Denver, Colorado based Photographer Dave Brown is a Portrait Photographer who specializes in Engagement, Senior Portraits, Commercial, and Fashion Photography.
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It’s certainly rare that I do a series. I find when I go out shooting that most of the time I end up with one or two photographs that I really like and everything else is just not up to par. So I went out recently with a theme in mind, and I wanted to try and put together a whole series of shots. And look at my film on a whole, and come up with a much larger set of shots.
I took this shot while I was doing my wedding shoot with Dave and Julia. I was actually just trying to figure out what kind of lighting I wanted to use for the couple walking down this alleyway into their reception. As you can see this is not the exposure I ended up with because it would have been overly dark. But just as I was playing with exposure and figuring all this stuff out, and this waitress walked passed me.
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I know really this is a photography blog, and should really be showcasing my photography work, but I just can’t seem to get enough of this whole digital painting thing. Honestly this is some of the most fun I’ve had creating artwork in a really long time. I don’t know what it is about doing this form of painting that has me so entranced. It seems like every day I come home with a new “project” of something else to paint. It’s really been a lot of fun.
So I recently bought one of those Wacom pen tablets. I really wish I would have done it sooner. It has been so much fun playing with this thing! I love how I can make really awesome looking brush strokes on a digital canvas. It’s totally wild. Now I do have the advantage of using photoshop CS5′s new Mixer brushes, and I have to say I’m totally amazed by how great they look. Honestly it’s like painting with a real brush in your hand. It does take a little getting use to with the whole hand eye coordination of making strokes on something below the screen while watching it happen on your monitor. Sadly I’ve been too busy playing with digital painting to try my hand at some really cool dodging and burning. Using pressure sensitivity on a pen to simulate exposure up and down is going to be really cool, I just don’t have any shots in my library that I really want to do that with.
I know this isn’t my usual engagement photography posts. I’ve been doing a lot of personal projects lately. Like I said in my last post, I’m really trying to expand my photography, or in this case get back to something I love in photography….. Textures. When I first started doing digital photography all I ever used was textures. I didn’t have a nice enough camera to actually pull off good shots so I had to mask my poor shots with lots of textures. In reality this actually works pretty well. If you look at programs like hipstamatic for the Iphone, it takes “great” shots. Because the Iphone has such a poor camera, you can cover all that up with some texture and a bit of cross processing. I think that’s why photographs taken on an Iphone and then treated with either texture, cross processing, or vignette’s look so much better. They give them an artsy retro feel that everyone loves. Hence with an Iphone and hipstamatic you can make it look like you take really creative artsy shots.
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Denver Photographer Dave Brown
