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Photography 101
Choosing a Wedding Photographer
by brady on Aug.14, 2010, under Photography 101, Resources, Weddings
Here’s some quick tips on how to choose a wedding a photographer when planning for your wedding. You should allow 10% of your wedding budget for photography on average most wedding packages range from $2500-$5000 some people spend more and some less.
Make sure that you like the photographer’s style from traditional, candid, and photojournalist or a little combination of everything.
last but not least, make sure you get along with your photographer, after all you will have to be with them all day long as they capture your special day. it’s going to be hard if you can’t communicate to your photographer what you want and special shots that you might desire.
Hope this helps, and happy hunting for your wedding photographer. remember we are always for hire, please contact us for your wedding quote.
aloha Brady
Delkin Dual Universal Battery Charger for Canon 7D Mark II 5D
by brady on Jun.05, 2010, under Photography 101
Looking on the internet to charge multiple Canon batteries (LP-E6) for my DSLR Canon 7D and found this awesome from Delkin, it’s a dual charger and charges two batteries simultaneously, tells you how much left there is to charge and is won’t break the bank usually online around $50 gets you a dual charger and two plates. The charger can charge all sorts of different camera’s batteries so don’t forget to get the plates for the EP6 batteries.
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Photographers to follow on twitter
by brady on Mar.29, 2010, under General, Photography 101
We were searching the web for the top photographers to follow on Twitter and we couldn’t find anything good, so we decided to make our own list of top photographers to follow. Not only will we list the top picks on twitter, but we will tell you why you should follow them. These descriptions of these photographers are from our (POV) point of view and how we have come to know them, so please correct us if we are wrong or have any discrepancies in data, sorry in advance.
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Adobe CS5 Photoshop
by brady on Mar.27, 2010, under Photography 101, Tips and Tricks
Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as “an industry standard for graphics professionals” and was one of the early “killer applications” on the Macintosh, later also for MS Windows.
We were lucky enough to be chosen to be a beta tester and got to play with the new CS 5 Photoshop. Here are some images that were created with the new version of photoshop CS 5, please reference Adobe.com for any updates and features about CS 5 creative suite.
images are below, enjoy!
How to take Headshots
by brady on Oct.19, 2009, under Photography 101
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this is obviously just a joke, but just in case you decide to DYI headshots. here are a few pointers.
1. choose a good background, something that will contrast what you are wearing.
2. use sufficient lighting to eliminate harsh shadow, flashes and strobes are the best.
3. try to use a zoom lens and and focus on the eyes.
4. use a 3/4 pose, it is the most popular and pleasing.
NAPP – national association of photoshop professionals
by brady on Oct.18, 2008, under General, Photography 101, Tips and Tricks
OK for all you people that are wondering how do we edit and get the images that we do. follow this link photoshopuser.com it’s no secret you can learn all the tricks and tips at a the click of your mouse. if we didn’t share before we use adobe lightroom and photoshop to give all of our images the finishing touches that make our work special and unique.
if you want to learn how to edit like the pros check out Scott Kelby and the gang at Photoshopuser.com
aloha and have a good weekend.
New Apple Notebooks, Macbook, Macbook Pro, & Macbook Air
by brady on Oct.14, 2008, under General, Photography 101
Aloha to you all,
if you didn’t know we are huge Apple fan boys, if you are in the market to get a new laptop/ notebook. check out Apple.com they just launched a new line of notebooks. Check it out, Apple stuff Rocks! check back for more updates and happy geeking out!!!!











