st. louis final cut pro users group

Los Angeles has one. Hawaii, Dallas, and even Hong Kong. So now, St. Louis is the home to the latest Final Cut Pro Users Group. What the heck is a FCPUG? Basically, it’s a community of…

I got up early one day last week to shoot a panorama of the sunrise, as it peeks above the horizon, with the Mississippi River and the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis. It was going to be a beautify…

Some reporters and photographers are using the Nokia N95 camera phone to send photos and video quickly to our site during news events. The problem is, the small design of device can be awkward in your hand, and lead to unstable…

With the growing importance of the internet as a tool to reach our readers, and with video being designated as an integral part of this formula, many staff photographers at newspapers around the country are getting new job titles, new…

The news media gather in the Senate Chambers in Springfield, Ill.

For as long as I can remember, there’s always been friction between still photographers and videographers. It’s like oil and water. I’ve been a still shooter for most of my…

As photojournalists, we rely on a lot of technology to work. If one piece of equipment fails, we either find a work around or the photo doesn’t happen.

For example, I was shooting a soccer match when all of the sudden…

Ever dream of turning your high-end HD video camera into the perfect artistic venture using a mounted 35mm-format lens? So did I (I guess you did?) And here it is, relatively cheap. Check out a simply killer video Richard Koci…

Nikon announced the release of their much-rumored D90, a prosumer camera that wedges nicely under the D300 and in-line as the replacement to the current D80. The biggest feature yet: the ability to record HD video and audio in the camera using a…

Microsoft, that little software company in Seattle that everybody either loves to love or loves to hate, recently unveiled for public use some mind-blowing photo software called Photosynth. For those of us who tell stories with photos Photosynth offers a…

Click here or on the breath of fire to watch a funky video of fire breathing in St. Louis. Read how I made it below:

I used a combination of my still photographs from a performance with fire performance group Pandora’s Matchbox and…