Call me crazy, but I love watching light make its way across an object. In this case it was the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. I'd much rather be shooting at sunset, but mornings light is pretty wonderful too.
May 05, 2011
April 18, 2011
Meet me in St. Louis
My friend Craig Hacker and I spent the day in St. Louis at a lighting conference with David Hobby and Joe McNally.
McNally is an icon of photography and one of Craig's favorite shooters of all time. Needless to say, Craig had his Oprah moment when McNally brought him on stage to demonstrate a lighting technique.
Craig does a great deal of photography for the Wichita Fire Department and had some of his turnout gear with him. (hence the helmet and coat)
After working on the lighting for a couple of minutes, McNally and his assistant used a bottle of water, surrendered from an audience member, to bring Craig to life. Visually speaking of course!
New studio
New studio space is working out great! I feel like a kid in a very large candy store. This space doubles the size of my previous studio and will allow me to shoot large product and about anything you can drive through a 12 foot door.
Of course in this shoot, I am only shooting hands. and small hands at that!
March 05, 2010
There goes the neighborhood
Kind of an exciting time outside the studio these days. Cornejo & Sons have been ripping up the street at First & Washington for the better part of a month now. It's been quite a driving nightmare for anyone trying to get to me lately. I'm settling in for the long haul. The porta-potty suggests they may be here for a while.
March 03, 2010
61 Layers of Fun
Here's an image that I've been working on, and on, and....you get the idea. This is the largest photoshop file I have ever built. The working file was in excess of three gigs, but photoshop has a 2 gig max on file size so I had to res it down a bit. The image is going to be output at 4'x8'. Should look good.
February 21, 2010
Great crowd
Just completed work on a group shot of the pastoral staff at First Nazarene Church in Wichita. New senior pastor, Brent Van Hook, has a really great team of people behind him. Hard to get the whole group together at one time when it would work for all of our schedules so we decided to photographed everyone individually and assembled the group digitally.
February 19, 2010
Here are a couple of photos I've been working on for a website dedicated to wedding photography. I've been shooting a lot of Wichita weddings as well as a few out of state with long-time college friend Jeff Tuttle.
The new website will be strictly wedding photography and will showcase some of our favorite images as well as showing start to finish wedding coverage in the form of online albums.
It's always hardest to work on your own projects, and this is proving no different. Do I prefer this in black & white or color? What's the optimal crop, texture, etc.etc. How do I optimize the photo to the best of my abilities? All valid questions, but the answers aren't alway apparent.
More to come.
