Orange County Wedding Photographer | Photography blog of eric j. cotter

Ok, I just launched my Blog a few days ago and as you can tell by my lack of photos, I have tried to be a “true” blogger. I know there isn’t a rule against going back in time and posing pictures that have already happened, but I wanted to try and keep my blog reserved to what I was ACTUALLY up to.

So that leads me to tonight. I have (maybe had) an engagement session tomorrow. I was stoked that I would have some content for an “official” blog post. It is RAINING like Oregon and I find out from weather.com the more rain is in store. So i do what any man would do…

I pollish off a box of Girl Scout tagalong cookies

Ok first of all, these things should be ILLEGIAL, ya they are that good!!!  So I didn’t mention that my wife is out doing some areobics so im watching the girls.  While I devour the last cookie (well I didn’t eat a FULL box, but it WAS close) I start to wonder why my youngest (kaitlyn) is so quiet.  I look over to see that she had grown whiskers..  Did she become a cat? a mouse? ingrown hairs?  No to ALL these..  SHE FOUND MOMMIES MAKE-UP!!!!

I start to freak out, but to make a long story short I go with the flow and bring out a light and have some fun…

here are my little models

The two angels…. I mean Models

Maddie

Kaitlyn #1

Peekaboo

Maddie #2

KaitKait#2

Ok ScottBounds of scottbounds.com and globaldesign.net is one of the most amazing code guys I know!!

ScottBounds is responsible for my cool little header image up top.  The entire image is completely random.  It pulls files out of a thumbnail folder at random and places them over a background image.  Try it, press F5 or refresh a couple times. 

You can see some of his work in progress
ajax file browser  flash mp3player

He is also wrapping up production on a Star Wars fan film.  You can see the trailer and/or help out his cause with a little paypal love urban-jedi.com 

Wow, I have been tweaking this little blog app and I have to say that it is AMAZING!!   Hats off to the WordPress team, you really could charge buko bucks for this app (glad you don’t though).  Coming from blogger and pixelpost, the back end makes me feel like I was using Fisher Price. 

The possibilities with plug-ins are virtually limitless.  (ps, shoot me a comment if you have any great plugin’s or if any of mine bug you).  I like the Syndicate plug-in, one click and you can add me to your favorite reader (I’m a big fan of google/ig)

OK enough of that for now.  Just a big thank you to Word Press!!

I just received a few comps from the designer on the Bertolini project. 
I worked with PlainJoeStudios (http://plainjoestudios.com/) to produce an
appealing line of photographs of the Bertolini chairs.

I did not deserve any credit for the great design work below,
just the photographs

The cover 

A sample page

This is an exciting image.  It is a mock-up of a trade show booth
backdrop.  This image Will be around 30′ wide.  I can’t wait to
post a few pictures of the actual backdrop when it is printed. 

this is a 100% crop/close-up of a similar shot in the layout.
I was pleased with how well the texture sharpness was preserved.
The images needed the largest amount of detail due to the
large size and close viewing distance.