Seattle Central Creative Academy: Photography Assignment (High Reflectivity)

On this next assignment we were asked to control the highlights on a highly reflective subject with the use of one strobe.  I chose a simple brass cuff with Native American symbology carved into the surface.  Using one strobe camera left raised to a 45 degree angle with a gold reflector directly beneath the floating cuff, I sought to create an image representing a National Geographic artifact found at an archaeological dig.

Location: Home Studios, Bainbridge Island, WA

Camera/Lens Specifics: Canon 5D Mark II with Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro Lens

100mm, 1/60 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100, tripod mount.

Post: Adobe LR3 & PS5

Photo Essay: The Great Scapes by California

Photo Essay: Sweeney the Arctic Explorer

Location: SCCA Studios, Seattle, WA

Model: Sean Sweeney (Sweendo)

Camera/Lens Specifics: Canon 5D Mark II with Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens

1/60 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100, tripod mount.

Post: Adobe LR3 & PS5

Seattle Central Creative Academy: Photography Assignment (Butterfly Portrait)

The assignment here was to create a commercial portrait focusing on butterfly lighting.  To do this you place the key light directly in front and above the subject’s nose in order to create a shadow effect directly underneath the nose that resembles a butterfly.  Three other lights were used in this portrait of an “Arctic Explorer”; a fill light to camera right nearest the camera, a hairlight at three-quarters rear camera right, and a background light on a black seamless at camera left 90 degrees from the subject.

Location: SCCA Studios, Seattle, WA

Model: Sean Sweeney (Sweendo)

Camera/Lens Specifics: Canon 5D Mark II with Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens

93mm, 1/60 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100, tripod mount.

Post: Adobe LR3 & PS5

Photo Essay: Flora & Fauna of Indo

Photo Essay: French Noir

Seattle Central Creative Academy: Photography Assignment (Self-Portrait)

What is within you that few have the chance to witness?

Location: Bainbridge Island, WA

Camera/Lens Specifics: Canon 5D Mark II with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM

24mm, 1/4 sec at f/16, ISO 100, tripod mount, trigger fired with two Q-flashes camera left and camera right.

Post: Adobe LR3, PS5 & Nik Software

Photo Essay: A Peace Walk – Dublin to London

Last night I met a gentleman who works at a nuclear submarine base.  He’s been stationed in Bremerton for the past two years.  I inquired why?  Because his nuclear vessel ran out of its nuclear fuel, and it takes three years to make more: Two years to make it, one year to refuel the sub (while being continuously guarded by high-security personnel).

This strikes me as odd, dangerous, reckless, and another example of our country’s staple ingredient to its industrial military complex.

The following photography essay was captured a few years ago during a three-month peace walk from Dublin, Ireland to London, England calling for a nuclear-free civilization.

Photo Essay: Chicks w/Guns

Photo Essay: Costa Rica Eastside (Pt. III)