Mike Relm - Everytime

Great visual story telling from director Mike Relm.

2009 iPhone Photos Video

Over the past year I took over 500 photos with my iPhone.  This video contains most of them.  This is a great way to look back at the past 12 months and remember all the great experiences and fun I've had.  I would encourage anyone with an iPhone or other camera phone to do the same, you'll be amazed at the things you've forgotten about.  Enjoy and Happy New Years!

Tammi in the Snow

Inspired by a recent blog post by Chase Jarvis , I decided to get out and do a little creating this week.  I've been wanting to get started on a new personal project to create some art for my house.  After some sketching, I decided that a grid of photos of Tammi, in a bunch of different poses and settings would be perfect.  So I'm setting out to shoot 25 different photos of her for this project.  See the first round of candidates for this project on Flickr.

Mankey Family Christmas Portraits Dec 2009

A few weeks ago I spent an evening shooting portraits w/ the Mankey's.  Their new daughter was a delightful addition to this quarterly event.  As usual all were shot w/ a Nikon D80 and 1 or 2 SB-600 Strobes.  We used a black background (because it's all i had) and introduced some christmas props for the kids.  See the rest in this Flickr Set

iPhone vs Droid vs PalmPre vs MyTouch

With all the new phones hitting the market it can be hard to determine which one is right for you.  Well my friends, I'm here to help.  Being the die hard Apple guy that I am, it's tough for me not to just say "well look, buy an iPhone and be done with it."  However, given the recent addition of the Android phones, so dubbed "Droid," to Verizon's line up, it seems that my trusty iPhone could be getting some pretty serious competition.  I've now used the Droid Eris and Motorola extensively and can honestly say that I'm very impressed, Google has delivered an operating system that is as easy to use and as intuitive as apples iPhone OS.  The Motorola with it's flip out keyboard is positioned as the "flag ship" phone from Verizon, however I would encourage anyone looking into a "Droid" to consider the Eris instead.  It is smaller, and has an on-screen keyboard, which anyone with an iPhone will tell you, "You will get used to."  The graphic below should help answer some of the questions about features and pricing.


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SWPA Help-Portrait Group is Live

A few months ago I posted about Help-Portrait , a project from Jeremy Cowart that is going to give back to the community this December.  If you're unaware of this project, watch this video:


As of today, we've started a group for Southwestern PA .  Anyone interested should join the group and get involved.  We need people, locations, and ideas!  Photographers, Designers, Video guys, editors, printers, photoshop enthusiasts, pros, hobbyists, students, and beginners are all welcome and needed!
Ideally, we'll have multiple sub-groups in different areas around SWPA working to take as many portraits as we can.  Again, sign up for Help-Portrait here, and join the group here.

Fall Photos

Did some shooting last weekend...

Self Portrait of Tammi and I. It seemed appropriate to shoot some kind of engagement picture.

Shot the rest of these during a drive through the country near East Finley, PA.