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Working with color is challenging and rewarding when you’ve got the tools.  Including 2 HD Flat Panels, and Pantone Huey Pro to make sure you’re pumping out calibrated pixels.

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There’s always so much to do when Fall comes around.  New Hampshire is always loaded with incredible sights, smells, and feelings.  Crisp fall air, the occasional dreary and cold rainstorm, and vibrant colors that renew your eyes, and bring you back to when you were a kid picking apples at the local orchard.  Oh yeah, there’s also picking apples at the local orchard.  I like that part, too.  Here are a couple of shots from today that I liked a lot.

Fire Leaf

Fungus and Moss

Crisp September evenings in New Hampshire are great for photos; especially when the moon is out and full.  These were shot in a relatively short period of time, and really ended up kind of eerie.  With a very long exposure, the shots ended up with a “negative day” kind of effect.  Shots like this work really well when you can then overlay other elements (i.e. text for an ad, etc,) into them.  As usual, I’m shooting for the end product, not the photo, specifically.  Check em out.

Here’s an interesting shot… made more interesting with a faux infrared treatment.

Hand modeling provided by Jimmie Knuckles… check him out at sweetjellyrolls.com.  He’s got the gift, no doubt.  Awesome panoramic stylings.  Can’t wait to have another session with everyone. Yes.

Kind of a interesting way of putting it, if I do say so myself.  It always gives me the willies when I’ve got a 50mm macro lens focused about 4 inches away from the business end of a .45 caliber Glock.

A word of advice.  If you ever decide to start photographing shooting sports and the like, make sure that you’ve spent some time with range safety and pistol safety classes.  I myself am a certifed pistol instructor, and have many, many, many hours of range time.  Following safe practices is of paramount importance.  I’m strict at the range, and that goes for folks that aren’t part of my group as well.  Being able to see potential problems is a good way to avoid injury.  We were “swept” (a shooter directing a pistol across other shooters at the range) by a obviously novice and completely unsafe shooter the morning of the shoot. EVERYONE needs to follow the rules, and if they don’t, point out that they need to get their act together, point out clearly what they’re doing wrong, or ask them to leave.  Period.  If you’re a photographer and aren’t comfortable or experienced around guns, stay home.  Don’t go to a shoot not knowing what to look for.  A little bit of friendly advice so aspiring photographers don’t get into deep, deep, ugly shit.

Enjoy the photos.

Keeping up with this blog is a total killer. I keep working on putting more photo sessions and snapshots up, but I always fall behind… I just finished working on these. Most definitely good shots for a book cover or framed on the wall.

So… I found and saved a really big and beautiful moth from a nasty old lightbulb burn, and it was kind enough to do some posing for me. Check ‘em out. I’ll be using these shots in a creative way soon enough, rest assured.

Want some work done right?  Go to the right person! My good friend Albie Rock is going to be at the Boston Tattoo Convention.  You gotta check him out, and get some work done by him STAT!  He is the man for stellar tattoo work, point blank. Make sure to contact him asap to get in at battlebeasteleven@gmail.com

Here are a couple of recents of Albie working a different type of magic yesterday.

Sometimes, droppping out of the color scene needs to happen.  A couple have shoots have gone by that force me to rethink some of the ways that I see an image coming out. Either the greens of the trees in the background totally screw up my foreground, or the color of water is heinous…. whatever. My solution is to try to work with an otherwise good shot by re developing it… creating a different tone, mood, or message with the enhancement, reduction, or elimination of color. Tools abound for adjusting your color image to black and white with truly stunning effects. I’m not even touching on the “after the black and white” duotone, tritone or quadtone possibilities. Here are some of the initial results.

I’d be more than happy to hear comments and the like… these shots were fun and challenging to shoot.  I was pretty satisfied with the results.  Let me know what you think.

You knew when you read the title of this blog post that you needed to see just what the hell I was talking about.  My good friend Albie Rock (a super talented multi medium artist and tattooer) and I decided to start shooting some of the dolls that he makes.  These are some initial shots….  This was a hell of a lot of fun, and we haven’t even really started yet. It can’t get better when you work with a friend and produce something you both really like; you get inspired to do more, and do it better.

Check ‘em out.

Soon I’ll start posting these in a better order; this one’s from a week or two ago. So I picked up the new Tamron 50mm f2.8 DG Macro off of a very nice lady on Ebay… I couldn’t beat the price, and couldn’t believe that my bid won. I started testing it out on a bunch of different static stuff… mounted on the Manfrotto Digi, mounted on the Gorillapod; all still life, non moving stuff. As I was in deep concentration trying to focus exactly where I wanted to (it can be a pain when you’re less than 2 inches away), I heard a long snore/breath from Pacha, who was laying by the window. A few snaps later (and then a bit of editing time), was this shot that you see here. You can buy a print; just let me know what size. Who doesn’t want a big, beautiful 12″x18″ dog eye staring at them in their kitchen or livingroom?