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A little spark of happiness.

10 Thursday Apr 2014

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It gives me a little spark of happiness when I see that someone that I have worked with has chosen to use the images we created in their portfolio.

I just found that Tonya Z thought well enough to choose four images from our shoot for her portfolio ;0)

  • 8:14 – I chose it in my first cut.
  • 12:10 – This is one of my top 5
  • 13:06 – I chose it in my first cut.
  • 16:19 – I chose it in my first cut.

I must be doing something right ;0)

Foggy this morning

04 Friday Apr 2014

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Cold wet and foggy this morning. This is another of my to do weather wish lists .

The problem is fog usually comes unannounced and only stays for the morning. So booking someone is almost impossible.

I close my eyes and imagine a foggy forest with someone hidden amongst the trees… Ah not today but maybe someday.

I find images more interesting if some of the detail is obscured, fog could do it but focus is so much easier to pull off.

Wikipedia says “depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.”

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Farril and the chair she is sitting in is in focus the barn wall is out of focus.

The emphasis is on Farril but also makes the image seem more full, more three dimensional. As if you just moved to the right a few steps you would be able to see around the tree.

This is all down to obscuring some of the detail and the depth of field. >

The snow is gone.

03 Thursday Apr 2014

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It stayed around for a long time but now the snow is gone until the end of the year.

I’ve only done two shoots in the snow but I have had more experience shooting with models in the cold.

I feel there is a responsibility by the photographer (me) to experience the same conditions as my subject (within limits of course ;0)

I’ll take off my coat and wear a t-shirt so I can better appreciate the cold.

I remember ST Patrick’s day 2013 I was shooting with Heavenly Rose in Lillie park Ann Arbor it wasn’t above freezing and the wind was blowing. It was cold, I kept asking if she was warm enough she kept saying yes. It was too cold for me to take my coat off so I know it was too cold.

I basically stopped told her to go warm up and change outfits.

I then slowly walked around scouting locations to give her time to warm up.

I feel in my heart that she would have ignored the cold just to get pictures for her portfolio.

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After that I made extra effort to be more considerate of the environment.

Last month I asked Jillian R to pose bare foot in the ‘snow’. What I actually did is create small white insulated platforms for her to stand on so that she didn’t have any actual skin contact with the snow.

I also shot quickly ;0)

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Filling in the gaps.

29 Saturday Mar 2014

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Back filling the blog has been a fun and yet frustrating experience.  There are a number of pictures I took that I don’t have any idea when I took them.

Then there are also the shoots with models that I don’t recall the name.  In theory I have model release forms from everyone I shot with… I just can’t remember where I put them to keep them safe ;0)

Mind the gap

28 Friday Mar 2014

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If you haven’t guessed by now I’m back dating quite a few posts.

I’m filling in some of the history of my adventures.

It’s so funny I keep finding photographs that remind me of other stuff I did.

For example I totally forgot that I took photos on my trip to San Francisco. Now I’ve backdated an entry in April 2007 that covers my trip.

I could take credit for it, you could say it’s all part of my plan to get clicks in my archive ;0)

Yeah but I’m not really that subtle.