Thad Allender

Photography, Multimedia & WordPress guru based in Washington, D.C.

Halloween portraits

I shot a series of portraits on Halloween using both ambient and studio lights. The top photo was lit with one 800 watt head, diffused by a large Chimera softbox at camera left. The bottom photo was lit by a red neon light mounted to the ceiling of a shed.

Halloween 2006

Halloween 2006 went down with its usual chaotic antics. Like every year, I waited too long to find a costume, than at the last minute, decided dressing up wasn’t worth the hassle. I brought my camera, lights and softbox and documented some of the costumes in an abandonded house on my friend’s property. There were [...]

Powered by…..

For a photographer with a limited budget and limited web skills, building/finding the right photo gallery tool to run a website can be painful. I have spent the better part of two years looking for the perfect photo management web gallery, blogging application and content management system to run my website. Although my search has [...]

Social bookmarking

Man am I glad that I finally took the time to check this out. A while back, I kept running into this del.icio.us thing. I quickly wrote it off as some kind of myspace-esque web venture out to waste my time and turn my clicks into advertising dollars. Boy was I wrong. Briefly, del.icio.us is [...]