Hey; if you have subscribe to this blog please go and follow my new blog, I’ve been absent here because I’ve been having too much fun at my new blog: http://dwaynetucker.blogspot.com I’m inviting you to the party. Be sure to follow the new blog for awesome photos, stories and tips for being a hustler with a camera by your favorite photographer – Dwayne Tucker a.k.a. DT. Tha Hustla

“What up? TeamDT. were doing it! For the newbies in tryouts, TeamDT. us the people are hustling hard in whatever field of creativity that’s being pushed.

So let’s get on it! I’m back in Read more…

Thank you to the partners.

Thank you to those who volunteer.

Thank you to those who donate.

(Ashley Lepine, H4H’s Executive Director receiving donation from Guccini Jewelers.)

Keeping Up With Dwayne Tucker from DwayneTucker.com – Hands For Hunger’s photo shoot week – Day 2. Read more…

Keeping Up With Dwayne Tucker from DwayneTucker.com – Hands For Hunger photo shoot week, December 13th – December 17th 2010. Read more…

If I get enough emails or tweets asking me to write about this photograph then I will. I will discuss environmental photography/ surroundings for compositions, enhancing photos and touch briefly about my 3Ps.

The tennis player in this photograph is actor Christian Carabias. Ideas. It’s such a beautiful thing. The hardest part about wanting to do something is doing it. I haven’t made a deal with a major commercial client. I’m waiting for it. Constantly, I’m seeking ways to impress commercial sports and lifestyle companies with my work to show them I’m willing and skilled to making amazing images to help make profit and get messages across to consumers via photographs.

As I sit and write this little update I’m looking at my blessed, beautiful view of the Biscayne Bay, looking over at South Beach and the Miami Ocean. I’m listing to my itunes, indie music radio and jotting more ideas down to building a better and more detailed imagery like this one for my clients to see. This excites me. That day will come when you walk around in commercial centers (malls), look at websites look books, catalogues and creative advertising photography and say that photograph was photographed by photographer Dwayne Tucker.

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To start, a special thank you to all of the followers of the Dwayne Tucker’s facebook fan page. Another thank you to the followers of my twitter. You can keep up with me daily from my DailyBooth. It’s a really cool website go and sign up and try it out (I really love the site and no I was not paid to write that.) I take my followers in the personal life of DT. via that site. I’ve met some really cool people from there; it’s 2010 almost 2011 buddy. Read more…

…A quick update / what’s coming next on the blog/But First: I’ve been assisting on set for photographer Joao Carlos on photo shoots here in Miami, Florida. Read more…

The work you show represents you. In your portfolio you should show the type of clients you would like to shoot and the type of work you would like to do. It only makes sense to do this. I have tons of photographs that I would like to put in my portfolio but it doesn’t show me as the photographer I would like my clients to call me for – commercial advertising, lifestyle, portraits and sports photography.

Prior to my photography portfolio being active I posted my photographs in blog post and shared articles about them. I am still going to do so. Posting to my blog allows me to share some photographs that won’t necessarily make it to my portfolio page but I would still love to share them with you.

To make a photography portfolio like this one – I purchase a template and spent a lot of time editing the photographs to fit it and personalized it. I’m not a flash designer and I didn’t see point of sitting down HOURS to create a portfolio like this from scratch. As a photographer I don’t see the point . Unless you are trying to start a flash design company :S

The point is that you want to have something what’s going to represent you and your work. If you aren’t in a position to purchase a flash template or pay a flash designer to make one for you Wix.com is an easy site with some cool shit in there to play around with. Check them out. When I launch DT.’s MERCH I will be using them to make my e-commerce part of the site to sell my photograph tee-shirts etc.

HOW TO USE?

The middle left of the screen of the portfolio page you are going to see a menu button. I’m deciding if to just have the menu stay out as seen in the snap shot above. Looking through the code to figure out how.  Over the summer you will see photographs and maybe even some video, constantly being added to my photograph portfolio. I think the zoom feature on this portfolio is cool but unsure it if to keep it if it’s gonna give me faster loading time. What do you think?

In the menu bar there are different collections of photographs for you to look at. Enjoy them and hopefully my hustle helps you keep your hustle on!

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I’m a photographer and my online presence is growing. Everyday I interact with other creative people (usually people loving photography) on the Internet. I am human and some people are interested in the personal side of the person behind the photographs.

On social working networking sites and here on the blog I often get the same questions.

One of my followers sent me a link of “Questions to ask someone, to get to know people well.“

I’m going to be answering 20 random questions like this, weekly, for you to get to know your favorite hustling photographer better.

Keeping Up With Mr. DwayneTucker.com

Q. If you had only 24 hours to live, what would you do?

A.Spend the rest of my time with my mother.

Q.Are you good at climbing trees?

A.Somewhat.

Q.If the whole world were listening, what would you say?

A. Life. Love. Laugh. Photograph.

Q.Are you good at computer games?

A. I don’t play them very often; I loved Helicopter in high-school.

Q. If one song were to describe your life, what song would it be?

A. At this moment it would be – Shwayze’s Romain (Mainly for Cisco Adler’s intro)

Q.Are you good at making people smile?

A.Yes I love to make sure that everyone around me is always happy.

Q.If you could be a bird, what would you choose to be?

A. Harpy Eagle

Q. Are you good at imitating others?

A. lol I’m not sure.

Q. Are you good at making new friends?

A. Yes; I love talking with new people.

Q.Where did you grow up?

A. I’m from the 242!! (Shout out to Daddy Whites!) I grew up in Nassau, Bahamas

Q. How long have you lived here?

A.In Miami, Florida about two years so far.

Q. Do you like your independence or do you want to have the big wedding, wife, puppy and kids?

A. Right now I want a D3’s; haha not thinking about that other question any time soon.

Q. How do you wish your life turned out?

A. As a person who loved photography and shared with millions.

Q.What is the silliest prank you ever played on someone?

A. Called my buddies acted as the census people telling them that I’m coming to their homes because they didn’t fill out the form. LOL good times.

Q. If you could have a $10,000 shopping spree to one store, which store would it be and how long would it take you to spend the $10,000?

A. There goes my Nikon D3’s in one check.

Q. If money were not an object, what would you do with your life?

A.The same thing I do everyday. Hustle hard with my photography.

Q. What is the weirdest thing you will ever admit to having done in the past?

A. Not sure of anything.

Q. What song best describes you when you first wake up in the morning?

A.Turn my Swag on by Soulja Boy Tell Em

Q. What place in the US would you most like to visit? Why?

A. Hawaii. Because I was thinking it then I asked @runkelly where she wanted to go and she said the same thing.

Q. What place outside of the US would you most like to visit? Why?

A. Romania. All of the females I’ve met from there are nice and amazingly beautiful!

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A good form of inspiration for me to improve as a photographer is to look at my old work.

My last three hours was spent looking at old photographs. I was browsing around on an older storage hard-drive and found photos from practice sessions I forgot I photographed. One thing I’m pissed about is back then I only shot JPG and I’m wishing the shots were RAW.

Before I continue…

I forgot what JPG stood for so I Googled it. JPG stands for Joint Photographic Group and JPEG stands for, Joint Photographic Experts Group. Thought you might want to keep a mental note of that because you see JPGs everyday. RAW doesn’t have a meaning other than it being unprocessed / raw data. The benefit of shooting RAW is that there are more options editing in post production.

The trip down memory lane brought happiness and helped me see improvements with my photography. I saw improvements with: Compositions, lighting, editing and becoming a sharper shooter to capture moments etc.

Only thing I can do from here on is to continue pushing harder. Pushing harder to get better and further with my love; you better believe I’m doing it!

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