Attack of the Books

Here is the next installment in the “Project 52″ series entitled….”Attack of the Books”. If you want to know more about the project and if you want to see the rest of the series you can find it all here. Here is the story for this shot. I love to read. I love books. I love to read books. When I was first married Julie would get so aggrivated with me because I would stay up into the late hours of the night reading. Well, little has changed. I have a garage full of plastic totes and those totes are filled with books. I love books. Last weekend while we where camping I managed to read a six hundred page novel. How, I stayed up late and read. I love books and reading…get it? Good. Well my idea with this shot was to create a “dream” like effect where my books have “turned” on me and have started to attack me. I thought it would be a fun idea and I’m pleased with how it turned out. I hope you enjoy. As always please leave a comment. Now here is some technical stuff for all the other photogs our there. This photo is actually 12 individual photos stiched together to form a composite. The first pic was of me. I have four flashed set up around the room and I’m shooting from a tripod set low in my entry way. I have two flashed on either side of me and slightly back behind me. I have a third flash on a boom arm over my head and slightly in front of me. The fouth flash is camera right. They were all fired wirelessly and the settings were….ISO 100, 1/180 sec at f 5.6. For the rest of the pics I had my wife throwing books, papers, etc. while I sat on the floor and shot them. Once I had the pics I pieced them together in photoshop and ….Walla!!

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June 30, 2010

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Project 52….”Guitar Man”

Here is another “Project 52″ self portrait. If you haven’t been following along I’ve been trying to do a self portrait a week for the entire year. You can check out the earlier pics here. Here is a little back story on this pic. While growing up I had an old guitar that I goofed around with. I never got very good. I did play back-up for our church band for a VERY short time. My guitar actually got stolen out of the church…hmmmm, I think someone was trying to send me a message. LOL. Well, my oldest son loves music and wants to learn to play so we bought him this guitar and he’s been messing around with it. As you can tell it isn’t a full size guitar but it works great for his hands. I shot this at 9pm with three off camera flashes. One camera left slightly behind me. One camera right slightly in front of me and one on a boom arm above me. This was shot at 1/30 at f8 at ISO 100. Let me know what you think …..and…..ROCK ON!!!

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June 14, 2010

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Project 52…week 9

I started a personal project at the begining of the year. The idea was to do one “self portrait” per week for 52 weeks. My hope was that I would push my creative juices. Also my wife and kids were getting tired of me pointing the camera at them . The year started off good but I quickly got behind and now here we are half way through the year and I’m only on week 9. I’ve had several people drop me emails asking me for my next installment. So to all those faithful viewers I make a vow….well, atleast a heartfelt promise…errr, it’s my sincere goal. To get back on track and to catch up with this project. With that in mind let me present….”Old McDonald”…this image was shot at 3pm in my back yard using off camera flash. I then tweaked it in photoshop, added a texture layer, used a sepia action and added an old border. I had a blast creating this one and have several more good ideas for the next few weeks. So I hope you enjoy this and please let me know what you think.