One from our new background…

This is the “Scott’s Skid Marks” for shooting gallery backgrounds.  I had it custom made so I got to pick the name!  Lots Of Brown Streaks

My $15 Studio Light…

You don’t always need to buy the most expensive equipment to take neat and interesting images.  Here is my $15 light.  $3.89 light bulb, $4.99 pull chain lamp socket, and $5.98 replacement cord…   $14.86 Plus tax….  One hanging light bulb! 

Here is some video from the shoot… www.anatomyofcool.com/bulb.mp4

How would you like this….

Poor Bo and Cindy called me today in a panic… This was what their website looked like this morning.  It only took me about 10min to get them back up and going but what a way to start their day!  Moral to this story… Never give Scott your passwords… Umm I mean make your passwords harder to crack like adding small letters, and capitals along with numbers, and make them longer.  Hackers suck FYI and Bo and Cindy actually got off lucky that all they did was swap one file on their server.   CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS and MAKE THEM more SecurE2day.

Oh when the saints…

Oh when the Saints..Oh when the Saints..Oh when the Saints rain on my parade!! Well congrats to the NO Saints! They were fun to watch and man are their fans having fun! Their fans put the Fu back into fun!

ok back to stuff that really matters! While doing my treadmill time thismorning I really got to thinking about some critical success factors for photographers. #1. Spend less than you earn. What? Seriously stop using credit cards. How much of the stress in your life is related to or a result of money? And by money I mean (not having any). You are on a fixed income so pretend like your credit cards are your dogs testicals and take them to the vet to get fixed (nuetered) that was funnier in my head

Are you on a fixed income? Most photographers income is fixed only by the way their mind limits them to. Can you create one new revenue stream every week for two months? Limited editions, dog days, actor/business professional head shots, etc. Crap I just gave you 3 of your 8 right there… Promote it on your blog-website-facebook! All three and then make one outside contact to help promote it. It’s a easy as that and your fixed income will go up!

OCF Lighting Video

It’s up and ready to download!! The Off Camera Flash Videos are ready to download today for only $25 and 100% of your purchase price including paypal fees will be donated to Maggie.  Download it… Watch it…. Learn from it…. And try some new lighting to step up your game…..  Make sure you contact me to purchase the Northern Light Arctic Circle flash modifier if you’re interested!  Hehe  Gary Fong ain’t got nothin on me baby!!  LOL

http://shop.anatomyofcool.com/Off-Camera-Flash-OCF.htm

Just look at Maggie’s cute little face!!!  Buy it! 

What Are Her Favorite Things?

I asked Maggie’s mom Rachael “What are some of Maggie’s favorite things?”

Maggie LOVES Disney Princesses -especially Cinderella.  Loves everything girlie – jewelry, doing her nails, looks forward to doing her nails, dressing up.  Maggie loves to play school and church.  She loves coloring and doing crafts.  Maggie loves to eat cinnamon rolls, oatmeal, tacos, fruit and pigs in a blanket.  She loves to dance and give her family hugs and kisses.

Hope that gives a little insight into Maggie.

Are you going to order our Off Camera Flash Video for Maggie?   Coming later today….

My Next Fundraiser

Ok since Jen Sent me this link I had to post it!   Funny Funny Funny!!!

Adding To My Crappy Day…

Ok I have the video done!!!  It only took all flippin day!!! 

Then because it’s such a big file I needed to upgrade my hosting account.  I had a credit on my account so the balance came to $ .64  I spent another 2 hours trying to get my account to upgrade.  After calling customer service only to find out that their software wouldn’t allow a transaction under $1  Are you freaking kidding me!!!  How about a pop up notifying me of that, that 36 cents cost me two hours of my life and made me talk to a customer service rep for 15min to get it run through!!!  AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH  Why do I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football???  Lucy stop moving that damn ball and just let me kick that F-ing ball through the damn goal post for once!!!!

I am having a VERY bad day!!!!!

Mother @#*()#&er is today on seriously crappy day!!!  I spent about 4hrs getting the OCF video all ready.  The program is all laid out frame by frame, multiple cameras, adding in stills, and it was one seriously large layout.  Then I go to render it (basically make the movie file) and all my computer does is lock up.  So I cut in into 2 halves and try that.  No luck.  I have spent about 8 hrs already on trying this every way known to man and I’m not making any headway.  Ughhhh  I’m about to throw my computer out the window!!!!  )()(*&^%!#$%^ I shot it in high def and I render high def files all the time so I don’t get the big deal here!  Right now I am re rendering every file into a smaller resolution and then going to start over from scratch with the smaller files!!!!  I am not having a very good day!!!  Wasting time on something that should have only taken an hour or two to complete!

Another Not So Silent Auction

We are auctioning off another workshop registration for our March 1-2, 2010 in-studio workshop.  100% of the sale is going to Maggie.  Minimum starting bid is $200.  This auction will end on Friday night Feb 12th at 11:59 eastern time.  Please post your bids in the comments below.