Trevor Creative

Paradise 2

trevorcreative — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:38:33 +0000

If you remember my original post “Welcome to Paradise”, you remember a beautiful little town in the Midwest. Well, I went back recently but with a different purpose. This time, and for the first time on this site, I decided to make a video. I’m not about to think of myself as some kind of movie production master, but I wanted to give it a shot. Making movies is something I enjoy and will probably do more in the future. I took a few photos while I was there, including YET ANOTHER attempt at astro photo. The result was slightly better, but still not what I’m looking for. Someday…

The Wedding

trevorcreative — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:24:57 +0000

A few weeks ago I was given an opportunity that isn’t very easy to receive. A friend of mine (who was featured in the Bioshock post as Big Daddy) was getting married and asked me to shoot it. This was somewhat of a risk on their part, as I had never shot a wedding before. To trust someone who has no prior wedding photography experience is a big deal, and I didn’t take it lightly.

At any rate, it was a great wedding on a beautiful day. They’re sort of goofy, which made my job only better. Take a look and enjoy.

Extreme Honesty

trevorcreative — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:58:56 +0000

Over the past few years I’ve come across some seriously fantastic portrait photography. For a while I tried to figure out how to create the “epic face” look. This look is one of extreme honesty. No detail of the face goes undiscovered. Every little wrinkle, sunspot, hair and even pore is brought to the viewer. Back then I thought it took several steps in Photoshop and a couple hours per edit. After accidentally stumbling upon some things, I discovered a relatively simple way to make highly dynamic portraits. These shots give a sense of deep emotion. They portray an image of a long life, full of experience and ready to tell a story.

I know I said the last post was one of my favorites, but this one is pretty high up there too.

Note to photographers: I don’t use Photoshop often. Rarely in fact. If you’re not using Lightroom, you’re doing it wrong.

Dream in White

trevorcreative — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:04:48 +0000

It’s been about a month and a half since my last post, but I think this makes up for it. Sometimes I have a vision of a certain look I want to go for, and then decide who I want to work with to accomplish it. My vision for this shoot was white. White clothing on a white background; very clean and bright.

Back in March I shot a friend on the beach who I thought had a lot of potential. It was her first photoshoot and I put her out in front of the beach crowd. That shoot turned out a few nice shots, but ultimately it served to give her a little experience with posing and getting over the awkwardness. I thought the red hair and sexy personality would be the perfect match for this shoot. I ended up being right, but I had no idea how much I would love this set until I opened it up and began post-processing.

All my shoots have their own unique characteristics, but this one stands out to me as one of the best.

Party to the Floor

trevorcreative — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:51:46 +0000

I recently hit up a birthday party for the glorious Rhianna. This party had fireworks, black lights, strobe lights, trick candles, people passing out, loud music, and somehow managed to avoid police intervention. I certainly had an interesting time of my own, but that’s a story for another day. Here are some pictures from the party.

Bioshocking: The Process

trevorcreative — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:02:15 +0000

In the past I’ve spoken about certain shoots requiring a lot of post-processing. I haven’t ever actually explained what kind of editing I do to my images, mainly because I didn’t think people care. Also I run the risk of losing some of the intrigue of the image. This is sort of like a magician explaining his tricks – you’d probably rather not even know.

But the Bioshock shoot was a horse of a different color. It’s pretty obvious that each image got its own special treatment. If you look at the image captions, I explain in a little detail what I did to make it different from the original.

Bioshocking

trevorcreative — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:10:05 +0000

For several months a friend of mine, Rob Heath, was building something. He would post images of the progress on occasion, and I was fascinated. It turned out to be the Subject Delta suit from Bioshock 2. While the intention was to wear it to 2011 Megacon in Orlando, I couldn’t pass up the chance to do some shots. I contacted him about it, and it turned out he had met someone with an Eleanor Lamb costume. Oddly it seemed as if these costumes were a matching set. Eventually we all set out to Fort DeSoto beach and made some magic.

The shoot actually happened a few weeks ago, but since then I’ve been doing a lot of post-process work. This was truly a unique shoot, so I wanted all the images to feel unique in their own way. Some of them have been altered drastically, and others have been blended with art from the game. My next post will be before and after comparison so people can see what all happened.

I’ll avoid writing the paragraphs this shoot deserves and just give credit to Rob Heath (Subject Delta) and Jasmine Spavale (Eleanor Lamb). You can check out Rob’s site at awsmblog.com

The Astronomical Problem

trevorcreative — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:26:02 +0000

A few months ago I watched the Cosmos series by Carl Sagan. I know this series made a lot of people stop and think about the universe and how tiny we really are. I’ve known about the planets and the existence of distant galaxies, but until watching that series I didn’t really appreciate the vastness of space. It’s quite humbling.

After a little research I realized I can take pictures of the milky way from earth. More specifically, I can do this with my average DSLR. I headed out to what I thought was a good distance away from the city. About 15 miles north of Wesley Chapel Florida, I found a lonesome road to make my attempt.

As a side note, I don’t fear the police. I’ve been confronted by the cops a few times, told to leave the area I was shooting. Just be nice and all is fine. I do however fear dark isolated roads with rundown shacks. This is probably caused by movies.

Anyway, here are some of my attempts at astrophotography. I don’t think I got far enough from the city, but the stars are still interesting. Hopefully in the future I can post photos of the Milky Way.

Misc.

trevorcreative — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:12:13 +0000

This past weekend I was running around all over town and had my camera with me most of the time. I went to Ft De Soto beach to scout out a location for a future shoot (which will be pretty awesome) and stumbled across a couple interesting shots.

Later that day I went to my friend’s parents house who live on a lake. My intent was to do some astrophotography, but there was just too much light in the sky. Hopefully someday I’ll be able to photograph the Milky Way. I ended up just taking a couple shots of the lake and even did some light drawing. It was nothing too complex, but was still kinda fun.

On the way home after that I stopped and did yet another long traffic exposure. Nothing new but I enjoy doing long exposures of traffic at night. Also, the first shot is a portrait I did of a friend a couple months ago which turned out nicely.

Act Natural

trevorcreative — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:02:29 +0000

When dealing with models I’ve run into a common problem. Basically we both get arranged, I tell them where to stand, then a lot of times the question comes up: “what should I do?”

While that seems like such a basic question, it’s not very easy to answer. Some people go into a series of poses they know look good, but those won’t necessarily work for everybody. I used an interesting tactic to get what I wanted this time. I just decided to give no direction. Eventually she started just playing around and acting natural. For her it was the perfect look.