Ms. Knockout USA 2009

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to do a photo shoot with Mandy for a Knockout Haircuts campaign. She won the Ms. Knockout USA 2009 contest and guess what? Yes, she deserved a photo shoot to celebrate her achievement and to be featured on the KOH website. Congrats to Mandy! Visit Knockout's website and get to know her better. Enjoy.

-Herson

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Puerto Rico Destination Wedding

I've been out for about three weeks doing a lot of traveling, spending time with family and shooting weddings. I traveled to Puerto Rico to shoot a beach wedding on the 20th of this month. The weather was perfect and the location was even better. It was in Steps Beach located in Rincon, Puerto Rico. It was an outdoor wedding/reception with a lot of guests, tons of color and lots of latin music of course. The couple was busy all day as you would expect but I had the chance to grab them and took them to the beach. We had little time to set up so I grabbed my SB-800 and used on-camera to get this shot.

Congrats to Alana and Robert! Best wishes!

-Herson

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D3X finally announced...officially that is.

Nikon officially announced the D3X after being miss-announced a couple of days ago by Nikon Pro Mag in Europe. 

Well, it's finally here but, Nikon decided to let it go for $8,000 or $7,999.95 to be exact. ARE YOU KIDDING!? I don't even think Donald Trump would pay $8k's for a camera. After all, it's just a D3 with more resolution and slower frame rate. Pretty much. It even has the same body. You probably need this if you're a fashion photographer or something like that working for some big company or magazine. And then again, you don't even need that much resolution to do a magazine shoot which is not bigger than 8x11 INCHES! My point is, I don't see an average Joe buying this camera just because he's shooting a couple of weddings next year. Nikon needs to understand this and drop the price because if they do drop the price, more people will buy this. In the mean time, just get a D3 or a D700 if you want Nikon's best. 

-H

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Ooops... Did anybody say D3X?

The long awaited Nikon D3X has been announced "accidentally" by european Nikon Pro Magazine before Nikon's "official announcement". You can see the detailed images and text straight from the magazine HERE.
Nikon's news still has nothing on their website though. Now that the big X secret is out there, the only thing we need is price and release date. Ohh, and patience. =)

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Tools of the trade...

I'm always being asked what kind of software I use to edit my photos so I decided to post it here.
Well here it goes; I use Adobe Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 (recently upgraded to CS4).
I just started using Lightroom 2 because it helps me organize all my photos through catalogs and creates the most important thing............BACKUPS. I usually make all the exposure, color and white balance corrections in Lightroom and then export to Photoshop to do all the heavy post processing.
I shoot weddings and models, so I'm always shooting RAW. That way I can get more out of my photos when post processing, especially those fancy fashion shots and Lightroom allows me to make those corrections through it's amazing camera raw processor.
All my work is done with either a 24" iMac or a MacBook. I know you've probably heard this millions of times but I have to say it because it's the truth................Macs are great for this stuff! They allow me to do everything fast, easier and better and the amazing HD monitors are a plus of course.

Well there you have it. Now you know a bit more about me.

See ya soon!

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