Studio on a Shoestring

Mother’s Day Sale at Totally Rad

deborahwolfe — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:29:12 +0000

Spend $99 and save $50 this week only! Totally Rad is having a totally awesome sale on their total line of totally fantastic products and it totally ONLY happens this week. Whew! That was like totally a mouth full. Buy ANY Product worth $99 and SAVE. Time for Quantum Mathematics. Sooooooooooo, let’s see. If you buy a product that normally costs $100, you would save $50. Let me do the...

New Natural Light Photography Book

deborahwolfe — Thu, 10 May 2012 09:00:04 +0000

Win $1,000 worth of lenses! Digital Photography School has come out with another in their fantastic line of digital photography books: Natural Light – Mastering a Photographer’s Most Powerful Tool. This time the subject is natural light photography. The darned thing is literally flying off the shelves. Apparently there is a great need for this type of material. And why not? Natural...

How to Pick Up Women in 5 Easy Steps

deborahwolfe — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:00:37 +0000

Bait and Switch. “Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with...

What is an F-Stop

deborahwolfe — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:00:10 +0000

Wherein Alice went down the rabbit hole and fell into a magical land where all manner of things began to make sense. Quick….what’s an f-stop? What does it do? Why does it matter? How does it play with shutter speed? Apparently this is one of the hardest things for the average person to learn. I can actually see people’s eyes glaze over when I try to explain it. There’s...

Low Key Lighting for Still Life

deborahwolfe — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:00:27 +0000

Or, Finding a good excuse to show off my latest work. I bought some new lighting equipment several months ago. I got 3 new strobe heads, two new soft boxes, and light stands. Other than the initial post-UPS delivery inspection, I haven’t done a thing with any of it. Part of the excuse reason is a change of domiciles after the arrival of the equipment, which entailed weeks of packing,...

Welcome to the All Spam All the Time Show

deborahwolfe — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:46:38 +0000

Best Spam Comment in an Inane World Goes to….. The person whose URL was linked to an interior design and 3D modeling service…..whatever that may be. In any event, this clearly brilliant fart knocker marketing expert wrote: “Its like you read my thoughts! You seem to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I feel that you could do with a few % to...

Dead Women: The New Porn

deborahwolfe — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:00:43 +0000

Photographs That Disturb Me There is a rather famous quote that goes something like this, “Opinions are like a**holes…everybody’s got one.” Without further ado, here’s mine. I don’t like photographs that depict women as dead. Especially FASHION photos. As a matter of fact, they make my blood boil. It further infuriates and confounds me that women go along...

Last Day to Win $1200 in Photography Products

deborahwolfe — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:40 +0000

Wake up, Smell the Coffee, Buy the Book and Grab the Prizes! Today is IT. G Day. Because after midnight tonight, it’s GONE. Nothing but the wind and crickets tomorrow morning. What ARE you talking about woman? Oh, you want it simple? Then stand back. You have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT (February 21, US Eastern Time) to do the following: Buy the book. WHAT book? Photo Nuts and POST. Keep...

Only 3 More Days to Win $1200 in Photography Products

deborahwolfe — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:28:10 +0000

Buy Photo Nuts and POST by February 21 and qualify to win BIG. If you have a problem with buying a FANTASTIC ebook loaded with tons of photography post processing information, at a reduced price AND having a chance to win things like cameras and computers, then you should just skip this post and move on to more productive things. Like making arrangements for your Grand European Tour or chumming...

New Digital Photography Ebook and Chance to Win $1200 in Products

deborahwolfe — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:00:54 +0000

Photo Nuts and POST: A Guide to Post Processing The folks over at Digital Photography School have just released another in their already exemplary line of digital photography ebooks. This one, Photo Nuts and POST: A Guide to Post Processing, is an extremely in depth and detailed tour around the back end of the photographic process. View it as an under-the-hood manual, that will guide you...