Crinoline remix
Hard to believe, but when I ran a wedding gown up a flagpole in front of a dozen fellow photographers and shot up the skirt in the wind, this is exactly the sort of image I expected to obtain at the end. As per usual, they thought I’d lost it. Perhaps. More curious is [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Crinoline Caper
Photoshop tip: work the whole file
Camped along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park
Here’s another tip derived from hard-won experience. As you create your master file, which you will save in a special place and duplicate for cropping and other derivatives, use every pixel that came out of your camera, the entire rectangle! It seems like a no-brainer to [...]
Every Puff a Pleasure
Every Puff a Pleasure, Globe Arizona
The shoot went for 6 hours, happy outcomes, thanks to my amazing friends. Images are still under wraps. In the meantime, I found this to share. Too many roadside relics are slipping away. I really need to get back on the road.
10 more Lightroom Keywords for your lis
Surfer Dude in a shop window, keyworded Pastel>Cokin Filter
I am getting ready for a studio shoot on Saturday for a conceptual photo series that is unlike anything I have shot before. I have been haunting thrift shops and fabric stores and hounding friends to cobble together this self-funded project. For now it is not suitable [...]
Camera-specific White Balance presets for Lightroom
Miniature torii gates at Fushimi Inari, Kyoto, Japan
My goal for 2011 is to blog something useful at least once a week, ideally without demonstrating too many of my idiotic processes that earn me so much hard-won experience to share with others. This week’s tip actually came from prepping a demo for my class, nothing to [...]
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