Photo by me. Bathing suit by IMSY Swimwear.This week's Link roundup is a little short and day late but for good reason - I've been busy! Last Saturday I shot a wedding, Sunday we had a hurricane and lost power for the whole day, Monday was the first day of Providence Style Week, and last night after the shows I got to see my favorite band Bright Eyes!
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Watermarks: Protecting Your Images, or Damaging Your Business? My stance of watermarks? As you can see above I keep it simple and in the corner out of the way. The goal is for people to look at your photo and appreciate it and not for them to comment on how your watermark is taking up half the photo.
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After running around Style Week, I think I am going to tackle this DIY project. I hate carrying around an ugly camera bag and rather use my purse so why not make a purse into a useable camera bag? DIY Camera Bag/Purse
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I am obsessed with Moleskines so here is a list of hacks and tricks to get the most out of your Moleskine.
Such a great idea from Improv Everywhere: Say Something Nice. It brightens up your life just erasing the negativity and being nice to those around you.
Yesterday my new DSLR, the Sony Alpha a580, came in the mail. It was a complete impulse buy but I needed a new camera. I love that this one shoots HD video! The downside is there is no auto focus while recording video so I will have to get used to manually focusing while recording. For most of these test videos I used the Sony Zeiss 24-70mm 2.8 lens. It's a beast of a lens because it's so heavy so trying to hold the camera steady while manually focusing was difficult. Thankfully my 50mm and my 28mm are tiny so it shouldn't be that difficult to do.
When Reality-TV Fame Runs Dry. Oh Speidi, a series of bad choices left you living in your parents' beach house with absolutely nothing. I want to feel for them but it is hard.
2. ‘Like’ Any Horrible Status. Justine: just broke my leg skiing FML. You: Like! Walter: My Golden Retriever is on fire. You: Like! Peter: oh noes! i have herpes. You: Like!
Last week I shot an event for celebrity hair stylist, Oribe at Bijou night club in the theater district in Boston. I actually had no idea what I'd be shooting, it all happened so fast. Really all I knew was it was for Oribe and I had to be in Boston at 9:30 in the morning.
The event was for Oribe to do a few demonstrations on models in front of local hair stylists. Then after a lunch break all the hair stylists would be doing the same hairstyle showed to them on their own model. It was an extremely long day but it was a lot of fun and I met some amazing people that I'll be working with in the future.
Sorry this week's Link Roundup is a day late. It was ready to go on time I just forgot to post it! Yesterday was super busy with Shawn and I going to Boston for a Red Sox game, an impromptu business meeting, and dinner at a hibachi restaurant (I've never had hibachi before). So without much further ado, here is this week's Link Roundup.
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My friend Jeannine Calia is one of the contestants on Oxygen's Hair Battle Spectacular! I'm so excited for her! Watch some previews on Oxygen's website and become a fan of her page on Facebook!
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You never know when you need some random information and/or a movie for any occasion so The Hairpin brings you Wikipedia Entries for Every Situation and Netflix Instant for Every Situation Parts One and Two
I am obsessed with this photo shoot of Francis Bean Cobain shot by Hedi Slimane. I have four of the photos from this shoot as my desktop wallpapers on my MacBook Pro.
After cleaning out my closet yesterday I found a few vintage cameras to add to my collection. My mother probably gave them to me years ago. She has tons of cameras from throughout the years since her days at RISD. I'm still trying to convince her to give me some more.
1) Kodak Pony 828
2) Kpachorpck -3 16mm film
3) Kodak Duaflex II
4) Kodak Instamatic 414
5) Dejur Eldurado III
6) Kodak Instamatic X-45
7) Argus Seventy Five
8) Yashica Electro 35
9) Canon AE-1 (the only camera out of this collection I actually use)
My friend Lauren and I planned to a do a Lady Gaga inspired shoot. We didn't want to do an exact replica of a Lady Gaga look but we just wanted to pay homage to her. I asked our friend Jeannine, fantastic hair stylist and contestant on Hair Battle Extravaganza 2 on Oxygen, to join us on this project. Jeannine made this fantastic head piece that definitely went above and beyond what I was expecting. Lauren did an awesome job on makeup within the time constraints we had. Apparently everyone in Southern New England had to go buy makeup at her MAC counter right when she was doing makeup. And last but certainly not least, a big thank you to Drea for filling in as our model at the last minute. She did a fantastic job channeling her inner Lady Gaga.
This is such a cute idea! Give a surprise ball as a gift.
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Clients From Hell gets me really worked up after reading a few pages. I've had some conversations with clients that definitely belong on this website.
Client: The website looks great, but I think we need more images of children. Do you have a database of images of children that we could take from…?
A second e-mail arrives a few moments later.
Client: I just realized what I was asking. Please ignore and delete all my e-mails with the subject line “Need photos of children.”
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Client: Well… we just want the logo to be less corn-related. Can you just make it less corn-like?
Me: I’m sorry? I was under the impression was that this was exactly what you were looking for.
Client: No, no, it is. It is! But we discussed it and we think people would probably be bored by the whole corn part. So let’s make it less corn-related.
Me: I must not be understanding. The product you’re trying to sell is still corn, right?
Client: Yes. But try not to draw to much attention to that.
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"HELP! I can’t send or receive email."
— Sent via email.
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Zoetica Ebb's Kickstarter page for D4RT is up! Donate if you can to help her start an art program in Yantaló, Peru.
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I found these on Tumblr and found these amusing. I am on a huge Harry Potter kick.
The Charlie Sheen: Pudding and macaroni salad served in a banana skin. This sandwich obviously has some serious problems, but no one will address them. Everyone will just laugh that it’s still on the menu.
The Mark Zuckerberg: Pastrami on a stack of pictures of you from the last nine years. Developed at a deli co-owned by his best friend, who is no longer an owner of that deli. Mark does not want to talk about it.
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Why don't you try to do something different for the next 30 days. It could change your life.
I'll let you in on a little secret. I hate the beach. Ok, maybe I don't hate them but I definitely don't do beaches. I don't like hot sand and I hate stepping on broken seashells. I don't swim and I hate even walking at the edge of water. It's always too hot and I never have anything to wear to the beach. So when Amanda said she wanted to shoot at the beach, I wasn't too pleased. But of course I did it and I survived. Doesn't mean I'm going back to the beach any time soon.
I also did the makeup for this shoot, which was a first for me. Don't be too harsh!
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