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Announcements
Buy Our Canon Stuff (UPDATE – ALL SOLD!)
Used Canon gear for sale. Get it while it’s hot! (well, not hot as in stolen, but, well, you know…)
Totally Rad! Dirty Pictures Sneak Peek
Since we’re getting close to having all the gremlins ironed out, I thought it would be a nice time to post a little update on just what the hell I’ve been up to for the past couple months…
New TRA Recipes Site
The best thing to happen to the Totally Rad Actions in nearly a year just went online at www.trarecipes.com. We’ve showcased over 160 awesome ways to use the Totally Rad Actions (and counting!) with before and after examples, step-by-step recipes and instructions. Browse recipes by the actions used, by genre, or by the action set [...]
TRA Recipe Contest Winners
First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who entered our TRA Recipe Contest this past March! We received way more entries than I thought we would, and to the extent that it’s taken a while to pick winners, that’s my excuse (well, that and a 2 month old baby boy and a hacked [...]
Vegas Boneyard Contest Winner
Congrats to Jenny Smith of Alders Photography in L.A., who is the winner of a photo contest we sponsored back in February – Christpher Bartelski hosted the shoot during this year’s WPPI convention, at the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas, and lots of [b] schoolers showed up to produce some killer images. You can check [...]
JVS Workshops This April
Joseph Victor Stefanchik and his wife Anne are hosting two workshops this April, which will be the last chance you’ll have for a while to learn from them. If you want to learn practical, on-location lighting, JVS is a great guy to see. He’s also a helluva photographer, so we’re happy to pass along the [...]
Totally Rad Recipe Contest
We want to see your raddest images. Your eye-popping, jaw-dropping photo magic. That kind of stuff. We want to see before and after shots that show off the Totally Rad Actions. Show us how you’ve transformed your photos, and tell us how you did it. All genres and styles of photography are welcome and encouraged.
To [...]
New Blog Format (Again!)
So, for reasons unbeknownst to me, my blog decided to stop working this morning. I was kinda over the blougbloug thing, so I just said screw it, let’s start from scratch. Updated to the latest version of Wordpress, which is pretty neat, and installed a new theme called f8, which is very different [...]
Happy Birthday to Maxfield Banks Boutwell
Born Feb 16 just before 2am. 8 lbs, 3oz, 19″ long. Our beautiful, little baby boy. Welcome to the world, little man!
Help Needed at Imaging USA
Hey Rad peeps – are you planning on going to Imaging USA in Phoenix next January? Do you want to help out at our booth? We need people to help run our Totally Rad tradeshow booth, and this is the open casting call… you have to be friendly, love our actions, and be willing to [...]
Black Friday Sale!
Once again, we’re joining in the post-Thanksgiving madness by offering all our Totally Rad Actions for sale on 11/28/08. Save $25 on TRA1 and the Mega-Mix. Save $29 on TRA2. It’s all for only 24 hours, and only on the day after Thanksgiving. Read all about it here:
If this is news to you, then why [...]
TRA Update – Version 1.2
Today we are happy to announce an update for all of our Totally Rad Actions, bringing both TRA1 and TRA2 to version 1.2. Update emails are being sent out with new download links throughout the day, and if you don’t get an email by Wednesday, 11/26/08, contact us at www.gettotallyrad.com and we’ll help you out. [...]
Please Welcome Our New TRA Ambassador!
First of all, a great big thanks to everyone who expressed interest in the position – there was a lot of interest from people who would have made great additions to our team, and I was spoiled for choice. So thanks to everyone for being excellent.
That said, I’m pleased to introduce Kristen Kalp, who will [...]
Learn To Rock A Photobooth With Jay Reilly
My good buddy Jay Reilly is doing a one-day seminar focusing on doing a photobooth-style portrait setup at weddings and events on November 14, 2008. Jay has a bitchin little studio literally a couple blocks from the pier in Oceanside, CA (which picks up NW swells pretty well – good place to surf in the [...]
New Sample Actions + TRA Sale
So, in case you didn’t get the email (why aren’t you on our mailing list?), there are a couple pieces of TRA news to pass along… first, we have updated (as of a couple weeks ago) the sample set of actions to include 5 actions from TRA2, making the total EIGHT free actions for you [...]
Win Actions & Learn From JVS And Anne In Dallas – October 7-8
Our friends Anne and Joseph Victor Stefanchik are putting on a workshop in Dallas next month. They’re both exceptionally talented photographers, who have a passion for their work, and a lot of great insight to share. They’re also no-bullshit. Unlike so many of the people running around teaching workshops nowadays, JVS and Anne are both [...]
Chenin’s Blog Is Better Than Mine
Well, it’s official – my blog sucks. Jess has a fancy blog. Becker has a fancy blog. Nate and Jac and the Lyons have a fancy blog. And as if my little hand-mangled Wordpress template didn’t look pathetic enough already, just look at this awesome new template that Into The Darkroom designed for Chenin’s blog!
And [...]
Where The Hell Have You Been?
So it’s beginning to get a bit pathetic just how infrequently I post on my own blog anymore… chalk it up to being really, really busy with the things I’m about to tell you about. Prepare yourself for the abridged version of all the cool stuff that’s been going on in my life for the [...]
Save $20 On The Totally Rad Action Mix! Win Free Apple Stuff!
That’s right! To celebrate the launch of our new website, we’ll give you $20 off the Totally Rad Action Mix through this Friday 5/9/08 with the coupon code totallyrad5508. Just enter that at checkout and save!
Also, we’re giving away $500 in Apple gift certificates to one Rad Photographer in a drawing this week. To enter, [...]
The Dawn Of A New Age
Perhaps that’s a bit lofty a title, but it sure feels like it for me… Today we finally launch the brand-new Totally Rad Stuff For Photographers site at www.gettotallyrad.com. Some new goodies, and a super-bitchin flash interface. Head on over and check it out!
Having issues with the TRAs? Try The Totally Rad Forum!
There’s yet another great new resource for getting the most out of the Totally Rad Actions (well, it’s a small one right now, but it’s a start). Go to www.gettotallyrad.com/forum for a whole slew of troubleshooting tips, quoted from emails I’ve answered in the past. I don’t have any plans for making this an active [...]
Consolidating the Recipe Cards
More super boring news! I’ve grouped all the recipe cards that we had at the tradeshows into a neat little gallery where you can view all nine of them! The TRA recipe cards are a great way to learn about the actions and what they can do. Nine different photographers, along with [...]
Video Tutorials All In One Place
Not very exciting news, but I’ve grouped all five video tutorials into one place so they’re a bit easier to find… www.gettotallyrad.com/videos
So in case you’re looking for them, now you don’t have to go sifting through pages of old blog posts to find them. More videos are on the horizon, too…
New Cart! New Domain!
Minor news, but it took a while to get up and running… so if you want to know what I’ve been up to for the last few days, here you go:
We have a new cart for Totally Rad Photographers – when you buy the actions, you’ll have a new, slightly prettier experience awaiting you… the [...]