Joe Turic Photography - Latest Comments

Re: New Addition to the Family!

ChiWei @ One Dog Woof — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:44:30 -0000

Love love love! I can stare at these all day :-)

Re: Festivus Games

Joe Turic — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:05:53 -0000

Thanks Nada! The support of everyone there helped a lot.

Re: Festivus Games

Nada — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:35:24 -0000

Who cares about how you placed. You could have done novice and got a better ranking but you didn't!!! You should be really proud of what you did. Good for you!

Re: New Paltz Christmas Tree Bonfire

Lynn — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:16:49 -0000

thank you for the fine photos of this event...a great tradition...

Re: Ellie!

Kirsten Burg — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:05:49 -0000

The best family ever!!! Love those faces.

Re: Lots of pictures coming your way

ChiWei @ One Dog Woof — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:27:31 -0000

Yay, a blog post! Great pictures! For having been cloudy for so long in Paris, you got some great shots :-)

Re: The First Few Days in Paris

Barbara — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:39:11 -0000

Gorgeous pictures!! I'm trying to picture an Italian restaurant in Paris.

Re: The First Few Days in Paris

Benaifer — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:42:33 -0000

Joe, these photos are amazing! Very, very impressive.

Re: The First Few Days in Paris

Joe Turic — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:34:10 -0000

haha. Yea, we even joked with him about that. But, it's just so ingrained in the culture. I mean, the first place that I ever sabered a bottle of champagne was at Vijay's office :)

Re: The First Few Days in Paris

ChiWei — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:27:40 -0000

I love how you just walk down to meet Vijay for a drink...you know, on a work day.

Re: Back in the States!

Bryan Cover — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:16:45 -0000

Yeah, that first shot is great. I went back and checked mine and it's not nearly as good.

Re: Back in the States!

Joe Turic — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:27:30 -0000

Thanks! I really liked the cloud formations over the palace at that moment.

Re: Eurotrip 2012 has begun!

Joe Turic — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:45:22 -0000

haha, pretty much. We didn't start drinking Guinness until around 10:30 am though, even though my body was ready to when we landed...since it was about midnight NY time :)

Re: Eurotrip 2012 has begun!

ChiWei — Mon, 07 May 2012 09:34:46 -0000

Ok, I knew you were going to Dublin, I didn't realize it was a layover. Holy cow. So, basically, you partied the (NY) night away :-)

Re: Homemade Collapsible Lightbox

Naseer — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:07:06 -0000

Makes sense. I just realized a lightbox may be useful for photographing vegetables that come out of our garden.

Re: Homemade Collapsible Lightbox

Joe Turic — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:35:01 -0000

Yea, I know what you mean. For me, it's just a fun project. I had used the larger one in past years to take some product shots for eBay, which I think help with sales there. Nicole's been making some jewelry lately too, so I thought it'd be a great thing to take some little product shots for etsy as well.

Re: Homemade Collapsible Lightbox

Naseer — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:26:46 -0000

Nice work! I'm curious to see what applications you have for this. I could see someone like ChiWei using it for her diy crafts blog, and I know other people have used it to good effect for photographing items for their eBay stores, but I couldn't think of a good reason to make one for myself. Maybe you'll find the application that will get me off my butt to make one.

Re: Homemade Collapsible Lightbox

Joe Turic — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:26:27 -0000

Oh, forgot to say that you can, of course, feature me on your blog :-)

Re: Homemade Collapsible Lightbox

Joe Turic — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:20:00 -0000

Thanks, ChiWei! You can get the lights at Lowes or Harbor Freight. They have some nicer work lights, but the ones I've gotten over the past couple of years have been cheap, $10-$11 for a 500 watt light. The one I got at Harbor Freight actually has an on off switch on it, the one from Lowes you just have to pull the plug. Backgrounds are just poster board in different colors. If you get the double sided stuff, you basically get two backgrounds for one (my silver background has gold on the back; the blue has yellow on the back). Depending on the size of things you'd like to photograph, I'd recommend making a larger box. You may have clicked on the link to the flickr set in my post that shows the one I made a couple years ago, which was about 2'x2'. Even in the past day I've found 12"x12" a bit small, except for small objects.

The nice thing is that you don't need an expensive camera to do this either, it's all about the light on the object.

Re: Homemade Collapsible Lightbox

ChiWei Ranck — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:56:00 -0000

I love it! I'm going to make my own, since I always seem to have dog hair and kids toys in the background of my photos. Where do you get the lights, and are your backgrounds poster board, or construction paper? Can I feature you on my blog too? :-)

Re: Homemade Collapsible Lightbox

Joe Turic — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:34:33 -0000

Thanks, Nick. Truth be told, velcro is much stronger than the sticky connection to the carboard (though, I think with some time that connection gets a little stronger). But, I don't plan on setting this up and taking it down on a daily basis, so the option to be able to store it flat is a great thing.

Re: Homemade Collapsible Lightbox

Nick — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:23:50 -0000

Nice tutorial, I like that it's collapsible and uses the velcro to stay together.

Re: PFP – A Seat at the Table

Joe Turic — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:54:52 -0000

Thanks, Susan! It was a great event to photograph and it's nice to see someone looking back at the photos!

Re: PFP – A Seat at the Table

Susan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:44:45 -0000

Hi Joe, I'm just looking at these photos again, they are really great! I didn't know you used to be a shareholder at the PFP!
Thanks again! Susan

Re: L&M Engagement shoot

Marcelle Marguerite — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:37:47 -0000

These are so fantastic! Lisa and Mike look so great they made me cry!