Here is a little preview of Megan & Isaac Podyma’s wedding that I got to shoot recently with my friend Dan Yowell. 90 degree temperatures mixed with Virginia humidity definitely doesn’t make for easy work, but I had a great time helping them document their big day.
Last week, two good friends of mine decided to go and get themselves. After helping DJ with his elaborate scavenger hunt scheme, I decided to put my new zoom lens to the test and get some candid shots of the grand finale. DJ runs a ministry called GreyVangelism (hence the grey van in the background).
The other morning I made a trip down to downtown Lynchburg, VA before sunrise to shoot some images for my final Digital Imaging project. I’m doing a series of HDR photographs. HDR (high dynamic range) photography is the process of taking the same picture at several exposure settings (in this case, 3 to 7 settings) and merging them together in Photoshop to get a more vivid image with a much wider range of colors than can be captured in just one shot. Here’s what I’ve got so far.
I needed to grab some portrait shots today, so I enlisted the help of my lovely fiancé, Valinda. She hated it (ok, not quite to the point of kicking and screaming), but I thought I would post some of the pictures to prove to her and the rest of the world that she is beautiful in every picture.
And here’s a few random cat shots too.
Let me start by apologizing for the extended silence here on the blog. As the title says, I have been super busy lately between extensive travel and finishing my degree. However, I thought I would offer a quick glimpse into one of my biggest projects (both in size and time consumption) that I have been working on recently.
This is a movie poster I did for my Photoshop project recently. Its created entirely from images I either photographed or rendered in Photoshop. The original file is 2′ x 3′ and 300 dpi (something like 11,000 pixels tall). All that adds up to over a gigabyte of memory. Below is the printed version.
Yesterday my friend Tysen and I made our way into the really creepy field near our houses. No one really knows why it’s there or what it’s for, but it is a good photo spot. So we went, and didn’t die. It was a good day.
With 20 minutes left in the month of March I just though I would share some pictures from today. They celebrate the signs of Spring that are finally appearing after a long, cold winter in Virginia. (My last cold winter BTW)
Yesterday I had a light afternoon so I made a little trip up to Big Island, VA to get some shots for a landscape photography project I am working on this week. I almost turned back and didn’t go because of a giant cloud that was blocking the sun, but eventually I god some good lighting. Here’s some of my favorites from the day.
As you can see, the big clouds that almost made me turn back ended up being one of my favorite parts of the shoot. There’s a lesson in there somewhere…
You never know when the urge to take some pictures will hit. In this case it was split between a McDonald’s Parking lot and driving up I-81 toward West Virginia. You’re probably not supposed to pull out your DSLR and take pictures while driving down the freeway, be here’s the product of some spontaneous shooting.
