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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Hey! We Moved!


Coding and web development was never my strong point. And it still isn't. But these last couple days of staying up late and doing research finally got this blog migrated over to a new back end. While I enjoyed Blogger, it's time to move on! Big welcome to the new Wordpress blog!

The url should remain the same.
http://www.tricoastphoto.com/blog

Here is the new RSS for the subscribers.
feed://tricoastphoto.com/blog/?feed=rss

Thank you to all those following our blog. We hope you will enjoy our new format.

- Jordan


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Monday, February 16, 2009

WPPI: What's up!


Day started early for us. At least for me. I stopped by the Radiopopper booth to help out and also sign some a few people up for a free hands on wireless lighting class. Radiopopper will be supplying units the wireless transmitter for the students to test out. One thing I wasn't counting on was the stampede of people at 10:30am today.








Later that day, Mike and Cody got up on stage at the Miller's booth.








Come join us again at the Miller's booth tomorrow at 11am. Definitely stop by and introduce yourself.

Big thanks to Jillian Kay for grabbing these shots for me. If you have a few moments to spare, check out her work on her website :)


- Jordan



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WPPI: Getting there...


After staying up all night working on updating the new blog, it occured to me, 4am is only minutes away. That means we make our drive out to the airport to catch our flight to Las Vegas.

Quick photo before the flight attendant threatened to take the camera away from us.






Flight was only a short 3 hours. I think I was able to catch one or two zz's. Mike, fighting an eye infection, created a rather ingenious eye patch to block out the lights. I have to say I was rather jealous that I didn't think of that earlier. It looks snug too.



Once we landed, we took a quick walk around MGM Grand. Cody tried out a hat inside one of the malls many shops. Jonas Brothers?



A view from our hotel room. I accidentally loaded the fullsized image so it might take a while to load.




Enough with the shenanigans. Off to pick up our passes. We hope to see you out on the WPPI convention floor. If you do see us, please come up and introduce yourself! You can find us at Collages, Denny Mfg, Miller's, or Radiopopper booths. You might also come early to the Radiopopper booth to sign up for a limited seating free wireless flash demo with TriCoast and Radiopopper.






- Jordan







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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Beef Jerky and The Dirty Water Dog Workshop!


Yep. That's what I said. Dirty Water Dog.



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Stormwatch newsletter subscribers already know about this, but just in case there are some that did not subscribe to it, I'll post it here.





And if anyone figures out who's Beef Jerky and who's the water dog, please let me know...



- Jordan




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Death of a blog :(



What does that mean? Well, we've been blogger users for a long time. Years. It's nice and integrates with all kinds of Google stuff. But it's time to grow up and move on. So, if you're a RSS or Atom subscriber, check back in a day or two to update your feed.

You don't feel like it? How about we make it worth your while. Click to find out more.








Check back, update your feed, and add us to your blogroll. Leave a comment in a specific, yet un-announced, upcoming post. First 20 people to leave a blog on that specific post, will go into a drawing for a set of Radiopopper P1. Which is one of our prized possessions in our camera bag.

The Radiopopper P1 is the previous generation of Radiopppers. The winner will receive the set straight out of our camera bags. Fully tested, and functional, but has no trade-in value.

When you do leave a comment, please be sure to leave a link to your blog, so we could add you to our blogroll. (And to see if we are in your blogroll as well, so you can qualify for your drawing :) We will do a drawing while we are at WPPI and announce the winners then.

Sound fair? Talk to you soon!


- Jordan


Edit 2/14/2009 9:39pm
Just to clarify guys and gals, it's not this blog post but an upcoming one. But that's for the love :)




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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Studio Photography - The Magazine - We Made the COVER BABY!!!



TriCoast is so very proud and humbled to have been chosen as the photographer or in this case the photographers to make the cover of Studio Photography's Wedding Issue for 2009. Studio Photography has always been a magazine which we have personally subscribed too and read for their educational aspects and cutting edge in the photography business, but truly NEVER thought we had a chance to be on the cover.


A session which is known for being one of THE images of our amazing buddies at Collages.net, our "Red Wall Bride" is truly one of TriCoast's favorite brides and even now, several years later the image still is one of the strongest TriCoast has ever taken. Check out the Online Issue of Studio Photography and remember the magazine is FREE to all who are interested so while stopping by on their site sign up for your subscription, I promise you wont be sorry!

Thank you again Studio Photography for trusting us and our artwork for this amazing honor, truly it means the world to us!

~Mike





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Sunday, February 01, 2009

The Dave Cross - Yeah the Photoshop Guru and TriCoast



Well hell has frozen over for TriCoast because one of our dreams and passions has come true which we never thought would happen! TriCoast has the honor of being on Dave Cross blog with Photography, Photoshop, tips and tricks and other goodies from the main man of Photoshop!




Mike was honored to be asked by Dave to "Finish the Sentence" for his blog post last week. Roughly Dave asks questions and Mike tried to answer them as truthful and honest as possible without showing just how much of a real dumb-butt Mike is!

Thanks again Dave for asking us, we truly were honored and yes shocked one who even know who we are and two you would have us on your really cool blog. Hopefully in the future, we can do more things together because as Jordan said "that man is amazing"!




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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Year of the Ox!


The Chinese New Year rolled around a few days ago. Year of the Ox! What's that mean for us? Not really sure...

But what did happen is that we had a good friend over for dinner, gotten to the final stages of our newsletter, and announced some workshop dates.



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First off, our good friend and photographer out of Tampa/St. Pete, FL Margie Schulz was in town for a conference. I had asked what it was about but promptly lost interest when she said the magic word "financial". Sorry Margie, we love you, but numbers are not my friend. Since it was the Chinese New Year, we took her to a little dive in Chinatown. Here is a group shot from Margie's camera.



So what is the Year of the Ox? Here's something plagiarized from the Chinese Culture Center website.

People born in the Year of the Ox are patient, speak little, and inspire confidence in others. They tend, however, to be eccentric, and bigoted, and they anger easily. They have fierce tempers and although they speak little, when they do they are quite eloquent. Ox people are mentally and physically alert. Generally easy-going, they can be remarkably stubborn, and they hate to fail or be opposed. They are most compatible with Snake, Rooster, and Rat people.


Anything significant for us? No clue. I'm not really the philosophical kind, while Mike and Cody might be able to come up with something, it's not something we will go into.

What we will go into is the newsletter that is about to launch. Fill with..."stuff".



The newsletter will contain tidbits on how we use wireless flash, along with random tidbits of tips and tricks. Possibly even some processing info and behind the scene images and/or videos. The content will also have up to date appearances of the TriCoast crew in various conventions, speaking engagements, seminars, workshops, as well as circus acts and county fairs. To sign up for this madness, check out TriCoast StormWatch.

On the subject of workshops, several new workshops have been announced and registration is now online.

Dallas
Denver
Seattle
San Francisco
New Jersey


To register, head over to TriCoast Workshops website.

The Following Cities are in the final stages of TriCoast's hands on 2 or 3 day workshops as well:

San Francisco, CA
Portland, OR
Savannah, GA
New Orleans, LA
Houston, TX
Memphis, TN
Twin Cities, MN



Hope to see you at one of those cities!


- Jordan


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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Mike receives his Craftsman Degree from the PPA


One of the top awards a photographer can achieve being a member of the Professional Photographer's Association (PPA) Mike was sponsored by THE Godfather of the PPA, Ralph Romaguera. Mike, being truly honored by Ralph, as one of Mike's mentors, placing the Craftsman degree around his neck. Of course Mike being the ONLY photographer dressed in a light colored suit and wearing his traditional dress shoes of Flip Flops stuck out quite a bit during the ceremony. Add to the fact that Mike gave back a little more than Ralph expected by grabbing his backside on stage in front of 100's of PPA members. Needless to say the PPA can be about fun, education, ethics and a whole lot more all wrapped up into one package called "Our PPA"

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Thank you again Ralph for not only being a great sport, but also being truly one of the leaders in the world of professional photography but also being down to earth, respectful and helpful to EVERYONE that asks or needs it. Truly you are one of the best people I know on this planet and I am truly honored to have you a part of my special day. I will simply never forget it!



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