Yesterday, I wrote about the importance of having a foreground element within a landscape/seascape photo. This anchor serves as a start and end point for the viewer’s eyes and gives them a place to rest. The same principle is held true for this sort of UrbEx scene. When Amy Heiden and I broke off to make ... Read More »
Down We Go
March 15, 2013
Maybe it’s the general chaos that you can find on an UrbEx shoot but I think all of it lends to how I see while I roam these hallways. Amy Heiden was off in another corridor doing her thing while I held a crazy session of Really Right Stuff Tripod Yoga. I distinctly remember the position of ... Read More »
A Return To Basics
February 24, 2013
Yesterday was a most delightful day spent returning back to my roots of shooting good ol’ grunge and UrbEx brackets with the great Amy Heiden. Between the general wackiness and hilarity that usually accompanies hanging with any member of our crazy bard coupled with the euphoria of walking down totally ravaged hallways of forgotten buildings, ... Read More »
Grab the mop ‘n bucket
February 4, 2013
I decided to reprocess an oldie but goodie from 2010 and change things up with a grungy UrbEx scene. I nabbed this shot on my first visit to this mill with my friend back east, Bob Lussier. I do miss my outings with him very much. The important lesson about this point is that it’s ... Read More »
The Best Seat In The House
January 6, 2013
I went digging through the 2010 Archives last night and stumbled onto this little piece from Belchertown State School that never got edited. It’s interesting, too, because in those situations I relate it to aging a fine ale for a long time. There is something great about letting an image wait until you’ve attained the ... Read More »
Salida
December 27, 2012
The office at onOne Software is very quiet this week. It’s really nice, actually, because the overall reprieve from meetings and such because I’ve been able to catch up on creating a lot of new videos. I also spent this afternoon working on a new series that I’ll kick off at some point in early ... Read More »
Small Details. Big Story
November 30, 2012
The Story As seen on this week’s episode of onOne Software’s Perfect Inspiration - http://www.ononesoftware.com/inspiration/episode36/ I love turning back to the images from my very first visit to Belchertown State School in Belchertown, MA. There was so much there to shoot and it was really easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer amount of detail. Originally, ... Read More »
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming
November 19, 2012
The Story After nearly two weeks of posting pictures from Cambodia, I thought it’d be nice to return back to some stomping grounds of grunge. I remember taking this image back in 2010 (from Wilkes-Barre, PA) because I was trying to get in and out of the area as quickly as possible. There were routine ... Read More »
Trick or Treat? Enter to find out.
October 31, 2012
The Story I remember trying to set up for this shot. It took for freaking ever. When you’re trying to align your camera in a very precise way, your eyes start playing tricks with your mind. I had my 17mm Tilt Shift lens on and it was really important that the front element was perfectly ... Read More »
Ways and Means
October 29, 2012
The Story What can I say? I can’t get enough of my own personal 2010 classic rewind. I’ve been spending a lot of time digging through the older folders not so much to scavenge, but more to see where I’ve come as a photographer. Make no mistake – there are plenty of my images that ... Read More »
Oh. You’d like more from Belchertown?
October 28, 2012
Well far be it from me to deny you. :) After last night’s post from the main auditorium of Belchertown State School, I heard the call of my grunge muse and went on a processing kick. Here is another image from one of the adjacent hallways. As you can see, there is good reason for ... Read More »
On Separation of Foreground & Background
October 5, 2012
The Story For a full before/after of this image and a video walkthrough of how I processed it, check out this week’s episode of +onOne Software Perfect Inspiration - http://www.ononesoftware.com/inspiration/episode28/ The problem with fitting so much delicious goodness into a single frame is that it becomes very easy to get lost in everything. When you’re shooting at ... Read More »