Sunday, June 12, 2011
May 2011 Image Gallery
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Schenectady Photographic Society Color Print of the Year
This image from the Eastern States Penitentiary (ESP) took top honors at Schenectady Photographic Society (SPS) as Color print of the year 2010-2011. It is a wonderful feeling as you set there and they are going thru all the entered prints and yours is still in the running, when they get that moment when they announce “and the Print of the Year” and it is your print. I always shoot photos that I want to hang on my walls and when they win a competition or someone wants to purchase one, it is the frosting on the cake.
This image is from Eastern States Penitentiary of the cell, which severed as the barbershop for the inmates. This image has been shot be every photographer that has visited the penitentiary, do an image search of ESP and see for your self there will be hundreds of the this cell.
This image is High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos made up of nine bracketed images take one stop apart. The nine images are merged together and tone mapped using Photomatix software by HDR Soft. The tone-mapped image is then imported back into Adobe Lightroom where I did a curve adjustment to bring the contrast back. From Lightroom the image is exported out to Photoshop where I use filters from NIK software to put the final touches onto the image. The first NIK filter I apply to the image is Tonal Contrast to bring out the textures, then follow this filter with NIK Glamour Glow, which brings out the color and apply a soft glow to the image. And the final touch to the image is with NIK Darken/Lighten Center to darken up the outer area of the image to give the appearance of the barber’s chair being illuminated from the ceiling window light in the ceiling of the cell.
The final result is a HDR photograph that does not scream HDR; to me this is the problem of many photographers today doing HDR they take it to far and the image screams HDR. Digital photography today is amazing but as a photographer you have to know when to stop when Appling the Photoshop tools and filters.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Gallery update
I have not been out shooting much over the past three months, but I have just posted a image gallery of photos taken during February, March and April. You can access the online Gallery from the link below.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Lighthouse Cafe Sanibel Island Florida
The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse will be hanging on the wall at the Lighthouse Cafe in Sanibel Island, Florida. Sister Mary of St. Patrick Church here in Athens was in Sanibel Island for vacation and she stopped in the Lighthouse Cafe and Commented that the Village of Athens had a wonderful lighthouse back in New York. It was then when the owner told her that if she sent him a framed photo he would display it in the Cafe. Sister Mary arrived back home here in New York and asked me if I would do up a image of the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse so she could get it sent down to Lighthouse Cafe.
Below is the image that I produced and will be hanging shortly in the Lighthouse Cafe. So if you are in Florida and near Sanibel Island be sure to stop by the Lighthouse Cafe and see our wonderful lighthouse.
Monday, February 14, 2011
The Blue Hour
Photographers are always talking about the golden hour, the hour just after sunrise and just before sunset. There is another hour in photography, known as the blue hour this is just after sunset and just before sunrise. During this blue hour period image will render the night sky as a deep blue color. Tonight on the way home I did a little blue hour shooting at Dean's Mills here in Coxsackie New York.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Happy Wedding Couple
It is always nice to here back from the couples that I photograph their wedding day. As a wedding photographer it is my job to capture the big day for the couple, capturing all those special moments throughout the event. Below is a copy of the thank you note I received from Elia & Adam one of the couples contracted me to record their wedding during the past year.
“Robert
Adam & I wanted to thank you for the wonderful work you did photographing our wedding. The Photos were beautiful and you have been a pleasure to work with throughout the process, from taking the engagement photos to processing the final prints. Thanks to you, out big day has been recorded just the way imagined, with gorgeous photos of family and friends enjoying the celebration. Thank you so much!
All the best
Adam & Elia”
If you are getting married in the future please consider me to record your special day, you will find my pricing to be very competitive.
January 2011 Image Gallery
I did not get out much in January but I have created a small image gallery of images that I did take during January. You can access gallery from the link below.
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