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Btb, the new one spits at me when I push the button to open the spout— how rude!!
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Here in Ontario we are having some very hot humid weather. Stay hydrated!
Canon EOS 7D Sigma 150-500 hand held Camera Raw aperture priority f11 processed in Capture One Pro 20
Picture Spring Day 5
"Tall Drink of Water"
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This was a good assignment for the day. The temperatures were in the 90s, and I kept an icy glass of water next to me all day just in case the perfect photo op presented itself. The op finally came at sunset. I used the top of my car as a "table."
I apologize for not shooting as much lately but with Summer Vacation coming to a close in a little over a week I've had to focus on finishing my reading assignments. I do have exciting news on the way, though. So stay tuned!
I've burned myself while capturing fire. Choked on smoke, inhaled dirt and spend hours cleaning up a mountain of baby powder all for the sake of atmosphere shots. I've chased birds up and down cliffs in Maine because I just "had" to have birds in the shot. This project has definitely taken me to places I've never been and even more so, proved that I have a very strong addiction to the art of photography and digital compositing.
The people around me have come to know what certain types of shots will take in terms of frustration and time. Tonights shot was no different! I had been browsing the internet on one of my many short tangents and came across one of my "virtual" Acquaintances most recent work and instantly felt the need to compete. Not with the same type of image, just a photo that rivaled the "wow" factor and work involved.
From the second I had mentioned to Joyce that I was going to go "epic" she knew that any plans to relax early were out the window. She likes to predict just how long a photo will take based solely on a few key points. What element I am playing with, what will I be creating from thin air and who's in the shot. Shots with Shawn are always a little bit more time consuming as the first 10 minutes are spent trying to both persuade him to do the shot and then calm him down. He's like a child on a sugar high. He has a hard time being serious for more than a second. However, he is nearly always able to pull it together and give me the emotion or action I'm looking for.
Well, after Joyce had the necessary information she made a prediction of around 3am for the finish time. I of course always tell her she's crazy and that it wont be that long. She just laughs and says "we'll see".
So what does it take to make someone explosively turn to water. I honestly had no idea! I had never attempted a composite with the use of water like this. I searched the internet and found a few crappy tutorials and a hand full of less than amazing images. The only images that were close to being what I was looking for were a few from old Gatorade ads. I knew I was going to have to wing the shit out o this one… But where to start?
Well, anytime I get to freeze action of moving things, I always smile. I love to freeze a single moment in time. Water unfortunately moves a slight bit faster than 1/250 of second and I was just not able to freeze water with the sharpness I have come to demand out of my photography. I'm not sure that I'd be able to achieve sharpness even with the Paul C. Buff Einstein Lights sync speed of 1/320. If I had powerful enough speed lights I would have opted for a different approach. I would have used the bulb setting and just used the speed lights super short flash duration to expose the shot rather than the shutter speed. This has worked in the past for freezing extremely fast moving objects like the rubber breaking from around a balloon falling in mid air, showing a ballon shaped blob of water. An event that is too fast for the human eye to see.
I had setup for the water shot by placing AB800s with Gridded soft boxes at both 9:00 & 3:00. My ability to composite the water was resting solely on getting a completely black background. Using a front light like the beauty dish would have illuminated the background and making the water useless. I had setup a black backdrop on what was officially the longest boom I've ever used. I had attached a c-stand arm to the end of my Avenger boom bringing the total length to just under 12 feet. After sandbagging the shit out of both the boom and stand I was able to stretch the full width of a Walmart black bed sheet on it, swing the whole wobbly rig over the pool all of that just to get a solid black backdrop!
I would pre focus then lock the camera in manual focus. Joyce would get water amounts varying from a cup to a bucket and we'd count down 3…2…1… She'd throw the water as I clicked the shutter. Capturing the water was simple yet not totally sharp. I knew I could do no better with the gear I had so I opted to except what I had and move on.
Shawn's shot was lit with the standard 3 point lighting. I had him put practice the pose and just as he got it I said "ok, now get in the pool" he looked confused and asked if I was serious. "of course, you're going to be turning to water, if you're not wet it just wouldn't look right" He reluctantly got in the pool and after 2 minutes of bitching about it being cold, Joyce decided to help him and splash him with water. After shawn was thoroughly wet, we got back to shooting. A process that took all of 10 minutes, 2 mintues if you subtract Shawn's theatrics!
It was now off to the digital world!
Post Production:
This is obviously where the magic happened. I masked shawn out in record time using the quick selection tool in Photoshop. This was the first time I'd ever used this tool and I don't know why I've never used it before! Its quick and pretty damn accurate. It's a secondary tool coupled with the magic wand. I suggest you try it.
After masking, I simply yet time consumingly overlaid selections from the best water shots. Using the natural highlights on his skin I essentially recreated his silhouette with water spray. I was then able to paint away areas of this head and body to give the impression that he was turning to water. This has to be the most abridged version of a post production process ever. This wasn't all together difficult just very time consuming. There is over 60 layers of water. Every area of his skin that is being "liquified" has an actual overlay of water as an edge. This gives a more realistic appearance and helps sell the overall effect. I wasn't sure about the background but knew that solid black was just not right. I played with a few different types of gradients and settled on my good friend mr. circular gradient.
So this was definitely one of those images where I had to force myself to say "I'm done" I knew I could have gone on for ever. I'm sure I could have replaced the background with some crazy image of a city turning to water or some shit like that. I instead opted to call it a night and watch a bit of Vanilla Sky.
The time was now 4 minutes past 3am and once again…. Joyce was right! I will now use her strange ability as a tool in developing more accurate client bids. She can sit in on meeting and at the end she'll be able to tell how long the shoot and edit will take like some sort of strange human calculator. Its brilliant!
Lighting:
Model:
AB800 Med Softbox at both 10:00 & 2:00. Full Power
AB800 Beauty Dish Boomed overhead. 1/4 power
Water:
AB800 Gridded Med Softbox at both 9:00 and 3:00. 3/4 Power
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Thomsonite. The mineral, one of the zeolite group, occurs here as white radiating balls. It is a hydrated sodium calcium aluminum silicate. South Quarry. North Table Mountain. Golden, Jefferson Co., Colo.
This was one of the McIntosh images I was looking for when I got caught by the skies at Ag Museum. This is a heavier sky on a recent trek.It seems that Jim acquired a wooden tank water wagon for the McIntosh Agricultural Museum. Way back in the latter 1800s, Longmont had an identical wagon with the driver's seat atop to deliver what must have been fresh water. Ditches delivered "dirty" water to agriculture.
I wonder what might have been Longmont's "fresh" water source? Of course, that was when water from the river carried clean, clear water from the Rockies and before modern household products began sterilizing everything in sight. As a youngster, we always drank from mountain streams without a thought. That was before man introduced e-coli and cryptosporidium parvum bacterias to our mountain critters. Would you drink from a stream while wondering what kind of jackass flatlander is up the trail. I'm sure Lefthand Water district uses that "sterilization" concept to remove beavers from their watersheds.
Al Pace was working on an article about an early mountain ditch that determined Colorado water law for Longmont's Observer. Water is Colorado's god and carried about in wagons while it's North Carolina's cloven hooved demon. Dihydro-monoxide! Trump deserves a special glass of Carolina, Duke and Smithfield water, assuming he could quit his soda pop binge for something "special if he wants to try out his air and water policies!"
Otherwise in the Rockies, beavers are Mother Nature's best water reclamation and preservation engineers. If a trickle in the hills crosses barren land, enlist a beaver! That will regrow natural mountain riparian habitat. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature! That's another concept modern American brains can't acquire. People remark at the variety of trees at Thompson, Chicago philanthropist who started the Longmont Colony, and other Longmont parks. Longmont women planted hardwood trees in parks and brought water uphill from the St. Vrain River below the bluff, to water their newly planted trees. At least they originated a balance to all the cottonwoods in the valley. That was a real ongoing project that would interfere with modern cell phone time!
Farrah Fawcett as repainted and styled by Noel Cruz of www.ncruz.com.
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Photos by Steve McKinnis of stevemckinnis.com
A composite. Originals were processed in DXO Optics Pro. I used Topaz ReMask to isolate the biker, Topaz Lens Effects to add a little panning blur to the wall and Topaz Impression to add some 'Fading Away' effect. Merged in Topaz photoFXlabs with finishing touches added in ACDSee Pro.
I shot the wall in 2011 behind the Highland Square Theater and the biker in 2012 on West Market St. on the Square.
Nikon F (1970)
50mm Nikkor-HC f/2 (circa 1972) (yellow filter)
Fomapan 200 in Rodinal (1:100 for 8 min)
We’re getting our first multi-day heat, for the next 3-4 days. People are planning ways to live with it- including going to cooling places (library, police/fire station, community center), and visiting the lake. AC and fans help.
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Street candid taken in Glasgow, Scotland. I captured this on 1st August during my first trip into town for many weeks since a setback in my ankle surgery recovery. I could only manage a short stint in Glasgow and owe many thanks to my partner for offering to caddy my gear for me.