James Scott Photography

Old West

I recently attended 2010 SASS Winter Range Championship. Here are a few images that I made while I was there. An article appears on Examiner.com covering the event.

Micklethwaite Wedding

Here are some of my favorite photos from the Micklethwaite – Beecroft wedding I recently photographed. The wedding was held at the Oak Creek Country Club in Sedona Arizona. The bride was beautiful and the couple was looked great together.

Senior Portraits

It’s Graduation time and the lovely Jessica was my subject on this momentous occasion.

Talk about a 4th Generation

The Four Tommy’s. This is a portrait that I made at Christmas of my new grandson who on his fathers side is the fourth generation named Tommy. This picture was one of several ad-hoc portraits that I took during a Christmas dinner.

The only gear I had with me was my Canon 40D, a 430EX Canon flash, and a Westcott Micro Apollo Light Modifier. I used the Westcott in order to soften and spread the flash which was mounted on the 40D hot-shoe.

I normally shoot in Raw, especially when I don’t have the ability to control all aspects of the environment and lighting so that I can…

Photographing Extreme Sports

As you can see from my photo galleries one of the subjects that I cover frequently is Action Shooting Sports. It could be argued that these sports fit into the Extreme Sport category although they have among the best safety record of any sport short of possibly badminton or ping-pong. Even so because real guns with live ammunition are being used some would say it’s an extreme sport. I agree that it is an extreme sport not…

2009 Mystery Mountain 3 Gun Photos

I spent the day photographing the 2009 Mystery Mountain 3 Gun Championship. As always the action was fast and furious. I did a little remote camera work as well as getting as close to the action as possible. For those of you who attended the match and fell under my lens here is a link to the photo gallery. You can order prints directly, $7.50 for a 5×7 or $10 for 8×10. You can even get a coffee mug made. If you would like the image cleaned up, cropped, enhanced, or if you need hi-rez images for commercial purposes send me an email and let me know which images you’re interested in and we’ll get it taken care of right away. Enjoy!

Caution! Your New Camera May Cost You Dearly

The hidden cost of mega-pixels

The Mega-Pixel wars are upon us. Camera manufacturers sling about the Mega-Pixelosity of their latest models luring buyers in with promises of photo excitement, living the mega-cool Flickr© life-style. Are more pixels really the path to photo nirvana or are there hidden costs to this pixel orgy? …

Let’s See Some Skin

A few months ago I posted about the book Skin by Lee Varis. At that time I mentioned that I intended to purchase the book. I have since done so and I highly recommend this book. Even though some of the techniques in the book can now be done in other ways due to Photoshop CS4…