Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
PSPF Day 4 and Final Edit
We worked with models all day today in a seedy motel in Indio CA., maybe twenty miles from Palm Springs. All of us worked like hell to put what we have learned over the past few days into our images.
For most of us this is really just breaking out of the box that we jam ourselves into trying to make a living. I am pretty happy with most of what I shot today. Here they are, you get to see them before I show them to the class tomorrow morning.
For most of us this is really just breaking out of the box that we jam ourselves into trying to make a living. I am pretty happy with most of what I shot today. Here they are, you get to see them before I show them to the class tomorrow morning.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
PSPF Day 3
Spent the day in a small studio with twenty other people making images with lighting stuff we found at Home Depot. It is a tough thing to re-arrange your mind-set to work with such simple tools and at the same time actually create something that bears looking at. I think I did ok. Certainly not as good as some but then some people cheated and used a set of Kino-Flos that were hanging around. I have to say they were pretty cool and I used them for a few shot as well. The thing is though that it's too easy to create good images with tools like that and they kind of look that way, where as the stuff that was shot with the Home Depot junk and I do mean junk took a lot more effort to make into something that was actually ok. Frank used my camera to do a light painting demo so I have a couple of Ockenfels originals that I will show you after I make sure it's ok to post them.
PSPF Day 2
Worked all day yesterday in extreme heat with small silver and gold reflector cards with available light inside an un-air conditioned room at the Korokia Pensione. Kind of killer but we all made it through and came up with some good images. At the end of the day headed to Home Depot to buy lighting implements for today's studio shoot. Frank is a good guy and being very helpful pushing us all forward and away from the safe and comfortable, i.e. no strobes or any kind. Tomorrow we go to a seedy motel in Indio for the day to shoot models. Hopefully the temps will fall out of the 104-105 range which is where they have been since I got here.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Palm Springs
I am out at the Palm Spring Photo Festival this week. After a very early departure I arrived in blistering heat and hung out at the conference hotel until I was able to get into a room. Then I had two hours of an open portfolio review. Kind of thought is was a waste of time as mostly it was just the other photographers who were showing work that looked at it. Kind of heart stopping non the less to put your stuff on a table and have people poke a stick at it. Last night there was an opening night party which was fun and since it was after the sun had gone down tolerable. I am taking a workshop from Frank Ockenfels which starts today. People in the class from Canada, Australia, etc. Kind of big though at seventeen people. More to come.....
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Over the Road Trucking Project
I posted earlier about my personal project documenting a bit of life on the road of the over the road trucker. I've posted more images here on my blog. This project has been a good challenge for me. I am learning a lot about the process from gaining access, to making and editing the images into a visual story. Nothing like hands-on experience of course.
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