I had an awesome opportunity to work with ND&P out of Roanoke VA on a hospital shoot for AnMed Health out of Anderson South Carolina. AnMed was putting out TV, bill boards and print ads. I covered the stills and Mad Monkey out of Columbia did the TV spot. Hit the jump for tearsheets.
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A few weeks ago I was asked by a friend of ours if I would be interested in taking a family portrit of her and her husband with thier dogs. My first thought was hell no and run in the other direction. My second thought was can I get complete creative freedom. So I responded to her question with my own question. She said yes, I said yes and this is what we made.
I had a great time leading a workshop in Charlotte over the weekend for The Light Factory. TLF is a hidden jewel in North Carolina I wish more people new about. They have a great program and offer a ton of photo classes. You can find a schedule here.
We took to the streets on Saturday to create 10 different looks of one model. With the Democratic National Convention coming to the Queen City later this fall, security is tight and photographers are getting hassled. We choose to stay close and worked within a block of the museum. That was our first challenge; working with Katya, our Russian model that spoke very little English was our second challenge. Personally, I find that challenges like this keep photography interesting. No assistant, no make-up or hair artist and this was Katya's first time ever doing any type of photo shoot. Hit the jump to see the other nine images.
My 8-year old son and I have plenty of traditions. We ride rollercoaster’s on Father’s Day. We eat pizza in the living room on boy’s night. We start our Christmas playlist in early November and we do our version of school pictures every year.
Ethan started the 4th grade today and I’m a proud papa so hit the jump to see the rest of the school portraits we did over the weekend together.
I'm a sucker for a nice skyline and I think Charlotte has done a great job over the years creating theirs. Here are a couple of images from a shoot I did for Mez Media on the top deck of a parking garage looking onto the Queen City from the east.
Hit the jump to see the skyline at dusk I shot for Morris Visitor's Publications from the same location.
I hung 28 Polaroids in Greenville SC this week. Here's the artist statement:
I picked up a Polaroid camera to experiment with the idea of the raw image. In a world that is saturated with over-processed images, magazine covers that are, at the very least, a fragment of the truth, and composites of anything imaginable, I wanted to experiment with the idea of one-shot images that were unable to be misrepresented. This is a growing collection of friends, family, and the people I bump into on a day-to-day basis, in one shot.
I shot this for the Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau last summer. They we’re looking for creative images of the drum circle that happens every week in Pritchard Park. I brought my assistant and had him sit in the middle of the circle holding an old Nikon SB-28 flash at half power with a full CTO gel tapped to the front. I climbed the hill to shoot above the circle from about 50 feet away. I used a 24-120mm lens and zoomed out during the exposure to get that fast pace feel that you get when you’re standing in the middle of all those drums. You can also set your white balance for creative effects. Here I set it to fluorescent which gave it a blue tint during the dusk hours everywhere the flash did not hit. The flash stops the action of the drummer’s that it hits and lights them with the complementary color to blue, which is orange. The blue and orange create a bit of vibration together coupled with the effect of a slow shutter speed and zooming the lens to give this image the mood I was looking for. See the below diagram for details.
It can sometimes be a stuggle to keep an even ratio in a portfolio. This shot was to add more males to mine. It's an image of my friend Matt in a field in our neighborhood during the middle of the afternoon. The low angle helped me keep the sun hidden behinds his head and the ND filter helped to get a more shallow depth-of-field. See the diagram below for details.
One of the challenges I often give to myself is to make interesting pictures in uniteresting places. Above is a shot of my friend Alex laying down on the white line of a tennis court that splits the red and green areas. I stood above her and shot down. See the below diagram for details.
It’s that first shoot of the year time again, the one that sets the tone for the year to come. This is always one of the most important shoots for me. After not shooting (other than with my iPhone) for over 3 weeks during the holidays it was time to get out there and start making some pictures again.
