Biscus Bloom – another Piece done in Corel Paint oil bristle.
Biscus Bloom
Category Archives: Photography
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Biscus Paint
Biscus Flower – Hibiscus flower digital oil in Corel Painter 12, Wacom Intuos 5 (small) original shot with a Nikon D7000
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Hyundai – Black & White
Hyundai Black & White – Re-Edit of the Hyundai posted recently.
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Hyundai – Lightroom 4 Before and After
Grabbed this shot at the grocery parking lot, the lines on the Hyundai really give the car a sleek amazing look I have been wanting to shoot one. Post-processing was done in the new Lightroom 4 Beta, the controls in the development module have been seriously improved, check the before and after.
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Nikon D4 – Man Would I Love To!
Man would I love to own this baby, the new Nikon D4, the specs on the are crazy, I can practically feel my mouth watering, oh baabeeee! LOL.
Look I hear the talk about the camera does not matter too, but to be frank I don’t really give a F**K, cause;
#1 Concept has nothing to do with gear never has never will, the debate is pointless and it’s time it stopped, if you don’t wan’t too I have no problems getting mine!
#2 The guys who speak the loudest, all got the best gear in their bags!
#3 You are lying to yourself if you believe you 2k camera is a good as this baby, no freaking way in hell!
I know you going to compare Jeremy Cowart or JoeyL and their years of experience, to me a regular joe, but pit them against each other and I bet someone is bound to shout advantage.
Seriously, the advantages of owning better gear is what I focus on, what will this camera, light meter (oh I need one of those too) etc add to my work flow, how does it make my job easier, faster and by extension better at it, these are the questions you need to ask yourself when buying more gear. The truth is cheap gear will not make you creative either!
I plan to follow this post up with one on some of the reason I plan to upgrade my gear, so stay tuned!
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Lightroom 5 Beta, Impressive!
I have been playing with the Adobe’s new Lightroom 4 ( beta ) and I must say I am really impressed with the power of the processing module, both of these test photos were processed in the beta and I’m telling I would have had to leave Lightroom to Photoshop to get the same results. The new controls in the develop module are amazing, I am truly impressed and I have not even used the book module.
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Miciah
Micah the finished composite check out the original shoot here
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Rena
The finished portrait, check out the before below.
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Blackmans…
Photoshop composite, check out the original below, leave your thoughts and comments, lemme me know what you think.
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Dana : Black & White
Love this Black & White, sliver 33″ reflective umbrella camera right.
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Lighting : Asana
Experiment with light, these were done with a reflective umbrella and my a $60.00 flash triggered by some $20.00 wizards. Usually I don’t like to use the umbrellas as they tend to scatter light. This time I decided to choke the the flash, pushing it lower on the brolly shaft the idea was to use to create interesting shadows by limiting the spread of the light. Basically it worked, the reflections on the glasses were a bit of a bother, but I still love the look .
What would I change? The placement and angle of the light or remove the glasses. The umbrella would have to go replaced by a beauty dish, my first choice or a grid attached to my flash. The 35.mm 1.8 lens would be replaced, it’s a sharp, my sharpest, but still I’m not comfortable using it in portraits, I am currently looking at the 85.mm macro or the cheaper sigma 17-70mm macro.
Sometimes you go with what you got, I doubt I would catch this expression again!
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Forgotten
Forgotten – what once was now abandoned – HDR version below
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Rocking Old School Chevy!
Saw this old school Chevrolet parked at the auto shop getting worked on, man these babies rock, just had to get some shots of it, dust and all. I also got to put the 50mm1.8 through some paces trying to find the sweet spot on the lens, still have not found it compare to my 35mm 1.8 both prime the fifty seems to over expose a tad more and seems not as sharp, I going to try it at f8 and see if anything gives, check out more from the set below.
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VW – DubLife 50mm 1.8
Snapshot with my 50mm 1.8 (nifty 50) lens just trying to emulate conditions of a similar shot were it was said its a bad lens. Look it not the best lens but I really thing that it was a user problem, image one was retouched in Photoshop using the apply image to darken some of the tones…
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IronStar
Experimenting in Photoshop with light, shadows, adjustment layers and smart objects, the method gives you a smaller working file size since you are working with a lot less layers. It also allows you to easily mask and re-edit your filters. It has been a long time since I really dug under the hood of Photoshop feels great! Check the Lightroom copy used in Photoshop and the the original photo below.
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Acorn
Acorns…
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Clustered
Nothing more than a clustered bunch of dried leaves, yet for some reason they stood out from the rest alone yet so tightly grouped together. Nikon D7000 55-200mm f5.6 iso 100. Post Process started in Lightroom, Photoshop added texture and some dynamic range, top of 3 version color retouched in LightRoom (split-toning), last version Lightroom only.
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Grunged – Nature Finest
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Asana Oct 2011
Recently did a session with my girls, a simple one light setup 51″ plm camera left, YN 560 flash triggered with poverty wizards. As usual most of the processing was done in Adobe Lightroom. I added the textures and final tones in Photoshop, using the adjustments layers and mask to enhance the image. The huge difference in files size when using the adjustments layers as opposed to duplicating layers is amazing, the final file will be taken back to Lightroom for sharpening and final tonal adjustments. Below is another photo from the session post-process in Lightroom only.
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Tortoise
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