I’ve been looking at some old tintype as well as a couple Daguerreotypes and I really like the look of these images. I’ve selected a couple of my images, some current landscapes and a couple older figure studies, for attempting to build images with the look of the old images. Below is the results of [...] Read more »
2012-01-12 – On A Foggy Morning
This past Thursday I was on my way to have breakfast with a group of photographer friends. As I usually do, I grabbed my compact digital camera, a Canon G11, and decide to grab my Canon F1 film camera kit and piled into my wife’s car and headed towards Weaverville. As I dropped down into [...] Read more »
2011-11-07
I’ve been taking a trip down nostalgia lane lately and been shooting film rather than digital images. Here are so some of the images I’ve shot. And yes, they have been through Lightroom and Photoshop. Read more »
2011-10-24 Pinhole Images
I got the 2 images I shot suing my pinhole camera back and looks like the chamfer worked, but now I have to work on my exposure. Actually, the images that I was able to pull out dome extremely dense negatives did surprise me. Check them out. Read more »
Urban Grit
Images taken from the urban environment, mostly gritty in nature and stylized to emphasis the grittiness. Read more »
New Images 2011-09-07
I’ve been playing with some of my images. The first two images are meant to be a bit disturbing. They are part of my Urban Grit collection. The last image is a tree clad in ice from a winter storm back in 1997 in Norfolk, VA. It was shot on slide film, scanned and saved [...] Read more »
The Cost of Printing
This morning Scott Bourne had an article on doing your own printing or sending it out. A nice short and fairly concise article. He kind of glossed over the recurring cost issue and this is where I’d like to add a little bit. I’m not a professional photographer, just an avid hobbyist. My wife says [...] Read more »
2011-08-25
Here are some of the finished images from my photo shoot on 08/17/2011. All images are done in black & white. Note: if you are interested in purchasing one of these images, they are available ONLY in 11″ X 14″ format printed on pearl finish paper mounted on black mat board for the price of [...] Read more »