Step-by-Step Composite: UO Tennis
This is definitely not going to be as extensive as the tutorial from last week. A lot of this is just repeating steps but I still want to give you an idea of how this composite was built. This photo ended up being a lot more complex because the cutouts were super difficult. My initial [...]
Step-by-Step Composite: UO Acrobatics
As promised, I’ve put together a step by step image guide to show how the final image came to be. As I mentioned in my previous blog post about this project, I was pretty much given complete creative freedom. So, this is the concept that fit best in my mind with the photos we had [...]
Sunny: Image Breakdown
If you read my post last friday (or just looked at the photos) you saw some of my new photos of a local athletic model Sunny. Today, I’m going to be doing the usual image breakdown to give you all an idea of how the image was created from start to finish. This one will [...]
Sports Lifestyle: Running
About a month ago I was asked to do a test for a company and I posted some of the images that I submitted. You can find the old post here. That post goes into detail about some other things but you can see the images that were sent in. The company has some pretty [...]
Hurdle Photo #2
Here’s the last photo in the three image Ashton Eaton series. This last photo probably personifies who I am as a photographer the most. I’m 5′ 10″ and I try to never take a photo at 5′ 10″. By this I mean, I never try to take a photo standing up. A huge amount of [...]
Block Start
Today we’re going to take a closer look at Ashton’s Block Start photo. It’s definitely my favorite of the series. As, I was running through the post processing I was a little unsure of what to do because I wasn’t able to shoot and backgrounds while I was down in Eugene for the day. So, [...]
Hurdle Photo #1
Image Details: Canon 5d Mark II, 70-200mm f/2.8L IS, 73mm, ISO 100, f/16 Having a hard time getting to sleep tonight so I thought I’d get a head start on the blog posts I promised following my photo shoot with Ashton Eaton. I’ve had some questions about the three photos that I’ve uploaded the past [...]
Chris: Freethrows
These images are from a photo shoot I did at the end of the year. The image above is something I have had planned for a while after meeting with a potential client and hearing more about what they were looking for. I’m not sure this is exactly the right direction (for the potential client) [...]
The Art of the Composite
I’ve been tossing the idea around about how I can give you all a better idea of how I do my work and not really sure what the best way is to share that with you all. I think at this time, the clearcut winner would have to be to purchase some screencasting software so [...]
HDR Tutorial
It’s finally here! The much anticipated HDR tutorial. I know this has been on my to do list for about a year now but I think you will all find this useful. But, before I get into my HDR workflow I want to make it clear that my Sportraits and Portraits are NOT HDR images. [...]
Dramatic Lighting Tutorial
Tutorial showing a few of my lighting techniques and how I get the base of my image to look the way they look.
Tutorial Tuesday: Getting Sharper Images
A while back, when we were still on the old blog, a die hard follower asked me how I got my images to be so sharp and crisp. I gave him some advice on what to do and I thought that might be a good topic for our first Tutorial Tuesday blog post (I really [...]
Tutorials
This is where I’ll be posting tips and tricks to help you become a better photography. Some tips will involve ways to compose a better image, other will deal with photoshop tricks to add something extra to your images. I’ll try to do a couple tips a month but that is dependent on how interested [...]