Foodie

25Jun09

I had a few minutes to kill in the studio yesterday so I decided to try my hand at some still-life photography. I stole learned the basic lighting setup from Strobist, but I cheated a little. I didn’t use the DIY Macro Box. I used my medium softbox. The setup is pretty simple. Large soft [...]

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Tags: Daniel Williams, Food, Learning, lighting, photography, rochelle, Rochelle IL, rochelle illinois photography, Still-life photography, Strobist

‘Digging a niche’

23Feb09

Sorry for the short absence on the blog lately. I’m working on getting a few things up and going in the next few weeks, so posts may be a bit sparse. I did however have a meeting with another photographer today to get some professional advice about pushing my business forward. Roger Kyler of Kyler [...]

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Tags: Business, Daniel Williams, Kyler Photography, lifeworks imaging, photography, rochelle, Rochelle IL, Roger Kyler

New lighting setup

11Feb09

I took the chance to shoot some middle school basketball earlier this week and finally got them uploaded. I tried a slightly different lighting setup this week in the gym and was somewhat happy with it, but I still want to tweak a few things. Instead of keeping the lights at the same end of [...]

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Tags: Daniel Williams, girls basketball, lifeworks imaging, photojournalism, RMS, rochelle, Rochelle Middle School, sports photography

Things I promise to never do

20Jan09

NOTE: Dear readers, just a quick warning, this may bore the heck out of the average reader. This post is more for advanced photographers. I promise to never use my crazy little setup for a portrait if you use my services. I really wish I would have taken a photo of the setup to show [...]

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Lighting Metal Pt. 1

14Oct08

I’m back to learning lighting a little bit. I’m mostly learning about lighting metal in the chapter that I’m in now. Most photographer’s cringe at the thought, but as the book points out, you really shouldn’t. Metal is one of the few items that never strays from the rules. It either gives off direct reflection [...]

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Tags: family of angles, Learning, lifeworks imaging, Light-Science and Magic, lighting, Lighting metal, metal, rochelle, RTHS, SB-24, studio

Statistically speaking

06Oct08

Some of you might know that I’ve been taking a class through Kishwaukee College, the local community college, on how to start your own business. Probably a pretty good decision since the only business classes I took in high school and college was the absolute basics to get me through each institution. It’s so different [...]

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Tags: business class, character, Ethics, Kishwaukee College, lifeworks imaging, marketing, rochelle, statistics

Magic in the mail

04Sep08

I wanted to post quickly about the newest book I got in the mail yesterday. Light-Science & Magic is a book I’ve been wanting for a long time. As all you know, I’m an avid Strobist fan and David Hobby touts the book a lot on his site. So of course I had to see [...]

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Tags: Books, lighting, photography, Strobist