least 20-30 food trucks, on top of multiple restaurants, within the 700-yard radius. At lunchtime everyday, my coworkers and I walk around the blocks trying different places to eat. A few months ago, we discovered GRK Fresh Greek, and it’d proven to be a good spot to visit at least once a month or. The food is...

This will be quick post, but I was wondering if any of you guys out there have any problems with the Paul C. Buff AlienBees B800 light quality when attached to a beauty dish. I recently had a beauty shoot at location in the Upper East of Manhattan, and I used a classic clam-shell lighting setup with an AB800 on top and a reflector on the bottom . While I placed the beauty dish right above the talent’s head using an Impact C-stand,...

Ever since I upgraded my Adobe Lightroom 4, I ran into all sort of problems. You can go back and read my rants HERE and HERE. About a month after Adobe released their Lightroom 4.0, they finally came out with an iteration of 4.1 that did resolve some of the major bugs in 4.0. They fixed the adjustment curve issues, so your LR3 templates would somewhat work with that of LR4 (note: they still don’t look the same as the writing time of...

So Annie Leibovitz recently had a photoshoot with Karlie Kloss and a bunch of America’s top male Olympians for Vogue US June 2012. I’m not sure about you, but these pictures look below average to me. In fact, I personally think most of Annie’s work is really mediocre. Sure she gets funded to shoot big projects for big companies, and her portfolio consists of quite a few celebs, but her final results look far behind some...

[FRAMED] Show Network is an amazing organization which consists of talented photographers and videographers. These people go out of their way to interview other inspiring, emerging and also well-established photographers and videographers, so that we all have the luxury of watching these outstanding professionals work behind the scenes, and how they got to where they are today. I used to watch every single one of their episodes on Youtube,...

As some of you may have already known, I quit using Facebook for personal purposes since last September of 2011 when they forcefully rolled out the Timeline and the ticker for everyone. I removed everybody on my friend list, and I removed everything I’d ever posted on there. At first, I did miss the fact that I was no longer connected to my friends. Some from Vietnam, some from high school… those I’d never be able to get...

Last week, I got into a heated debate on PetaPixel’s website on an article about the little symbol that looks like a Greek letter ϕ on your camera. The symbol is nothing but to indicate to you where the focal plane (aka sensor) is inside the camera. My original comment was, “If you just found this out now, you didn’t RTFM”. The responses and reactions I received were quite, uhm, interesting, within the next few...

These are some great tips from Jared Polin “Fro Knows Photo”. As a photographer, it is absolutely important and essential that you have your own style of shooting and processing. Your work needs to be consistent, unique, and it needs to represent who and what you are. I know my work isn’t as consistent as I’d like it to be, and I still am trying to define my style of shooting and editing. I’m never a fan of...

Just thought I’d update you guys on Adobe Lightroom 4 RC2: it still is a very slow piece of crap. After having so many problems with the performance and the presets that I had with the official version 4.0, Adobe has since released Lightroom 4.1 RC1 and RC2 (you can download the RC2 version HERE). I know I’m not whining and bitching alone in this case; I’m on the same boat with a bunch of other people on Adobe Lightroom...

It’s true: this place is a TOTAL SCAM. I knew it was too good to be true. When I saw the low price of the brand new Nikon D7000 on 42nd Street Photo website, I couldn’t help but making the purchase. I got the confirmation email, but the order status never changed from “Being Picked”. 2 days later, I got a call from one of their reps, asking whether I wanted any protection plan. I told him no, as I’d be happy...