One of my passions is mountain biking, which, every weekend from October to May you’re likely to see me at one of the local parks here in the Tampa bay area, Scrub Boyette being the most likely of them all. It’s tight technical terrain can be murderous to the untrained mountain biker.
This April however, I had the chance to take a trip to North Carolina with a friend to mountain bike and experience an all new terrain. One, not so tight and fast but rather long climbs and endless descents down enormous mountain sides. Continue reading »
It seems no one likes nor remembers black and white photography. One of the things I miss most about black and white film is having my own lab at home. There’s something magical about watching your negative turn positive in developer.
Mood is everything to a portrait. The mood sets the stage for the product and here the product could be anything to be taken serious.
The art of photography is the way we see things reinterpreted through the lens, and the medium. The picture to the left is just that.
I’m excited about this blog now. I’ll admit it’s taken even more time away from my already busy schedule but with a little planning I’ll have a post a day everyday.
I should point out for this preset that the colors are especially altered. Not drastically reversed but very controlled reds and yellows.
I very nearly didn’t get a post in today. Been extremely busy but I’d like to share this beautiful sunset done right off the Courtney Campbell Causeway. The sun looked so much larger than usual as it set.
I’ve been on the hunt for sunsets lately. Partly because a few years back I tried to do a sunset shot on Clearwater Beach and was recently reminded of this lady who walked right in my frame. It would have been fine except she stopped and started calling her child to get up and fallow her to the car. The kid ignored her and she persisted for 2 minutes to stand there and call her child until the “sweet moment” had gone.
Another from my Sunday walk through Safety Harbor as the sun was setting. I wanted to create a little grit here in the grain. I thought this Lightroom Preset might work well for city streets that have yellow lines as this tree recently was painted… as though someone would just bump their head on a branch that’s been sticking out there for a hundred years now. Wow, that’s BS.
I took this beautiful photo about an hour or two before the sunset in Safety Harbor this past Sunday. I wanted to do something to bring back the colors that I saw so, I created a Lightroom Preset to share. Download 
I’ve been ignoring my website long enough, it’s time to commit to a few photography projects. So, starting today for no other reason than I must start somewhere I’m doing a photo-a-day blog. This will not be a photo-a-day for 365 days but rather an indefinite mission.
I’m just not sure how I feel about this new trend of making new photographs look old. You see it on every photographer’s site now. Every shot in their portfolio has been made to look either old, sepia, or cross-processed (a trick discovered by accident when E-6 film gets processed in C-41 chemicals) and grunge overlays to destroy what was once a crystal clear image expressing every fine skin and hair detail that leaves non-pro’s in awe.
Sure, there are plug-ins for Photoshop that can make this all happen in minutes but those where made for non-pro’s and they show. No, I actually like the effect. The only issue I have is that when I’m taking photo’s of my loved ones I really don’t want to see these effects destroying those perfect image. I will save these effects for the Graduation/Senior photos and Bands and Artists but not real portraiture. Not unless a client really wants this look.
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I’d like to introduce a lovely Model I had the privilege of working with this week. Kamila from Model Mayhem and I stopped by Philippe Park in Safety Harbor Florida this Friday for a quick shoot.