by Jacom Stephens | 8 May 2012
Rodizio Grill, a wonderfully delicious Brazilian steakhouse restaurant, sponsors several motorsports racers and had me photograph one of their up and coming drivers and his new go-kart with it’s new graphics package. Bruno is a 12 year old boy from Brazil and he’s been racing since he was 5 years old and traveling around the ...
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by Jacom Stephens | 24 Apr 2012
Even though nobody in my family is in the military, I have a profound respect and gratitude for the countless men and women serving in the armed forces. I get teary-eyed when I hear the National Anthem or say the Pledge of Allegiance. It is because of this deep honor and patriotism that I choose ...
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by Jacom Stephens | 9 Mar 2012
A little over a year ago, I traveled to India and spent several weeks traveling around taking photos with a group of photographers from around the world. India was an incredible experience… a whirlwind of sights, sounds, and smells. I was able to create some amazing images, but it wasn’t until this past week that ...
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by Jacom Stephens | 28 Feb 2012
A beautiful african american model from New York that I’ve worked with in the past contacted me that she was going to be in town to visit family and would like to shoot with me again, so I set up a studio shoot for her. This is one of the great shots we created together. It ...
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by Jacom Stephens | 9 Feb 2012
As much as I prefer to create as much of an image “in-camera” as possible, it is also fulfilling for me to digitally enhance an image to create something that would have been unfeasible or impossible to do in reality. In the example above, I added the motion blur to the bat and baseball to emphasize ...
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by Jacom Stephens | 31 Jan 2012
Not All Images Are Created Equal iStockPhoto is known as having one of the more stricter quality control policies when compared to other microstock agencies. They frequently reject images for chromatic aberration, artifacting, sensor spots, etc. But unfortunately that does not ensure that all images are of the same technical quality. I am referring to...
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by Jacom Stephens | 25 Jan 2012
For the last several months, I’ve been dealing with an extremely painful herniated disc in my back, so I haven’t been doing as many big stock photo trips as I normally do… just local contract shoots as they come up. So to avoid additional pain and stress to my back, I’ve been working on getting ...
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by Jacom Stephens | 8 Dec 2011
It’s always fun to see how my images are being used, especially when they are used by recognized brands such as RIU Hotels and Resorts, or used in well designed marketing materials. Here are a couple more examples that I ran across today...
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by Jacom Stephens | 15 Nov 2011
This past year, my 9-year old son Cumeni, has been playing little league football and is a starting offensive and defensive tackle. He has really enjoyed it and football seems to be a good fit for his body type and personality. I have been helping the coaches and have attended almost every practice with him ...
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by Jacom Stephens | 11 Nov 2011
Today is Veteran’s Day (11/11/11). I am immensely grateful and eternally indebted to the countless soldiers who have fought to protect the freedoms that my family and I enjoy today. I am glad that others believed in this country and what it stands for so passionately that they were willing to pay the ultimate price ...
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