The Human Landscape

Black and white is still one of my favorite mediums. This is the first from a series I've done called the Human Landscape... I want to look at the human body in a different way, lit with a single light, sharply contrasted.

East meets West

Sorry I have been away for a while I have been prepairing like crazy for a wedding I am shooting this saturday... oh speaking of weddings... :-)

Weddings are one of my favorite things to shoot, there is something so special about being there with a couple to capture the beginning of the rest of their lives... they are depending on you to tell their story through images.

Indian weddings are amazingly colorful and the bride is typically dripping in gold jewelry... I couldn't help but notice that, as she stood nervously waiting for the ceremony to start, she was playing with a very western engagement ring...

As always, opinions and feedback are always welcome!

NightHawks

I was definitely felling inspired by Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks'. That feeling of observing a moment in time.

I was at our downtown building, and of course I had my camera with me, when I was on my way to the "Lemon Tree" diner downstairs... I stopped for a moment and just looked... there was something about this quiet moment that inspired me, reminded me of 'Nighthawks'... a little voyeuristic perhaps...

This is s little lighter then the original, I used a brushstroke filter on everything except the center to draw your attention more into the center, to the people.

Portrait, "The Fifer"

I'm not going to babble on about this one.... yet... curious just to know what you think.

Abstract portrait

I love kids... I am biased... I think my nephew is the greatest kid on earth...

He is a true bundle of energy; I set out to try and capture his effervescence...

I love how this came out, not a traditional portrait, because its not about how he looks, it about who he is at that exact moment... a little kid who can't stay still. One of my favorite images... wait I guess so far they are all my favorite images...

I love input, let me know what you think... many of my classmates were very lukewarm to this one... (but I let the pompous artist inside me tell me they didn't know good art... it's conceptual people).

Abstract

By special request: I dug up the originals from the fountain shoot which was the image in my last post. Believe it or not, it is actually quite close to how it was shot. Digital SLRs have the ability to adjust the white balance of the light right on board... I simply changed the setting from [Sunlight] to [Custom] and played with color temperature.... so here are a few originals from the same shoot that I did not play with in photoshop.

Correct light temperature, small aperture, long exposure.

Light temp set all the way to the cool end, gives the image a bluer tone. However, setting the light temp to the other end of the spectrum gives the image an amber tone, like below.

Abstract

There was a time when the Purist in me thought that the people who created PhotoShop were evil and destroying the art of photography,...

Much like the art itself, I have evolved. I have new thoughts on this... with Photoshop at my finger-tips I now view my photograph as a canvas and Photoshop as my paintbrush...

This does not quite do the original justice... way more purple...