For ALL the Photographers Out There - Newbs to Pros

Hey guys, I've started a link list for photographers: newbs, amateur, and professional down and over on the right side of the blog. I've had lots of people ask photography questions that I'm more than happy to answer. There are colleagues of mine that I go to on a regular basis to learn and grow as an artist. An open dialog about technique and influences is important to all of us who want to learn more about photography.

Check out some of the links - let me know what you think, and send me other photography/design related links that you dig. Ask questions if you've run into issues with lighting, composition, camera/flash operation, photoshop - post processing, etc... in your own photography. Your questions could benefit more readers than you think. All of these photography technique posts will be labeled "photography," so click on this tab under my blog header above when you come back. As always, I look forward to hearing from you.

Building Makeover

This is a mind melter, take this photo straight out of the camera...



and do this to it...



SCHMACKOW....I'm such a photoshop dork...see if you can spot all the differences...

More BlackNGray

I just finished setting up a cool action for creating these Black N Gray photos. One thing I really like is that they still have a "blown" look in the whites, but it's grey instead. Not like an underexposed photo, but a different look altogether. Here are three portraits with the treatment that I'm experimenting with. The third photo was one I shot while assisting David Schwartz at a wedding in Cape Charles earlier this year.

Taking a new Black and ...Gray?......for a test drive

I really dig the look of this particular BW technique that I've been trying to work the kinks out of. I saw some images and was inspired to recreate the effect, and then to create my own effect out of it. Let me know what you think...




Hooker furniture...Easy elegance...I couldn't pass it up