Travel

It has been a long six weeks of travel. I have gone as far south as Honduras, and as far north as the Canadian/ New Hampshire Boarder. It has been a lot of work but so much fun. (i will post some images about the trip at a later date)

Today, I took some time off, and went climbing. Just me and the rock. It was what I needed to wind down. Since I was the only one there I had to come up with an interesting way to anchor the camera to the cliff, I put it on a mono-pod and jammed it into cracks.. It really looked funny, I wish I had another camera to photograph the set up..

Chicken

Out at my sisters tonight, before feeding the horses and what not I went into the chicken coop and played around a bit. This is what I came up with...

Heres lookin at you !!

Requests

In this business, we (photographers) are like DJ's, spinning our tunes, creating our images at the requests of our patrons. Late last year I was approached by a client asking if I could create a Photobooth.

"Photobooth??" was my response

She then went into the need for it, and explained that renting one would cost 1800 bucks for 4 hours..

Ok, so I went to work, creating an automation or something. It ended up all I needed was my canon 5d, the Canon software, and Adobe Lightroom.. The Canon capture software allows the user to fire a series of images in a row with one click of the computer. I set it to take 4 images, one every 3 seconds. Lightoom then auto-imported , auto-rotated , and put the images on the page to print (auto of course). After that, all that was left was to press the button to print.

This whole process didn't just fly out of my head, I took a bunch of testing. Of course I was the only one with the patients to sit around and pose for the "photobooth" 100 times. This left me with a huge pile of photobooth strips.

Whats a photographer to do with them, wallpaper his refrigerator of course...

There are images for other experiment as well on my refridge, but the photobooth images are the majority.

After the party, after all the guests went in and posed thinking they were the only ones to see them make faces and wear funny hats for my camera, I was left with several hundred photobooth strips on my computer. Being the sinister person I am, I then made a book of all the strips for the client who got to see everyone making a fool of themselves.. what fun!!!

Photography, Compositing and Oil Painting??

Today is a super experimental day.. I saw an image from dark horse (the fine people who brought you hellboy 2) and thought today would be a good day for something way over the top, with a comic book feel to it.. I also use corel painter from time to time, although I haven't used it much lately. I figured now would be a perfect time to dive back in.

First, I chose my subject matter.. Last week while shooting the stormy waters content, kylah and I went to a WW2 ship that is in Boston harbor. The guns and cannons got me thinking about a composite but I wasn't sure what it would be at that moment this was the perfect subject matter for a comic book hero, or is she a villain??

The base images are as follows:
The Guns
Kylah on the Bow of the ship..
a sky image from New Hampshire

Now for the Layering
When I put these together they really didn't give me that intense, comic hero feeling.
I needed to give it an exra boost

So, I brought it into Corel Painter, gave it a strong contrast of light, gave her long blowing hair. and Made the Guns BLAST!!!

The Factory

Today will be a small collection of experimental images from the Gloversville project. The Mill buildings and Factories of Gville have been an enchanting sight for me since childhood.

Now many of these buildings are not in use but still have a draw of inspiration and even more mystery to them..