David Warner Studio

Lydia’s Portrait Session

Last weekend, Deborah and I went out to experiment with some new lighting gear and techniques. I ‘volunteered’ the girl who cuts my hair because a year ago, I had gotten a quick picture of her in a parade and I thought she was very photogenic! I was getting my haircut and said to her [...]

Taking better photographs of your children

One of the most popular things we all use our cameras for, is taking pictures of your kids, grandkids, neighbors kids, and on and on. Let’s face it, you pull up a camera to your eye and every child within 100 yards puts that ‘typical’ silly grin on their face. You snap the picture, and [...]

Being Published

I was talking with Adirondack Photographer Carl E. Heilman II via email the other day about doing an interview for LensFlare35.com, and he mentioned something really interesting to me that I hadn’t thought about. He said that photographers these days have to be really good marketers because of all the competition. I started thinking about [...]

The New Website

So…why the new website? Wasn’t the old one good enough? Well, yes and no. It was a combination of HTML and Flash. It had a backend WordPress blog that was using a three-year-old theme and they weren’t updating the theme anymore and things have really changed. So, time to put everything into one ‘spot’. However, [...]

Beautiful Adirondack Scenery

I went to check out one of my favorite locations about five miles from my house. Rumor has it, they are going to put large windmills up there and I wanted to see if it was going to spoil the view. The day had been hot, I had taken my wife out to a fancy [...]

Through My Lens – Flower Photography

Spring in the Central New York and Southern Adirondacks region means just one thing to me; TONS of flowers are blooming and it’s time to grab the camera and get some shots! But how can you get those fantastic ‘professional’ images? Do you have to have a ‘pro’ camera in order to get them? Just [...]

Painted Portrait – Ava

We had the family Christmas Party at the beginning of December last year, and I took some casual portraits of family members while everyone was together. A few turned out really well, so I decided to turn a couple of them into painted portraits. This is Ava, and she is my nephew’s daughter. Her mother [...]

Bridal Meeting

Last weekend, Deborah and I met up with Brandon Smith and Melissa Stefanec, who are getting married in Little Falls in September. The idea was just to do a meet and great, get an idea of what their expectations where, and then get the details of the wedding – time, place, etc. When I talked [...]

Painted Portrait – Deborah

Seems like I’ve been trying to finish this one for the LONGEST time! I did the portrait session with Deborah when we were in Elgin. Then, I worked on the image when we got up here, but I didn’t do the painted portion because I had a very particular style in mind for this. Over [...]

Painted Portrait of the Mother-in-Law

Well, my wife wanted to make sure that I did a painted portrait of my mother-in-law JUST like the one I had done of her father-in-law last year. So, we did the portrait session last weekend, and then this week I worked on the painted version of it. Finished yesterday – JUST in time for [...]