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Portrait session with Logan

One of the great things about taking someone’s picture these days is the fact that you don’t have to take the ‘typical’ portrait. You know, sitting in the studio, on a chair, with a fancy backdrop and all the lights. Smile, click, smile, click, look over here, click, smile, click – you get the idea.

I love how we can just go to a park and let people be who they are…run around, chase ducks, throw a football, etc. It gives you a real opportunity to capture something unique that shows maybe the spirit of the person, even if their face is not showing. Years later, they’ll know it was them and maybe think back to the fun they had that day. Or it will remind them of their inner child when they’re much older.

So, instead of the usual pose, I find that this one is my favorite. It may not be his, or his mom’s, but I love it. And yes, there were a couple of other good ones as well, a few shown below.

Jan 26, 2012 | Categories: Latest, Portraits | Tags: , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

iPhone & iPad Projects for Photographers

iPad Photography app created for Tony Sweet

Some of the latest projects that I’ve been working on are not exactly photography specific, but centered around the iPhone and iPad. One project was to create apps for a daily newspaper, as well as three weekly ones. Another was to create an iPad app for a photographer.

There are two ways to approach building apps like this – native and what are called web apps. Native uses Objective C programming and the other HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. All of them were created as web apps, but the Recorder iPhone app has also been converted to a native app so that it can be launched in the Apple iTunes store.

The weekly apps are free, so if you’d like to see what they look like, you can download the Adirondack Express iPhone app at this location and the Adirondack Express iPad app at this one. Make sure that you navigate to these links via your Safari browser using the device you want to load the app on.

If you are a photographer, and you have some content that you’d like on these devices, please feel free to contact me. Sometimes the best way to get some of your ideas out there is to create something special for your clients or prospects to view in a very unique way.

Dec 07, 2011 | Categories: Latest, Photo Tips | Tags: , , , , | Leave A Comment »

My first eBook called “My Adirondacks”

How did I end up in the Adirondacks anyway? I love Texas – I’d been there almost 35 years. Why did I end up here? Those were just two of the questions I had when I first moved up into the Southern Adirondacks. It’s cold, they have six months of winter, what was I going to do?

Well, two and a half years later, and thousands of frames ‘processed’ on the computer, and the answer is clear to me – it’s about the images. The Adirondacks have to be one of the most beautiful and least photographed places in the United States.

The Adirondack Forest Preserve was established in 1885 by the New York State Legislature. Nine years later, the Adirondacks became the first and only wild land preserve in the United States to gain constitutional protection when New York’s voters approved the inclusion of Article VII, Section 7, the “forever wild” clause, into the state Constitution. Today, at 6 million acres and larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky, and Everglades National Parks combined, the Adirondack Park and Forest Preserve is the largest park in the nation outside of Alaska. It is a photographers paradise.

In this first volume of images, I’m going to take you through my first year of discovery – of a land and its changing seasons and just how beautiful one of America’s last remote areas can be.

David E. Warner, September 2011

Available Now for only $5.00! If you’d like to preview some of the pages, you can see them here. The book looks GREAT on an iPad or other tablet device as well.

Oct 26, 2011 | Categories: Landscapes, Latest | Leave A Comment »

Why so long between posts?

Well, because it’s hot, damn hot, and hotter than hell down here in Texas! And…I’m not mincing words either! Tomorrow, we go past the record of 69 days of triple digits set way back in 1925. And I can tell you for sure, that according to forecasts, we are going to go WAY past that record! There is just no relief in site.

So, what does that have to do with photography? Well, for a landscape guy – everything is brown and dead or dying and if you do any urban work – 105 to 110 in the shade becomes 135-140 on the pavement! It just drains the life out of you. I miss the winter in the Adirondacks! There – I’ve gone and said it. No, not the 30 below day that we had LAST winter – but I’ll take anything from minus 10 to 20 above without any complaint EVER again!

I did get out to Lockhart Texas for lunch this weekend and stepped out around the downtown to shoot JUST a bit. Some great wall murals and one of the most fantastic courthouses in Texas.

Aug 23, 2011 | Categories: Landscapes, Latest | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments »

Float planes in the Adirondacks

I think one of the coolest aircraft to watch land are float planes. One day I was just lucky enough to be standing on the shore of a lake, when one circled overhead and came in for a landing. Even better than that, was the fact that he taxied over and tied up almost right in front of me! Didn’t even have to work hard to get to the location to get the shot I was looking for.

This was the first autumn that I was up in the Adirondacks and this wasn’t REALLY in the Adirondack Park, but south of there in Cooperstown. The location was Glimmerglass State Park, and what a beautiful lake it is. My wife, brother and sister-in-law were just spending the day walking and shooting foliage.

I’m going to have to admit to taking a LOT of artistic license with this image because I had something very clear in my mind. The beach turned out great, the aircraft perfect, the water just fantastic. However, the foliage was too far away and muted for what I really wanted to see. So, digital tools to the rescue to give me back what my mind’s eye saw. In fact, I had something even more artist in mind when I was thinking of this image and working on it the other day, and that result is shown to the right.

The float plane’s days in the Adirondacks are numbered, as more and more regulations are popping up to ban their flight into the areas lakes. But for now, all of us get one more chance to enjoy the experience for JUST a little longer, with images like these.

Jul 18, 2011 | Categories: Landscapes, Latest | Tags: , , , , | 2 Comments »