While out shooting during the PODAS workshop the sky turned real dramatic. Photographers love skies like this. We were at an old silver mining town long abandoned and as I looked at this one building the sky just opened up and blessed me with what I call god rays.
This image was shot yesterday. The building is the Carmel (indiana) Perform Arts Center or Palladium as it is known. It’s a big new building that is quite nice and very expensive. None the less I have fun shooting it. On the way back from the store I pulled in and did a quick pano with my iPhone. Assembled it and like magic with PhotoStream it was on my iPad. I then worked the image a bit in a couple of apps to come up with this. Just a fun day and a bit of fun time messing around.
I have had a very busy week and there are still a few busy days left, as I host photographers from China in Death Valley at the Phase One PODAS photography workshop. (wow, that was a long sentence) We have been having great time shooting away and seeing such beautiful sights. This image was shot Thursday morning in the dunes area. I have lots more so expect more to come. Juts been too busy to post regally. To follow our adventure visit THE PODAS BLOG BY CLICKING HERE
A few weeks ago I spent a few hours ay a local gravel pit right before a thunderstorm . The light was beautiful and there was all sort of things to shoot. This shot was originally made on a GH2. I imported the photo into the iPad and worked on in SnapSeed a great app to manipulate images. I wanted to portray a kind of scaryy, abandoned what is this machine look. I also cropped it tight and almost square. I added some tonality to it also. So, What is IT?
A week or so ago Debra, my shooting partner and friend called and said let’s go shoot. It was a warm day (and I don’t move fast on warm days) and I said slowly OK. I knew I needed to go out and do some shooting. It’s great therapy especially when you need to clear the mind. It was also one of those evenings where it looked like a storm could blow in any minute. So, we headed off and we had no place in particular in mind to go. Then I remembered a place my son and I stumbled upon a few years ago and using my iPad with satellite view I located the gravel pit and we headed there. The gates were open so we went in and we spent nearly two hours there shooting Debra went her way and I went mine. At one point when I was coming back from the dredging area Debra was standing on this old dump truck. So, I said pose and as Debra always does she struck a few unusual poses. I love this one as it just works on so many levels. I shot it with my iPhone, even though I had my big boy camera with me. I wanted to use the ProHDR app to capture the details in the sky and not lose detail in Debra. Damn, it worked great. I then took the image into my iPad and played even more adding border, grain, more dramatic light effects etc.. Man, this si so much fun. So, here it is. I think it is one cool, bad ass shot!
I like photographing all sort of things. This shot was made in Alaska at a train yard I had stumbled upon. I like the design and industrial feel of the image. I like ti isolate parts of things to see if I can make them look good. That is what I did here of springs on a rail car.
Icelandic horses are some of the toughest and nicest horses in the world. They just have life all figured out. Strong and sturdy yet sort of small. They have these long manes that just blow in the wind and great strong eyes that penetrate you and catch you. They remind me of rock stars, long hair blowing in the wind and they just know they are bad ass. I shot this in color on a Phase One P65+ then turned it into BW on the iPad.
I love circular staircases. The perspective and how they fade away and repeat patterns has always intrigued me. Today’s shot was made at the Hilton in Iceland. I was sitting in the bar and there was this giant staircase that was more or less a circular one. I played with a number of shots and settled on this one. Enhanced it a bit on my iPad.
In my travels I love to wander the streets and see what can be found. This is called street photography. This shot was taken in Cologne Germany of a man in a public square grinding an organ. I couldn’t resist. Originally shot on a Leica M8 and then on my iPad I played with it a bit. Hope you are staying cool. It is so hot out that it is hard to breathe. If this breaks there will be some major storms. Might be some good photography too.
Today I was searching my images and came up with this image shot in San Diego. The original was full color beautiful light and was a great example of good composition and exposure. But it was a little to normal. I shook it up by playing with it on my iPad using an app – Snapseed. Here is the result. Something that slows you down a bit and makes you look.