Day 590 of 365 More. So I wanted to get a bunch of comic book stuff done this weekend, and I did. Five pages in two days. I feel like I’m back on schedule, and as an added bonus, I get to go to sleep tonight at a very early reasonable 2:30AM. That’s actually even…
Day 479 of 365 More. It’s my last night of vacation. Steph and I took Max to Red Lobster to thank him for his hospitality and then when we got back we took a walk around the resort. Sadly, the ski slopes aren’t actually open yet, but they are busy making snow. I thought it’d…
Day 413 of 365 More. Thank God it’s Friday. Got through the day at work and went to happy hour. I think my favorite thing about this job is that my favorite happy hour bar is right across the street. That’s certainly one big advantage. After Happy Hour, we went to dinner for Steph’s friend’s…
Day 311 of 365 days. The hardest part of unemployment is that pretty much every day is the same. I spent the day working on photos and talking to models with the occasional interruption of a phone call from a recruiter. In some ways its nice. I’m getting some good work done (insert gratuitous Maverick…
Day 274 of 365 days. How about street walker for my new career? It seemed to work out tonight. So this morning I shot my friend Jameel for the Tarot deck. He’ll be the Tower card for the major arcana. But I still needed a nice tower background for it. Unfortunately I didn’t really have…
Went out late last night to do some night time photography. This is a possibility for a background for the Tower card of my Tarot deck. It is also my Class wit Dave nighttime shot for this week
doing a tarot shoot on thursday and again on friday. On Friday, I intend to shoot the Moon card. I was sure that I had some pics I’d shot of a full moon on my hard drive, but I don’t. Also, after thinking about it, I kind of didn’t really want a full moon for the card anyway. Tonight’s moon was nicely just over half full. So I decided to go out and try to get some good shots of it. This is the one that I think I will be using for the card.
Day 201 of 365 days. I’ve had this idea since maybe the first or second week I started this project. I just never got around to doing it before. I think I even mentioned to TravelinJim on a pic of his that I had a cool long exposure idea. Well, since I’m going to be…
Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to take a picture of some sort of architecture in black and white and to share the photoshop settings for the translation with the group. This shot was immediately what sprang to mind when I read the assignment. Its a steel plant on the way to one of the cities I wrestle in. I took the shot on the way home so that it would be darker and the lights would be on. I used a fairly long exposure and a higher ISO to get a lot of exposure detail.
In photoshop I used a channel mixer adjustment layer to set it to black and white with the following settings:
Red: +20%, Green: +35%, Blue: +75%
Then I added a levels adjustment layer with these settings:
input Black: 15, input Mid: 1.0, input White: 240
output Black: 0, output White: 255
Day 69 of 365 days. Back to black and white. It was storming outside since this afternoon. And I thought GREAT! Because I keep wanting to get a good pic taken in a storm. unfortunately, by the time I got home from work it had both slowed up and was too dark to really get…
taking a break from bringing the sexy back… Better late than never. I had been meaning to do the Batgirl Meme. Ever since I first found out about it way back in January, but I never got around to it because I was lame. Finally decided to throw it together last night and did a…
Day 19 of 365 days. This is kind of another high concept piece. I had this idea yesterday, when I woke up and took the second half of my self-portrait. There I had before and after sleep, but how did that transition take place. To find out I did a little experiment. What we have…
Day 18 of 365 days. Ok, this is what I call a concept picture. Night and Day. A composite of what I look like just before I went to sleep last night around 2am and what I looked like this morning when i woke up a little before 8am. How the hell am I more…
