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		<title>Skips Summer School Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2011/09/09/skips-summer-school-las-vegas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had Bambi Cantrell and Roberto Valenzuela who both are very inspirational and motivating speakers. Roberto in particular really "spoke" to me about shooting in shadows and how to use them. I find myself shooting a lot in the middle of the day or on really bright locations. One take away from Roberto is that you need to shoot, you need to practice and you don't need alot of to practice with. His case in point is shooting with his trademark melons and bananas. You practice shooting to get the lighting with them and then when it's for real, you already know how to do it and you don't waste time. 
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		<title>Repurposing a light box to be a light table</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/?p=2581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a very interesting blog posting on how to shoot flowers using a light box. I took a different approach since I did not want to build a cardboard box so anything else. I took my large softbox and flipped it upside down. I could do this because I use C stands with boom arms and it becomes very easy to change the orientation of a modifier. I just made sure that the legs were in the right position to take up the low weight and added a few sand bags for good measure.]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the scenes of a photoshoot</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2011/03/24/behind-the-scenes-of-a-photoshoot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/?p=2262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Photographers love to show of images from their last photoshoot. Everyone likes to "ohhhh and ahhhh" over the images that are retouched, mashed up and worked over in a good way we hope. But, personally, I love to shoot the behind the curtain shots. You know, the things that make a photoshoot what it really is and can have you really appreciate all the more the very cool image when the environment is anything but cool.]]></description>
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		<title>Playing director on a shoot</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2011/03/17/playing-director-on-a-shoot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One skill that any photographer of people needs to work on and constantly improve, is the ability to direct clients/models/subjects to be where you want them, how they need to look and generally for them to feel comfortable with you. After all, you are shoving a camera in their face and most normally people are not used to that sort of thing. Professional models are more used to it but even they only give you what you ask of them.]]></description>
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		<title>More hotlights and vintage portraits</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2011/02/27/more-hotlights-and-vintage-portraits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the last entry on this subject was about shooting with a single light and this week, I've taken it to two lights. The idea is to provide some fill and highlights. And lest you think that one needs an expensive studio or alot of room for this style of shooting, that could be further from the truth. The sample shot I have included this week was taken in a 5x5 space right in front of my front door entry way with some white polarplus gaf-taped to the wall. Pretty low tech if you ask me.]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood Glamour and Noir Portraits</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2011/02/13/hollywood-glamour-and-noir-portraits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is one very important detail among everything else that the hot lights excel at. And that is the small fact that since the light is continuous,  you can shoot as fast as you can hit the shutter. So when the model hits her/his stride in providing the EMOTION of the shot, you can catch it without fear of the strobe being in the middle of recharge cycle. Most strobes require a second or two to recharge unless the photographer is shooting with multiple strobes and the power levels dropped down to encourage the faster recharge rate. Or the photographer is shooting with very expensive packs that can recharge very fast. Either way, speed costs money, how fast do you want to go?This does not really apply if the photographer is shooting posed shots where the model is set in place and needs to hold that pose specifically, I'm talking about the more organic style of shooting where the model has some latitude on the pose. In the static poses, you can afford to wait the 1-2 seconds between pops of the flash since the model's job is to stay still till told otherwise.]]></description>
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		<title>SSD and the need for SPEED</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2011/02/02/ssd-and-the-need-for-speed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faster, everyone wants to go faster, have a faster computer, a faster disk drive or a faster application. Once a VERY expensive option, the SSD (Solid State Drive) drive has become mostly affordable now they are being made in large volumes. You can get them in all kinds of packaging so you can put the drive into a PCI-E slot or replace an existing hard drive. The most common use for photographer is either as a extra volume or a replacement system volume.

Before we look at the speed of a the SSD, we need to understand how they work and what makes them differently than a traditional hard drive with a rotating plater. The traditional hard drive for years has been made with a motor of some kind spinning a metal or glass platter(s) in a rigid cast metal chassis. They were heavy, took a fair around of electricity to move the platters and it took time to move the heads across the platters. Over the years, the motors were improved, the platters were made lighter and higher capacity and throughput was improved with the new interfaces like eSATA (enhanced  Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI). But even with all the improvements such as 15K RPM drives, glass platters, low power electronics and very sophisticated storage algorithms, they were still a very slow device  when compared to the lighting fast access times of a memory chip.]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected photoshoots</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2011/01/22/unexpected-photoshoots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just the other day I was talking about taking advantage of shooting in unplanned circumstances. And so it came to pass, I got a call from a friend telling me about a way to get inside one of the old airship hangers in Tustin here Orange County. The base is still owned by the Navy and had been used as a Marine helicopter base and a blimp base among other things. I have taken pictures over the years of the hangers from the outside but I have never been able to get on the inside. So I get a call saying that there will be a tour on saturday and it's now friday.
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		<title>How to be a better photographer? Just Shoot more!</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2011/01/12/how-to-be-a-better-photographer-just-shoot-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few years, I have been alot of effort into upping my game as far as photography the craft goes. And with watching my friends, going to dozens of shooting events and all the seminars, one thing has really started to stand out. You can train as much as you want, you can study as much as you want and you can spend a boatload of money on workshops but NOTHING works as well in helping you be a better photographer than getting out and shooting FOR REAL. Thats right, for real...  dealing with weather, clients, stray people, schedules, crying children, bad traffic, balky equipment while in front of a paying client and more.
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		<title>Why Film? and Why Medium Format?</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/12/24/why-film-and-why-medium-format/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the advent of digital camera came the keening of film's death song. I mean, who in their right mind would every want to use film again? I have a plastic card that is the size of my thumbnail and it hold hundreds of pictures and costs 20 bucks. A roll of film before processing is 4 bucks and then 15 more just to get it developed and maybe some prints. And you still need to scan it to DO anything with it? So why film? Whats the draw to film?
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