As a lighting designer for over 25 years, I have helped create an incredible array of environments. Lighting, a crucial part of any event, helps enhance the mood while creating a logical path for eye to follow. It is with this approach that I speak as a digital photographer and image maker.
(well, thats all I have for now. Check back soon for more profound words....LOL)
Hope you like the image though. Had a great time exploring the halls and the grounds of the Capital of Texas with a fellow photog and HDR artist named Cliff Baise while I was in Austin on an HDR workshop. After spending what seems to be thousands of hours of solo wandering about the cities of the world I have had the pleasure of exploring, its always fun to hook up with fellow photogs and artists to share the process. I intend to do just that towards the end of the month, if the hurricane thats in the Atlantic doesn’t rip the east coast right off the map that is!
“The Masters in the art of living make little distinction between their work and their play, their labor and their leisure, their minds and their bodies, their information and their recreation, their love and their religion. They simply pursue their Vision of Excellence at whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing. To them, they are always doing both!” – James Mitchner
Its been a little while since my team and I headed over to the Bahamas to work on lighting a destination wedding – “Island Style.” I must admit, up until a couple of days before we left, I had no idea what accommodations the client had in mind for us. That can sometimes be a scary scenario, but we were pleasantly surprised when were met at the dock with a golf cart and whisked away to this cool little pad. Our home for the week…..camp Hy-lite!
I know I blogged a bit about it during and just after it, but I came across a hidden file with a few more shots I never shared. As always, a fresh new image served up just about every evening here on the blog, so be sure and grab a cold beverage and stop back tomorrow night. I’ll save you a seat!
Just a quick thanks to Matt Kosklowsky for the super cool template for creating a print like this in Lightroom. You lightroomers (is that a word?) should check out his blog for some shweeeet tips, tricks, and presets. Here is the linka’rooney! lightroomkillertips
From time to time, I like to share some of the music that keeps me company during my late night journeys into the world of digital art. Here’s a clip from some of the music that I had on this evening……Pat Metheny. About 4 minutes into the track, he absolutely kicks it with the guitar synth.
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in an ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
I look at images I captured like this and am quickly reminded of why I love to escape South Florida in the summer. Great skys are far and few between down here in the late summer months. As a lover of landscape photography, well, its all about the sky. So search for those skys I shall. Not exactly where I intent to head out to yet, but I am sure it will be near water. Geez, I need to get on that before the season pounces on me and I am knee deep in lighting plots, phone calls, and late night events. Yikes, its almost September!
I seem to remember getting a lot of “what on earth is he out in the rain photographing” looks by the occasional car that passed. Sometimes I wondered myself, although not for long. What’s not to see? Cobblestones, old world france, water reflections,……all great ingredients for HDR photography.
I took a few extra steps on this one. I actually processed 9 bracket HDR sequence with Photomatix 3 different times. One as a base image, one to bring out a little more color in the green and blue windows and reflections, and one to “grunge up” the old world arches and architectural details in the cool little scene. I then stacked them as layers in Photoshop CS4 and “painted” in the layer details that I wanted to see in the final image. I did this with layer masks so I could undo as needed.
I don’t often talk about that part of the process much, but have been asked a bit lately to share the processes. As I’ve said before, I plan on creating a few little tips and tricks videos in the future. Is there anything in particular you might like to see? Leave a comment and I’ll do my best!
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
As you may know by now, I have a side of me that if allowed, would be vagabonding about the globe. I have carelessly rambled on in previous posts this and my “back packing” days in Europe. Some people follow sports figures, others follow celebrity chefs,……I guess my unsung heros are the wanderers, explorers, and inquisitive travelers that seek to break the norm. Ones who combat societies rules of the norm. This guy below is certainly one of those. On a 6 week trek about the globe, he is luggageless and quite litterly doing this with the clothes on his back. You can check out his blog at http://www.rtwblog.com/ or just watch the video below. I’ll keep you posted from time to time on his progress!
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