I have been a professional photographer in Cincinnati, OH,  for 20 + years. This website - Talkington Photo Video  - is the forum for my 2009 Photo a Day project, a chance to get away from the commercial world and just take photographs for fun. The goal is to have 365 new images by year's end and, hopefully, to have learned a thing or two a long the way.


My other website

Pro Photo Life - this website is filled with instructional text and videos for photographers. Though it is not currently being updated, there are nearly 300 posts and over 30 videos available.


Equipment

At the photo studio we primarily use Canon equipment and for most of my career I was a Nikon shooter. But for this blog I've wanted to do something different. Right now I'm carrying around the following for my fun photography:

Olympus e520 camera body
Olympus 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 kit lens
Olympus 40-150mm f3.5-4.5 lens

Panasonic DMC-TZ3 point and shoot

I'm also a big believer in using Adobe Lightroom 2.0 for editing and processing my personal work.

- Jim Talkington