Twisted Alice #PSW

Sep 032010
 

So yesterday was the typical day of run and gun shooting and having a great time talking with with all the students here at #PSW.  One place I stopped by yesterday was the Wescott photo shoot both that had some amazing models and great lighting setup providing a walk up an shoot scenario that few could pass up.  The theme it seemed yesterday (at least in my twisted head) was Alice in Wonderland.  I snapped a few quick shots and below is what I came up with…

The Red Queen was a fun shot, finished the image using a process I haven’t used in a while inside of Color Efex Pro.  It was a combination of Tonal Contrast, Glamour Glow, and Dynamic Skin Softener combined in CS4  working in the image as a smart object so I could stack the filter on top of one another and make minor adjustments as needed to get the final effect…

Since this was Alice, this is my White Queen.  The effect on this one was similar to the one above the only difference was in the Dynamic Skin Softener, the values were adjusted for skin tones and I used the eye dropper to select what I felt as a good mid-range tone so that the skin would be effected as uniformly as possible..

Captured with Nikon D700 0-200f2.8 II on Lexar digital film

Time She’s a Slippin’

Jun 062010
 

So a funny thing happened yesterday, I found myself in Santa Barbara at the local Samy’s standing at the counter asking to see an Olympus.  That is right folks not only have I committed the sacrilege of switching camera systems from Canon to Nikon, but I now have an Olympus E-P2 in my bag as well…  (I am sure the hellfire and brimstone will rain down shortly).  So why did I get this camera?  The long and short of it is that I saw what this thing was capable of thanks to my buddy Ray Ketcham and a another amazing photographer out of Texas, Kirk Tuck.  The images with this little dynamo sparked a creative project that I am hopefully going to kick off very shortly assuming I can get my hands on a few more pieces of equipment needed.  At this point my buddy Jeff Lynch is probably rolling his eyes, saying that the gearlustitis is in full swing again, and he would be right.  One thing I have mentioned before on the blog and one that I know other photogs know is that one camera may not be able to do the job to get you that creative vision you had in your head…  So to that end the newest tool in the arsenal of creative vision is primed an ready to go, now if I could just manage to read the instruction book :)

Captured with Olympus E-P2 14-42 3.5-5.6 on SanDisk Digital Film

P.S.  There is going to be some format changes coming down the pipe, soon so if you see the blog in  disarray late at night that is me trying to relearn html coding using a sledge hammer…

Black and White Water

May 042010
 

From last weeks amazing time at Pedernales Falls.  Had a fair share of some serious technical difficulties as of late with my computers, but I am typing this post on my new new and improved computer, so hopefully no more problems.  And if you haven’t been over to his blog since he got back home you need to head over to Jeff’s site and see some of the spectacular photos he captured while we were out and about.  More to come sooner than later from the trip.

Captured with Nikon D700 70-200f2.8 w/ Singh-Ray Vari-N-Duo filter

Finished in Silver Efex Pro

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