Month: August 2008

When it’s good to be a loser – included in JPG outtakes

Post author By David
Post date August 26, 2008

I know I just posted about JPG Magazine, but there’s some new news – one of my shots has been included in the Outtakes PDF for the Fave Hangouts theme.

As they put it:

How hard is it to pick under 20 photos from over 3,000 submitted to a theme? Nearly impossible. Every issue we each see some of our favorites get cut, and it kills us. We’re always looking for new ways to recognize the amazingly talented photographers that don’t get published.

So for every theme that’s published in the print magazine, they do up an online-only collection of the photos that almost made it.

And for the Fave Hangouts theme, it was this shot from my favourite cafe in Santa Fe – Ecco on Marcy Street – that was included.

Here’s the full PDF (I’m in some great company).

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Get submitting – themes for JPG 19

Post author By David
Post date August 21, 2008

JPG magazine is running some good themes for the next issue – Nighttime, Delectable and Faith.

The quality of the images on the site is constantly impressive, and also inspiring, so if you’re in the mood, head on over and submit your own.

I submitted to Nighttime, and here’s my submissionto the Delectable theme.

If you’re interested in the sort of work I like, here are my favourite shots from other people.

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Shooting Tessa

Post author By David
Post date August 16, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I was hired to shoot young Tessa – the cute two-year-old daughter of some friends of ours. The shoot was great fun, and we got some good photos.

I asked if we could meet up early – around 8am – to make sure we had some nice early morning light, and we did the shoot in the garden at Tessa’s house.

This was partly so she’d be comfortable and have her stuff to play with, but it was also a great location as the trees provided some shade while the plants offered some pleasing backdrops.

Primes all the way

I brought a bunch of lenses, thinking it’d give me some options, but I pretty much only used my nifty fifty – the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II.