Saturday, December 26, 2009

Maui fun


Had fun watching some locals boys catch air on their boogie boards during my Maui vacation. This guy was really good.

Monday, December 21, 2009

My Buddy Wayne

PS/Filter/Noise/Median:6

Suspended leaves


Dam/Sign Composite

Trying to get more practice with composites

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Black Friday

Cell pic from a couple weeks back. Cropped

Friday, December 18, 2009

Key West Sunset

There is nothing quite like a Key West Sunset. I did not manipulate this photo in any way.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Cloudy Day

I took this photo in the parking lot at IGT a few weeks ago. I put a couple of filters on it in Photoshop. I think it looks really creepy.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Boneyard




Shots from the Boneyard

City Center is now open



YUM...Chocolate!


Saturday, December 12, 2009

Boat

Just practicing selections and masks

Thursday, December 10, 2009

A Journey Of One Thousand Miles...


...begins with big shoes!

Nikon D60, 70mm, f4.5, 1/60, flash, cropped and adjusted.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Santa!

Took a peek into Santa's house. I love this shot, it feels so much like Christmas, it really got me in the spirit.

The Boneyard

Top and bottom cropped. Duplicated image with a 50% Overlay blend mode in PS.

Duplicated image with a 50% Overlay blend mode in PS.

3D Graffiti

This was taken at the Boneyard photoshoot this past weekend with Phil, James and Yu Ting. I Will have more to post from this outing, but so far this is my favorite. To me it feels a little like a Pollack that you can read. I pulled out the colors using lightroom.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

BEER transportation

BEER!

Kind of reminds me of an old Laverne & Shirley episode.

Die References

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Signs


Thursday, December 3, 2009


It was very neat experience to get so close to pelican(?), they look so graceful gliding only few inches away from the sea surface

D90 with stop action dial

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Camouflage Wildlife



Was at the SeaWorld watching sea lion show this past weekend, I caught this moment where the trainer and sea lion are looking at each other, this sea lion's expression really shows a strong connection between himself and the trainer.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Memories From a Pool Hall


Nikon D60, 18mm, ISO 100, f5, 4 seconds.

Spires


Nikon D60, 24mm, ISO 100, f5, six exposure HDR (.8, 1.3, 2.0, 3.0, 5.0, 8.0 seconds).

Kanab, Utah

Another Overlook

Bryce Canyon Overlook

Snow falling in the distance...

HDR Test


A quick test of manual exposure bracketing. The D60 does not do bracketing so I wanted to see how well the images lined up if I manually changed the shutter speed. This image was quickly put together from 9 photos. The results were good but I still want to find a hands-free solution.

Looks Fake, But It's Real

Practice with close-up. I know there is glare, but I think it adds to the picture.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Seven Hills Park


Pulleys

Hand References

Thursday, November 26, 2009

A little Thanksgiving fun

My niece looking down at me from the deck above. (Don't worry, my cousin was holding her). I love how tiny she looks and how blue the sky is, it was amazingly clear in Arizona on Thanksgiving.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Neon Ride


Not a strict photograph but I liked the print it made. This is a shot of my bike up at Valley of Fire the night of the perseid meteor showers in August. (You can still barely make out the meteor in the upper left.)

I got tired of trying to clean up the image and just applied the "Glowing Edges" filter for fun. The image looks great at 8.5 x 11 and I expect it would make a good poster size print as well.

Here is the original image:

The Moon was just rising over the hills behind me and lighting up the rocks in the background. I washed the bike with an LED flashlight during the 30 second exposure. Unfortunately the bike was out of focus. Otherwise I was happy with the picture.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Not Scared of Heights


Zions National Park


At the Zions couple weeks ago and forgot to show this one
I used Photoshop to increase the Saturation a bit to bring out the color
Thanks to Dan for the suggestion.

Shot with Nikon D90 @18mm

Sunday, November 22, 2009

musician

I used a cyanotype filter in Lightroom and did a ton of other things to blow out some of the blue. Then I took it into Photoshop and did a few more adjustments.

Another video shoot

I used my little 50mm lens for this shot. Unfortunately the room was tiny so I couldn't use a tripod and I couldn't use a flash because it would have messed up the video shoot, but I still like how the shot turned out. This singer sings with a lot of emotion and I think it showed in this shot.

Zion Sunset

Office Bromance


Picture of the Month!!?
This reminds me we need a Dark Horse Studio team picture. Similar to the 'Sense of Humor' and 'Lineup'.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Last Dam Picture