About Mikelangelo's Photoblog
My name is Michael Heliker. I am a web/multimedia designer just outside of Chicago, IL. I use photography as a way to work on my composition, color, and digital art/design skills.
Copyright Info
If you want to use a pic for some non-commercial purpose, that's cool...I would request that you let me know, though. If you would like to use an image for commercial work, please contact me. I can also arrange prints as well, if desired. Feel free to email me at mike at mikelangelo dot com. All work on this site is copyright © 2012, Michael Heliker with all rights reserved.
My Equipment
- Canon 7D (upgraded from 30D)
- Canon 50mm f1.8 ("nifty-fifty")
- Canon 50mm f1.4
- Tamron AF 17-50 mm f2.8 XR DiII
- Canon 70-200 f4.0L (non-IS)
- Canon 430EX Speedlite
- Manfrotto Tripod (aluminum and carbon fibre) with Ball Head
- LowePro Camera Bags
- Lexar/Transcend CompactFlash Cards
- 17" Apple Mac Book Pro (2011)
- 6 TB RAID Drive (two mirrored 3 TB drives) and another half a dozen drives
- Apple Aperture 3
- Adobe Lightroom 4
- Adobe CS5.5
This blog has been up since early 2005. It is powered by PixelPost.
Links
Photoblogs
- Daily Walks—Just marvelous imagery and a marvelous person.
- Chromasia—Photography of David J. Nightingale.
- Photoflavor—He has some great shots of birds (from his driveway!).
- A Walk Through Durham Township, Pennsylvania—Kathleen Connally has a marvelous eye.
- Panhandlin'—Another great photoblog site.
Photoblog Related sites
- Photoblogs Directory
- Pixelpost.org—This is the application that runs my photoblog.
- Photoblogs.org—Pretty much the oracle of the photoblog community. I'm listed.
- Cool Photoblogs—"Directory of the Best Photoblog Sites." Just found this one myself. But it seems pretty cool so far.
- PhotoblogsMagazine.org
- Judith Polakoff
- PhotoFriday.com
- VFXY
- JPGmag.com
- CoolPhotoblogs.com
Resources
- CreativeLIVE: an AMAZING resource for photographers
- Monitor Calibration Tool—This is a handy guide to help you calibrate your monitor so that you can be sure you're looking at an image as intended by the artist.
- Jasmine Star—Wedding Photographer
- Tamara Lackey—Children Photographer
- Chase Jarvis—Commercial Photographer that shares info and inspiration.
- Photoworkshop.com—"Where Photographers Develop"
- Canon Digital Photography Forums
- RdH Photography—Rob's a friend of mine who's helped me on several projects! Here are samples of his work on Smugmug.