While we’re on the subject of photography, here’s another dude I’ve been checking out lately –  Joey Lawrence.  JoeyL to his friends.  Not to be confused with, Joey Lawrence.  I started with his blog last week and I’m just now getting to his proper site, so I haven’t seen his entire ouvre but I highly recommend his latest personal set from Abyssinia.  Ridiculous.  What I have seen suggests he specializes in portraits and artificial lighting, which is actually the reason I stumbled on him in the first place.  Flash and artificial lighting photography be tough, yo.  Amy bought me a really nice flash for our anniversary and I have absolutely no idea how to use it properly.  It sounds so stupid.  It’s a flash, you use it to make stuff in the dark, less dark.  Yes, but also no.  I’ll stop there because I’m already out of my element.

JoeyL has a tutorial DVD that I was considering buying until I scrolled to the bottom and saw that it was $300 and then I started to get angry.  That’s just greedy, my friend.  Like, am I crazy and bitter?  Well, yes bitter.  But no, not crazy.  He boasts no formal training in his Joey FAQ so I suppose the take away message is that I can spend $300 on some lights and figure it out myself.  Just have to… get out of [yawn]….. bed.