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Today’s shoot

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Shot with Leigh Skye today – great model, fun to work with. We did some “standard” poses in front of a background, some lingerie work, then went out to get some outdoor shots at Andersen Park in Carrboro and out at the Haw River along 54 in the Burlington / Mebane area. My “ghetto” lighting is having issues – mostly with batter life in the strobes, I think – I’m giving serious thought to when I’ll be able to replace the ghetto strobes with real strobes, which I wasn’t initially planning on doing for another two to three years. Mostly because the strobes I want are going to be ${TEXAS}… but, with luck, I’ll be able to afford them sooner.

Fortunately, outdoor lighting is still just as good, and we got some really ncie (IMHO) shots, especially since today was so awesomely gorgeous. Clear blue sky, wispy clouds softening the shadows just enough… I couldn’t have asked for better conditions.

I’ll be adding her gallery to SCG in a few weeks, but in the meantime here’s a sneak preview.

Bridge Over Untroubled Water

Looking through my current portfolio, it seems to be very slanted towards blondes… I’m supposed to be shooting with a brunette the 18th of this month, and again with a different brunette that same weekend, so that will give me some variety, but I definitely need more variety in my portfolio.

I’ve now got two C-41 rolls to scan (just developed them earlier this evening), and then fice 320TXP and one 400TX roll to develop. The first three 320TXP rolls are from my lunch walkabout on campus, the remaining three rolls are from today’s shoot. Fortunately, the kitchen is relatively clear so developing shouldn’t take too long. I don’t have to cook the B&W chems the way I do the C-41, so there’s not nearly as much prep time, which is the main thing that was making me procrastinate on the C-41.

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There is always balance

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

The good: the car is now ready for the shoot tomorrow – just washed it inside and out, vacuumed, even wiped down the console. It’s what I call “date-ready”. The bad is that I don’t have a date – just the shoot tomorrow, which is most definitely not the same thing. Overall, it just balances out, ’cause it’s nice that the car looks good. The pollen was starting to build up a bit and the windshield needed a good going-over, on both sides.

I do have to apologize to the world for driving with the top up on day like this, though – unfortunately, I had to leave the top up to dry.

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Coming up for breath…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

It’s been a while since my last post – I’ve been busier than anything with my job and with the class I’m taking. Fortunately, the class is going really well – I’m doing better than I expected to be doing, even if I’m not doing quite as well as I really want to be doing. It’s amazing how much adjustment there is in going back to school, even part-time – heck, even just one class per semester as a benefit of working for a University – after over 12 years of being out. I’ve got a lot of advantages over the regular undergrad students I’m in classes with (I’m using undergrad classes to prove I have the mojo to take on a few grad classes which I’ll use to get into grad school), but what I didn’t expect was just how many disadvantages I have.

But that’s neither here nor there – the class is going well, and I’m really enjoying it, but this blog is about photography, not classwork or my job or other uninteresting stuff. Last weekend I updates SCG with Savannah’s shoot – Savannah is a wonderful model, with more experience in her big toe than I have in total, and you can tell she definitely knows what poses make for good images. Here’s one that I especially like:

Sleeper

The weather was absolutely piss-poor when we shot together, so I couldn’t get any nice outdoor shots, and I still haven’t figured everything on the Pentax out to get higher quality indoor film B&W shots, so no film from Savannah’s shoot.

But I did finish scanning in the B&W from Stephanie’s shoot, and some of those images are (IMHO) absolutely gorgeous. Here’s just one example:

Zoom? ZOOM!

The small image here looks good, but it loses the graininess of the full-size scan, which is what I really like about these images. Maybe I’m a throwback, but damn I like the effects of grain I’ve been getting from this film!

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New stuff

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Just finished another shoot today, with Mia Nicole from ModelMayhem. I’ll definitely need to have her come back out here later in the spring or summer so we can get some outdoor shots – the weather today was such complete crud that I half didn’t want to even wake up. We got some good stuff, but I think we can get somemuch better stuff once I get her outside in good weather!

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Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Well, so much for another day of campus shooting someday this week. It was supposed to warm up a bit, but instead it got colder. Much colder. Cold enough that I don’t even much feel like walking up to Franklin St for lunch – I do so anyway to get out of the office, but it’d be nice if I could play with the camera a bit along the way. Hopefully it’ll start to warm up toward the end of this week and I can start planning different routes at lunch. I’m going to try and have a huge library of images of everyday campus life – I’ve got plenty of time to build it up, though, so although I’m annoyed at not being able to start on it this week, I’m not heartbroken over it.

In the meantime, I’ve still got plenty to keep me occupied – I’ve got two shoots I need to go through and do post-processing on selected images, and time’s a-running out until I’m supposed to make my next site update for SCG.

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Weathering the storm

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Well, it’s been a slow start on this blog so far – a very slow start. Since I’ve got a few moments right now, I decided to update it, and in honor of the weather predictions for late tonight and tomorrow, I’d like to remind everyone of the adventures the Triangle had in December 2002 / January 2003. It was during this time that I experienced my first major “ice storm” – I lost power for two and a half days, surviving by sleeping right next to my gas-powered fireplace for warmth.