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A quick special thanks to Matt and Enna and to all the organizers. I’ll have a long blog post up tomorrow, but just wanted to thank you for having the vision to pull everyone together! As you can see we were working and planning all through the event. Matt and Enna are leading our last organizational session on Monday night.

I’d like to thank everyone that attended my session on Color Management. It was humbling to have such wonderful people in the session. Everyone that put their faith in attending a conference being held for the first time really made it a success. The wedding photographer community in New England truly is special.

Please e-mail me with any questions you might have. I’d be glad to answer them for you!

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Xrite for EyeOne Display 2 and Colormunki and the  ColorChecker Passport

Spyder for Spyder 3 Pro and Elite

Calibration Direct has best prices on the Spyder 3 Pro and Elite

Expodisc for custom white balance

Whibal for a great gray card

This is the brood. I made the decision this year to make the blog a little more personal so I thought I’d introduce the kiddos today. Taylor is 14, Molly is 11, Ryan is 11, Mac is 10 and Zak is 3. The grades range from high school to elementary school with the little guy still at home.

Sometimes is all the craziness of their activities it seems endless, but then I look at the bottom two photographs. The one one the left was taken in July of 2005 and the one on the right this past July. Besides the remarkable changes they are multiplying! Zak makes his appearance!

Make sure you appreciate every minute that the kids are home. It’s hard to believe in three years our oldest will be headed out to college. I think his room will make an excellent jacuzzi room. Kidding everyone!

I wanted to do something to force myself out of my comfort zone and research shows that people that have goals written out accomplish significantly more. The one thing I have promised myself is that I will do more personal projects such as my post Katrina work in New Orleans. My B&W portfolio and Katrina Portfolio Website is one of my proudest accomplishments as a photographer. The images above are from another mino-portfolio of 12 portraits. So, why post this work when I’m talking about a 101 list? Well, when I did this project I had written goals and it’s one of the reasons why it was so personally successful for me.

I’d just like to thank Anne Ruthmann for putting together a fabulous fundraiser raising funds for Haiti. If you haven’t had a chance to visit Anne and her see her new studio space at Western Ave Studios you should! It’s an awesome venue with tons of cool artists.

This past week New Orleans faced down a hurricane. Luckily it hit way to the West and only as a Tropical Storm. My children, MacDonald and Molly had Monday off from school in case they needed to evacuate and the thought of them brought me back to August of 2005 when they evacuated to Houston. In 2005 I flew down and picked them up and brought them home to Massachusetts. Mac and Molly were lucky to have a place that was safe and known to them as their second “home”. After the kids retuned home I would stay extra days on each trip to pick them up so I could document what happened.

I like people to know me for more than a wedding photographer. My personal project page is located at Katrina Hangover

This past Tuesday I had the privilege of presenting to a wonderful group of wedding photographers at the Boston PUG ( Pictage User Group ) on Color Management Workflow at LensProToGo in Concord, MA. I’d like to thank everyone that attended. If you have any questions on setting up Photoshop, preparing prints for a color space, etc just e-mail away. You were a great audience with tons of quality questions! I’m refining the presentation and hoping to have something even more in-depth the next time it’s unveiled.

As a photographer I cannot post to my blog without at least one image. I have been working on a sample B&W matted album as I would like to offer this even though I know it won’t be a big seller. I love Fine Art B&W and hopefully some couples will as well. Maybe even as a second wedding album.

I always believe that you need to take time to experiment. Ninety percent of the time these experiments are failures, but it keeps me fresh and the creative juices flowing. I love miniature photography and have fallen in love with the work of Grace Weston and Matthew Carden so I decided to try a couple of experiments using ring shots with their photography as my inspiration. This is my first experiment using my own wedding band on a picnic table as I watched my little son run around.

I’m as guilty as anyone for doing ring shots on flowers when I’m under the gun to get them done on the wedding day. I look at these little miniatures as props that fit into a pocket and make a ring shot infinitely more interesting.

Krista at Krista Photo was nice enough to have me shoot as her second on June 13th for a wedding in a private home in Marion that was absolutely spectacular. I just sent the DVD to her yesterday and promised no wedding shots, but I thought I’d throw one up showing her hard at work! I was off to the side shooting the bridal party on the pier and the Nikon 200 f2 lens from LensProToGo was a huge advantage over my 70-200VR 2.8.  Be prepared to use a monopod or having your left arm ballon up twice the size of the other form all the weight lifting!