All That Glitters Is Not Gold

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Another macro photograph that I just got done shooting a few hours ago in the studio, and i put an orange cloth to the side for a little extra color cast/gelling. These are some fake decorative grapes around a wine bottle lamp Jenn's mom gave me for Christmas. Up close it's all glitter, beads, and other sparkly stuff, although you would never be able to tell from just looking at it normally.


shot on a d200 with a 55mm & extension tube to equal 1:1
f11 @ 6 seconds & iso 100

Bottlecaps

Old beer caps I saw lying around and just shot on a d200 with the 105mm & extension tube for 1:1 macro again. I used two hot lights on either side of the caps for overall light, fill cards below and above for light to come straight down on it and to also surround the edges for (more) even shadows. f22 @ 10 seconds, iso 100

Dunny

one speedotron from the top right coming down on that side of his head, one more on the left side doing the same but had a small gobo to only let 1/2 light on, the third light on the left coming at his face, one more at the bottom by his feet with a gobo blocking most of the light, also had a grid in the top left one and bottom left one. the dunny is really metallic and extremely hard to light, it's like lighting glass with the reflections. had to go a lot of blocking off light with other assorted gobo's and reflectors and fill cards.

nikon d200 camera and nikon f/2.8 24-85mm lens
f/22 @ 1/60th iso400

Chantelle

single handedly the most influential woman in my entire life,
who i may add, has not had long hair in almost ten years.

keys to her house

yeah, so wow. focus on macro is most definitely crucial. but let me say i was at school 13 hours today, on a very very swollen and probably broken or sprained foot walking around in the studio shooting most of the day (but i also got in a chair with wheels and rolled around, hah). due for critique tomorrow morning, and then i'm going to the doctors. you could say i like macro, and lighting metal was a piece of cake (thank you kevin). it's really nice to be able to take your time in the studio and not be rushed, i'm having fun playing.

canon 5d 100mm 1:1 f/2.8 kit (i'm totally selling out)
1/60th at f/3.5 iso100
hotlight with reflectors

Macro - first attempt

i just finished shooting these; my first attempt at macro, 1:1, or lifesize.
shot on a canon 5d with the 100mm f/2.8 macro lens at 1:1
f/22 @ 2 seconds 100 iso, lighting set up below

play hard as long as you work harder

please click on the photographs individually for your viewing pleasure, well worth the extra second of navigating

taking a break from the studio

(i don't know why they appear blurry, just click on them for larger res files if desired.)

Katie G

Okay, I changed my mind and found this set and decided I liked it a little better. Shot at the old abandoned Castle in Chapel Hill that is totally haunted. The film at the bottom are the original negatives. The first negative, the lighter one, is overexposed at 250th of a second. The bottom one, the under exposed one, is at 1/60th of a second. There's reciprocity in action

Final Image shot on my Mamiya medium format 645AF with an 80mm lens
1/125th of a second at f16
tmax 100 120 film, 100 ISO obviously

Katie G

Katie Grossman modeled for me in Chapel Hill recently and this one of the locations we stopped at. The bottom three are the actual film strip negatives. Notice the tonality difference in her face...? Yeah, maybe one day I'll get the film scanners to cooperate with me. Until then...


Shot on a Medium Format Mamiya 645AF 120 Camera with an 80mm lens
f16 @ 1/60th, tmax 100 black and white film

Long Term Portrait

One of our final projects that we worked on the entire semester for our portrait class. Requirements, one hobby, one occupation, one studio. My brother Richie was my model

PANORAMIC!!!!

the old abandoned cotton mill square on spring garden street in greensboro



nikon d200
50mm lens
f22 @ 1/30th of a second on the side of the sky with the storm
f22 @ 1/500th of a second on the side with the sun

spent a few hours shooting this trying to get the sky to show the approaching storm. stitched together from 78 nikon raw images. i spent over 20 hours cloning, masking, et cetera, to get everything to line up right, because on each image you shoot you overlap 25% of the last frame. went across on the sky, then went across on the buildings and grass, and stitched it together up and down as well. i'm pretty psyched about it, this is definitely the hardest i have ever worked on one project

Dish'n

Quick Hit Photo Story and 1000+ word essay assignment for our photojournalism class. click on it to read it

i just like the soft light

matt, jenn, and i were out exploring asheboro the other day to scout for some good locations for shooting. we came across this kid skateboarding and i followed him around for a while. (eric mchenry, 18, of asheboro nc, practices his skating skills at sunset last sunday evening)

Jenn Composite

for our digital imaging class, our major project #2 assignment.
we were to shoot our model against a white background, then photoshop them into two other scenic backgrounds we also shot. jenn was nice enough to pose for mine

for those i love i will sacrifice

snapshots of my family taken during the thanksgiving break from north jersey / nyc
(as with all of my blogs) click the photograph to see a larger view.
part two. (part one below)

my father.

big richie & little richie

good genes, good teeth.

youngest brother, tyler

3am, freezing in the garage

you don't even want to know what we were doing

taken about five minutes after we arrived from our 10 hour drive up north

my mother in front of the macy's infamous window displays


my sister has no patience for the subways

going home.

for those i love i will sacrifice

snapshots of my family taken during the thanksgiving break from north jersey / nyc
part one.

my brother richie

that cat has been around as long as i can remember.

youngest brother tyler and sophie

my cousin gianna

tyler and my cousin jake

back of my moms head, aunt cathy, aunt roanie, grandma, dad, cousin kyle

single handedly the most important woman in my life, my grandma gen.

baby michael

noelle, grandma patsy, aunt tricia

grandma patsy, aunt tricia, my mother

grandma patsy

my cousin heather