outtake from a recent shoot....

Saturday Market / Occupy Eugene

Went down to the Saturday Market today, to do a bit of street photography, and came across the beginnings of an Occupy Everywhere style protest. A lot of cool people, with cool signs and a message. The Oregonian says there were about 2000 people in attendance, which is pretty big for a town this small. Got a few shots i liked, there were a ton of other photographers around, so I'm sure it's well documented. Good times.

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camera projector background

I found this article the other day online about modifying an old film camera into being a type of flash-powered projector. A bit of work destroying an old camera I had laying around, and it was done. It's interesting, I got slightly different results..... that lighting pattern behind me there is the front lens of my flash, projected up on the wall. A fun project, and all it took was one destroyed camera.

Natural Light Nature

i've always found natural light nature shots to be kinda cliche and a bit boring.... i guess i just haven't found a way to put my stamp on it yet. i really just look at it as a way to try and make an image as interesting as possible, while limiting yourself to no lighting, and very few camera tricks or techniques. it's a bit of a technical challenge, but sometimes it all works together correctly, and you wind up with a great image or two.

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Reprocessing old shots

i've been going back through old shots and reworking them w' new techniques and approaches. it's interesting to see how much a successful picture relies on the post processing and editing involved. mediocre shots can become interesting images when the processing supports the image, rather than detracting from it......

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Backyard Spiderweb

thinking about starting a "found architecture" project. looking for designed patterns whereever i can find them, and then photographing them. this one was in our backyard, i spritzed it with water to reveal the pattern a bit more, much to the chagrin of the architect..... but i like the effect.

yousuf karsh style

i've been studying the greats of photography, and worked my way up to yousuf karsh. he had an amazing style, especially for having been working back in the '40s and '50s.

doing a karsh style image is a pretty big technical challenge. there's a lot of lights in play, and a lot of minute adjustments needed to get just the right angle on everything. the specular reflections on the skin is especially important and difficult to achieve.

but all told it's a very rewarding style. this is only my first attempt, i plan to explore this approach much more thoroughly in the future, it seems to be very rich with possibilities.