PhotoPro Expo 2012

It’s been all over the web and email the last week or two, but for those who have not yet heard about it…the Midwest’s biggest, baddest, and best gathering of industry leaders and speakers for 2012 is going to be happening right here in Greater Cincinnati. Who would’a thunk it. PhotoPro Expo 2012 is taking […]

Upcoming Paid Modeling Opportunities…

Manring Photo / 21c Studio has a couple paid modeling opportunities next week for any of you that may be interested. Both paid modeling opportunities will be for the SwOH Strobists , a group I started for photographers interested in learning more about off-camera lighting. Both events will have the same topic: “Dialing It Down: […]

Umbrellas for Off Camera Lighting: Shoot Through and Reflective

I received an open question recently on a discussion board from a member of the Off-Camera Lighting Group I run, wondering if a kit with light stand and umbrella would work for taking a self-portrait of himself and partner for Christmas. In the interest of spreading information, here’s what I wrote in reply: Good questions, […]

Help Portrait 2011: Scheduled for 12/10

HELP PORTRAIT is doing it again this year and I’m helping to organize an event for SW Ohio. HELP PORTRAIT is a global movement of photographers using their time, gear, and expertise to give back to those in need. It may be anyone in your community; single parents, elderly, recently downsized, caught in the mortgage […]

Lightroom 3 Seminar

Hey gang – For those of you who use Photoshop and Lightroom, or want to know more about it, there is an excellent all day Adobe Lightroom 3 Training Seminar in Indianapolis this coming Fri Oct 28. It is part of Scott Kelby’s KelbyTraining.com and is presented by Matt Kloskowski, both names many of you […]

Gamers Unlock Baffling Aids Mystery | PCMag.com

Gamers Unlock Protein Mystery That Baffled AIDS Researchers For Years By Leslie Horn, PC Mag September 19, 2011 10:42am EST foldit game AIDS research In just three weeks, gamers deciphered the structure of a key protein in the development of AIDS that has stumped scientists for years. According to a study published Sunday in the […]

Behind the Scenes: Jon Stewart On Progress | Rolling Stone

On Progress “Ten years from now a Republican may look progressive. But I never think that things are intransigent. A guy on the floor of the Senate once beat another senator with a cane. We were in a civil war over slavery. The country began in a revolution, grew through a removal of a native […]

New Studio, New Site

Well, it has been a journey and a half getting to this point, from being on the road 24/7/50, to recently opening a new studio and art space here in SW Ohio. Networking with models, makeup artists, stylists, and other photographers & creative people in just one metropolitan area–that of the ever-more-blending-together Cincinnati-Dayton-NKY area–has been […]