Aloha! Step aboard for the maiden voyage of the Featured Profile series. At the plate today is a man who’s been at the pet sitting game in Tallahassee for over 17 years. When first meeting Craig Jackson, he will greet you with a warm smile and instill in you the calm and confidence needed when leaving your pets behind whilst taking that long needed cruise or visit to the in-laws.
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Get pumped, y’all! Soon making the scene on the Shutter Pop Photo Journal will be the (cue voice echo) Featured Profile of the Week! These will be short write-ups with accompanying profile photos for small businesses, artists, or people of interest located in Tallahassee and surrounding areas, such as Havana, Quincy, Thomasville and elsewhere. The simple idea is to highlight people and businesses in the Big Bend and to bring a weekly touch of community to this blog. (end voice echo) Just know in the future when you see the logo below accompanying a new post on this Journal, one correct response is to give a hoot and a holler, especially if you’re in a place of work (cubicles are good).
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Box of Wheat Thins in hand, time to finally post the most recent wedding to the site. I think I’ll go easy on myself for the delay, we did just move into our new house – our first! This pretty much completes the grown up To Do list for a while:
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Why, oh why have I never been daring enough to open the Actions tab within Photoshop? Is it because its foundation is based on sets of rules instead of an instant visual reaction (ie filters, blurs, etc)? Whatever the case, Adobe’s Photoshop Actions aren’t new. In fact, they were introduced way back in version 4 (the latest release is version 12: CS5). Late at night when I can no longer hear traffic outside my house, the Actions tab whispers to me, “Make your life easy, open me up, have a look-see. I can save you loads of precious time.” It’s a trap, I think. “If you open that tab, you’ll get sucked into trying to figure out what’s going on and your wife will find you curled up in a ball crying the next morning.”
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Booyah! Delivered the final video for To All My Dear Friends‘ song “Japan to Kenya & Back” last week – they loved the result. We were originally going to shoot the video in a studio because the group liked the feel of an El Ten Eleven video that was shot in a studio. I kept trying to talk them outside, in the woods or at a small train station here in Tallahassee. But they wanted a tight, warm, indoorsy feel. Then Marc sent me an iPhone video of the interior of a church near his house which a friend of his was living in. As soon as I saw it I knew we had our location!
I made them play the song about 10 times, possibly more, to get all the angles. We were sticking to a tight time frame – just 3 hours to shoot. We wrapped up right about 3 hours after we began and all was well in our world. After that, we headed out in search of a location for our photo shoot.
The video was shot on two Nikon D7000s rented through Borrow Lenses. Lenses used were: Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8; Nikon 50mm f/1.8; Nikon 85mm f/2.0; and Nikon 135mm f/3.5. After all transfer of footage and conversion to an editable format (Apple ProRes 422), editing only took about 4 hours. We’re proud of the final result and hope you enjoy!
A friend from high school contacted me to shoot a music video for a song from his group’s upcoming album release. The group is To All My Dear Friends and it’s made up of Marc Hennessey and Greg Stull. We went back and forth about where to shoot the video and ultimately settled on a great, little church Gainesville, Florida. INsite Gainesville recently published a behind the scenes look at the band.
The music video shoot went smoothly, I’ll make another post once it’s uploaded, and after that we headed outside the city limits for a photo shoot. Check it out!
We headed down to St. Marks Wildlife Refuge a few weekends ago with a pregnant friend of ours for some maternity photos on the Gulf. It’s about a 30-40 minute drive from Tallahassee but as soon as you’re inside the gate and driving toward the lighthouse, you can’t hear any traffic – it’s blissful. From the welcome center to the lighthouse is about 8 miles and we always take it slow to stop and see the alligators, bald eagles, or occasional bobcat. The wildlife is fantastic and there generally aren’t too many people there, it’s a great getaway for an afternoon.
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I’ve been fascinated with Frank Lloyd Wright since high school, his architecture is beautiful and stunning and always brings about a very homely and comfortable feeling when viewing his houses and buildings. John Lloyd Wright, Frank’s son, was the inventor of Lincoln Logs, but unfortunately sold the patent for the wood toy to Playskool for a measly $800 and made no profits from the sale of the toy. In an effort to create another toy that would get widespread attention, he patented Wright Blocks. From John Lloyd Wright: The War Years, on incredibleart.org:
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Yeasayer played the FSU Union Green on Friday night! The weather was perfect, the crowd was into it, and the music was awesome. Perfect Friday night.
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