It takes some time.

Well, as promised, here are some photos that are more from my fine arts collection. I hope you enjoy the photos as well was the commentary.

This first photo is of a long time friend, Kara Plum. She had never done any modeling before, and didn't really ever look this serious. I was in need of a model and she had the time to do it, so i set things up. the goal of this series of photos, this is only one of them, was to deminstrate the binds of the music industry on its musicians and while this photo does not achieve that on its own, the series as a whole did. I think that as a stand alone photo this would make a good addition to a modeling portfolio  This photo is taken using my pentax super program using Kodak Tmax 100 film

when i saw this scene, i was struck with the texture that the light cast, but mostly it was with the texture of the sheet of tin. The tin is the main subject of this photo and I find myself to be quite drawn to it in larger prints of the picture.

Mostly I love the lines and contrast with this photo. As with most people, I enjoy many hobbies. This pile of wood is set aside to season so that I can ise it to make primative style bows and arrows.



Now, I'm sure this photo is out of place, being that it is in color. most of my fine arts photography is done in black and white, but not all of it. i find myself to be drawn to rust, old rust really, and the colors that it produces.this photo is a good example of that. sometimese color is just the right choice.

Again, I hope you enjoyed taking a look at my blog, and I hope you come back again. in my next post I will be showing plants. Remember, comments and questions are always welcome, whether it is about my technique or why I like photography, just about anything really.

Ian

portraits of the day

As this is my first blog post, I thought I would start with a group of portraits. The couple in the photos is Jade and Steven. They have been dating for awhile and decided to have me do a portrait shoot, and these are a few of my favorite photos from the shoot. I always obtain permission to post photos of customers and following in that vain, I have permission to show these photos.

Jade and Steven were great to work with, as I think you can see from this first photo. It was the last photo of the day and I was looking for a photo that would be remembered long after I wasn't. I think that I achieved my goal and am very happy with how it turned out.

We decided to have the shoot at Stevens farm and the day that we picked for it turned out very nice. this second photo took a little timing and effort to have happen. The lighting in these photos is all natural, with fill lighting being done using a 48" round gold fill card to give the photo a warm tone. In case you are wondering what the handle is, they were on their first pic nic and that is the pic nic basket. :)

This last photo was done at a slightly different location, still on the farm, but sitting on a log that was leaning over a gorge. Jade and steven were getting playful and having fun with it when this moment happened, Jade calls it a spider giraffe, and I just had to capture it. In some ways I like this photo as much as the first photo in this post.

All told, we had a good time and they got some great photos. it was a simple shoot and we had alot of time to do it in so I was able to change things up quite a lot. I hope to have them as clients again in the future.

My next post should be some of my more fine arts type photos. I hope to continue this blog and post photos as my photo carrier continues.

Thanks for reading,

Ian