New Photography Workshops Coming Soon!!

I am currently working with 2 other photographers to establish a new series of photography workshops from beginner’s workshops for those that have just gotten their first DSLR to advanced workshops for those that want to take their photography to new levels. Follow my blog to keep from missing out on the forthcoming details. The workshops will be in blocks of 4 seminars over a 4 week period. There will be 3 professional photographers teaching the workshops and providing hands-on instruction. These 3 professionals all work in different types of the photography world so the students will get a wide range of experience as well as exposure to the various ways that photography is used. Stay tuned for more details as they develop.

View all types of photo files

Are you having trouble viewing you picture files?  Try using Fast Picture Viewer available here.  This is a free program and will allow you to view not only jpg files but also raw files from almost any camera system whether you are using windows or mac.

Don't forget to enter our wedding contest!

We love doing things for people in love!! Check out our new wedding contest. http://www.msplv.com/weddingcontest2010-Q1.htm Now let's see who has the best story about why they deserve to win. Who knows, you or your friend could win as much as 50% off your wedding photography. What's better than getting a great deal on your Las Vegas Wedding Photography? Getting a great deal on your Las Vegas Wedding Photography from a great Las Vegas Wedding Photographer!

1 GB Internet in Las Vegas?

Wouldn't it be great to have an internet connection that could instantly deliver the content you seek?  How about uploading the entire photoshoot to your website in a couple of minutes instead of a couple of hours?  This new connection from Google would be a wonderful thing to have.  Just imagine that the bottleneck to upload speeds would become the speed at which the server on the other end could write the data to disk!!  All I can say it WOW!!  I hope Las Vegas becomes a test market for this.

That's a wrap!!

That's a wrap! Finally finished with the corporate headshot session today. A total of 22 executives and employees got shot in Las Vegas!!  Look for samples to follow later.

13 Las Vegas Executives in 1 day

Prepping gear for tomorrow's corporate headshot gig. 13 executives for a Las Vegas engineering firm to shoot in 1 day.  Then on to the Photographic Society Meeting.

No Snow! :-(

They changed the weather forecast for tonight. NO SNOW!! I was looking forward to some fluffy white photography.

Snow in Las Vegas again?

Watching the local weather forecasters this evening it appears there may be a chance of light snow in the Las Vegas valley on Wednesday morning.  This might be a great chance to capture some good shots if it really happens.

New Las Vegas Wedding Photography Contest

We love doing things for people in love!!  Check out our new wedding contest. http://www.msplv.com/weddingcontest2010-Q1.htm Now let's see who has the best story about why they deserve to win.  Who knows, you or your friend could win as much as 50% off your wedding photography.  What's better than getting a great deal on your Las Vegas Wedding Photography?  Getting a great deal on your Las Vegas Wedding Photography from a great Las Vegas Wedding Photographer!

Rainy Day in Las Vegas

What's better than an indoor impromptu portrait session on a rainy day in Las Vegas.  While we watched the live Mark Wallace lighting seminar, we broke out our mobile studio and setup a couple of lights to test PocketWizard settings.  Luckily we were babysitting our grandson so he got to be our model.  I can now say that the PocketWizard Flex TT5s and Mini TT1s are now tweaked and ready to work in any kind of setting that we get into.  Here is a shot from some of the testing today.  Larry the Cat had to make sure that the kid had everything he needed.  Larry is such a worry wart.

Jeremiah decided it was time for a nap just before he finished having his lunch.

Our Grandson

Spent the day with the daughter and grandson while the guy accross the street worked on her car.  Thought I'd get a couple of new shots of him and his cute outfit.  Here he is, a whole 4 months old.

Wow, What a Day!!

Started the day in the southwest part of the Las Vegas valley and worked my way around the west side all the way up to the turn off to go to Mount Charleston from the 95.  Then accross the northern part of the valley only to work back down the middle.  Shot a few locations on and around the strip before moving on to the south central part of the valley.  I started my eastward trek in the area of the new M Resort and Casino and shot my way up St. Rose Pkwy until it turned into Pecos.  Finally I found myself on the east side of the Las Vegas valley still shooting Real Estate.  As I finished up the shooting portion of the day in the late afternoon I discovered that I had shot almost 200 Real Estate Photos.  Upon returning to the office I spent the next few hours doing the post production work and emailing low resolution proof files to the client.  After a 12 hour day I can honestly say that I am tired.  It doesn't help that I did this while battling a terrible head cold that seems to be going around Las Vegas.  Almost everyone I know has already had this bug or has it now and it is no fun at all.  Best wishes to everyone.  Hopefully tomorrow I can get some needed rest and try to beat this silly cold.

All Over Las Vegas

Prepping gear for another Real Estate shoot tomorrow. We will be all over the Las Vegas area. If you see us, stop and say Hi!  Once these images get used on the clients website we will be posting links to them on their site.  Don't forget to come back and look for the links to check out the photos.

Updates to main website

Acting on comments from trusted friends, we have made some minor tweaks to our main website @ Mark Swink Photography.  We hope this makes it a little easier to read with the added separation between the columns.

Photography Seminars - Coming Soon??!!

Had a meeting today with another photographer here in Las Vegas regarding photography seminars.  The details are being worked out so stay tuned for further news regarding photography seminars in the coming days and weeks.  This looks to be a great deal for anyone who wants to learn more about photography.  That's about all I can say for now, but check back for updates as they become available.  You could just go ahead and follow us so that you won't miss out.