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More dress trashings…

September 14, 2008

I was really lucky last weekend, I got to meet up with a photographer friend of mine, Joe, and Lindsey again, she’s a friend of mine from college and she’s done some modeling for me and a local photography group before. She’s a great artist and model. Plus she crawled around a giant press and got covered in ink, just so we could get some good photos. We had a blast, and I got some really great photos, and Joe taught me a bit about using gelled (colored) flashes to get a different look.

Despite that comment about gelled flashes, the lovely background light here is all ambient, I love finding cool lighting like this. The cool flash used for fill was a nice contrast.

This was some of that cool lighting I mentioned.

View a slideshow of the rest of the shoot below

Fun & photogs

March 7, 2008

So I kind of organize a local photography group on flickr, and Sunday we had quite the get together. It’s just usually just a small group of us that get together and go shoot parks or other local attractions. This time we decided to do something a bit different, Shannon managed to get the KWQC station for us to shoot in, and my friend Lindsey modeled for us. We wound up with way more people than usual, and had a blast. I got to meet a lot of cool photographers, made some friends, got some good shots, learned a few things, and probably had too good a time at the bar. I haven’t had a chance to process all of the pictures, but these were some of my favorites of Lindsey.

Bad Ass Lindsey

Not only is she bad ass, but she’s smokin’ hot too.

View the rest of the set here

I’m published!!

November 30, 2007

Wohoo! Just had to share my good news. I had one of my images published in a ca lander for the “Friends of Vandaveer.” My image is under March, and I guess they will be having it up for display at the Vandaveer conservatory in March ’08, along with a digital slide show of my images. It was kind of cool to see how many other great photographer’s the Quad-Cities has, although I’ve already met quite a few great ones. Anyways Vandaveer park is one of my favorite places to shoot, I have a ton up on flickr from there. Oh and if you’re in the area, go check out the Vandaveer Conservatory, right now they have the whole thing decorated with Christmas lights and they have displays up with Christmas characters, and yes they had Jack from Nightmare before christmas!!! I think we’re heading back there this weekend to do our family christmas picture with Jack. I have a ton more I want to say, but it’s 3 in the morning, and I need some zzzz’s.

Infrared

August 28, 2007

Ok, just got my infrared filter today, thought i’d share. I didn’t get much time to play with it before work, so they’re not great shots. For anyone wanting try it themselves, I’m using a Hoya R72 filter with my Nikon D50. If you’re shooting film you can just use infrared film with a filter. With digital I’ve heard that certain digital camera’s have more sensitivity to infrared light waves, so some camera’s might not work so well. You can buy one converted here, or learn how to make your own here. (There is also a photoshop technique to make your photos look infrared, but I didn’t think it worked too well.)

Without converting your camera, you can still take infrared photographs with your digital, it’s just a bit more work. The Hoya R72 filter is completely black, so in order see what your shooting, you have to compose and focus your shot without the filter on and then put the filter on your camera and take the shot. Now, most digital camera’s have a filter set up to block most infrared light from hitting the camera’s sensor, this is a good thing because it would ruin your normal shots. For infrared photography though, it means that you will have to use a slower shutter speed to get a good exposure, and you pretty much have to guess at what you’re exposure will be. So break out those tripods.

The photo above was taken at F7, 1/3 second. The nice thing about digital is that you can check your lcd to get a good idea on your exposure time.

Before you take your shot, use a shot of the grass with your filter on to set the white balance.

This shot with the brownish sky and blue-white trees is what an infrared shot will look like straight out of the camera. To get the blue skys and white trees seen at the top of this post you’ll have to do a channel swap in Photoshop.

Channel swap in Photoshop

In photoshop go to the image menu, under adjustments select Channel mixer. The dialog box should open with red selected. Under source channels change red from 100% to 0%, then change blue from 0% to 100%. Then change the output channel to blue. This time change the source channels for red to 100%, and blue to 0%, click ok and your done. You should have something more like this.