I tried to go in a more colorful surreal-ish direction with the post processing on this one, and I think it was successful. Fun to try new things and push pictures in new directions.
Credit:
Model: Tenaya Smith (website here)
MUA: Alyssa Sutton
Photographer: Tim Lewis
I really like this picture of Rod. I was trying for an old-school hollywood type look, so instead of using softboxes or my typical light modifiers I just used straight up work lights. They have a flat, odd quality to them, but if you feather it a bit you can make it look decent. I’m starting to take my usual approach and mix it up more and more. Exciting times.
Another shot from my session with Tenaya on Sunday. This shot just screams model-actress, so I thought I would push it in a more classical black and white direction. I like how it came out a lot. Simple and clean.
One of my favorite new websites is Curiator. It’s a website that lets people link to and upload pictures of art, and then you can put pieces you like into your “collection”. It’s kinda like Pinterest, but for fine art.
I like to get on Curiator and use it to fuel my own process. I find a picture I like, then I ask myself what it is that I’m responding to about this image…. is it the emotion, or the color scheme, or the composition? Once I’ve figured out what I’m liking about it I try and figure out ways to incorporate the thing I like into my own work. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But either way, it kickstarts ideas that wouldn’t have otherwise happened. Here’s my “collection” on curiator so far: link.
To quote David Bowie: “The only art I will study is the stuff that I can steal from”.
First image from a photoshoot yesterday. I wasn’t planning on using this setup, but it immediately worked so well that we just went with it. Tenaya did a great job as a model, and she definitely brought something special to this picture. More to come!
Credit:
Model: Tenaya Smith (website here)
MUA: Alyssa Sutton
Photographer: Tim Lewis
Trying out some new ideas, and came up with this. Trying to incorporate more graphical elements into my stuff without just dropping things in there in Photoshop. So more set design, more planning, more of everything. Exciting direction, I’m looking forward to seeing where this road goes.
You think your camera is cool? Your camera will never be Made-Out-of_LEGOS cool. Meet Cary Norton. He built a 4×5 medium format camera out of LEGOs. And it takes great pictures. The evidence:
The haze! So evocative and beautiful. I have so many questions. Would changing the dimensions of the LEGOs change the way the camera works? What about translucent blocks? I’ve made pinhole cameras before, and even thought about constructing something large format, but using LEGOs? It’s like my two loves are together at last. LEGOs and photography. It was meant to be, really.
