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 »
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 »
Black & Whilte Images Create 2011-06-21
I’m an avid fan of black & white photography. In the not to distant past I did a lot of black and white film. I did my own processing and printing. I could get lost in the dark room for hours on end losing all track of time. Well, today I no longer have a [...] Read more »
ROOTS
Below is the same image presented in two different renderings. They are different while being the same. I like both of them, but I’m looking for feedback on which more people seem to like. Please provide some comments/feedback. Read more »
Old Farm House Revisted, Yet again
The beauty and power of Photoshop is something to behold. Sometimes things are a bit counter-intuitive, or at least they are to me. It seems to me that when you place an overlay on top of an image that it would be “on top”. Well, turns out that what you want to overlay an image [...] Read more »
Been Out Shooting More Pictures
Well, it had been a while since I got my lazy butt out of bed and went out and did so shooting. Since I like to stay up to 0200 and then crash and get up around 0900 I tend to miss the really good morning light. Thankfully I have a good friend that makes [...] Read more »