My Photography

A Little Background

Since I was a child, I've always enjoyed taking pictures. Myphotography is an evolving self-taught style. I photography what catches my eye, tickles my fancy, or presents the opportunity for my photographing the subject.

In my gallery, you will find wildlife, landscape, and event/cosplay photography. I also shoot model photography, which you can find examples of, on my Model Mayhem profile page at: http://www.modelmayhem.com/wingedpower

I'm always happy to exchange ideas with others involved in photography, whether they are photographers, makeup/stylists, models, and/or just anyone interesting in pleasing images.

My Camera Gear

While my first camera was a keychain film camera, my current equipment is built around the Sony Alpha A700 DSLR:

• Sony Alpha A700 DSLR ( 12.6 MP )
• Minolta 50mm f/1.7
• Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 XR
• Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 G
• Minolta 70-210mm f/4.0
• Minolta 5600HS(D)
• Minolta 3600HS(D)
• A700 Vertical Grip
• PhotoFast 533X 16GB Compact Flash (allows 15-30 continous frames before slowing) G-Monster 533X Plus 16GB Compact Flash CF card
• ADATA 233X 16GB Compact Flash (allows 8-12 continous frames before slowing)

The Software

• ImageMagick 6.x (for automated/scripted creation of effects)
• Adobe Lightroom 2.x (for DAM and raw conversion)
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 (for panoramas and one off custom work)
• Drupal (this site's web platform)
• Linux (great OS with alot of flexibility. Image recovery software is run from this OS)
• Mac OS X (no better system when it comes to ease of use and trouble free operation)
• OpenSolaris (OS of choice for my fileserver, due to the availability of ZFS)

 My Day Job

Currently, I work for Ning, Inc., a social network hosting company. It's a great place to work; alot of energy, enthusiasm, and raw talent. The company hosts a wide range of social network community sites and allows them to customize their social network to their community. Like the last company that I worked at, VMware, Inc., I strongly believe in the product and service that is being produced by the company and am proud to work at a company whose product I can respect and stand behind.

If you are interested in starting up your own social network site, give Ning a try. It's free and is a great way to setup a fully functioning site without needing to worry about the technical issues of web hosting, backups, storage, coding, etc.

Interested more in my day job and career history? Check out my LinkedIn Profile at:

• http://www.linkedin.com/in/wingedpower