I guess I’ve been waiting too long for this but finally I made myself to sit and create mobile version of my website. Pure HTML, no Flash, no Javascript. Mobile device detection done in PHP without relying on browser’s capabilities.
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Posted under websiteGreat time shooting at Guildwood Inn with bunch of talented creative people. I used a mix of natural and small strobe light to get the feel I wanted to. This set was the first one I did almost completely in Lightroom, only skin retouching was done in Photoshop at the end.
See complete set here.
I was shooting two crazy guys from The Glowsticks band yesterday around the Toronto Docks area. We were blessed with the weather which almost never happens. The shoot went smooth, police stopped by but didn’t bother much. I used my favorite strobist/mcnally techniques for the shoot since we were moving around the area a lot and heavier firepower would slow down our schedule quite a bit.
Here is one shot right out of the camera. Shot at 16mm f/10 1/250 sec ISO200, bare SB600 at full power camera left was triggered via built-in commander on D700.
Back in February I photographed Face The Future charity event. Hosted by plastic surgeon Dr. Adamson, the purpose of this event is to raise money for medical humanitarian missions.
About 45000 images went yesterday into LR3 catalog. The automated process was fast and seamless, but a lot of time went into deleting junk that accumulated there for the last few years. Good thing is that application didn’t become sluggish with all those pics in a single catalog.
Posted under photographer portfolio, post-processingLR3 import performance is nothing short of amazing. One year worth of photos took less than 5 minutes to import into a catalog. I haven’t been using LR much in the past but I think it’s time now to revisit my photography workflow habits.
Posted under photography, post-processingThis was shot back in January. Rediscovered and edited today when going through Lightroom 3 conversion process.
Do you create personal work because of your lifestyle and things that you go through or it is artificially initiated process? The question is whether work becomes less personal if it wasn’t the result of events that happened in your life. I think that terminology is just plain wrong. Photographers divide they work into commissioned and personal where personal just means that nobody paid for it. But is it really personal?
After much going back and forth I finally moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress platform. Data transition was extremely smooth, whole installation took less than 5 minutes. During the installation I’ve got notification about mobile plug-in update. Clicked on Install and voila, blog looks perfectly on my Android X10.
Posted under websiteLeon needed few new creative portraits for his portfolio. He came to my house on a rainy night to do short portrait session. This was completely improvised shooting, no preparation was done ahead of time. I wanted to produce quite different looks for him so they don’t look like they all were made within 1 hour.
First, we tried classical actor headshots. This particular shot I liked the best due to his angle and intensity in the eyes. I used 3 point lighting for this image to create nice wrap-around light.
Next, we moved to editorial style. Just one hard light source here to increase overall contrast.
It was raining that night (how convenient) so we decided to make one movie like shot. That meaner look, dark outside, raining, whole plot. For this shot I had to place two lights to shine through the windows. While Leon was getting wet outside I adjusted their positions and levels to come up with this shot.
