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Featured by Travel + Leisure Online
I’m excited to share with you that one of my landscape photographs of the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley was published by Travel + Leisure in their story America’s Most Mysterious Places. Below is the image they chose to feature:
You may remember that I blogged about this 2007 Death Valley trip back in January. To see more photos from the trip, click here.
If you’d like to see more of my personal (non-wedding) work, visit: acgphotography.com.
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- Karen Savinon congratulations!!! October 20th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
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Wedding and Portrait Photographers Intl.
I just returned from a 4-day trip to Las Vegas for WPPI, the largest tradeshow and convention in the industry. It was a lot to take in and I’m still recovering. I went on the trip with Mark and April Brandes, who I work for at their portrait studio and my co-worker Gloria Mesa.
What a great time reconnecting with some old friends. I even got to see one friend, speak in front of a crowded room. That was cool.
There were so many great speakers with such a wide variety of things to say, styles of photography and perspectives to learn from that I will have plenty to think about and be challenged by for the rest of the year.
The tradeshow was HUGE. Overwhelmingly so, actually. One thing I learned is that there are about 5 billion different album companies and options, but so many of them are practically the same. It was reassuring to know that my preferred album company stood head and shoulders above the rest, and according to them, the overcrowding of the album industry has in fact HELPED them distinguish themselves as completely unique.
This year I will be rolling out a couple of new album options, a fresh new approach to slideshows and a lot of other fun ideas.
On the entertainment side of the trip, I was lucky enough to see the Blue Man Group at Caesar’s Palace. That was awesome. It was a complete sensory, interactive experience and was just plain fun. Definitely check it out if you have the opportunity.
For our last night in Vegas I had the opportunity to meet and “party” with (more like socialize) Gloria’s friends from the forodefotografos.com, a group of Spanish-speaking wedding photographers, in an incredible suite at Mandalay Bay. We had 180* view looking up toward the strip. Here’s a shot from my ultra hi-tech 2 megapixel camera phone:
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3 Comments:
- Gloria Mesa Hey! We love you all.... Every one at my group really like you a lot!... Our New friend and my best friend you.
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Gloria Mesa Photography March 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm - Karen S Hey Adam!! It was really nice to meet you @ the forodefotografos party!! You are a great person!! April 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 am
- Rodolfo Arpia Dude! It was great to have you there... see you next year! April 24th, 2008 at 12:07 am
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Death Valley Photography Trip
My good friend Patrick Stanbro, my brother Ryan George and I took a 3-day trip to Death Valley to end 2007 with some nice outdoor time and of course great photo ops. We had a great time and I ended up with some photos that I am really pleased with. It’s not exactly wedding photography, but I just have to share it:
Patrick took the picture of me on my brother’s shoulders and lying face-down on the dried-up lake bed (Death Valley’s Racetrack Playa) – thanks, Pat!
During our trip we stayed in a tiny little town called Beatty, NV, just outside the park to the east. This trip involved about 1,000 miles of driving in just 3 days – 80 of which were on unpaved roads. Let’s just say, I’m glad it wasn’t my car out there! Thanks Ryan for taking one for the team.
If you’re not seeing the photos in this post, you can view the Death Valley photographs on my Flickr page.
Happy New Year! & 2 New Wedding Galleries
Happy new year, everyone! I wish you all a blessed, healthy, prosperous 2008.
2007 was an exciting year, including adapting the new name Embrace Life, which I just feel is a perfect summary for what I do with my photography. I was fortunate enough to photograph a lot of wonderful weddings, working with very cool brides and grooms along the way, create some incredible new sample albums, and add some great new changes for this website. Prepare for more in 2008.
Also, I just added two new California wedding photography galleries. One is from Nicole & Keith’s Central California wedding at the Jack House in San Luis Obispo, CA and the other is from Jane & Brett’s Southern California wedding at the Christian Church of North Hollywood with the reception at the Bistro Garden Restaurant in Studio City, CA. The two weddings were almost nothing alike, but both were very cool in their own unique ways. Take a look at the galleries.
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Rsizr your images!
I found a website that absolutely blows my mind and I just have to share it with you! Being a photographer, website developer and lover of technology, Rsizr.com is practically a dream come true. “Okay, so what exactly is it already?”, you ask? It’s hard to answer that question in less-than-nerdy terms, but here goes my best attempt.
Rsizr.com is based on a new image resizing technology developed by Dr Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science. To shrink an image down, instead of cropping out good data, or disproportionately squishing the content, it will find the less important data and remove only that specific content, thus leaving the important elements in tact, but effectively shrinking the image. A video demonstrating their technique amazed me earlier this year, but I never expected to be able to use it any time soon, let alone as a free web application!
I’ve prepared 4 example images to demonstrate the concept. For the demo, I chose a gorgeous bridal portrait from Nicole and Keith’s wedding at the Jack House in San Luis Obispo, CA on September 29th because I thought it would make a nice strong vertical.
Here’s the original image:
And after cropping in at the sides with Photoshop:
(Notice the flowers are missing on the left and some foliage on the right)
And simply changing the width of the image in Photoshop:
(This is a bad squished look! Some portrait subjects might appreciate this effect [or not], but Nicole certainly doesn’t need it!)
Now, the image that has been “seam carved” via Rsizr.com:
(This image looks very much like the original, but it’s now a stronger, narrower, vertical image – pretty cool!)
For a more thorough demonstration of the technology behind this concept, check out the YouTube video that brought this concept to light earlier this year:
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More than anything, if you enjoy playing with photography and images, head over to Rsizr.com and try it out. It’s definitely a fun, and useful tool.
By the way, I found about Rsizr.com over at Photojojo which has all sorts of interesting, off-the-wall photography related ideas, tips, etc. Check it out.
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- Angelofthebay Hello Adam,
My name is Michelle, I found Embrace Photography by a chance through one of your ads on MySpace. I clicked on it because I have been searching for someone for my wedding photographer and the previous people I just rechecked to see by any chance they had a photographer close to Atascadero reaped no return. Then I saw your photograph and it lit me up inside and out. I started to explore your sites and the results wheeled results to answer my wildest dreams. Then I started to read your Blog and I didn't have to get far before being compelled to say that your work is truly amazing. It will also help me in my fledgling hobby, I am always looking for good editing tools. So THANK YOU! December 12th, 2008 at 9:57 pm - Embrace Life Photography Hi Michelle! That's so awesome to hear. Thank you so much for sharing your kind words with me. I'm really glad that the photography inspired you and that you found Rizr as interesting as I did. I have friends in Atascadero. I'm always glad to travel for weddings and would love to help you! Please let me know more about your wedding. I look forward to hearing from you. Call me any time at 888.818.1456 or fill out the contact form to email me. Have a great day Michelle! December 13th, 2008 at 1:28 am
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My photos on NBC’s Today Show!
On October 21st, one of the many Southern California wild fires (the Santa Rosa Valley / Nightsky fire) was burning just blocks from my house. My house is far enough from the hills and where the fires were burning that it really wasn’t in any danger. Anyway, I decided to go up the street to take some pictures of the fire. Well, I got closer than I ever expected I’d be allowed, and ended up with some really cool images as a result. Here are a few of them:
Now, here’s the best part… the Today Show clip featuring three of the images above!:
Additionally, the pictures were published online with MSNBC, KNBC, the L.A. Times and others. As a result of the wide reach of these photographs, some of the firefighters’ family and friends recognized them and contacted me about obtaining printed photographs. It’s amazing how fast communication has become because of the internet and how small the world is becoming as a result.
If you’ve seen any of my photographs in other interesting places please let me know as I’d love to share those as well.
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- Lisa Adam - I am excited that you have included a link to the very photos that led to my choosing you as our photographer! I am in the process of recommending you to a colleague right now, and am thrilled to have the very photos available for my viewing pleasure! Lisa Wolf Winklepleck November 26th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
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