Feb 04 2010

An Eye Opening Drive

I just got back from giving a speech to the Tallahassee professional photographers guild, and had a blast, the guild members were great and I could not have asked for a better audience, and they had a lot of great questions on HDR. I met my friend Martin at his studio outside Tallahassee in a small town called Madison. Martin was a gracious host and took me out to lunch to his favorite BBQ place Ken’s. On the way back we made a couple of stops to photograph some of the flavor of Madison. The two shots where taken from a small business run by a great older gentleman, whom Martin referred to as the Lawnmower Man. I could have spent hours photographing at this location but we were short of time.

On Friday I had decided to drive down some of the back roads of Florida, and experience something besides a freeway. As I drove down Highway 19 and some of the other rural roads I had an eye opening experience. Just so you know, I have lived in the city most of my life in many areas all around this country, but as I looked at some of these rural areas, I saw poverty that I have never seen before. I don’t know what I’m going to do about it yet, I might try to do some photographs that show some of what I saw, or I might do something else, I’m not sure yet.

I did find some exciting images driving down Highway 19 and then over to Highway 41, here are a few of the images from that drive and you will probably see a few more over the next couple of weeks.

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Jan 11 2010

Photographing A New Hospital

I just completed four days of photography at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg Florida. I worked for four different companies, and it was spread out over three weeks because they were still working on the hospital. I found out that it takes more to be a photographer than just taking pictures, and so did my assistants. We had to install furniture, rewire workstations and become a maid service and clean floors, windows and furniture. I really like how the photography turned out and here are a few examples for you take a look at, but one of my favorites is of me in an operating room. The operating room had already been sanitized, so I had to put on the blue disco suit and lovely hat to photograph this one workstation.

Most these images were photographed using available light only, or just one strobe and I used Lightroom and Photoshop to really enhance these images. Lightroom did a great job of bringing up shadows and giving me a well-balanced image to work on in Photoshop. I did not have the freedom to style these photos as we would like, as it was a brand-new hospital that had not been in use, and in a few days they were going to move all their patients from the old hospital over to the new building in one day. Many of these photos had to be heavily worked in Photoshop because of the limits of moving equipment around and not having anything to use as props for the shots.

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Dec 04 2009

New Class and Workshop Schedule

I just posted my new classes and workshop schedule for the next few months. The winter and spring classes that I will be teaching are designed to push you to the next level. They are designed to make you work on projects, look where you photography is going and in the end produce photographs that is a cohesive group of work that you can take and advance yourself. I really excited about my new two day HDR workshop, I have redesigned the workshop so that we will be going out and photographing and then take them back into the classroom and have some hands on fun with them.

I will be teaching the classes and workshop at the Morean Art Center in downtown St. Petersburg. Please checkout my workshop page for more information.

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Nov 25 2009

Photography Holiday Wish List

It’s that time of the year when you start your holiday shopping and I thought I would give you some ideas to make your holidays more photographic. So here is some of the thing I would like to add to my gear bag.

Canon’s 17mm and 24mm Tilt-shift lens
I had a chance to play around with the 17mm tilt-shift lens at the Florida Professional Photographers convention in August and fell in love with it. View full post »

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Nov 21 2009

Zion Park-Part 3 Snow Canyon

On our way back from Zion National Park my buddy Jeff and I decided to stop at a state park called “Snow Canyon”. It’s not far outside Zion and a little over two hours outside Las Vegas. When we arrived at the park we wished we had gotten there earlier and had more time to spend and photograph. Inside the park are a great many diverse geographical elements. You have both red and white cliffs, black rocks from lava flows, prettified sand dunes and red colored sand dunes.

I love the one photo where a brush has grown in the middle of an circular depression in the rocks, I wish I could come back after a rain shower and photograph it with water in the depression. View full post »

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Nov 12 2009

Zion National Park – Part 2

There is a special place inside Zion National Park called the “Virgin Narrows”. It is an unique spot to walk, experience and photograph. You have to take a shuttle to the back of the valley most times of the year and then hike a mile to get to the start of the real trailhead. The way you start is to step into the cold Virgin river, and when I say cold I mean within a few steps you feet are num for the cold water, this is a good thing, that way when your feet slide and bang against a rock you don’t feel it.

As you walk up the river and the cliff walls rise strait up hundreds of feet on both sides, and let in very little direct sun light. Because of this you need a tripod and have to use long exposures to capture any photos, View full post »

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Nov 10 2009

Landscape Photography

Landscape photography has to be a passion of most photographer when they start taking pictures, and I can be counted among them. I feel as if I am on a safari stalking that great image. I feel a thrill when I am at my computer an see those first images pop up on my computer screen. View full post »

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