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. [...]
Small Texas Towns
One of the other great things about being in Texas again is access to all of the small ‘typical’ western towns and their architecture. If you just walk the streets, you will find all kinds of interesting things – especially the images of years gone by on the old walls in town. This weekend, we [...]
All Canon – All the Time Blog
I’ve decided to start another blog. Of course this one, will have all of my personal work on it, but the new one is LensFlare35 | The Weekly Show for DSLR Users, and is located at www.lensflare35.com. LensFlare 35 is a community for both amateur and professional photographers to stay informed, network, and leverage tips and [...]
Seven New Neighbors
Well, I was working in the yard planting a garden and ‘got the call’ from my mother-in-law. Of course, I am just a bit up the road from the lake, and she is right on the edge. She called to let me know that the Canada Geese that were nesting across the lake were in [...]
Renaissance Artist Used Photography to Create Masterpieces, Researchers Say
March 10, 2009–Rome– A 16th century master used modern darkroom techniques to create his masterpieces, more than 200 years before the invention of the camera, according to researchers. Italian researchers claim the technique explained why many of his subjects were left-handed — the image projected onto the canvas had been reversed. Art historian Roberta [...]
Is it Spring Yet?
So, they say it will be Spring this Friday and I have to admit, the last few days have made me start thinking about the possibilities it will bring for my landscape work. I’ve already seen Robins, heard Red Winged Blackbirds, watched the Canada (I was corrected in that it is Canada Geese, not Canadian) [...]
General Comments about Photographs
I had the chance this morning to review a friends images. He has a fantastic eye, but I found a few things that I could tell him that generically applied to most of his images. In fact, I think it might be true for many people, so I thought I would post them here. 1 [...]
Melissa’s Painted Portrait
Well, there is one really good thing about snow days – you get to just barricade yourself in and work on projects that you haven’t finished (on the computer at least). I was working on this digitally painted portrait of a picture of Melissa that I had taken in Elgin’s Western Days Parade. I thought she [...]
Getting Cold!
A couple of days ago, I went out in the woods nearby to look for interesting shots. Got home, worked on three of them in particular that I liked, and they are shown below for your enjoyment! However, the NEXT morning – it was 20 degrees out! And tonight…they’re talking about snow in the area. [...]
Dapremont Wedding
A couple of weeks ago (yes I’m slow on posting the blog updates) I had the great pleasure to finish out the Anne King & Edgar Dapremont ‘project’ by going to their wedding and taking photos of the event. In May, we had done the bridal portrait session, and they had come out fantastic! On [...]
Hidden Faces
We’ve known Anne for a number of years. Her bubbly personality and flashing eyes created a single image in our minds of who Anne is. So, when she called to say she wanted us to do her bridal portrait work, we were thrilled. Deborah, my wife and artistic assistant, began pulling poses that she thought [...]
Classes & Dinky Cameras
Ok, several folks have asked for photography classes, so we’re going to schedule some in the evenings and on the weekend. In Galveston, I had done a basic, intermediate and advanced class, with a beginners digital darkroom class as well. I’ll re-visit my class curriculum and see if it still fits, but I think so. [...]
Spring Flowers
Well, it’s (almost) spring again, and in Texas, that means wildflowers; color in some fields as far as the eye can see. It seems like everyone with a camera wants two things. 1) a great picture of a bluebonnet, or a field of bluebonnets, and 2) a picture of their kids, sitting in a field [...]
Killing a Myth
In today’s world, you here over and over again how you can ‘fix it in the computer’ if you make a mistake! Another words, it makes people think that they can take their camera, not have a bit of knowledge and just push the button because everything can be fixed later. Well, let’s hold on [...]
The ‘Retro’ Look
Sometimes it’s toughest to capture a person’s personality when you know them. And these days, it is much more difficult to get people to say they really like their portrait. This was just a test studio project, working with a different kind of tinting process and edge, as well as a soft glow, or as [...]
