Took this one a ways back but it is still one of my favorites. I don't do nudes very often, in fact I do them rather infrequently. But Ashley was one of my favorites to work with. The 105mm f/1.8 AIS in all its glory. I told her she looked like Steffi Graf in this profile and she said "who?"...
This one from a casual shoot. The lighting was basic, straightforward "glamour" lighting with a single strobe above and a reflector underneath to open up shadows. The background got blitzed with two strobes to obliterate it and give a high key effect. Oh those wonderful freckles and baby...
I shot this image of a sleeping otter back around 1986 or so at the Seattle aquarium. That is mist coming off the water in the background. I am sure I used an FE-2 and my 300mm f/4.5 AIS Nikkor on this one. The film is Ektachrome 100 scanned with the Coolscan LS-8000
Honestly? I have no idea, I use one of these:
I will have to defer to the folks on here you actually use all the buttons on their digital cameras. I have never even used about 75% of them. I don't mean to dodge the question or sound flippant, but I use my D700 as little more than just a...
For mine, I simply signed a piece of paper with my signature (a legible version), scanned it and then worked it in PS until I had removed all the background and then saved it with a transparent background. I then inverted the image until the signature was in white instead of black. I have done...
The correct answer of course is 3 pm today. F4S and 18omm f/2.8 ED-AIS @ f/4 with TX @ ASA 200 in D-76 1:1 and scanned with the LS-8000. Right about the time I was ready to start shooting film, I realized I should have grabbed the F2 instead of the F4. The batteries in the F4S were dead as a...
I shot this image back in April 1987 while still up in WA state. There was an old barn in the midst of all the tulip fields in La Connor, where there are over 1000 acres of tulips grown each year. It is literally tulips as far as the eye can see.
FE-2, 55mm f/2.8 AIS Micro Nikkor and Kodachrome...
After a $35 cable because my previous Firewire cable was 6 pin to 6 pin and the laptop has a 4 pin connection, the scanner is back working. It has been a while since I used Nikon Scan 4 so I had to clean out some cobwebs. At 4000 dpi, the 6x4.5 files were 175 MB and the 35mm 74 MB but the...
Nikon Scan 4 is already loaded, I just have to hook up the scanner tomorrow (it is 1am and I just got back from the lab a little while ago and am bushed) and let the scanning begin again! My Nikon Super CoolScan LS-8000 scanner has sat idle for more than a year and a half now.
D700 and 105mm f/1.8 AIS Nikkor with weak fill flash
And yes, our sand really is that white! It can be blinding in the summer time, sunglasses are almost a must. And our water is a beautiful emerald green, hence our nickname, the "emerald coast"
When my old desktop finally gave up the ghost, I got a newer Dell Inspiron. Nothing too fancy, but plenty for what I needed it for. The problem was that it came loaded with Windows 7. Here's the rub. I have a $3000 Nikon Super CoolScan LS-8000 in my office collecting dust. It does some of the...
I was just looking through some of my images in my gallery here and suddenly this idea popped into my head......when you combine my twisted sense of humor with my Photoshop skills, hilarity often ensues. Btw, I shot this image with my venerable old 500mm f/8 Reflex Nikkor. I often lament getting...
Yes, I do photograph people besides just beautiful models, though Haley here could hold her own with any of them! Try as I might, I just could not hold detail in the brightest area's of their shirts. It just exceeded the D700 sensor, even at 14 bit
This was shot as part of their engagement thing
Sometimes all it takes is the right light, the right lens and a little help from PS and you can take a not so attractive woman and work wonders. Elle is a sweet woman and not un-attractive, but she is not model material either. As a photographer it is not really my job to take a pin and pop...
No category fits this question really so I will throw it here.
Although this question is more applicable to the old timers amongst us who spend(t) many years working with film and darkroom work but anyone here feel free to chime in.
So here's the quesiton: Do you think programs like Photoshop...