British fashion designer Gareth Pugh has made a patriotic return to London Fashion Week, pulling together references from across the UK for his Autumn Winter 2015 show. (more…)
This image single handedly has made me want to photograph in colour again along side my growing love for B&W photography, I feel that my new found fine art style will accommodate both styles to help me move forward as a photographer.
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I just returned from a weekend trip to the Grand Canyon, and it’s safe to say that I got skunked by the weather on all the days I was there. Cloudless sunsets and sunrises, and not much snow in the canyon. Aah well, it helps to think that I did luck out locally one evening here in San Diego. The original plan was to hike up and catch a sunset from the top of the trail, but given that we started late, we decided to see it from the coastline at the base of the trail. In the end, it was a wise decision because the sky just exploded for a good 20 minutes. It kept getting more and more intense over time, and at one point, I wasn’t even sure my camera could catch the light properly.
How was this shot taken:
Step 1 : Get soaked without warning by a rogue wave and commence the cold cha cha jiggle
Step 2 : Fumble with your tripod trying hard to pull out the legs for a stable base
Step 3 : Shoot as many frames as you can before the light goes away.
Step 4: Rinse and Repeat
In truth, I came away with quite a few keepers this evening, and not all of them involved getting reflections from the sand. I guess I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
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Before phones became mobile-gaming, music-playing, app-downloading devices, they were used simply to make convenient, cordless phone calls. There’s so much on phones these days that a passcode is needed to keep everything secure, and making calls is now more complicated.
On an iPhone, you can make quick calls from the lock screen using Siri, but if you’ve disabled Siri access on the lock screen for security reasons, that’s a no-go. You could also use the Emergency call feature to call anyone, but you’d need to know their number by heart.
Now there’s a better option for making calls from your… more
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This is a shot from many years ago, while on a little weekend trip to Mount Rainier with my friends Miles Morgan and David Thompson. The trip was fun, but the shooting didn’t come as easy as we would have liked. This image was taken on the last morning of our trip, a morning that we didn’t really think we’d be shooting due to the dense fog and low visibility. Fortunately the mountain made a brief appearance towards the end of sunrise and I was able to fire off a few series of images before it all went belly-up again.
This one was one of my first attempts at perspective blending back in the day… before I knew that it was even a thing. In this I utilized two different focal lengths to achieve the look I was after. I shot the foreground/midground areas at 16mm (focus stacked with 5 focus points) to get that “wide angle” look, then panned slightly upward and zoomed in to about 24mm and photographed the mountain/background to bring it in a little closer. The stitching was done by hand after some warping, masking together the different focal lengths across where the midground and background meet. After all the tedious blending was done, it was my standard approach of working the light with some dodge/burn layers, some luminosity masking to balance the tonal values throughout, some texture work, and some color work painted in by hand. A couple hours of work total. This may be a bit over the top for some, but I quite like the surreal look in this one.
Anyways, I recently released a new post-processing instructional video. It’s packed with some unique techniques and theories about processing you may not find anywhere else. People seem to really be enjoying the videos and have had nothing but great things to say, so I *think* they are helping people… it’s been awesome to see the many before/after shots people have been emailing me. Be sure to check the videos out if you are into that sort of thing. It’s all on my website, as well as more photos, photo tour info, processing instruction via Skype like everyone else is doing, etc, etc.
2015 Tour Schedule
Arctic Light Workshop – With Arild Heitmann (FULL)
Processing Tutorial Videos
Processing Instruction via Skype
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