Depth of Field: David duChemin
If you are in the USA, let me be the first to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. I got an early start here in Malaysia with a wonderful breakfast from my wife and waking up to the new Depth of Field podcast posted on Peachpit.com. You can also find all the old episodes there as [...]
Playing Favorites
One of my favorites. Recently I was interviewed and was asked which image of mine was my favorite. I stared at the question for a longtime before it realized I honestly couldn’t answer it. I felt like the question was akin to asking a father to choose a favorite child. It just was not fair. [...]
Voices, So Many Voices!!
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been pushing you to push yourself. To step out of your comfort zones and try new things. The truth is, we have all kinds of voices in our heads telling us things. Some of these are intuitive voices and feelings that we should listen to, others are lies that [...]
For the photographer who has everything
Sunny 16 Maybe you’re like me and you have a bad memory. I try to remember all those little rules and those little quips that are suppose to help you. You know the ones I’m talking about, “the sunny 16 rule” or “F8 and be there”. Do you ever go to a shoot and forget [...]
Zack and Old Dogs
A photographer most of you know and if you don’t shame on you, is Zack Arias out of Atlanta. Zack was in New York recently and gave himself an assignment to shoot 10 portraits of 10 strangers in 10 hours. For some of us this is not hard, for others this is a complete nightmare. [...]
Lumen Dei 2010 dates announced!
I am excited to announce that Lumen Dei 2010 will be held September 12-25 in Kashmir and Ladakh, India. It will be another adventurous trip this year that you will not want to miss. The thing that I’m most excited about is that we are going back, after a two-year hiatus, two Kashmir. Lumen Dei [...]
Fifoto Photography: the Future of Malaysian Photography
Sunday I went to Borders bookstore in the local mall, drank some coffee browsed some books and generally relaxed. While there, I ran across in the magazine section, a small directory of Malaysian wedding photographers. I have never had the guts to shoot a wedding. I think you have to be out of your mind [...]
All this and more…
The above photo of my wife has nothing to do with today’s blog post. I needed a photo to fill the white space and she is too pretty not to post images of her when I can…so I did. It’s been a pretty productive week for me in general. I was even able to get [...]
A Day of Texture
Hariman enjoying my 85mm 1.2 Yesterday I took a day off and went out and took some photos. I needed to get away from the computer, away from the four walls of my office and get out into the real world again. I called up a friend of mine, Hariman, and we went roaming the [...]
Inspiration with a Humanitarian Side
In my preparations for my trip to Iraq in late January of 2010, I’ve been doing a lot of research on things like humanitarian photography, photojournalism, photo essays and other related topics. I’ve come across some pretty amazing sights. I thought I’d take this moment just to share with you three links that you might [...]
Exposed: Risking the Winnowing
This was not an easy photo for me. My first inclination is not to shoot directly into the sun. The day before, I shot some similar images but with the sun behind me. They came out flat and lifeless. I had been watching Amy Vitale shoot for the past week and there were several times [...]
The Fox and The Lion
There’s old Aesop’s fable, it’s about a fox and a lion. A fox sees a lion walking down a path and runs for fear of its life. But the lion doesn’t give chase. The next day, the fox sees the lion again but this time he draws closer, yet still staying at a safe distance. [...]
I shoot for mostly NGOs and nonprofits. I photograph images of the unknown, the forgotten and the helpless. These are often the stories that most people overlook. 
