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David Beckstead This shot really pushed my passion for photography to new levels! Taken around 1997 with film, it won the ‘best of show’ in the Northern Arizona Fair! Fun!! I got a big old honking ribbon somewhere in a box in the attic! Many photographers have asked how long I waited to capture this shot. Did I sit for hours and wait ...for the right moment? Nope! I was walking down a grassy valley and saw this dead snag: a massive dead Ponderosa tree that had an Osprey nest on the top. The sun was high and casting a shadow on the ground. The osprey was pissed that I had the gall to just sand in the shadow looking up into the backlight. Well the bird was flying back and forth hoping to drive me away and I had plenty of flybys to frame a shot. After about 30 shots I left him/her in peace. What is wild to me is if you put the shape of the bird against the branch it is flying towards, the shapes fit like a puzzle! Cool!

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David Beckstead I am the turkey cooker tomorrow!! Turkstead to the rescue!!! ;-)

David Beckstead Happy Gobble Gobble Day everyone!! I am thankful you are here on my business page and appreciate you very much! So much fun to know you!!! I have totally enjoyed the year I have been on Facebook! Such a great way to network and make lasting friends!! Love ya & have fun!!

David Beckstead In Pittsburgh I had a little extra time after our workshop before I flew out to Pictage Partner Con in New Orleans. Paul and Cyndy offered up their wonderful ‘modeloncall’ and we had a blast scouting and shooting at locations for next year’s workshop. Kate seems willing to shoot in any weather and any crazy place, just... for the fun of it! I suggest you all find yourself a ‘Kate’ and call her up when you need some a creative kick in the head! Just forget what you ‘need’ to do and go out and play! Shoot until your feet hurt! Shoot until you think you did it all and then…push it harder to ‘see’ more. Kate is a master-spinner so practice your shutter-drag and get you some motion! Go get some coffee and then shoot some more! Try things you have not tried, have some ideas written down before you go out and give it all a whirl.
The more you shoot, the better you get, the more you can push your style, the more you will believe you are worth, the more money you will make. But…shoot for fun!!!

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Are you 'Tilting your compositions for a Reason' or 'just doing it'? Let's discuss!

I am doing a little research on ‘why photographers tilt their cameras’. At this point I am not saying that tilting is right or wrong, I am just looking for answers to why you do it. Tilting has been and is being used a lot in the last few years and there are great compositional reasons to do so. Ye...

Melanie Meyer I can't say enough how much I love your work, thanks for the invite!

Judy Fidkowski Hey Dave, I tried to post a message on this wall, but it was too long, so I emailed it to Kassandra.

Love your profile pics!!!

David Beckstead Another Alien Bride....

David Beckstead I was in Birmingham last year having a blast with my class. We found this room full of little crazy aliens! Can you tell me where they come from????

Aliens from......

Brian FromIreland amazing images man !

David Beckstead When you look at life "through the cameras eye", it helps you to appreciate the things you normally would have over looked. It helps to slow you down and enjoy life for the moment. - Scott Rhodes -Then when you leave your camera at home, it helps you appreciate that the globe is spinning at 1000 miles an hour and havin...g a camera duct-taped to your head makes you unbalanced!! - DB

David Beckstead I am so excited! I finally found my "Photoshop-Style"!

I have been checking out wedding-photography websites a ton lately and the new-talent is just amazing! I mean, the photo illustrations are blowing my mind!
As each image comes up I am reminded of my own failure to produce a Photoshop-Style of my own. I could not get... the hang of texture-overlays. Many photographers have told me that shooting brick walls is way harder than just buying $120 10-texture DVD. I can believe it! Making a digital photo look like it was shot through a pin-hole camera still eludes me.
What is the 'Silly-Punky-Skunky action' anyway? Everyone is talking about it and everyone owns it! Don't get me started on Actions...I mean, I see it done on the overall image, blocking-up darks and blowing-out highlights essentially creating great compositions, but I still don't know how to turn one on. I noticed the "Tilt" action is used on almost 50% of every wedding image taken from new and creative photographers on the scene. They know something I don't and I am trying desperately to figure what they know, so I can know it better: possibly going as high as 67%! I was so impressed with Spot-Color when it first hit like a tsunami-wave drowning all concepts of composition in favor of contemporary cosmopolitanism (say that 3 times quickly)! If there is a new fad out there, I want to be ‘in’ on it! That is where the money is!!! I learned a new 'rule' a few days ago: there are in-camera effects and PS effects: the more total effects you can layer on top of each other the more powerful the final frame. Listen, it is a fast paced world out there and 'keeping it simple' just does not hold water anymore!

I digress. I have been in a PS funk lately. I hope it is not obvious. How do I differentiate myself from the freaks that mainly show work directly from the camera? Everyone knows that grandma can take amazing compositions with the Canon IDs Mark III but we (I mean the Real Pros) know that makes little difference. Grandma does not have access to Layers Magazine...and their lies the truth of it: without a PS Style, we might as well go back to our past jobs as Wal-Mart Kart Collector Technicians or WKCT for short.

I bought a PS Plug-in recently and could not find an outlet! That last sentence was a joke! I used in front of forward-thinking PS geeks at a 'Take Your Image To The Next Level And To A Few Levels Beyond That' convention. I don't think anyone got it. My sense of humor was running out!!

Then:

It hit me like a rusty-steel-texture on the head so hard, my native smile jarred! The PS Style I have been painfully searching for finally slapped me out of my mediocrity. Of course!!! Reverse Spot Color By Beckstead or RSCBB for short! It has been a revelation and a massive learning curve. But I simplified the process: Duplicate Layer, Image - Adjustments - Desaturate, Layer - Layer Mask - Hide All. Not only did I finally find my Photoshop-Style, I am going to sell it on a DVD. I finally hit the gold standard: create an action that is so good and unique that everyone will buy it and use it on at least 50% (I am hoping for 55 to 60%) of all the images they shoot at weddings. I am calling my action: Bustacoloroutoflower Action! I think that has a catchy ring to it! Don't you?!

Recently I had dinner in New Orleans with some of the Big-Hitters in our industry: Gary Fong, Denis Reggie, Mike Colon, Joe Buissink, Steve Sheanin WPPI CEO and more. I told Denis of my Master Action Plan (MAP for short) and he brought it to everyones attention and I was toasted with very expensive and tasty wine!! It brought a tear to my eye for sure!!

I would like to dedicate this to Gary who has always been a mentor and who always sends me his new cool plastic sex toys that you can use in a flash!
To Denis who I know is a closet Action-Man! He sold one called ‘Photojournalism’ but no one bought it because everyone thought they could make their own. Boy were they wrong!! To Joe who taught me to cry on demand and make cool Art come out of my camera. To Mike who taught me to focus your passion and be the best at one thing: like snowboarding or jujitsu. And to Steve who let me teach at WPPI with no experience, no sponsors and no clue.

I am so very happy now!! Please buy my Action!! Enjoy!

I am so excited! I finally found my "Photoshop-Style"!

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