The Fog Rolled In
The weather has officially turned in Denver. This next week is suppose to be in the high fifties and low sixties with rain showers and fog. I can dig it. Daniel's Park is outside my back door. Its basically a place for coyotes and cows to hang out.
Buddy Lee and Ariana
So I have spent some time with my new marrying friends, taking their photograph and talking about everything. They're two good people. I know I've said it before, but I have very much enjoyed meeting the both of them. Along with the photographs I've made, I've also built them a website to work in conjunction with the wedding invitations. By no means am I a web designer/graphic designer, but I tried my best. I guess it kind of looks like my site. But what do I know about web design, really?! In the end, my friends are happy, which makes me happy. I have two more images to make that will be added to the formal gallery. Our schedules have been in two different directions as of late, but I hope the three of us can get together soon. Anyways, here it is.
www.BuddyLeeandAriana.com
www.BuddyLeeandAriana.com
An Old Photograph
I took this image in either June or July '07. It's of Mowich Lake, a small and fairly secluded mountain lake near the entrance to the Mt. Rainier National Park. A few years ago my parents moved to a tiny town called Carbonado that sits in the shadow of the mountain. They have a sick view of Rainier from their back deck and this beauty lake is right down the road.
Home
I spent the last six days back home in Seattle to a be a groomsman in the wedding of my best friend. I met Derek when I was in eighth grade and Keeb, quite literally, the first day of school the following year. These boys are my brothers. It was oh so nice to be back for a bit and see these two. 
First
Fun day today. I took my younger cousin Chris to the movies. We saw Hancock. Not much of a movie but it's definitely candy for the eyeballs. Then we went back to David's for dinner and hangouts. Anyways, after I got home I was going through my Lightroom album and came across a portrait I had taken of my dog Jack back in the Summer of '07. I had rented a bedroom in someone's apartment that was above an optometrists office on a commercial side street back in New York. A couple of months prior I had purchased my first Speedlight ever, after being a Strobist reader for a quite some time. After thinking about it for a second, I realized that this was the first portrait that I had ever taken with my flash OFF of my camera, a SB-600 camera right and bounced into the wall with a white curtain. I believe it was fired with that V2 Ebay trigger. I don't think I begun to explore the CLS system at that point. Up until that time, my whole life was spent shooting strictly with available light. This journey into learning about strobes and lighting has been pretty rad. I've become a better photographer because of it. It's the capture beauty/make beauty thing about images that I've talked about before. Anyways.
Timothy Archibald
I've been caught up reading San Francisco based editorial photographer, Timothy Archibald's, blog recently. I enjoy it because, while his website is aimed at getting jobs and maintaining his business, his blog is more aimed at his personal work and thought on the business as a whole. He had a book published a few years ago, Sex Machines, about inventors of pornographic well...sex machines. i really like the work he put out for the book. it's slightly strange yet straight forward. i can dig it. i also really like the personal work he's doing now. he's working with images and scans revolving around his five year old son. trying to get inside the head of a child. it seems as if he doesn't even know where this series is going, but it's been fun to watch it's progression.
Lighting Breakdown
I figured I would breakdown my lighting set up for one of my recent images. Maybe one of my three readers will benefit from it.. :) The light was super simple, super minimal. I tried using as much available light as i could so the image would benefit as much as possible from the beautiful early evening light. The rest is pretty much self explanatory.
New Images.
I continued shooting my marrying friends. We went to the Red Rocks Amphitheater as well at the tiny neighboring town of Morrison. These are the two images I finished with.
A Favor for Friends
Two of my Colorado friends, Buddy Lee and Ariana, are getting married in December. I don't do weddings or couples or anything like that, but they asked me to help out and make some images....and I agreed. They are two really good humans and I was happy to do what I could, but my only condition was that I didn't want to do a typical couples shoot. I wanted to be able to make images that all parties involved would enjoy but definitely didn't look like your typical engagement photographs. We'll be shooting over the next couple weeks at various locations in the Denver area.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)