The Black GLI
My roommate, and awesome friend, Zach Cooper, just bought a brand new car!! But not just any car… it is the new 2012 Volkswagen Jetta GLI. In other words – its the same car that I have, but in black! It’s pretty hot, if you ask me! But here is the thing – it was never intended that Zach was going to buy the same car as me. As a matter of fact, last weekend when he stayed up late looking at cars, he was looking at a VW Passat SE. I wake up and he changed his mind, wanted this GLI, and told me that I had to call the dealer and see if there was something to be worked out....
Read MoreArtistic Ink Drops
You know… you really can never stop with what you can see on the surface of the water! After looking around and with added inspiration, I spent some time with Zach Cooper to come up with some very creative macro ink drops in water. I think they turned out pretty cool! My favorite are the ones with just a single drop making it’s way to the bottom of the glass against the white background! While we did experiment with several colors – they became very busy and very murky. I hope you enjoy these as well! Camera Settings: 1/200 f/5.6 ISO 100 2 Speedlites – One pointed at...
Read MoreImproved Water Drops
Even though I took nearly 2,000 of these types of images before – I knew I could get better shots! The biggest thing I changed with this shot is that I put my 18-135mm lens on all 3 of my macro extension tubes instead of my 50mm with one or two extension tubes. Another thing I changed was I made sure the water was ice cold because I heard that would give me better splashes, but also it wouldn’t fog up my lens. I am really pleased with the quality of photos I was able to get this time around. They are infinitely sharper and turning the camera vertical also made a big difference in...
Read MoreMacro Water Splash – Photo Series
Macro Photography is probably my new passion. When it comes to creating these photos, I have a creative artistic control over the colors that go in there. I can try and try over and over again until I get the one shot I am looking for! Here is a photo series of what water does as it is simply dripping into a pan of water. Using a speedlight and some colorful objects in the background these photos came to life! The only editing I have done is removing distracting bubbles and other “debris” that were captured in the photo. While these are some of my first attempts at these types of...
Read MoreWater’s Crowning Glory
I have recently been able to take some Macro Photography using a set of Extension Tubes that have been working great! You don’t want the super cheap kind but any set that allows you to Auto Focus will be your best bet and well worth the money when you compare that to the actually cost of lens that comes with macro functionality. I took 1,800 shots and kept only 100 of them because they actually turned out or there was something just interesting enough that it was worth keeping! The photos below are 12 “Crowns” that were created from dripping water. They are all different and...
Read More2012 Volkswagon Jetta GLI
Here’s to my first post of my new car! The new 2012 VW Jetta GLI is one of the hottest cars I have had! I’m a car fanatic and taking pictures of this new car has been a blast!! There will be more pictures to come but these were taken with my boss, Jim Harmer, over President’s weekend in Boise, Idaho. We had a lot of fun working with the lighting on the car and getting some professional shots that look magazine ready! I hope you can enjoy these photos as much as I have! Since turning 16 years old, I have had: 1. 1972 Chevy Nova (Restored) 2. 1994 Oldsmobile Cutless 3. 1994...
Read MoreMore 2010 Corolla!
Here are some more photos of my 2010 Corolla! If you have not caught on yet… I love cars and I love taking pictures of them. Apart from portrait photography, Automotive photography would be my next greatest passion! I wish I had a dealership of cars I could take out and photograph (and DRIVE of course) for fun! I did change the color of my car because the Charcoal Grey blended in with background too much and I wanted the car to stand out. The last two photos were inspired by the work of David Hockney and his interesting work of taking several photos to make one. It can be time consuming...
Read More2010 Toyota Corolla
What do you think?This was kind of fun to do. This my 2010 Toyota Corolla S. It’s normal color is Metallic Grey. However, After some playing around and going for more of an advertisement look, this is what came out. Actually, I wanted the car to be red… when I went to have it printed, the printed was calibrated correctly for that red and so the car came out orange. I was kind of surprised but I kind of liked it… so I changed it photoshop to reflect it. Rexburg, Idaho. Edited by Dustin...
Read MoreEl Camino – Light Painting/Extreme Photoshop
This is my last post before Photoshop World in Las Vegas!! This is an El Camino I found on the side of the highway near St. Anthony, ID. I really wanted to do some light painting of an old car (probably because I am a car guy) and this was about the only one I found that I could get to. As you’ll be able to tell from the original scene, I had to add a lot of photoshop skills to it. Being right next to the highway, I had a hard time trying to light up everything I needed for the scene, so much of the background areas I didn’t get as well as I would have liked or needed. So, I...
Read MoreLight Painting – Eric Curry Style 3 of 3
This is my 3rd attempt at doing some Eric Curry light painting. This was by far the biggest scene I’ve done and I think it turned out. I think it looks cool, but not exactly my favorite out of the 3. I was out at my friend, Hilary Hansen’s, place to take some pictures. It was already late enough that she was all game to learn how to do some light painting! She claims she had a lot of fun doing it and I hope so because we were out there for a while trying to get everything all light painted. I think the Hansen’s were all surprised that their farm could look that...
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