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Live from Nashville!

November 4, 2009

I feel that I haven’t been posting much – it’s been a busy couple of weeks here! I’m currently in Nashville at the NoBS Photo Success Inferno Bootcamp workshop. NoBS is the BEST photo forum on the web, and I’m lucky enough to be a part of it. Run by Rob Provencher and James Hodgins you won’t find a better place on the net to learn, connect and grow your photography business.

This year, Rob and James invited me to speak, and yesterday I spent a couple of hours talking about my pin-up photography and then performed a live photo shoot with two models. The first model was Kourteney, a local girl who was amazing…her first time as a pin-up and she rocked it. The second model was a surprise one, and more details of that later on!!! ;)

Speaking and teaching to other photographers is something that I love to do, and will be doing much more of in the future.

Nashville is also where Mama Shan and I debuted Pindora’s Box – a wonderful set of tools for photographers. If you shoot pin-ups, boudoir, kids, seniors, weddings….anything! then Pindora’s Box will take your images to the next level, and beyond.

More from Inferno soon, including some behind the scenes videos from my pin-up presentation.

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Tags: Inferno, James Hodgins, NoBS Photo Success, Rob Provencher, workshop, World's Best Pin up photographer
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Happy Halloween part 2!

October 29, 2009

More from my Halloween shoot with Mandy Apple:

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Tags: Carnival of Sins, Halloween, portrait
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James Vs Reality

October 27, 2009

My make-up artist, the fabulous Hollie Olsen (available for any make-up services including bridal: Celebrity Spa Services ) is also an actress. She’s staring in a terrific new short due next year, about a guy convinced he’s a super hero and can save the World.

Trailer here:

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She asked if I could come to the set (an old abandoned hospital) and take a shot of the cast in character….I’d love to!! After we did the main group shot, I had each of them pose as singles again in character.

Here is the group, Hollie and ‘Rufus’ – the mad janitor! More to come, and this isn’t the final processing yet – just testing. The final DVD cover will probably be more fun!

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Tags: awesome pinup, North West, photographer, portrait, Retouching
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Big things for Katchlight

October 23, 2009

So – I’ve been a bad blogger again. Good reason though, I’ve been in bed sick for over a week with flu. Urgh. Rough.

No more complaining though! On with the good news…

As readers will know – (see post right below this one!) Pindora’s Box is ready for the public, and I’m as giddy as a schoolboy. It’s AWESOME. Mama Shan and I are really happy with the final product, and we think that pin-up photographers will love it. In fact, it’s suitable for other portrait photographers too. Our launch date is November 1st, and we’re ready!

In a week I’ll be heading to Nashville for the NoBS Inferno, where I’ll be speaking to over 100 photographers from around the country. My presentation this year will be a live pin-up shoot! The day before and the day after the Inferno I’ll also be presenting my own ‘Retouching Junction’ workshops with high end retouching on offer.

Next year I’m planning more workshops for photographers, stay tuned for news on that in the New Year.

I’m also deep into rebranding Katchlight here. People often ask ‘why Katchlight’? Well, when I first started out on my photographic adventure I did use my name, Mike Long, but it seems I wasn’t the first Mike Long in the world to take up photography, and someone already nabbed the domain name, so I searched for something that brought to mind photography…they were all taken. Katchlight – (the photographic term is catchlight) came to mind, and I’ve had it ever since. I often think of just being ‘Mike Long Photography’ but I don’t want to get clients confused with the other Mike Long, who also shoots weddings.

So until I can get that domain name, my brand will be Katchlight, and I’m going to be altering the branding over the winter, with new packaging products and maybe a new logo too.

Weddings for next year are booking at a furious pace – so if you, or someone you know, is getting hitched…don’t delay. I have a few select dates still open, but once booked…that’s it!

This week I had a web designer compliment me on my Portland Pin-Ups website, which is high praise indeed. It’s worth mentioning that I am available to design any website you need…with a focus on photographers of course!

That’s it for now – have a great weekend!

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Tags: awesome pinup, bridal, Inferno, North West, Portland Wedding Photography, Retouching
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Pindora’s Box – coming soon!

October 11, 2009

More info on the new Pindora’s Box that’s launching November 1st! I’ve been working hard on this with Mama Shan and we’re really excited to get this out there for our fellow photographers!
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Mike Long and Mama Shan have teamed up to create Pindora’s Box – the very best training
and tools for masterfully crafting beautiful pin-up photographs and illustrations.

Pindora’s Box (Glamouring Edition) includes:
Pindora Flow Actions (130 actions)*
Pindora Bonus Pak (11 actions)*
Pindora’s Virtual Room Template
Custome Brushes, Wallpapers, Flooring
Over 10 hours of Video Training
Lighting Schematic
Camera Settings
….and more!

*Actions in this set were designed for Photoshop® CS2 through CS4 (Mac and Windows) only!
They will not work with Photoshop Elements®
Videos produced using Photoshop® CS4 interface

Requirements:
Photoshop® CS2-CS4. To view videos, Quicktime® Player or Windows Media Player® is recommended. Videos can be viewed only on computers with DVD drives.

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Tags: photoshop, pin-ups, Pindora's Box, portrait, Retouching
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Pindora’s Box teaser

October 6, 2009

Regular readers will know that I’m working on a set of Photoshop actions and tools for pin-up photographers with my friend Mama Shan, from Nashville. We are ready for a November 1st release and are tying up the final details with our beta testers right now!
Here is a teaser using the Flow actions and Virtual Room:
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Tags: North West, photographer, pin-ups, Pindora, portrait, Retouching
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Henry and George – twins 3 year apart

September 29, 2009

George is the spitting image of Henry. Here they both are, at about 1 week old. Freaky…
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Tags: North West, photographer, portrait
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George

September 27, 2009

Yup – he’s finally here! This is George, our new baby. He arrived into the World at 9.28am on Wednesday, weighing in at a very healthy 9lbs! He’s the spitting image of his brother Henry when he was born.

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Tags: baby photography, Oregon, portrait, Retouching
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End or an error….

January 20, 2009

And so Mr Bush has left the White House. So long. Farewell.

America starts a new journey today, and we, along with many others, enjoyed watching President Obama as he was sworn in this morning. We went to a coffee shop on Interstate – no big screen TVs, just a little one with rabbit ears! The atmosphere was electric, and no matter which way you ultimately voted, today is a truly historic one and it’s our duty to take the challenge laid out by the President and once again make America great. To be here and be part of it was something special – and as one of our friend’s said…’never watched an inauguration before!’ – and most people probably haven’t either. There was never a real reason to in the past.

Today feels like a very good day!

Tags: Add new tag, election, Obama, President
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Pinuppost.com

January 12, 2009

I’ve had another images posted on Pinuppost.com – this one of the lovely Cherry!! My server is taking a bit of a hit today because of the increased traffic, so bear with the site..it might be slow loading. If you’ve come here via Pinuppost.com, then try heading over to my main pin-up site:

Portland Pin Ups for more about my pinup photography!

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Tags: Oregon, pin-ups, portrait, Retouching
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