Street Chalk Painting
After trying and failing to get someone to come model for me, because I built my own ringlight (post coming soon), I decided to go shoot downtown. So as I was driving down speer, annoyed by anyone that wasn’t going at least as fast as I was, I looked over and saw a huge crowd of people. Wondering what it was all about I parked my car and walked over, camera in hand. There were tons of “artsy” folks all walking around, and of course a few drunk yuppies. Not that there is anything wrong with that, plenty of times I’m a drunk yuppie. Anyways, I was keeping my head up looking around, when I realized that everyone else had their heads down. They were all looking at the wonderful street art. And by
Getting Rich Colors
I often get asked how I get the rich colors for the images that I have. I always try and see the world as if it was just a little crisper and brighter. I wanted to walk you through how to get some of those really deep rich colors that are so prevalent in today’s hyper-saturated photography world. This simple shot was taken while walking around downtown Hudson Valley in the Rhino Art District. I love walking around art districts that are set in more “rough” areas because there always seems to be interesting things going on. I also find inspiration from the art that I see when I look through the windows of these places. Anyways back to the reason for the post.
First I’ll show you the original image:
Here you can see that already there are some bright colors. The orange is crystal