After a rousing and exciting meeting with my fellow AIGA NHVT boards members, three of us stayed behind and decided to get a bit of springtime sun, and exchange some shooting tips and techniques. We were all jazzed to be able to walk around Vermont Surplus, which is really an architectural surplus shop, and take some shots. I was concentrating on practicing my setup and shooting for HDR (high dynamic range) shooting, and another one of us (Michael) was working on his single (wired) strobe shooting.

For me, being a professional photographer is about shooting, experimentation, and more shooting. Taking risks on your own time, and experiencing the excitement of catching something just right. It’s great to be able to share these moments with other photographers that can lend an eye, hold a flash, tilt a reflector, you name it. I always walk away from shoots like this wishing I had more time.  The completely immersive surroundings of the old doors, statues, vases, doorknobs, dressers, stained glass… man.. there was just too much.  And that was only the first floor (at least it looked like there were two floors.)

Here are some quick roughs of ideas I had for HDR conversion on these shots… now to do them in high resolution.  I generally prefer to work with smaller resolution versions of the images to quickly tweak, process, and reprocess the HDR effects to create a baseline.  Then I go back in and do the full resolution version… I usually save the profile when I’ve worked it through to save time.  Anyway, enough of that jive… check these out and tell me what you think.  Want to see more?  Let me know.  Want to buy a big ol’ print?  Contact me, and we’ll get you rolling.

Keep shooting.