A rose by any other name.

11 Friday Apr 2014

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I like to make the distinction between digital photographs and digital images.  To me a photograph has minimal post production, the closer the image is to the camera the closer it is to being a photograph. When you start changing the the elements within the composition then you start creating a digital image.

There are some post production techniques that are analogous to the work done by chemical / film photographers and I reckon those would be acceptable to use to keep a composition a photograph.  So things like resizing and changing levels etc would be allowable.

I decided I wanted to do more than just levels with my favorite image from my photo shoot with Tonya Z.  I wanted to do something a little artistic, and maybe a little meta.  I used Photoshop to alter a reflection and create a painting inside my digital image.

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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)

Just finished shooting

06 Sunday Apr 2014

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Tonya got her tire fixed and made it on time ;0)

Just spent three hours shooting with Tonya and I think I got some really good shots.

Had a little incident at the very end of the shoot… The camera slipped into “demo” mode at least that’s what it said in the display.

Turns out that’s what it does when it can’t read the card.

I had one of those moments thinking I’d lost all those images…

Reseating the card fixed it.

I ended up shooting over 300 pictures.

When I get home ill sort them out and find out how many usable images I have.

My next priority is getting the images stored safely.

You can’t plan for every possibility.

05 Saturday Apr 2014

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All you can do is make preparations, then you wait for that moment when all you have left is to make decisions.

When I take pictures it’s because I have an idea of what I want to achieve. I set a goal then I think about how I’m going to get there. I have a lot of goals stored up in my head just waiting for opportunity to be realized. One goal that has laid dark, dusty and dormant in the back of my mind for a few years is the idea of shooting nudity in the snow.

I’m excited about the concept because there is so much contrast and conflict in the composition. There is the clash of nudity versus outside. Then when you pile on working in the harsh environment it tilts the odds of it ever happening to almost right off the scale. Then there is contrast with the sleeping / dormant world under it’s blanket of snow versus the vibrant model rushing through poses.

Yeah, I really do think thoughts like this ;0)

Winter 2013 / 2014 was a cold and snowy one and it seemed like the right time for me to work on this goal. I think it was the day I got my car stuck in a snow bank at the bottom of my drive way and I was laying down in the snow digging out my car wheels that I really thought this would be a good time to try shooting snow nudes.
The high level logistics seem simple, I need location, model and snow. That seems pretty simple right? Serendipity Gardens was closed for the winter and it had at least a foot of snow cover. So that’s one and three taken care of. Now comes the human aspect finding someone who wanted to work on my project.
I used the website Model Mayhem to search availability notices, looking for people in the area looking for modeling jobs. I basically said this who I am, this is my idea, are you interested? After a couple of e-mails back and forth I booked Jillian R for two hours.

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