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.

Video in Print

I've read a lot about this lately, but for those of you that haven't: It's closer than you think. There have been multiple magazines that have expiremented with video inserts and advertising. They have all been special edition releases to a select set of readers. However, if when this takes off and becomes affordable, it's going to give a new delivery medium to videographers...

It doesn't stop there though:

As this technology evolves, it can be joined with touch technology which would allow for interactive video + user response enabled media. For those of you that are developing true multimedia content like this, just imagine the possibilities...

Final thought...

Imagine you're walking into a church for a wedding, you are handed a program, in that program is a video page w/ a video of the bride and groom thanking you for attending. -just one of a million uses...

Chase Jarvis: BestCamera

Ever wish you could Shoot, Edit, and Share all in one app on your iPhone? I have. And now, thanks to Chase Jarvis and Ubermind, it's here. BestCamera not only enables the iPhone to shoot and apply various filters to images, but also to share the images directly to facebook, twitter, and the new Best Camera Website, BestC.am. Watch chase explain the app and then buy it! It's well worth 3 duckets. See my BestCamera Pics here.

Jeremy Cowart: Help-Portrait

On December 12, 2009 photograhers, content producers, and other media folks will be participating in Help-Portrait. I plan on participating, and you should too.

A brief note on this project:

Those of you that do "service" as required by a certain "university," should really consider participating. The majority of you participate in "service" as part of mission trips vacations. This is a great way to help those in your own backyard rather than cleaning up trash on a hillside in Kentucky as an excuse to explore caves. If you want to participate and don't know how, feel free to contact me, as I am working with others in the area and we are still determining how best to approach this project.

Live from Utah

Sitting here in Salt Lake City Airport, I figured I'd share photos from the trip. All these are from the iPhone. More to come from the Nikon Point and shoot. No DSLR on this trip. I had enough to carry with all the video equipment.


Got some great shots of the Great Salt Lake too, they'll have to come later after I get home... Pittsburgh in a few hours...

Strobist Boot Camp Assignment 1

Strobist Assign 1 Comp
Originally uploaded by chris.clutter

My headshot assignment for the Strobist Boot Camp. Matt was kind enough to cooperate w/ me one evening to achieve the head shot. To read about the assignment, look here.

Strobist is the premier off camera lighting blog. It doesn't get much better than that. Any one interested in taking better flash photos. I strongly recommend checking it out. Watch for the next assignment in the next few weeks.