Monday, December 17, 2012

Happy Holidays from Texas Photo!

We are signing off for a few days (Dec 21 - 25) for the holidays - but can't go without sending BIG, TEXAS-SIZED HOLIDAY WISHES to all of our students, supporters, business partners, and just a whole bunch of nice people we have been so lucky to meet this year! We can't believe how Texas Photo has grown - and the many ways all of you have helped us grow. We are truly thankful!

Friday, December 14, 2012

The Gift of Learning


30 DAYS OF DEALS // DAY 30!
Gift yourself or your favorite photog with the gift of education through Texas Photo classes! Check out our new calendar of classes for Spring 2013. We have more to offer this year than ever, with new class topics and some terrific partnerships with The Dallas Arboretum, Fort Worth Botanical Gardens and The Creative Arts Center of Dallas. Check out our expanded online courses that allow you to learn on your time. Gift cards are available via mail and email in amounts of $25 and up – so fill up your stocking or someone else's with the best photo deal yet.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Gift Card-a-palooza


30 DAYS OF DEALS // DAY 29
Next to the last day of Deals postingsand just like the pre-holiday prep, these deals have gone by way too fast! So, speaking of fast... to make your holiday shopping and decision-making speedier, don't forget about gift cards. Most retailers offer gift cards or certificates, and we have put together a list of some of the best for that photographer on your list:
  • Photojojo - amounts ranging from $10 - $200, with email delivery available or by mail with free keychain
  • B+H Photo Video - amounts from $25 - $1000, never expires and free shipping
  • Adorama - Gift Card Wizard offers amounts from $10 - $1000, arrive by email or mail, never expire, and have the option for a personal message 
  • Amazon - holiday designs and gift tins, custom designs with personal photos, video cards, delivery options via email, Facebook, mail with free shipping, and print at home in amounts from $.15 to $1000
Go gift card-a-palooza! 

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Holiday Photo Shoot

Shot images at Spa Esoteric in McKinney for the holidays. The Spa is a converted historic home with huge floor-to-ceiling windows and amazing natural light! Every time I shoot there, it's a joy– not only because of the light, but also the creative freedom that the owner, Monika, gives me. Here's a sneak peek...











Santa's on his way...


30 DAYS OF DEALS // DAY 28
Play Santa with this deal from BradsDeals and Discount Mags! Get a year-long subscription to Digital Photo Magazine for $4.99 – today only! This slick, glossy mag covers new digital darkroom technologies, trends and methods in modern photography. Edited for a broad spectrum of readers, from the beginner to the advanced, this is the perfect gift for photogs who want to learn more about how to creatively control and produce exciting images. Use the code BRADSDEALS at checkout to get the deal!

Friday, December 7, 2012

Photo-tastic Gifts!


30 DAYS OF DEALS // DAY 27
Skip the season's shopping stress and take advantage of Adorama's Photo-tastic Gift List filled with great ideas – all under $100! These gadgets and tools can boost images from good to great and take shooting skills to the next level. We like Adorama's exclusive Digital Media Storage Wallet for memory cards and their Flashpoint 42-inch Collapsible Disc Reflector kit. The Digital Media Storage Wallet is a perfect size at 4 1/4 x 3 1/4-inches, holds up to 4 memory cards and 2 AA batteries, and can be carried on its own or placed inside a camera bag. The foldable Flashpoint Reflector is perfect for reducing contrast, providing soft fill light, warming skin tones, or softening light and comes with translucent, white, black, silver and gold (5-in-1) reflectors. Just twist, fold and pack away for easy travel and storage. Both of these make great gifts in combination or alone - and add up to under $50!

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Making Spirits Bright – Instantly


30 DAYS OF DEALS // DAY 26
Get your holiday party pics on the spot with the Polaroid GL10 instant printer! This little 15 oz. printer marries the convenience of today's digital images and the original Polaroid instant experience– works from most mobile phones wirelessly via Bluetooth and from most digital cameras. Using ZINK Technology, the GL10 produces color, full bleed and contemporary 3 x 4" photos in the Polaroid Classic Border logo in about 45 seconds - making it a portable photo booth that allows you to bring Polaroid magic wherever you go this holiday season. Buy.com features it today at only $105.99 – that's $75 off the regular price!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Sprocket Rocket around the Christmas Tree


30 DAYS OF DEALS // DAY 25
Lomography is offering an Advent Calendar of Deals each day– good for their online shop and gallery stores! We featured facts about lomography on our blog back in August, but in case you missed it... it's a magazine, a shop and a community dedicated to analogue photography. That's right – Old-School-style-film-in-the-camera style artistic shooting. Tomorrow's deal is a savings of 21% on any Sprocket Rocket camera. Just use the voucher code ROCKET21 at the Checkout!

Monday, December 3, 2012

Dreaming of a Soft White Christmas


30 DAYS OF DEALS // DAY 24
Give the best photo gift this season - a Gary Fong puffer flash diffuser. Built to fit a wide variety of DSLRs and point and shoot cameras, these affordable accessories are a must to eliminate raw light from a pop-up flash. Transform those dreaded holiday red-eye snap shots into softly lit professional looking portraits.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Ghosts of Christmas Past


30 DAYS OF DEALS // DAY 23
See the history of image manipulation in Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop, an Amazon Editor's Pick for this holiday. This captivating book reveals that almost every type of manipulation we associate with Adobe’s now-ubiquitous Photoshop software was also part of photography’s pre-digital repertoire, from slimming waistlines and smoothing away wrinkles to adding or removing people in images, not to mention fabricating events that never took place. Among the techniques discussed–and beautifully illustrated with works from an international array of collections—are multiple exposure, combination printing, photomontage, composite portraiture, over-painting, hand coloring, and retouching. Save 37%, enjoy free shipping with gift wrapping available!

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Happy Holga Holidays


30 DAYS OF DEALS // DAY 22
To make our holidays brighter, we are back at Photojojo's store for their Holga iPhone Lens. This little gem offers a rotating disk equipped with 9 different lenses! Just fit the case that it comes on over the back of your phone, and you're set. It's like having 9 toy cameras all in one: lenses for dreamy vignettes, vibrant red and green color lenses, multi-image lenses for Spidey-vision (double, triple, and quadruple images), a macro lens for beautiful close-up detail and red, yellow, and blue filters with clear centers for framing your subjects! Just spin the disk, preview the effect on your screen, and then fire away! A fantastic gift for only $30.