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Basement studio premiere part2

Posted in Portraiture, Techniques | Monday, October 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

Just a quick update that the second part of my photoshoot with Andy has now been uploaded to my online magazine: misterding.com

First shoot in basement studio

Posted in Equipment, Portraiture, Techniques | Monday, October 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

So I recently cleaned out the empty room in my basement and built a bare-bones (and dirty cheap) home studio. The walls were already white, the floor is a nice dull painted concrete surface, and there are lots of power plugs on every side of the wall. Only downside is the relatively low ceiling, 7 ft, so I know I’m going to be limited to small projects…

To try it out, my buddy Andrés Cacciamani (who’s a natural talent) graciously agreed to model and help me stretch the new studio’s muscles…no pun intended =p.

Look out for a full gallery feature of Andy’s talents soon on my other little site: MISTERDING.COM

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Not quite video replay…but

Posted in AP, Football, Funny, Michigan, SI, Sports, Techniques | Friday, October 10th, 2008 | Comments Off

So I was going through my raw take from last month’s Wisconsin-Michigan football game at the Big House to edit out some archival images and saw this odd and interesting sequence below. Basically, Michigan quarterback Steven Threet (10) hands off the ball to freshman running back Sam McGuffie (2) and McGuffie gets some yardage until he gets pummeled by a bunch of Badger defenders. Look closely though and you’ll clearly see McGuffie was actually taken down by his own teammate, offensive lineman Stephen Schilling (52)…..