I’ve really been excited with the direction of my photography lately.  I’ve been getting hired more and more to shoot editorial portraits of people, and it’s so much fun to work on these projects.  I really like trying to capture the character behind someone.  It’s not only the challenge of finding the right look, with regards to lighting, and posing, but also really pulling the person out of their shell, and capturing a unique and characteristic moment out of them.

So I recently bought one of those Wacom pen tablets.  I really wish I would have done it sooner.  It has been so much fun playing with this thing!  I love how I can make really awesome looking brush strokes on a digital canvas.  It’s totally wild.  Now I do have the advantage of using photoshop CS5’s new Mixer brushes, and I have to say I’m totally amazed by how great they look.  Honestly it’s like painting with a real brush in your hand.  It does take a little getting use to with the whole hand eye coordination of making strokes on something below the screen while watching it happen on your monitor.  Sadly I’ve been too busy playing with digital painting to try my hand at some really