Here is the before and after of a portrait of my Aunt’s late (great) dog Tucker. The photo was taken at Christmas 3 years ago (3 sessions into my Brooks experience), it was seriously underexposed, and a JPG I might add, which is much harder to save than a RAW file. Any hoo, I did a bunch of fancy stuff, including putting 5 layers of the image [screened] on top of each other which lightened every thing up a ton, but then I had to brush some black over his fur to get rid of the awful greenish noise. Many, many steps were involved, but it was so worth it for such a cute picture and lovely lovely dog.

Part of my job at the Oxnard Union High School District is to provide photos for the district and school websites. I was asked to photograph ACHSand these are the photos that I came up with. All but the very last one are currently viewable on the site at www.camarillohigh.us. One thing I have been struggling with is how to balance my current style, which is dramatic light and abstract imagery (at least that’s what I’m attempting) with the glossy, stock-photo look you’d expect to see on a public school’s website.

I’ve been trying to come up with phrases or sentences that can be created using HTML tags. This is the only one I’ve since documented, more are likely to follow.

This is a poster that I worked on for a couple of weeks during July and August. It took a long time and I am glad it’s (mostly) done. I never attempted anything like this before so I think it came out pretty great.

I haven’t been working on anything artsy lately, but today I felt compelled to make a composite of the pictures I took while in Chicago. I hope to post more fun stuff soon.