Carlos Galvan
My photography life started in 1958. Okay that was before I was born. I’ll explain. My father served in the Army before he and my mother were married. Being stationed in the Far East, he took the opportunity to purchase a Petri 35mm camera and flash. (The kind with the flash bulbs that had to be replaced after a single exposure.) The fateful day came some 20 years later in 1978 while I was a sophomore in high school. He gave me that very camera to use and experiment. I knew absolutely nothing about cameras or photography at the time. In order to learn about the funny sequence of numbers and letters on the various dials, I went to the library to check out a couple of books on photography. The best book that I found was written by more…
Here’s a proof from the images I have received so far. As soon as I get the rest of the images I can finish!
Are you interested in taking better Pictures? Whether you use a Digital Camera or film or some other medium of which I am unaware, you will benefit from this lecture about the stuff with which we create our images. LIGHT.
In this Lecture I will discuss the need to know as well as several characteristics of light that I use every time a create Photographic imagery.
This lecture will take place at 7pm Thursday the 4th of February at: Cypress Creek Christian Community Building. (Click for a custom Map). The meeting will begin with Some PC Users Business and continue with the Photography meeting and Lecture till about 9pm
Want to know more about this Writing With Light – Photography Lecture read some comments about this lecture from my previous Delivery of this information.
After hours of slavery to the PC, here’s our latest version
of the Presentation for you to Preview!
Slower Broadband and dial-up users (definitely) will want to click play then quickly click Pause and let the Video load up before un-pausing.
If you’d like to View or Purchase professional prints of these (and the coming Party images), Please go to the Finnerman Image Proofing Website. Once you start selecting favorites or ordering prints you’ll be asked to register.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
I’m in the giving mood today and being that I’ve just set up a Family Sized shooting area, I’ve decided to give away Family Portrait Sessions plus a Custom 8×10 and wallets to all my Previous Clients!
What do you have to do? Just set an appointment for your Family Portriat Session by going My Appointment Site and select “Home Studio Portriat Session“.
( Coming to my senses now… I’d better put a limit on this.) Ok so this offer is good until New Years Day. So if you want to take advantage of this you better head on over to My Appointmnet Site and make your reservation. I’ll be calling you after I get your info to confirm.
Thanks to my Friend Jacie for bringing her family over to help me “break in” the Studio! Here are a few of images from her session.
New Family Studio Portrait
Hello Everyone I’ve just completed the conversion of my rarely used Dining plus Living Space into a Studio large enough to photograph Families! To celebrate this addition to my repertoire, I am giving away mini-sessions to my recent clients.
Haven’t heard from me? Don’t be sad. I’m still working through my Contacts. Also I may not have the best email address for your or something. Call (281.401.9331) or message me and I’ll fix you up!
I regularly receive email messages from well meaning individuals concerning an alert about some New Killer Virus that is going around and will do everything including causing your PC to Blow Up. Well actually the most exciting claim was that it will burn a hole in your Hard Drive. Almost without exception, No Software can cause Hardware Damage. In fact even if they could do that, they wouldn’t. You see, unlike the very early viruses that were written by juvenile programmers, most modern infections are written by people who don’t want you to know that you are infected. They mostly want to use your machine as a drone to send out spam email to make money. If you machine is incapacitated, they won’t benefit from its use! By the time most users (including the journalists and pseudo-journalists) know about a specific malware the AV companies will have already known about it and have updated their Virus signatures. That’s why it is important to stay current with your AV signature updates.
Also Quite often I get calls for my Computer Expertise that involve suspected infections of an individual PC. One of the first things that some sophisticated malware does is disable or at least cripple the anti-virus software that is installed on the machine. That’s the main reason I always recommend a third party online scan if I think the installed Antivirus Program is compromised. I use and trust these two.
If you are running a Windows Machine for personal use, I recommend using Microsoft Security Tools for your regular Anti-virus and malware scanning. It’s not bloated the way some of the large & popular AV companies software is. In fact some I.T. pros would say that the most popular AV software IS Mal-ware.
Microsoft doesn’t sell AV software so it doesn’t have to compete with the other companies on the same level. The other companies like to boast about how many “infections” they can find. If one finds more than another most users will assume it is better. However this has lead to the AV software companies to create software that is more prone to false positives as well as pointing out some really insignificant items like Recently Used Lists along with the truly dangerous. With Microsoft, since they aren’t selling the tool, they have no incentive to do such things. In fact the opposite is true. They only want to make sure their software (Windows) runs well. Isn’t that what we all want?
You’ve probably already been notified by MS on how you can get it but if you need a shortcut now just visit Microsoft Security Essentials webpage
p.s. Check out the new “Listen” button at the top of my posts and tell me what you think.
Hello You All (does that sound Chicagoan?),
Remember the Free Wedding Giveaway that Kim Jordan introduced me too? Well Here’s the Wedding Day Images!
What an incredibly beautiful day for this Darling couple! I had the priviledge of capturing the Pre-Ceremony Portriats through the Processional.
Those who would like to order Prints, Albums, Greeting Cards etc, will be able to use the Custom Ordering Site that I’ve set up for Calencia & John. It should have the images available by Tuesday. Until the event is released you can sign in and get a $5 Gift Credit!
Additional Images created by Thomas Ross will follow …
Just in time for Christmas,
I have just converted the first floor of my home for Family Portrats! Most of my work up top this point has been environmental or at my clients home but those sessions typically take up an entire morining or evening. By doing a more traditional style studio I can offer you this Amazing Free Gift!
ALMOST FREE GIFT
Now through December 21st I am offering a 15 minute Family Portrait Session and Custom 8×10 for just the handling+shipping charge of $15 (prepaid). This Professional Service and Product is worth much much more than a measly $15 but I want my Home Studio Service to start off with a Bang. Once you get your free image and see how I work I’m confident that you’ll be telling others. Don’t miss out. I have a limited amount of time available for booking and they’ll go fast once the word gets out. If for some reason I don’t have an appointment immediately after yours we can even spend more time creating additional Portraits!
To take advantage of this please go to my Booking Site and select the Home Studio Portrait link.
Congratulations to Meg and Frank on their beautiful wedding. They’ve been trying to get hitched for a year now and it happened on the 7th of November at Le Jardin Gardens. Although most of the events took place indoors the weather was gorgeous for the early outside Portraits! View the images on their Pictage site.
I was invited to show my Photographic work at the Mall in The Woodlands. Of course nearly every Bridal Show these days sports a Fashion show. This one was arranged and supplied by Jill’s Fashions. Gorgeus girls, Beautiful dresses, thumping music; how can one not be inspired!? So with my friend Ruthy helping me with the lighting, I captured these images.
Check them out on my Pro Flickr account.