Posts tagged Photography
Extreme Honesty
0September 19, 2011
by trevorcreative
in Photography
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
0September 6, 2011
by trevorcreative
in Photography
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.
Bioshocking: The Process
0June 6, 2011
by trevorcreative
in Photography
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.
The Astronomical Problem
1April 26, 2011
by trevorcreative
in Photography
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.
0April 18, 2011
by trevorcreative
in Photography
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.
