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Death And Bunnies: Post-processing Tutorial

July 26, 2011

Mila Dean - Death And Bunnies

Two week ago I finally was able to do this shoot with my friend Mila and makeup artist, the amazing Jenn Hill. I had been planning this for a while, ever since I saw Mila’s vintage rabbit-fur coat. We have 2 bunnies at home; Ferris (shown here) and Cameron (badum-dum-tish) so I thought it would be a great visual to combine this amazing goth-chick in a vintage rabbit-fur coat cuddling a rabbit. I really dig the ambiguity of this story. Is she collecting the rabbits a la Cruela Deville? Is she a sort of Rabbit Protector Spirit? The Dia De Los Muertos makeup came very much later in my planning, but as soon as the idea flashed into my mind I immediately knew that it fit and that I couldn’t possibly do this shoot without it. I had been introduced to Jenn Hill via a mutual friend and I’d been wanting to work with her for months. I knew immediately that she was the perfect makeup artist for this shoot.

I’ve shown this photo around and tend to get a lot of questions about both the lighting as well as the post-processing for this shoot, so I figured I’d cover both of those here.
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Fur In Fashion

July 23, 2011

Becky Franklin - Fur In Fashion

Last weekend I had scheduled another photo shoot with the wonderful Becky Franklin. We had originally planned to shoot on-location on the streets of Seattle. Unforgivably, however, we forgot that this is Seattle and it’s got a rep to protect, so of course it was pouring down rain. We had the incredible Maddie Hibbert helping out with styling. For me this is photo-shoot gold. Both of these girls are pretty brilliant, fun, vibrant and know how to bring out some of my favorite work. I just think our styles mesh incredibly well and I love working with both of them, so having us all on one shoot was amazing. The quote of the day for this show was “They’re like wings… on her eyes.”
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Before And After: My Portrait Retouching Workflow

May 5, 2011

Victories Are Often Hollow

I took this photo on Tuesday for a photo contest entitled “Victory” and I’ve titled this shot Victories Are Often Hollow. I wanted to have a very in-your-face gritty dark yet introspective self-portrait, and I think I pulled it off. I’ll take you through how I went through the post-processing on this photo from Lightroom into Photoshop as well as a bit of what was going through my mind.

Here’s my before and after shot:

Before And After

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Panic! It’s Lighting!

April 24, 2011

Bold Grace

Lighting is one of those things that really intimidates folks. It certainly intimidated me when I first got into it. But learning to see and control light is the cornerstone of taking your photography from snapshots to crazy-awesome photos. And I’m not necessarily talking about getting out strobes and speedlights. You can control lighting by stepping into the shade or moving to a window or adding a reflector for some fill. These days there are some professional photographers like Kirk Tuck who are doing some pretty awesome things with LED continuous lights. Other photographers use nothing but sunlight, reflectors, and black cloth to control the light falling on their subject.
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Defined By Our Shadows

March 22, 2011

This self-portrait was taken for a photo challenge entitled Shadows, and this was the image that came to my mind when the challenge was announced so I rolled with it.

Defined By Our Shadows

Details on how this was made under the cut.
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Supper Shadow

March 3, 2011

Tuesday night I had some time and I’ve been wanting to play around with hard lighting some more and playing around with shadows so I decided to set up a still-life.

Supper Shadow

The lighting on this was extra-simple. The AB800 with the 7″ Reflector dish sitting at about 8 o’clock and set fairly far back to make the light harder. I then set a fork up just outside the frame tilted with one tine touching the paper so that the the shadow would be very crisp next to where the fork touched the paper, but as the paper-to-fork distance increased the shadow became more and more hazy.


McKenzie Fashion

January 18, 2011

McKenzie

I also did some traditional fashion photos with McKenzie. I’m ecstatic with how these came out. McKenzie’s skin just GLOWS when you put light on it, and she’s an amazing model. Seriously, she just makes photographs look pretty. Getting nice photos of her is just too frickin’ easy!

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McKenzie Jump!

I had the idea for this shot in my head and chatted with McKenzie who helped me realize it.

Jump!

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Channeling Waits [or light testing my new 64" PLM Umbrella]

December 15, 2010

Channeling Waits

I just got the 64″ Silver PLM Umbrella with the white diffusion panel from the fine folks over at Paul C. Buff Inc today. It had been on back-order for about 3 and a half months and it finally came today and had to do some testing with it and channel my inner Tom Waits.

See some test shots and comparisons to a regular 64″ reflective umbrella under the cut.
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Daniel

June 5, 2010

Badass Daniel

Last weekend I went out to do a fashion shoot with Daniel (aka Midas iWrite) (MM#1564051). We had a great time. I wanted to get a very masculine, harsh look to the series, and I think we achieved that very well.
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