Posts Tagged ‘Texture’
Grilled Salmon = Yum. No Seriously. I recently had a chance to do a bit of food photography which was a total blast. I always forget how stressful food is to shoot though. It’s not easy. I realize it doesn’t move, it can’t show emotion, but it’s a real challenge to get something that looks nice on a plate without it ending up looking dead and dried out. I have noticed a recent trend of photographers to get into food photography, but not putting in the hard work it takes to learn how to light food. Yes I know surprising but it’s complicated to light food. And also surprising is the fact that you light food almost exactly opposite from how you would light a portrait. Which for a portrait photographer is a hard thing to grasp. I think the people who would have the easiest time jumping into food photography would be the ones who only shoot macro’s. Something I’m not sure there is much professional market for, but they would have the easiest time understanding focus and lighting when it comes to food. Read more...
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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. Read more...
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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. Read more...
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I can’t believe how inspired I’ve felt lately. Not only to create amazing portraits, but also to do some abstract work, which I haven’t done much of lately. I’m finally starting to get more free time, and feel less stressed out at work, and thusly my photography prospers because of it. I love creating, and it can be especially fun with abstracts when you have such a blank canvas it becomes difficult to find focal points, and put meaning into shots. So instead I just try and make them look cool. Just kidding. Even with my abstract shots I try and put “emotion” into them. I realize that my abstract photography might not always have that “emotion” in it, or that other people might not see it, but I do. Most of the time. Although sometimes I do just like it because it looks cool. Read more...
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I know it’s rare that I put up something so abstract on my blog, but every once in a while I see an abstract shot that I really enjoy. This is one of those cases. I rarely do abstract photography anymore. I’m far too busy doing portrait photography, which is really my main passion. But when I first got into photography I did a lot more abstract photography than portraits. I mean honestly how many times can you take a picture of your friends before they start to get annoyed. Read more...
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