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2-16-08

Day 554 of 365 More. I’ll sleep when I’m dead. That’s what I think in my head sometimes. After a long week of work, it was time to film a tutorial for the 365 Podcast(iTunes). I was up til 6am filming and editting it. Went to sleep, then got up 4 hours later for some…

2-15-08

Day 553 of 365 More. Everytime I do some heavy special effect superhero-esque shots like I did a couple times this week, I get a few people asking how I did stuff. Since I needed a podcast tutorial for this week I decided to maybe share some of the secrets. So make sure you check…

2-11-08

Day 549 of 365 More. So very very tired… I had aspirations of writing a blog entry tonight. I had aspirations of working on some shots of Sarah. I had a lot of good intentions. It just didn’t happen. Worked a long day, and it was bitterly cold outside. So things were bad to start…

2-10-08

Day 548 of 365 More. It was another wrestling day. So it was once again, out to Wheeling West Virginia to be dropped on my head for the amusement of the fans. Had a nice little match against Jason Gory as the show opener, which I totally should have won, except when I had the…

2-6-08

Day 544 of 365 More. I had two photoshop heavy days in a row and I just didn’t have the energy left to do a third,so today it was back to just nice, good old-fashioned well lit studio portrait photography. It’s good to have something nice to fall back on. That said if you didn’t…

2-4-08

Day 542 of 365 More. It’s been quite a while since I did a superhero pic. I didn’t have a good idea for today, I figured it was a good day to bust out the old photoshop skills. Maybe I should do a tutorial about this kinda thing some day on the 365 Podcast. Of…

2-3-08

Day 541 of 365 More. Once upon a time, there was a boy named Plaxico Burress. Plax was gifted with much height and large hands and all the physical tools that one might look at him and expect that he’d be a top notch NFL receiver. Unfortunately, he had an IQ of slightly less than…

King of Swords

King of Swords

I always love when i get the chance to work with someone who’s not a model. Most people seem to think that they don’t photograph well. But I think that given the right circumstance and concept, anyone can be great.

Doc is the bouncer at the Tennyson, and had seen some of the other tarot cards and was telling me how much he liked them. I looked at him for a moment and then knew that he’d be great for the King of Swords. He has just the kind of imposing and menacing frame that really suits what I wanted for this card.

The shoot was easy and straightforward and I think turned out exactly right.