A little more information about upcoming photography classes

Learn to make photographs not just take pictures.

Starting May 1st @ Casey's Camera, Introduction to Digital Photography. Understanding F-Stops, Shutter Speeds, ISOs & In Camera Meter to create the correct exposure. Study of Histograms, White Balance & File Sizes will be applied. This is not just Theory & Lecture Class, bring your DSLR as this is a series... of "hands on shooting Classes. Learn how to make photographs not just take pictures.

Contact Mark Swink, Michael Caristo, or Casey's Cameras for more information or to sign up.

Photo classes coming soon

Details are being finalized with experienced photography instructors for the kickoff of basic photography classes beginning May 1, 2010 at Casey's Camera in Las Vegas. The beginning class will be comprised of four 3 hour seminars. Each seminar will be from 10 am to 1 pm. Part of each seminar will be an active discussion followed by hands on practice with 2 professional photographers working with the students as the students learn how to use THEIR cameras to make photographs instead of just taking pictures. Each seminar will have an assignment to complete for review at the next seminar to help the student practice what they have learned. For more details check back often or send an email to mark@msplv.com.

The Rogues

The processing is done and the photos are uploaded.  Now everyone can check out the shots from St. Pat's Day with The Rogues performing at Diablo's Cantina in the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.  The images are in our photo gallery so feel free to browse at your leisure.
http://gallery.msplv.com/rogues

Las Vegas Marching Arts on St. Pat's Day

Although there is a link included to where the full portfolio of images are located for LVMA from St. Pat's Day shoot, here a just a couple of them.

To see many more photos of this fantastic day of celtic music to benefit our wounded heros check out the LVMA photo gallery.  http://gallery.msplv.com/lvma-2010-03-17

HDR Play at St. Patty's Shoot

There is still a lot of work to do to get the real images ready from all  of the shooting on St. Patrick's Day but here is a shot I took to play with in Photomatix and Topaz.  Some interesting results and a little distraction from the serious post processing.  Enjoy and feel free to leave a comment about what you like and don't like.

And yet a different effect.

Just a little more play before getting back to work.

Ok, everyone.  Which one do you like the best?  Why?

Busy Day

I started the day shooting for the Las Vegas Marching Arts for an event using their fire engine on Fremont Street.  I met some interesting people while there including the manager of Diablo's Cantina in the Monte Carlo Casino and a very nice lady from National Geographic.  The manager of Diablo's asked us to come to their live band area and shoot the band as they got started on their St. Patrick's Day party.  After downloading files from the earlier shoot it was back out to Diablo's for both of us to shoot the band, The Rogues.  The Rogues were doing a benefit for Ward 57 which is an organization that benefits veterans that have lost a limb in the service of their country.  Look for a few shots to come in the near future.

I WON!

It was great to see everyone at the Zenfolio booth at WPPI today.  While there I won a shootsac which was something that I have been wanting for some time now.  ShootSac  Now, who needs or wants a location shoot?  It's time to get out and use the new Shootsac.

Some shots from Choo Choo Shoot

It was an interesting day at the train yard.  Middle of the day, wind blowing, and bright sun.  It was nice to be there with nobody in the way and lots of subjects to shoot.  Here are 3 of the shots from the fun at Nevada Southern Railway in Boulder City.

Shooting Trains

It's off to Boulder City this morning to shoot some trains.  Just a group of photographers heading out to share some good times and good friends.  The train museum information can be found here.  Beautiful weather and great friends, who could ask for more?

New Photography Workshops Coming Soon!!

I am currently working with 2 other photographers to establish a new series of photography workshops from beginner’s workshops for those that have just gotten their first DSLR to advanced workshops for those that want to take their photography to new levels. Follow my blog to keep from missing out on the forthcoming details. The workshops will be in blocks of 4 seminars over a 4 week period. There will be 3 professional photographers teaching the workshops and providing hands-on instruction. These 3 professionals all work in different types of the photography world so the students will get a wide range of experience as well as exposure to the various ways that photography is used. Stay tuned for more details as they develop.

View all types of photo files

Are you having trouble viewing you picture files?  Try using Fast Picture Viewer available here.  This is a free program and will allow you to view not only jpg files but also raw files from almost any camera system whether you are using windows or mac.

Don't forget to enter our wedding contest!

We love doing things for people in love!! Check out our new wedding contest. http://www.msplv.com/weddingcontest2010-Q1.htm Now let's see who has the best story about why they deserve to win. Who knows, you or your friend could win as much as 50% off your wedding photography. What's better than getting a great deal on your Las Vegas Wedding Photography? Getting a great deal on your Las Vegas Wedding Photography from a great Las Vegas Wedding Photographer!

1 GB Internet in Las Vegas?

Wouldn't it be great to have an internet connection that could instantly deliver the content you seek?  How about uploading the entire photoshoot to your website in a couple of minutes instead of a couple of hours?  This new connection from Google would be a wonderful thing to have.  Just imagine that the bottleneck to upload speeds would become the speed at which the server on the other end could write the data to disk!!  All I can say it WOW!!  I hope Las Vegas becomes a test market for this.