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February 22, 2012 by Joe

RACE FACES at Slideluck Potshow in Baltimore on 2/24

Photographs from the latest RACE FACES shoot will be shown as part of Slideluck Potshow Baltimore II this Friday at Area 405 in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District. The potluck starts at 5:00pm and the slideshow starts at 6:30pm.

I’m honored to have RACE FACES chosen to be a part of the show and I’m going to head up there to see what’s sure to be an amazing selection of slideshows from local photographers. Come on out to see for yourself.

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February 10, 2012 by Joe

Lightroom Tip… Time Sycning

Here’s the first of what will hopefully become a few more useful tips for photographers…

After I shot my first wedding I quickly discovered how annoying it is to not have the camera times in sync across the multiple cameras used at a wedding. I met up with my Maili, my second, before the wedding with time set aside to sync our cameras, but in the midst of dealing with a flash issue, we’d forgotten to do it. I didn’t notice the problem until it was time to start editing and too late to do anything about it.

Lesson learned, but syncing time through the camera menus can be tedious and If you don’t do it before the shoot starts it’s too late. Here’s a quick tip I learned to avoid the problem.

Instead of taking time to sync each camera time manually, start the day by picking one “primary” camera and taking a picture of the “Set Clock” screen on that camera with the rest of the cameras that might be used during the day. This gives you a time reference on each camera so that you can sync time after the wedding.

Here’s a shot from Maili’s of the time on my camera at one of last year’s weddings. We try to shoot these right a the beginning of the shoot so they’re easy to find. If you forget though, the beauty of this technique is that you can always get that shot later and still sync everything. Oh, and don’t forget cameras used by second shooters and backup gear that may or may not get used.

Once the photographs from the shoot are downloaded and imported into Lightroom, pull up all of the photographs from the shoot in the Library and go into Grid view.

In the “Library Filters”, click on “Metadata” to open the Metadata filter panel. If all of your cameras are different models, then you can use the “Camera” filter to select the camera to be adjusted. If you’re using more than one of the same camera, then you’ll need to switch one of the filters to “Camera Serial Number” by clicking the header and choosing from the menu.

Here I’ve filtered down to all the files from Maili’s camera.

Luckily, the time reference picture is the first on in the grid view, so it’s easy to find. Open it and make a note of the time that’s showing on the back of the camera. In this case it’s 11:56:52.

Now, go back into grid view and select all the images from the camera you need to adjust with Command-A (or Control-A on a PC). Make sure that the image with the time is still the primary selection, go to the Metadata menu, and select “Edit Capture Time”.

In the dialog that opens, make sure that under “Type of Adjustment” you keep “Adjust to a specified date and time”. When you use this option with multiple files selected, Lightroom will shift all of the other files by the same amount that you shift the first file. This way we’ll fix all of the files from this camera in one batch.

Here you can see that the capture time in the file is 11:59:32, but in the time on the other camera is showing 11:56:52. Maili’s camera was about 3 1/2 minutes ahead of mine.

In the “New Time” section, edit the “Corrected Time” to match the time shown on the camera in the photograph. Here I’ve entered 11:56:52 into the “Corrected Time”. When you click “Change”, Lightroom will calculate the difference and move all of the other files selected by the same increment.

Repeat this process for the rest of the camera bodies you need to sync and you’ll have an accurate chronological view of the wedding for much easier editing. Remember, you’re syncing the other cameras to the one that you used as the time reference.

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January 20, 2012 by Joe

Where did the other stuff go?

Jonathan at Baker's Dozen, 2009

When I started thinking about redesigning my website, one of the goals I came up with was to make sure that the site was simple and focused. Since my focus on the business front is weddings right now, I removed all of the content that wasn’t related to weddings.

The children and family photography portfolios will return in the near future, but the personal project that I’ve been working on for the last couple of years was suddenly left homeless. Well it’s got a new home now at http://www.joefoleyphotography.com/faces.

Looking at it as a whole has also given me a chance to give some more thought to what it’s all about. It’s got a new name “RACE FACES” and I’ve got the first shoot for 2012 planned for next weekend at Snotcycle. I’m still in the process of uploading the old shoots to the new website, but you can see the original Baker’s Dozen portraits and last years DCCX portraits up there already.

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December 29, 2011 by Joe

Zach

It’s been a while since I blogged about a family or newborn shoot, but I’ve had a couple of really fun ones recently so here’s the first. I’ve been friends with Alicia since our days working at the Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech. She and Tom were back in town visiting family for the holidays with their new son, Zach in tow, so they asked me to come by for a session. We made some portraits of Zach by himself and took a little walk, but mostly I just tried to stay back and capture the fun and love that was going on and look for those little details that make all the difference.

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November 23, 2011 by Joe

Sara and Darren’s Georgetown Engagement Session

Darren has been a teammate of mine on DCMTB for many years now. When Darren starting talking about Sara, the team knew something serious was brewing. It wasn’t long before Sara impressed the entire team by showing up to the Leesburg Bakers Dozen and helping keep order in the DCMTB camp. That was only the first of the races and trips that Sara came along on so I wasn’t surprised when, about a year ago, Darren mentioned he might need to talk to me about photographs soon.

A few months later they were engaged. Now they’re in full swing planning their wedding for next fall and we got together for an engagement session in Georgetown last month. We had a great time searching out new place to (and revisiting some of my old favorites). Congratulations Sara and Darren, I can’t wait for next year.

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November 22, 2011 by Joe

Erik and Dyanne’s Engagement Session in Rock Creek Park

Here’s a quick look at Dyanne and Erik’s engagement session. We met up in Rock Creek Park at the newly renovated Peirce Mill and spent a couple of hours exploring the mill and wandering the nearby trails for great places to take photographs. I’ll be seeing Erik and Dyanne next year for their wedding in Pittsburg. Congratulations and Thanks for choosing us!

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November 14, 2011 by Joe

Laura and Peter’s Snowpocalypse Wedding

Here’s a quick preview of this weekend’s wedding in Philly. Laura and Peter had planned a beautiful day at The Miquon School — Peter’s Elementary School — just outside Philadelphia. They hadn’t planned on a freak winter storm but they didn’t let it get in the way of a wonderful weekend spent with friends and family. Thanks for being a little crazy with me to make some very special photographs of a very special day.

If the groom looks a little familiar his twin brother is Matthew, who’s wedding to Patty was the last one posted here. It’s been great getting to spend two weekends with this wonderful extended family.

Look down to the end for an updated preview gallery with more pictures from Laura and Peter’s unbelievable day…

Click on the thumbnails below to see the rest of the preview…

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October 7, 2011 by Joe

Patty and Matt’s Wedding at Bartram’s Garden

This time last year Matt and Patty were the first wedding I booked for this fall and I’ve been looking forward to this weekend ever since. The venue was the wonderful Bartram’s Garden on the banks of the Schyulkill river in Philadelphia — home to 18th century naturalist John Bartram and the first arboretum in the new nation. Here’s a little preview of their wedding day…

Click the thumbnails for more pictures from this wonderful day…

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September 30, 2011 by Joe

Aimee and Kevin’s Wedding at the Hewick Plantation

The Hewick Plantation was built in 1678 by Christopher Robinson and in it’s day was a gathering place for leading families of Virginia. Over 300 years later the plantation became a gathering place for Aimee — an 8-generation descendent of Mr. Robinson — and Kevin, their families, and friends as they celebrated their wedding on a beautiful late summer afternoon.

Framed by magnificent old trees flanking the driveway, Aimee and Kevin were married in front of the Mansion and celebrated the evening on the beautiful grounds.

Click the thumbnails for more pictures from Aimee and Kevin’s wedding day…

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September 28, 2011 by Joe

Sam and Daniel

Here’s a quick preview of Sam and Daniel’s wedding at Washington Hebrew Congregation. I met Sam a couple of years ago when she joined DCMTB, the mountain bike team that I’ve ridden for since 2005 and now sponsor. Sam left the team when she stopped racing cross country and switched over to downhill racing but it was great to hear from her a couple of months ago about being a part of documenting her wedding day.

Since we didn’t have time before the wedding, we’re going to be meeting in a couple of weeks for a post-wedding engagement shoot on their farm near Frederick and I can’t wait to spend some more time with this wonderful couple.

Click the thumbnails below for more photographs from their wedding…

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