<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>Stagi Imagery - Bay Area Wedding photography  &amp;amp; Destination weddings</title><description>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Welcome to the Stagi Imagery Blog, we will be showing you some of our recent work and the latest and greatest in the wedding photography world.  Enjoy!</description><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stagi)</managingEditor><pubDate>Wed, 4 Sep 2024 15:32:21 -0700</pubDate><generator>Blogger http://www.blogger.com</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">436</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/</link><language>en-us</language><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="http://www.wedclix.com/images/logo-web1.gif"/><itunes:keywords>wedding,photography,photography,artistic,photography,fine,art,wedding,photography</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>Welcome to the Stagi Imagery Podcast. Here we will showcase our favorite wedding and portrait photography and video movies of recent weddings. Sit back and enjoy our award winning wedding photography.</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>Welcome to the Stagi Imagery Podcast. Here we will showcase our favorite wedding and portrait photography and video movies of recent weddings. Sit back and enjoy our award winning wedding photography.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Arts"><itunes:category text="Visual Arts"/></itunes:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>mark@wedclix.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><item><title>Oscars 2011: Share Predictions with Awards Hero : Product Reviews Net</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2011/02/oscars-2011-share-predictions-with.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:29:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-6461041438441491199</guid><description>&lt;a href="http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/02/18/oscars-2011-share-predictions-with-awards-hero/"&gt;Oscars 2011: Share Predictions with Awards Hero : Product Reviews Net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Review of Awards Hero Oscars Edition from Productreviews.net.  Get the app here:  http://bit.ly/aso0LT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 2011 Academy Awards are just over a week away, and an application is available that takes a look at the nominees and lets users predict who will win. Awards Hero: Oscars Edition 2.0 is available for owners of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.&lt;br /&gt;Released by AppEzzy, the app takes a comprehensive look at this year’s Academy Awards and lets users vote on who they think will win. With a beautiful interface and simple to use navigation, Awards Hero is great for all movie lovers to enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;Once users have decided who they think will win, they can share their choices with friends on Facebook or Twitter. You can even create an Oscar pool to see who has chosen the most winners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Awards Hero: Oscars® Edition has just been updated for the 2011 Academy Awards®. This comprehensive iPhone app takes a look at the 2011 Academy Awards ® nominees and lets users vote on their pick to win. You can also quickly create an Oscars® Pool and compete with your friends. With a beautiful interface and easy to use navigation this app is perfect for all movie lovers. Check out a little more about the app below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you have what it takes to be the Academy Awards® hero? Think you can guess all the correct winners from the 2011 Academy Awards®? Awards Hero: Oscars Edition is the ultimate Academy Award app! View all of the 2011 Academy Award® nominees and vote for your pick to win. Share you votes with your friends on Facebook and Twitter and create a Oscar Pool to see who can pick the most winners. You can even view beautiful full screen trailers for the 2011 movie nominees and film info, all built right into the app.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some other useful features in Awards Hero: Oscars Edition:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Deepen your movie knowledge with our database of every past nominee and winner with our full list from the inaugural year in 1929 up to today.&lt;br /&gt;• Live news feed to give you daily movie news. Don’t miss any entertainment news as we lead up to the Oscars.&lt;br /&gt;• View trailers for movies all within the app.&lt;br /&gt;• Share your picks on Facebook.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>vintage san francisco engagement shoot</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/11/vintage-san-francisco-engagement-shoot.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:15:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-4329718138875373835</guid><description>Check out more images on our blog http://www.wedclix.com/blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="entry-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wedclix.com/blog/awesome-vintage-style-san-francisco-engagement-shoot/ " title="Permalink to Awesome vintage style San Francisco Engagement Shoot" rel="bookmark"&gt;Awesome vintage style San Francisco Engagement Shoot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;div class="entry-date"&gt;&lt;abbr class="published" title="2010-11-10T15:05:58+0000"&gt;November 10, 2010 &amp;#8211; 3:05 pm&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="right" style="float:right;padding:0px 0px 5px 5px;"&gt;&lt;a name="fb_share" type="button" share_url="http://wedclix.com/blog/awesome-vintage-style-san-francisco-engagement-shoot/ "&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="awppost_1_2645" class="awppage" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I first met with Sean and Reyna I was excited about their vision for the engagement shoot.  It&amp;#8217;s always so much fun to do a shoot that is a little different and has more of their personality into the shoot rather than just photographing some place because its beautiful.  They had in their mind the classic 50&amp;#8217;s shot of the sailer in times square kissing a girl and we planned on photographing around the Presedio for a cool vintage style shoot.  We found some great spots and even a few that I have never noticed in the many times of shooting around that area and got some great shots of them.  We even found a house that had a classic car parked in front of, just for us &lt;img src='http://wedclix.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy a quick little slideshow of some of the highlights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16699831?portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff9933" width="850" height="478" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/16699831"&gt;Vintage San Francisco Presedio Engagement Shoot&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user1297073"&gt;mark stagi&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Digital photography tips and inspiration</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/09/digital-photography-tips-and.html</link><category>2008 wedding photography highlight show</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:14:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-23866571069178789</guid><description>A couple new posts from &lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com"&gt;Digital Photo Buzz&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I wanted to share a video I came across about how to create a creative digital composite in Photoshop CS5. I think digital composites can be so interesting and Photoshop really is such a powerful tool in the creative process. With the ability to layer images over images and blend items together Photoshop really gives us as artists endless possibilities. There is so much detail you can weave into a digital composite and as an art form you can let your imagination run wild.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/creating-a-creative-digital-composite"&gt;Creating a creative digital composite&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/shoeboxed-com-receipt-scanning-review"&gt;shoeboxed.com receipt scanning review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Awhile back I reviewed a scanner that I have used for awhile in the office here for scanning receipts. Scanning all of our receipts has really save a lot of time come the end of the year tax time and also is very helpful when you need to find a old receipt for a warranty or other purposes. Every week we scan all of our business receipts into a program and categorize them. It gives a running total of amount spent in each category so I can always see how much we are spending on a certain category at a glance without having to open up quickbooks. This has been very useful to keep organized and helpful in situations where I need to find an old receipt. Awhile back I had to find a receipt for something I bought a few years ago for a warranty and by doing a quick search I was able to pull up the receipt scan and find all the information I needed. The only bummer about this system is it does take time to scan each receipt. If you keep up on it every week, I try but honestly sometimes a week turns into months and I have a stack of hundreds of receipts, it isn’t too bad but still take time. For most of you who are running a small photography business you probably only have 1 employee (you) so time is really your most important asset. In order to truly grow your photography business you have to be able to leverage your time and focus on what you do best… create art, while leaving some of the other tasks to other people. If you are going to pay a part time office person to just sit at a desk and scan receipts it can become pretty expensive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/10-inspiring-photos-of-new-york"&gt;10 inspiring photos of New York &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought it would be nice to showcase 10 inspiring images of New York, which is still one of the leading cities in the world.  Enjoy a few amazing images of the city that never sleeps.  Do you have some great photos of New York?  Share a link in the comments below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arno-4m/1363715255/" title="Tribute in Light (2) by Arnold Pouteau's, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1328/1363715255_7437a4cc72.jpg" width="500" height="339" alt="Tribute in Light (2)" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/acmace/4593733391/" title="Sunset over the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York City by andrew mace—, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3308/4593733391_2ac3b54a34.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="Sunset over the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York City" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember to check &lt;a href="http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com "&gt;http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com &lt;/a&gt;daily for photo inspiration!</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1328/1363715255_7437a4cc72_t.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>baby photography 101</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/05/baby-photography-101.html</link><category>2008 wedding photography highlight show</category><category>learn photography</category><pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 21:10:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-7023701996681755440</guid><description>I am so stoked to have my 3rd iPad app finished and waiting for apple to approve!  I started writing a few mini books awhile back to help educate photographers wanting to start shooting weddings or portraits. There are so many questions I get from people that normally are the same questions people have when getting into photography. I also see so many people starting out that lack a certain creative element in their photography. Normally some of the more advanced things like Lighting are missed by most people starting out. So over the past year I have been working on putting down on paper some of the many things in my head that I can share from my 11 years of shooting professionally and years of Art school before that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to create some guides that were really easy to learn, easy to understand and covered the technical parts of photography but in a not so technical way. As a photographer I am visual, after college I would still keep up with my photo education and read books, attended seminars and workshops and usually was pretty uninspired by the way the information was presented. Normally it was so technical that it lost my attention after a few minutes and I put the book on the shelf never to be picked up again. So I set out to create some tools for people to learn and be inspired and also wanted to create them at a very good price, really a no brainer. When the iPad was released I was excited, it really is a perfect medium to learn on . You have a nice large screen as well as something that feels great in your hand like a book but can be so interactive. So far I have created a Portrait 101 and a Wedding Photography 101 guide that right now are only $1.99!  I wanted to create some very useful guides to help people get more creative with their photography and also have them be so inexpensive anyone can buy them.  These also are available as iPhone (or iPod touch) version and for those of you who don't have an iPhone or iPad going to be available as eBooks coming out in the next few months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a excerpt from the Baby Photography 101 app coming this week.  Watch Twitter for an announcement when it's live &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/digitalphotobuz" target="_blank"&gt;@digitalphotobuz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/large_icon.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/large_icon.png" alt="" title="Baby Photography 101 book" width="512" height="512" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1820" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tips on keeping them sleeping&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing is more beautiful than a peaceful sleeping baby.  But sometimes no matter how tired they are when you are ready to shoot them sleeping they just don't want to stay asleep.  I don't know how many times a mom has fed, burped and changed a baby then rocked them to sleep and once I start clicking the shutter they start to wake right up.  There are a few tips that I have found very useful to keep a baby sleeping. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1-  Swaddle them up nice and tight.  Especially for newborns up to 2 months old the swaddle can be your best friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 - Pacifier.  Although it might not look perfect in the image a pacifier can really help settle a baby down and get them to fall asleep.  And I do think it's cute to have a few images of them with the pacifier in their mouth.  Normally after a few minutes they will let go of it anyway and it will fall out of their mouth or you can try to gently pop it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3-  Make sure the room is warm.  Babies are used to being in the womb where its nice and soft and warm.  Make sure the room is very warm, especially if you want a shot of the baby sleeping without clothes.  Keep them surrounded by lots of soft warm blankets and snuggled up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4- Have some background noise playing.  You can bring a small CD player or use your iPhone and play a CD of soothing sounds.  There are tons of soothing type CD's out there for babies and they can really help put the baby at ease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post is sponsored by &lt;a href="http://www.collages.net/site/SignUpOptions/tabid/828/Default.aspx?ad=dpb" target="_blank"&gt;Collages.net&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Another raindrop series #1</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/05/another-raindrop-series-1.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 20:44:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-931397403079683675</guid><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/187849489/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/62/187849489_1e1b6f1a83_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/187849489/"&gt;Another raindrop series #1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/lordv/"&gt;Lord V&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/62/187849489_1e1b6f1a83_t.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>hands</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/05/hands.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 20:38:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-2917520781039124954</guid><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrea_laybauer/4613257957/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3364/4613257957_0a2b2ff637_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrea_laybauer/4613257957/"&gt;hands&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/andrea_laybauer/"&gt;Andrea Laybauer - Photographer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3364/4613257957_0a2b2ff637_t.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Una Bella Sera</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/05/una-bella-sera.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 7 May 2010 06:51:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-2604703905713267958</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Our wedding wednesday post this week is a quick recap of the amazing Una Bella Sera event last weekend.  If you weren’t able to make it you missed out on another beautiful event put on by two of the best in the wedding industry, Crystal Lequang from Amazae Special Events and Nicole Ha from Nicole Ha Designs.  They are two very creative and talented people that always amaze me with the designs they create for this event.  It’s a collection of some of the best of the best in the industry and they setup the coolest designs you will ever see.  This year there were 4 main design rooms that were all really unique and pretty breathtaking.  Here is just a little glimpse into their designs, look out for more images coming soon!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are getting married contact Crystal, she is an excellent coordinator and also a talented designer.  &lt;a href="http://www.amazaespecialevents.com/"&gt;http://www.amazaespecialevents.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or for your florals check out Nicoles website at:  &lt;a href="http://www.nicoleha.com/"&gt;http://www.nicoleha.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is a little sneak peek at the day:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://wedclix.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_2119.jpg" alt="" title="una bella sera artistic photography stagi" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2387" width="900" height="600"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://wedclix.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_2157.jpg" alt="" title="una bella sera artistic photography stagi" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2388" width="900" height="600"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://wedclix.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_2142.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://wedclix.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG_2142.jpg" alt="" title="una bella sera artistic photography stagi" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2389" width="400" height="600"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Wedding Photography 101 iPad App</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/05/wedding-photography-101-ipad-app.html</link><category>Wedding Photography 101 iPad App</category><pubDate>Sat, 1 May 2010 09:13:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-1798844929759664204</guid><description>Check our my latest app for the iPad to help you learn how to take better wedding photos!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Wedding Photography 101 for iPad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div id="madmimi_outer_wrapper"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;table id="madmimi_wrapper" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;table id="madmimi_header" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;td id="madmimi_header_content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/bjXwgq"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;img alt="Weddingphoto" height="393" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0043/0187/weddingphoto.jpg" width="590" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;table id="madmimi_body" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;tr valign="top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;td id="madmimi_body_content" width="566"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;div class="module combo-left"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;table align="left" height="180" style="float:left;" width="180"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container" style="float:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/bjXwgq" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="180" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0043/0208/test_icon4.png" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-text-container"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/bjXwgq" target="_blank"&gt;Wedding Photography 101:   A Guide to Taking Better Wedding Photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our 2nd iPad app is now live in the app store! It’s another great photography guide to help you take more artistic wedding photos. And for the next 2 days it's only $.99!  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wedding Photography 101 will show you how to get creative wedding photos along with real world examples and stories. This really is an amazing price and is the best value you will see out there!  Learn from a real professional with over 10 years of experience photographing hundreds of weddings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;With Wedding Photography 101 for the iPad you will learn from fine art wedding photographer Mark Stagi how to get more creative with your wedding photos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wedding Photography 101: A Guide to Taking Better Wedding Photos walks you through some key lessons to improve your wedding photos. Everything is explained in real life terms with beautiful large sample images. No drawn out techie terms just straight forward answers from award winning wedding and portrait photographer Mark Stagi. If you are thinking about getting into the wedding photography industry or looking for some creative photo ideas this is the perfect app for you. Read through some real life scenarios along with high resolution images to learn how to take your wedding photos to the next level. Camera settings and stories about each shoot are included.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get it in the iTunes store now:  &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/bjXwgq" target="_blank"&gt;Wedding Photography 101&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module divider"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-divider-container"&gt;&lt;img alt="***" src="http://madmimi.com/images/divider.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module header"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-header-container"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Portraits 101: Creating Better Portraits - On Sale!&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module combo-right"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;table align="right" height="120" style="float:right;" width="180"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container" style="float:right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/buMWia" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="120" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0038/1193/portraits101.jpg" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-text-container"&gt;&lt;p&gt;To celebrate our latest app release our popular Portrait Photography 101 app for the iPhone is going on sale for only $.99!  Portrait Photography 101: A Guide to Taking Better Portraits walks you through some key concepts to improve your photos. Everything is explained in real life terms with beautiful large sample images. No drawn out techie terms just straight forward answers from award winning wedding and portrait photographer Mark Stagi. If you love taking photos of your kids, are a amateur photographer or a professional looking for some portrait ideas this is the perfect app for you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;For more information about Portrait Photography 101 visit the iTunes store here  &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/port101" target="_blank"&gt;Portrait Photography 101 iPad app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;We thank  you for your continued support!  Remember to leave any great reviews you have for our apps in the app store!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module image"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;table width='554' align='center'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/port101" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="87" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0028/9652/academy_awards_hero_iphone.png" width="230" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='20'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='20'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='20'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module image"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;table width='400' align='center'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/port101" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="267" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0043/0186/Homepage_portrait_iphone.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module divider"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-divider-container"&gt;&lt;img alt="***" src="http://madmimi.com/images/divider.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module text"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-text-container"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow us on twitter to keep up to date with our latest app releases! &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/appezzy" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.twitter.com/appezzy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Portrait Photography 101 and Wedding Photography 101 were created by AppEzzy.  To view more of our iPhone and iPad apps visit our website at &lt;a href="http://www.appezzy.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.appezzy.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;a href='http://twitter.com/appezzy' title='Twitter'&gt;&lt;img src='http://madmimi.com/images/social/gary/twitter.png' alt='twitter' title='Twitter' width='32' height='32' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align='center' style='font-size:9px'&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;table id="madmimi_footer" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;td id="madmimi_footer_content" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="footer"&gt;&amp;copy;2010 AppEzzy | San Jose, Ca&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table width="158" align="center" style="margin-top:8px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;p class="toolbar" style="font-size: 11px;&lt;br /&gt;   width:158px;padding:4px;&lt;br /&gt;   text-align:center;font-weight:bold"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Powered by &lt;a style="font-size:11px;" href="http://madmimi.com"&gt;Mad Mimi&lt;/a&gt;&amp;reg;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;/table&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>SHow us your best portrait</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/04/show-us-your-best-portrait.html</link><category>SHow us your best portrait</category><pubDate>Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:09:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-726581152231929139</guid><description>Our latest giveaway ends today so enter right away for your chance to win $100 giftcard.&lt;br /&gt;Details can be found here:  &lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/show-us-your-best-portrait"&gt;http://digitalphotobuzz.com/show-us-your-best-portrait&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to our&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Jose-CA/Digital-Photo-Buzz/105526232815609?created"&gt; facebook fan page&lt;/a&gt; and become a fan.&lt;br /&gt;Then just add a photo to our wall with your best recent portrait (you can enter up to 3 of your best images)&lt;br /&gt;We won’t bite so don’t be scared, this will be a great way for us to all share our work with each other.&lt;br /&gt;On Friday at 5:00 PST I will pick 3 images that I feel are the best portraits. It will be based on a mix of things: Creativity, technical, composition, lighting to just name a few. We will also post these to the site afterwards and i’ll give some feedback on why I think the winners deserve recognition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bit.ly/buMWia"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 149px; height: 149px;" src="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/test-iconipad.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Portrait Photography 101: A Guide to Taking Better Portraits</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/04/portrait-photography-101-guide-to.html</link><category>portrait photography</category><category>portrait photography iPad app</category><pubDate>Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:59:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-5171523114976331296</guid><description>Check our this App that we helped created for the iPad!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Portrait Photography 101: A Guide to Taking Better Portraits. This guide covers some key lessons to create better portraits, giving you examples and real world descriptions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything is explained in real life terms with beautiful large sample images. No drawn out techie terms just straight forward answers. If you love taking photos of your kids or are a amateur photographer looking for some portrait ideas this is the perfect app for you. Read through some real life scenarios along with high resolution images to learn how to take better portraits. Camera settings and stories about each shoot are included as well as a notes section for you to write down some notes as you read along.&lt;br /&gt;So if you are getting an iPad and want to learn how to take better portraits download this from the App Store for only $1.99! &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/buMWia"&gt;Portrait Photography 101&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more digital photography reviews and tips check out&lt;a href="http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com"&gt; www.digitalphotobuzz.com&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Digital Photo Buzz</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/04/digital-photo-buzz.html</link><category>digital photo buzz</category><category>digital photo tips</category><category>digital photography tips</category><pubDate>Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:47:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-9172217915107530608</guid><description>Lots of new articles up on Digital Photo Buzz lately.  Here are a couple of the most recent articles we have:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/photographers-spotlight-toky-photography"&gt;Photographers Spotlight – Toky Photography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/photo-of-the-week-4-2-10"&gt;Photo of the week 4-2-10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/photoshop-cs5-content-aware"&gt;Photoshop CS5 Content aware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/join-us-on-facebook"&gt;Join us on facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/neat-receipts-receipt-scanning-and-organizing"&gt;Keeping your documents organized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here is a little bit of our most recent article on "&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/opening-yourself-up-to-new-things"&gt;Opening yourself up to new things&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://digitalphotobuzz.com/opening-yourself-up-to-new-things&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I find it really interesting the journey life can take you on when you start to open yourself up to new opportunities. I know that change and new things can be hard to take on sometimes. We all get in our comfort zone and it’s hard to leave that place where we feel comfortable and take on something new. But when you open yourself up to new things you will be amazed how much you will grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an artist I constantly get inspired to create new things. Sometimes it might just be creating a new type of image, doing something I have never done photographically. Sometimes it might be starting a new venture like this website was. My normal routine would be to get inspired start planning things out and then a little bit of doubt would come in and make me put the project on the side for awhile. After a few weeks it would be out of my mind and I would be on to the next thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year I finally came to the conclusion that failure really doesn’t matter. What other people think of me doesn’t matter and that fear and doubt shouldn’t make decisions for me. I told myself that if I got a vision to do something I would see it through completely. There have been a lot of things I have been doing this past year that all haven’t worked out the way I might have thought from the start but have been such an amazing experience so far. This website actually just began as an idea I had to give people that took my workshops a place to go and get some additional information. I thought I could add a tutorial a week and just give them something to keep growing after taking a workshop. After the first few weeks though other people found the site and I started getting more and more traffic from all over the web. I started posting more and more articles and more people kept coming. It turned into something so much larger than I would have ever imagined and I have some really good things to come later on for this site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;read the full article here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/opening-yourself-up-to-new-things"&gt;http://digitalphotobuzz.com/opening-yourself-up-to-new-things&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Win $100 giftcard</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/03/win-100-giftcard.html</link><category>photography</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:59:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-1130683708459802617</guid><description>Win a $100 giftcard from Black River Imaging.  All you have to do to enter is send out a tweet, get all of the details here:  &lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/100-giftcard-giveaway"&gt;http://digitalphotobuzz.com/100-giftcard-giveaway&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Using the sun as a backlight</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/03/using-sun-as-backlight.html</link><category>artistic engagement photography</category><category>http://digitalphotobuzz.com/</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:43:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-8053143603906689616</guid><description>Check out one of our latest articles online at:  &lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/"&gt;http://digitalphotobuzz.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing that I just love to do with portraits is turn the couple around and shoot right into the sun using it as a backlight. Then there are a few different things you can do to get a very different feel to the shot. Sometimes if I want to keep that rich color of the background and have my subjects more defined i’ll set my exposure for the background and light the couple with a off camera light (or two or three). You can see a good example from this article (off camera lighting and sunset). But sometimes I want something a little more soft and romantic, I want the glow of the sun to just radiate in the image and don’t mind if my subjects are a little soft also. Then I won’t use any flash at all and let the sun really be a strong backlight that gets a little blown out. Here is an example from a recent wedding:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read the full article go here:  &lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/using-the-sun-as-a-backlight"&gt;Using the sun as a backlight&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Awards Hero: Oscars Edition</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/02/awards-hero-oscars-edition.html</link><category>academy awards</category><category>Awards Hero: Oscars Edition</category><category>Oscars</category><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:21:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-1976339740188844141</guid><description>&lt;div id="madmimi_outer_wrapper"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;table id="madmimi_wrapper" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;table id="madmimi_header" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;td id="madmimi_header_content"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/aso0LT"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;img alt="Email_header2" height="376" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0030/4934/email_header2.jpg" width="590" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;table id="madmimi_body" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;tr valign="top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;td id="madmimi_body_content" width="566"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;div class="module combo-left"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;table align="left" height="270" style="float:left;" width="180"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container" style="float:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/aso0LT" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="270" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0028/5040/photoa1-200x300.jpg" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-text-container"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;p style='line-height:1em;'&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Awards Hero: Oscars® Edition available on the iPhone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;p style='line-height:1em;'&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;San Jose, Ca - February 18th, 2010&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;p style='line-height:1em;'&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;Awards Hero: Oscars® Edition is back in the App store with a brand new name and update.   Just in time for the Academy Awards® comes an amazing iPhone app.  This is a perfect app for all movie buffs.&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;p style='line-height:1em;'&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;Here is a little more about Awards Hero: Oscars® Edition:&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;p style='line-height:1em;'&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;Do you have what it takes to be the Awards hero? Think you can guess all the correct winners from the 2010 Academy Awards®? This is the ultimate Academy Award app!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;View all of the 2010 Academy Award® nominees and vote for your pick to win. Share you votes with your friends on Twitter and see who can pick the most winners. You can even view beautiful full screen trailers for the 2010 movie nominees and film info, all built right into the app.&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;p style='line-height:1em;'&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;Coming soon you will be able to post your picks to Facebook and compare your picks with your Facebook friends, its a great way to see who the real Awards Hero is!&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;p style='line-height:1em;'&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;Also view every past nominee and winner with our full list from the inaugural year in 1929 up to today. You can view all nominees and winners by year or category. With a beautiful interface and lots of great movie info this app is a must have for any movie lover.&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;p style='line-height:1em;'&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;Get this great iPhone app today in iTunes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://http:/bit.ly/aso0LT" target="_blank"&gt;Academy Awards ® Hero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module image"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;table width='554' align='center'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/aso0LT" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="87" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0028/9652/academy_awards_hero_iphone.png" width="230" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='20'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='20'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='20'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module divider"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-divider-container"&gt;&lt;img alt="***" src="http://madmimi.com/images/divider.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module image"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;table width='478' align='center'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.appezzy.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="220" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0028/5041/photo-22-200x300.jpg" width="146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='20'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.appezzy.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="220" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0028/5043/photo-112-200x300.jpg" width="146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='20'&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-image-container"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.appezzy.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="220" src="http://madmimi.com/system/promotion_images/0028/5042/photo-31-200x300.jpg" width="146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="module text"&gt;&lt;table width='554'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='554'&gt;&lt;div class="madmimi-text-container"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;p style='line-height:1em;'&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;Academy Awards ® Hero  was created by AppEzzy.  To view more of our iPhone apps visit our website at &lt;a href="http://www.appezzy.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.appezzy.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;table id="madmimi_footer" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;td id="madmimi_footer_content" width="590"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="footer"&gt;&amp;copy;2010 AppEzzy | San Jose, Ca&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table width="158" align="center" style="margin-top:8px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;p class="toolbar" style="font-size: 11px;&lt;br /&gt;   width:158px;padding:4px;&lt;br /&gt;   text-align:center;font-weight:bold"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Powered by &lt;a style="font-size:11px;" href="http://madmimi.com"&gt;Mad Mimi&lt;/a&gt;&amp;reg;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       &lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;/table&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>wedding photography workshops</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/02/wedding-photography-workshops.html</link><category>photo workshops</category><category>photography workshops</category><category>wedding photography workshops</category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:20:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-8292363075536456446</guid><description>Save on registration for our workshops - Weddings photography from A to Z and our Marketing in 2010)! If you register by Sunday we will give you $60 off the workshop cost  (2-14).  You can view details about our workshops online here: &lt;a href="http://www.workshopsfromtheheart.com" target="-blank"&gt;Photography Workshops&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workshopsfromtheheart.com" target="-blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/workshop2.jpg" alt="photography workshop" title="photography workshop" width="599" height="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-848" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weddings from A to Z&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our weddings from A to Z workshop is a full day intensive workshop all about wedding photography. With emphasis on finding your style, expanding your creativity and unleashing the artist in you. We will cover some basics in using natural light in an artistic way and start to get a little more complicated with bringing in external lighting to your weddings. We will show you how to turn the ordinary wedding scene into an amazing art piece. From using creative compositions to creative lighting and how you work with the bride and groom, we’ll show you how we turned our passion for the art of photography into a successful wedding studio. Its all about unleashing the artist in you and making your work shine!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are full day workshops in our studio in San Jose. Our next wedding workshops are:&lt;br /&gt;2/27 (SOLD OUT)&lt;br /&gt;3/13&lt;br /&gt;5/7&lt;br /&gt;7/16&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sign up online at &lt;a href="http://www.workshopsfromtheheart.com"&gt;http://www.workshopsfromtheheart.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.workshopsfromtheheart.com" target="-blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/workshop.jpg" alt="photography workshop" title="photography workshop" width="599" height="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-849" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marketing in 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2010 is here and times have changed dramatically over the last few years when it comes to marketing. 2010 is here and if you want to have your photography business thrive in this age you have to learn many new ways to market yourself (as well as some tried and true methods that have worked for ages)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you just starting your wedding photography business and don’t know how to get new clients? Or just looking for new and fresh ways to increase your current business. In todays competitive environment marketing is key to your success. We will cover many aspects of marketing from websites, blogs, Podcasting, referral marketing, and social media. Learn all about Facebook, Twitter and other online ways to market your business. This will also include a portfolio review and insights on how to brand your image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our marketing workshops are 1/2 day workshops and limited to 8 photographers. Our next Marketing in 2010 workshops are:&lt;br /&gt;3/19&lt;br /&gt;5/21&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love teaching these workshops, they are a lot of fun and packed with great info and goodies from our sponsors.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Photographer's workflow iphone app</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/02/photographers-workflow-iphone-app.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:06:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-137263058706794797</guid><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.appezzy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/photo-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 480px;" src="http://www.appezzy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/photo-4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are looking for a great way to quickly and easily update your calendar with a list of action items for your shoots check out this great new iPhone app, Photographer's Workflow.  You can get more info here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.appezzy.com/apps/photographers-workflow"&gt;http://www.appezzy.com/apps/photographers-workflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or buy the app in the iTunes store here;  &lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photographers-workflow/id347880783?mt=8"&gt;photographers workflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photographers workflow was created to help photographers keep organized and focused on what needs to be done for every job.  This is a quick and easy way to create a series of tasks from any client project that will import to Googles online calendar.  With just a few taps on your iPhone it will create a series of predefined events on your Google calendar.  Simply create a new project, pick your workflow and start date.  The app will do the rest and populate your calendar with all of the necessary events you need to finish the job!   It’s a great way to stay organized and each project can be customized to fit that specific clients needs. Photographers workflow is simple to use yet powerful.</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Light Painting #53 (Amaryllis)</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2010/01/light-painting-53-amaryllis.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:40:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-6465055310568480931</guid><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/citybumpkin/151692432/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/151692432_3ef08a9258_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/citybumpkin/151692432/"&gt;Light Painting #53 (Amaryllis)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/citybumpkin/"&gt;citybumpkin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/151692432_3ef08a9258_t.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>The couple</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2009/12/couple.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:29:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-4874753914873348471</guid><description>&lt;div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andwhynot/3525241732/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3618/3525241732_be041b0cc9_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andwhynot/3525241732/"&gt;The couple&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/andwhynot/"&gt;AndWhyNot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Slow shutter speed examples&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3618/3525241732_be041b0cc9_t.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>san jose wedding photography</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2009/12/san-jose-wedding-photography.html</link><category>fine art wedding photography</category><category>san jose wedding photography</category><pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 16:49:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-6016462712123177896</guid><description>For our most recent work, check out our blog here:  &lt;a href="http://www.wedclix.com/blog"&gt;San Jose Wedding Photography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://wedclix.com/blog/san-jose-wedding-photography/" title="Permalink to San Jose wedding photography" rel="bookmark"&gt;San Jose wedding photography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;We had such a fun wedding in San Jose a few weeks ago for Phil and Leslie.  This was our 3rd wedding with this group of friends and such a awesome wedding from start to finish.  They were married downtown and with the sun going down so early now we got to shoot the bride and groom and bridal party all during the evening.  We went to a few different spots around downtown and got some cool, creative night shots of them.  The reception was also downtown and was a great night.  I knew it was going to be a great party and they didn’t disappoint, the reception had fresh cotton candy being made and a photo booth that was packed all night!  It ended with a bridesmaid going through a glass wall so you know it was a good party (she wasn’t hurt so everything was all good). I was so happy to be a part of the day and felt like I was part of the family, thanks again guys for having me as a part of your special day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object id="movie" classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=7,3,0,0" height="360" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://www.shareitvideo.com/dropbox/62282.mp4"&gt;&lt;param name="autoplay" value="false"&gt;&lt;param name="controller" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="kioskMode" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="aspect"&gt;&lt;embed name="movie" src="http://www.shareitvideo.com/dropbox/62282.mp4" autoplay="false" controller="true" bgcolor="#000000" kioskmode="true" scale="aspect" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" height="360" width="640"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>artistic first dance photos</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2009/12/artistic-first-dance-photos.html</link><category>artistic wedding photography</category><category>fine art wedding photography</category><category>fine art wedding photos</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:55:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-2711922486654276486</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;One part of the wedding day that I really love to photograph (actually I love it all, but for the sake of this blog post one part I really love) is the first dance and father/daughter, mother/son dance. Normally these are in the reception venue where the lights come down, creating a nice dark room. I love to think of dark places as a nice blank canvas ready to create whatever vision is in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since I have a really diverse background in photography (photojournalism and fine art) I pull out lots of different tricks throughout the day to really capture the images in my mind that will show off the day in a artistic and unique way. We usually setup some lights around the dance floor to create some unique lighting for the dancing. This can give us so many different ways to shoot with every angle being a little bit different for lighting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few examples of some things you can do for some creative first dance shots:&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://wedclix.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/san_jose_st_clarire_hotel9.jpg" alt="artistic first dance photos" title="artistic first dance photos" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1957" height="600" width="900"&gt; &lt;br&gt;to read more check out our blog at:&lt;a href="http://wedclix.com/blog/page/2"&gt;Artistic wedding photography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Our first giveaway</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2009/12/our-first-giveaway.html</link><category>Bay Area wedding photograpy workshops</category><category>digital photo tips</category><category>photography giveaway</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:19:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-4896253828047401373</guid><description>We annoucned last week our first giveaway on Digitalphotobuzz.com&lt;br&gt;Here is more info:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are excited to announce our first giveaway to all of our readers.  We have received a lot of great feedback in the last few months and want to thank you all for your support.  We are going to giveaway a iPod Touch to one lucky reader.  All you have to do is 2 simple steps;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;1- Follow us on twitter here:  &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/digitalphotobuz" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.twitter.com/digitalphotobuz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;2- Post a tweet saying this:  “Win a free iPod touch from @digitalphotobuz.  Details here: http://bit.ly/7Le8F4  Please RT”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also get a 2nd entry in the contest by joining our email subscription list above.  We will never spam you, this just keeps you updated on our new article posts.  To sign up just enter your email in the box on the top right side of our website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;That’s it.  The contest will end on December 28th at 12:00 midnight PST. Only one entry via twitter and one entry via email subscription per person will be allowed.  This is just the first of many giveaways so remember to keep checking back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/32gb_ipod_touch.jpg" alt="ipod touch" title="ipod touch" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-273" height="221" width="300"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out more &lt;a href="http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com"&gt;Photography tips&lt;/a&gt; online at digitalphotobuzz.com</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Understanding White Balance</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2009/11/understanding-white-balance.html</link><category>digital photo buzz</category><category>digital photo tips</category><category>digital photography tips</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:01:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-3993424111691846532</guid><description>Couple new articles on &lt;a href="http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com"&gt;http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com&lt;/a&gt;, check out the latest one on creating a custom whitebalance.  Here is the first part of the article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have received a few requests for posts dealing with white balance and it seems like there is a lot of confusion around this topic. The white balance in your camera is its way of trying to figure out the color temperature of the light when you are shooting each image. Most cameras come with a few standard settings for your white balance; Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Florescent, Tungsten, Kelvin, Flash and Custom. Getting your white balance correct (and even knowing what should be correct) can be a very detailed and tricky task. There is lots of science behind it, but we will give you a simple yet full explanation of white balance and some ways to help get a good image in camera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/understanding-white-balance"&gt;Digital photography tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more digital photography tips check out our website</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Our last newsletter of the year</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2009/11/our-last-newsletter-of-year.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:39:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-5757484253189203794</guid><description>&lt;a href="http://wedclix.com/blog/our-last-newsletter-of-the-year/%20" title="Permalink to Our last newsletter of the year" rel="bookmark"&gt;Our last newsletter of the year&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;div class="entry-date"&gt;&lt;abbr class="published" title="2009-11-20T10:37:44-0700"&gt;November 20, 2009 – 10:37 am&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the year winding down here is our last newsletter of 2009!  This was emailed out earlier, if your email has changed or aren’t on our email list just fill out the form below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mim.io/6be81"&gt;Stagi Imagery November 2009 Newsletter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://madmimi.com/signups/subscribe/4440" method="post"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;label for="signup_name"&gt;Name&lt;/label&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input id="signup_name" name="signup[name]" type="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;label for="signup_email"&gt;Email&lt;/label&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input id="signup_email" name="signup[email]" type="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lists&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input name="lists[]" value="39073" checked="checked" type="checkbox"&gt; Clients&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input name="lists[]" value="39129" checked="checked" type="checkbox"&gt; Photographers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input name="commit" value="Sign Up" type="submit"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;And a post wouldn’t be complete without a killer video &lt;img src="http://wedclix.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object id="movie" classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=7,3,0,0" height="360" width="640"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://www.shareitvideo.com/dropbox/61905.mp4"&gt;&lt;param name="autoplay" value="false"&gt;&lt;param name="controller" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="kioskMode" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="aspect"&gt;&lt;embed name="movie" src="http://www.shareitvideo.com/dropbox/61905.mp4" autoplay="false" controller="true" bgcolor="#000000" kioskmode="true" scale="aspect" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" height="360" width="640"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com"&gt;Photography tips&lt;/a&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>keyboard shortcuts for Lightroom 2</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2009/11/keyboard-shortcuts-for-lightroom-2.html</link><category>keyboard shortcuts for Lightroom 2</category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:27:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-2446432950349106427</guid><description>When you have thousands of images to process keyboard shortcuts can be a great way&lt;br /&gt;to save time. Here is an A to Z look at keyboard shortcuts for Lightroom 2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A: A toggles Auto Mask when using Adjustment brush&lt;br /&gt;B: Add to Quick/Target Collection&lt;br /&gt;C: Compare&lt;br /&gt;D: Develop&lt;br /&gt;E: Loupe&lt;br /&gt;F: Full Screen&lt;br /&gt;G: Grid&lt;br /&gt;H: Hide&lt;br /&gt;I: Info in loupe&lt;br /&gt;J: Toggle Cell info in Grid, Highlight Clipping in Develop&lt;br /&gt;K: Brush&lt;br /&gt;L: Lights Out&lt;br /&gt;M: Graduated Filter&lt;br /&gt;N: Survey Mode in L&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the full article on our &lt;a href="http://digitalphotobuzz.com/lightroom-keyboard-shortcuts"&gt;digital photography tips &lt;/a&gt;website</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item><item><title>Photographers Spotlight</title><link>http://stagiimagery.blogspot.com/2009/11/photographers-spotlight.html</link><category>Photographers Spotlight</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:19:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12710788.post-79101638506578199</guid><description>From: http://digitalphotobuzz.com/photographers-spotlight-of-the-week&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are going to start highlighting a new &amp; awesome photographer out there every week. There is so much talent in the industry right now and photographers that are really doing some cool and unique things. We want to share some of the hidden and maybe not so hidden talent with you all. There will be all kinds of styles of photographers highlighted from weddings to portraits to landscape and maybe even some photojournalism. You really never know where you can get inspiration from and no matter what type of photography you do I have always believed you can learn from someone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on the contact button on http://digitalphotobuzz.com to apply</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>mark@wedclix.com (Mark Stagi)</author></item></channel></rss>