March, 2010


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Mar 10

The Fast

April is just around the corner and my life has never been more busy. I’m finishing up my undergraduate degree at Appalachian State University, planning an amazing wedding with my best friend, planning a relocation and attempting to restructure my business. I enjoy it all but at some point or another, something has to give.

Yesterday, as I was browsing through some tweets, I realized that instead of focusing all my attention on things of importance, I was waisting time on several social network sites like twitter and Facebook. I was somewhat taken back by the fact. How did it get to point that twitter and Facebook had priority over my work, family and life?

This is going to change.

Starting April 1st, I will be embarking on a month long social networking fast. No twitter. No Facebook. Nothing. This is a very important time in my life and complete attention to detail is needed to plan out the next few months and years of my business and new family. Since I will be focusing using time on my business, I will still continue to blog being that it is a highly important part to any photographers business.

Several people have asked me if this is some form of April fools joke but it is, in fact, no joke. It is simply time to push aside the less important, time consuming things in order to accomplish more important, life changing things.

I’m excited about the month of April. Song long for now Facebook. I will see you in May.


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Mar 10

FxCamera

So I found this great little app on the Android Market that replaces the standard, not-so-great Droid camera app.  The app is called FxCamera and it is the closet thing Droid has to “The Best Camera” iPhone app.  With FxCamera, you can choose numerous different settings like “Toy Camera”, which will give you Lomo & Holga type images, “Polaroid”, “Fisheye” and a classic “Warhol” effect.  I have only really used the “Toy” settings but have really enjoyed the images that come out of it.  For the next few months, I’m going to have a series of posts showcasing images taken with the app.

I don’t always carry my 5D with me due to the bulk and inconvenience but I do always have my Droid on me and as Chase Jarvis would say, “The best camera is the one you have with you.”