Vance's Virtual Volume

Shoot Through Stuff: Fabric I came across an article by Julie Powell on the PhotoFocus blog about creating a soft, dreamy look with various methods to do this in-camera, in post-processing, etc�...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2024/01/04/shoot-through-stuff-fabric/

Just a belated update to my original OKRF Coinage blog post from 2017. In 2018, the Castle at Muskogee updated their 10£ “Aztec” coin to be more in-period. The updated coin looks like it bel...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/okrf-coinage-update/

Disappearing Landmarks: Starship Pegasus – Italy, Tx While driving to Scarborough Renaissance Festival this year, I noticed that one of my roadside landmarks was missing. I was accustomed to se...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/disappearing-landmarks-starship-pegasus-italy-tx/

The Coin of the Realm. If you want to get a more realistic experience of what it was like to have a pouch of coins on your belt for all your daily monetary transactions, you can experience it at ...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2017/12/24/okrf-coinage/

Wonderful discoveries can occur when you wander off your usual path. A couple of weekends ago when coming back from Scarborough Renaissance Festival I was low on gas and exited at Jarrell, Tx to ...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/photoop-gas-station-jarrell-tx/

What?  A post about checklists?  Are you bored or something? No – well, maybe – but mostly no. Checklists can really save your proverbial bacon (there’s a proverb about bacon? – hmmm, n...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/checklists-yes-checklists/

Sherwood put out the call to a number of renaissance festival photographers to come and assist in photographing the Sherwood Forest Summer Camp.  I was able to take a few days off work to help o...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/photographing-sherwood-forest-summer-camp-2015/

I’m currently reading the 1995 reprint of John Alton’s 1949 book Painting with Light. One of the passages that struck me was how he described the placement of the subject in his chapter on Th...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/subject-placement-in-portrait-close-ups/

A recent comment by a friend reminded me of how easy it is to be photographically blind to what we’re really seeing in front of us.   In particular, years ago I was photographing the Austin Be...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/is-your-vision-blinding-you/

Marti is operations director for the Sherwood Forest Summer Camp.  She wanted an updated bio photo for their website. Thankfully there was a work weekend coming up.  That meant the site would b...

https://vstrick.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/sherwood-forest-shoot-with-marti/