Born in Windsor, England, Jimmy moved to Houston, Texas at a young age and then again to Moscow, Russia and again to Australia. After which he became quite dizzy and needed a lie down. He is an avid musician, loves classic cars and rockabilly music. He runs his own business as a Graphic Designer/Photographer and couldn’t be happier.
When I first started photography I didnt know anyone else who could show me how to do things and the sites that I did find were either too pretentious and didnt have any real information or assumed I knew technical information already and had plenty of money to spend on useless equipment. The goal of JimmyAmerica.com is to help out other photographers on tight budgets and do it in a simple to understand way.
Here is the first video tutorial I have ever done. It’s done in two parts, the first part is how to make a watermark for your photos, and the second part is how to make a photoshop action that will put your watermark on your photos just the way you like it! As I said [...]
Hello loyal blog readers, you may have noticed that I haven’t been uploading as much anymore. This isn’t because I have lost interest or am stopping the blog, It’s because Violet and I have just moved to Melbourne! We spent the last week with friends and last night was our first night in our new [...]
If you have been following this blog for the last week or so, then you would remember me mentioning I would make my own light painting gallery, and here it is! It’s nothing fancy as compared to the work featured in my post on light painting here, but I am pretty proud of my angry [...]
I remember when I was about 16 and we were doing the long drive home from the snow fields at falls creek. I had my dads old Nikon Coolpix 775 which was a very early digital camera with a 2.14mp sensor AND we got a top of the range, mind blowing 64mb memory card to [...]
Hello again! Thanks for your interest in my personal works and once again, if you want to know how something was done, just ask!
Ever wonder how those eBay sellers get such nice, even lighting on their products? While some may use expensive lighting set-ups like soft-boxes and ring flashes, you don’t have to go down that road. Especially if you are selling smaller items, you can use something called a Light Tent.
These go by many names; [...]
