Sometimes the best emails come at 2:55am

I’m pretty happy about this news which has come to me at this early (or late) hour. It had in it a link that has my name (all together perhaps erroneously included) with the winners for The Magneta Foundation’s annual International “Emerging Photographers” contest. Fast Forward is a neat, artsy photo thing and I’m very happy. Best part is some of the names along side my own are friends and artists I have a great deal of respect for.

My last post was a complicated, retouched image.
This is not.

I took this photo of Ryan on a Nikon D3 he borrowed, we were trying to make double exposed RAWs, which it seems, Nikons can do (even if it is buried in a submenu. Hey Canon, why the eff can’t we do that!? -anyway. I like this photo. I like that I put no effort into making it. I like that it is good. I like that there were a lot of bad ones that you wont ever see and that I get to show you this single image and it makes me look good. Furthermore and unrelated to this image, I like Ryan. Every artist, needs a fellow artist to chat and bounce shit off of, especially if that fellow artist is a hustler that would put to shame any bootlegger, used car salesman or mafia. So in an effort to post more things to my blog: from NEF RAW, to Lightroom, to jpeg, to FTP, to WordPress, to you… here is something.

I’ve been doing a lot of shooting latelyand although blogging should go along with that, well I guess I’ve just been lazy – and I don’t like lazy so let’s change that. This is an image of a beautiful girl with a beautiful first name/middle name of Julia Scarlett. That sounds so nice doesn’t it? The lovely and talented Amy Harper took care of the hair styling and and makeup, she’s wonderful. I’ve very happy with this creative, and even more happy with the treatment applied to it. I will work what I shot into a short series of images. I like that approach. It’s something I’ve thought about doing lately, working more in the “fine art” series mode from school, rather than just working on a single image to present. So, watch for whats to come.

Here are some close up details. Along with the colour, that texture and grain took a long time to develop however I love the result! Actually, perhaps more fun than the details is this grid arrangement.