Tag: B&W
A Very Specific Kind of Horror
I am not a horror fan-I’m squeamish and I don’t like being scared-but most of my friends are. And if they want to do something spooky, who am I to deny them the opportunity to get gross for the camera? The challenge was figuring out how to pull it off. Claire and I agreed that…
Dark Beauty with Claire
“Dark Beauty” is one of those quasi-undefinable/catch-all descriptions for a specific genre of photography that’s easier to identify than define. It usually manifests as fashion with a darker, bleaker, more sinister aesthetic, but it also veers into extremely polished fantasy imagery. I don’t have the innate talent for the fantasy stuff, so when Claire and…
More Thoughts on This Hobby of Mine
I rambled a bit about my hobby in a previous post and wanted to expound about it a bit more. When people find out what I do for fun they naturally have questions. Most of those questions, oddly enough, focus on what I plan to do with the photos I take. When I tell them…
Jen, Pensively (Jensively?)
Jen is another friend turned subject. What can I say? I have cool friends.
Light Illuminates, Shadows Define
This image of Rui is a testament to the importance of being prepared. I tend to overpack for a session, but this time it paid off. We had already shot two looks when Rui said, “Could you just light me from here up and have the rest in shadow?” “Actually,” I said, not at all…
This Image Was Already Epic…
…but when I described my impression of it to Ivy as “a gender-flipped The Creation of Adam with the Stay-Puft marshmallow man standing in for God,” we knew we had created something singularly special.
Ivy Sublime – Statuesque
Many thanks to Ivy for demonstrating that I do have two lights and I know how to use them. I’m such a one-light fanboi that even I will look at the results of a two-light setup and think, “Damn, why don’t I do this more often?”
