A Quick Review: The AlienBees Setup

As I’ve mentioned several times over the past week, I purchased a set of AlienBees strobes. I just wanted to give a quick review on them. Continue reading…

OS X Lion Two Finger Double Tap on Dock Icons

Awesome little tip for Mission Control in OS X Lion: if you have a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad, double tap on a Dock icon with two fingers. Neat! Continue reading…

WordPress: Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

This is an excellent write-up from the people at WordPress regarding SOPA/PIPA, and I highly recommend reading the whole thing (it’s short). Continue reading…

A Creative Use for Flash Triggers

This is an awesome technique if you have a “bulb” mode on your camera and some strobes at your disposal. Continue reading…

Pulled Pork Under Pressure

I’ve been thinking about using my pressure cooker, since it’s been quite a while, and Joy happened to buy some pork butt a few days ago; so I thought, what better than pulled pork? Continue reading…

Cuban Lime Pork Steak Over Spanish Rice

I posted this to reddit a few weeks ago (and on Facebook a few weeks before that), but I thought that it deserved a spot on here now that I have a food section. Continue reading…

Lights: Purchased!

As I mentioned earlier this week, I was looking into getting a home-studio strobe-based lighting setup. Continue reading…

My Camera Gear

I’ve been meaning to put this together for a while: here’s a listing of all of my camera gear. It has everything I currently have and use, with a short review/summary.

A Possible Studio Light Setup

I’ve been looking into getting a small, semi-portable studio setup. Currently, I have a backdrop stand and a Canon Speedlite 430 EX II. However, I would like to take it to the next level. Continue reading…

So Long, 2011

Overall, 2011 was a great year. Normally, I’d take this opportunity to reflect on all of the things that have happened over the year, but it’s our biggest event that stands over everything else: the birth of of our son. Continue reading…