Canon's Virtual Lens Plant

Ever wondered why lenses are so expensive?... visit Canon's Virtual Lens Plant => HERE



They're working on some balsa wood models to bring prices down ;-)

Slideshow - Photographer's Cut

Most of the times when I look at other photographers' images my head gets instantly bombarded with questions like: Why or How did he/she take that picture; What inspired the photographer to press the shutter; What lens/camera/settings did he/she use; What caused the subject to react that way???
As I learn more and more of the technical stuff, a lot of the questions are quickly answered but there's no way of knowing what was going on behind the scenes and I'm always curious about that.

While in this 'photographer's cut slideshow' there's a lot of techie talk mostly geared towards my fellow photographers, hopefully by letting you know what I was thinking at the moment I shot these images, I can also address viewers that are not in the photography business as well as clients and potential clients so they get a chance to know me a bit.

Don't be shy and leave a comment and if you create one of these send me a link, I'd love to see it.

Here's my attempt at sharing with you why I do what I do => CLICK FOR SLIDESHOW



More techie stuff: The slideshow with my commentaries is just another use I found for Showit Web. This is a great piece of software that came to life thanks to David Jay. His products are so useful and easy to use. I became a fan, specially of Showit Web and Showit Effects. DJ is a very successful wedding photographer himself so he knows what photographers need and he makes sure all the tools he creates fulfill our needs... and then some.

Some photos from the road

I love the almost square images I get from my BlackBerry Pearl phone... the quality is nice too. I'm so used to the sometimes extremely clean files out of my pro Nikon D2X cameras that sometimes I just need to see images that are not perfect quality-wise... I think I'm going to start shooting film ;-)

Shot these while I was riding my bicycle this morning:

this one is cropped

Wedding Mapper

I just found this very useful resource on a friend photographer's website and I HAD to share it!

http://www.weddingmapper.com

This thing creates a map of your wedding area so that guests can find their way to the church, the reception, local dining, entertainment, anything you want to list! What a cool tool! I'm going to suggest this mapper thing to ALL 2007 brides so that your photographers can find your home or your church (or preferably both!)

It's FREE!



Feel free to add your wedding planning tools to the comments so that if you had a great resource in 2006, someone else can enjoy & use it for 2007!

NOTE: If you use this and I'm shooting your wedding, please email me at rarpia @ yahoo .com and let me know.

Thanks to Matt Antonino!

Lorena & Arturo - Slideshow

Thank you guys for giving me the privilege to shoot your wedding.
ENJOY YOUR E-SESSION SLIDESHOW

Lorena & Arturo - eSession

Today I had the great pleasure to get to know Lorena and Arturo a little better during their engagement session photo shoot.
We met in downtown LA at the Disney Concert Hall where we shot for a while... such a beautiful place, I could shoot there all day long and never get bored.

They are huge Dodgers fans as you can see in some of the images. We were the only people in the stadium and it was awesome shooting there... thank you guys so much, I had a blast. Check back tomorrow for your slideshow!

Lorena & Arturo are getting married at the Cathedral in LA, in exactly -> CLICK

Now on to the images:

























THANKS!!!

"The right picture can win or lose a war"

I watched Flags of Our Fathers last night and it was very interesting since it shows how powerful a single photo can be.

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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press