GARY FONG STYLE DIFFUSERS

I really do not know how the Gary Fong style of diffusers have gotten so popular.....they really are:

1- very ugly...looks like a tupperware bowl attached to your flash

2- is heavy and will cause stress on the flash head over time

3- are made flash model specific....so if you have say an arsenal of flashes...lets say Nikon SB600, 800 and 900 and a Vivatar 285HV.....then it would take 4 gary fong styled diffusers to be able to have one to use on each flash......With a LumiQuest Soft box or a Bounce diffuser....one will fit all the flashes due to the way the difuser attaches to the flash head......by a velcro strap....and zI have never had one come loose in the many decades of using the original LumiQuest Softbox.

4-take up lot of room in a cam bag.....a least all of the LumiQuest line folds flat and take up vey little room, I actually slide mine between the padded cam bag wall and the outer shell.....so I do not loose any actual cam bag real Estate..............


I like the LumiQuest brand as they are well made and not really expensive.....a lot of people swear by the DO IT YOURSELF diffusers but I do not want a client questioning my abilities because they recognize a piece of equiptment as HOMEMADE.........just my 'umble opinon.

NEW LOGO FOR INTERNET

I just finished a new logo for internet use.

Here it is:














Let me have your comments......................

October and IMAGES FOR A CURE 2009

The month of OCTOBER will be dedicated to helping find a cure for Breast Cancer.

On Sunday October 11, I will be shooting Classic Standard Portrait Sitting and DONATING all the SESSION FEES TO IMAGES FOR A CURE ....... I will be taking appointments for times from 9am to 7pm.
Included in this package is a session consisting of: sitting of upto 30 minutes 1 clothing change, upto 10-15 proofs on a free private gallery to view and order photos from.
Galleries will be up and photo proofs uploaded by Oct 25 for all Oct 11 Sittings, all other Oct sittings will be loaded shortly there after.

Each client will be notified by email when Gallery is set up, Portraits loaded and user name and pass word are set.

Great way to get senior, family, business and headshot portraits done while SUPPORTING a fantastic cause.


IMPORTANT NOTICE:
For those that cannot get an apointment on Sunday I will be lowering my Session Fees by 50% for the month of OCTOBER and will be donating $25 of the sitting fee and 25% of the portrait orders to Images for a Cure until OCT 31.




HERE IS A LINK TO THE IMAGES for a CURE DONATION PAGE
(CUT AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER ADDRESS WINDOW)
http://www.imagesforacure.com/schedule-a-session

By making your donation at the above link I do not have to handle any money and see it gets into the proper hands....all I need to do is make your beautiful portraits.


Instructions from the DONATION PAGE.
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Step One:

Contact the photographer you’d like to schedule a session with. Once your appointment is confirmed, come on back to this link and continue on to step 2.

Step Two:

Use this handy little widget below to make your donation of the session fee (set by your photographer) directly to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation!

http://www.imagesforacure.com/schedule-a-session
(cut and paste the above address into your browser address window)
Scroll down to find the widget.............at the images for a Cure website

Step Three:

Forward your donation confirmation to your photographer and they’ll confirm your appointment time! Easy as pie![/quote] }}}

Besure to follow the instructions ESPECIALLY STEP #3......It is vitally important I get the confirmation email so I can guarantee your appointment time.

My contact info for this event is:

PREFERED CONTACT METHOD

EMAIL(cut and paste into your email address line) :

Images-for-a-Cure@ArtScottFotografie.com

Alternate contact method.

Cell Phone: 316-250-8761

WATERMARKS, COPYRIGHTS AND SIGNATURES

Watermarks, copyrights and signatures are all ways for an artist to TRY and safe guard his work from internet theives......for what little it actually does......it does slow them down a bit especially if you toss in the right clik prohibitor (for what little good that does)........however I have been catching all kinds of hell of the use of watermarks on some forums I constantly frequent.



























TIME

These same forums do not any......yes I sad any type of security for the posters and tha is ok, I do not mind but I will take the time to try and prohibit the easy access to my images that I worked my ass of to produce.......these same bitchers, keep asking.....can you post large images......wholly snotball cheese brain......why the hell would I post larger images with no security for my work...Lets get real........I have been praised by several publsihers for the watermarking of my website galleries and now some snotballed cheese brain asks me to take away my security and openly post larger images so they can ge stolen and easily used with having to go in Photoshop and do a shit load of cloning that due to the type and size of the watermarks, copyright notice and my signature is going to take several hours of work.............I DON'T FREAKIN THINK SO!!!!
I am sure these are actually well meaning forum participants that do not realize that they are virtually asking you to just openly give away my images to any Dickless tom or harry that is looking for free art.......and I cannot do that............
Rant done for n0w.......................................................................................i think.

WICHITA VISIONS......the Book......

I was 1 of 7 featured photographers for this book. I was given 2 weeks to produced a library of 300 images......and was given the ok to submit ~30 off my website. so that gave me a total of 270 to produce in 2 weeks.........loads of fun and STRESS......but well worth the experience.

Here is the photos that were used in the book "WICHITA VISIONS".
I am posting the original versions, as the Art Director and Art Editor cropped the hell out of some of the photo, which is fine but I have not taken the time to try and match the crops .................yet.
So For those of you that had probably forgotten about this thread.......without furhter adeau......my photos published in "WICHITA VISIONS"..........................

The Book...Front Cover



2-Jim Dandy of Black Oak Arkansas
3-The ANCHOR BAR Neon Sign

4- WILD TURKEYS


The rest of the photos that were published
can be seen HERE

The book can be purchased from me by contacting me at INFO@ArtScottFotografie.com , with your paypal name and I will invoice you for $55.95 + $15.00 for s/h ...... all Kansas residents will be billed Ks state sales tax.

Built in Light meter......not in the cam but inside of me

I just noticed a funny....no not funny but very cool thing about my shooting.....since getting the Nikon D300's and a Sigma Bigma (50-500mm) lens and the persistent shooting of wildlife in Manual mode.......that is totally manual man..............I have been able to damn near just look at where a deer or duck or egret is setting and go let me see I am always at either f11 or f8 and the shutter needs to be........at 1/125 and I am normally with in less than 1/2 of a stop off.....pic will either be a touch under or over exposed but still very usable.......not is the time to widen that and get away from the city lakes to open fields and see if I can get my internal lightmeter working on top of all situations I get into outdoors........................
This was my own explanation to myself of how i was able all those years ago, when shooting concerts I was able to walk in and take a look at the lighting as the lighting engineers were running tests on the different combos and i was able to pick a shutter speed and an aperture and get an over 80% good keeper shots...........

EMPTY POST...............WOW just found it................how could that happen????????????????
Strange to find an empty post box so these 4 lines were posted cause I could figue out how to delete.....................