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Don’t Feed the Dino!

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Yeah, sorry. I couldn’t come up with a better title.

One of the things about my photographic work is that I’m not really totally wanting to “just do photography.” In almost all of the images that I capture, I want to add something of an element of painting, or compositing, or otherwise manipulating the image. Frankly, if I were good enough, I’d probably try my hand at photo-realistic digital painting, so that I could create exactly what I want without the need for the intervening photograph. I think.

I mean, I still enjoy the craft of photography, of getting a good picture straight from the camera. It’s just that sometimes, when I look at an image, I “see” things that aren’t really there.  [Read more…]

More Sony RX100M2 Fun at Fresno’s Old River Park

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Well, actually, there’s no such thing as old River Park in Fresno. There’s just River Park. I called it “Old” River Park because of the treatment I gave to the image — about which I’ll say more below. [Read more…]

Post-Processing Textures & Blend Modes: Zombie Pin-up

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This post is not going to be a detailed “how-to” for the use of textures and blend modes.

And I should note — you’ve no doubt already noticed — that the image here is “different” than what I normally post, in that it includes a nude model. I’ve applied a little censorship, since I’ve never used any of my nude work here in a blog post. If you want to see the uncensored version, it’s in the “Transformations (Nude – NSFW)” gallery. And that gallery is, as the title suggests, not safe for work. So you’ve been warned. [Read more…]

Digital “Darkroom”

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When I was in high school, I was fortunate to be able to take photography at a school that had a good-sized darkroom, with areas for processing color as well as black-and-white film and prints. To this day, I still remember the acrid smell and the way everything inside the room was — when not completely blacked-out for film or color-print processing — red-tinged. It was the perfect place for the then-shy version of me to hang out.  [Read more…]

Gray Horse Band Member: Chris Pierce

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Chris Pierce is a good friend of mine.

Recently, the band in which he plays bass — the Gray Horse — was playing at a local nightspot. When I arrived to watch, I learned that a photographer they were expecting had not yet shown up, so I offered to go get my camera. [Read more…]

Probably Not Home Alone 2

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“Home Alone” was followed by “Home Alone 2.”  Since my last post was a play off of that movie and I wanted to post the same beautiful woman again, I’d be just as…uh…”creative” with my title. [Read more…]

Photoshop Painting

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First, apologies to the IE folks who haven’t been able to view the site.  As noted elsewhere, I had to make significant code changes to the original theme.  In the process, I left a “- ->” off the end of one line, which apparently confounded Internet Explorer.  I’ve used Firefox for so long that I forget some people still live in the Dark Ages of IE and hadn’t viewed it using that browser.  So, a belated welcome to the serfs amongst us!

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