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If you haven’t noticed already, there is a lot of “stuff” (for lack of a better word right now) going on in the US right now.  There is a presidential election on the horizon, there is a housing problem, well known banks are closing or going bankrupt, volatility in the stock market has hit record […]

Description: My favorite images are the ones I take and think to myself, this looks interesting in theory, but I don’t think I’ll end up processing or publishing it.  Then I get home and look through them and I get a nice surprise.  This was one of those shots.  The yellow of the exit sign […]

Description: Believe it or not, I only took one exposure of this shot.  When I saw the scene, I was intrigued, however, I couldn’t really get the angle I was looking for (so I thought).  All the cars in the road were in the frame every which way I turned the camera and for some […]

Adobe’s Lightroom software has completely changed the way I process and maintain my photographic library.  Since being introduced to Lightroom 1.4, I have only used Photoshop two or three times to make a few minor touches I just couldn’t do with Lightroom.  And now, since installing Lightroom 2.0, I have yet to use Photoshop for […]

Description: While out with Thomas Hawk during our lunch break, we explored Hunters Point. After walking nearly a mile into a mostly deserted area, past bio-hazard signs and other keep out, restricted area signs, we finally reached our destination. In order to get into the building, we had to “build” a ladder in order to […]

Description: This image was captured at the first corporate event I was asked to shoot.  I was specifically hired to capture images to be used in future marketing materials.  This particular shot is of one of the caricaturist that were present that evening.  The full set from the evening can be viewed on Flickr. Location: […]

Description: I met up with Jeremy Brooks and Thomas Hawk for an evening shoot on Treasure Island.  The building was completely abandoned and boarded up.  There was plenty of evidence that people had been in and out of this building over the years, but while we were there, we did not run into anyone.  As […]

I just read a post Chris Brogan wrote titled “Selling Blog Content the Clean Way” in response to the way GigaOm Briefings is being run.  At the end of the article, Chris states, “How hard is it to make a post, and then make a LOT MORE for someone to buy and continue the experience? […]

Description: Taken at an engagement session I did a few months ago at the Wilhelmina Garden in San Francisco.  While processing this picture in LightRoom (as I do all my pictures), I attempted to create an antique, aged feeling by muting the colors without losing the underlying concepts of “new” and “beginning” by adding contrast […]

I recently started the Black and White Dollar Portrait (BW$P) Project. The gist is, I will offer anyone who asks me for money $1 in exchange for their portrait. Every portrait I take will be converted and processed in black and white. This project is a spin off of Thomas Hawk’s $2 Portrait Project. Meet […]

I recently started the Black and White Dollar Portrait (BW$P) Project. The gist is, I will offer anyone who asks me for money $1 in exchange for their portrait. Every portrait I take will be converted and processed in black and white. This project is a spin off of Thomas Hawk’s $2 Portrait Project. Meet […]

I am in the process of planning a migration of justinkorn.com from being hosted in my closet to GoDaddy.  In this process, I will upgrade to WordPress 2.6, deploy a new theme and reorganize a few things in general.  I am still in the planning stages, so if you have any advice, suggestions, or tips […]