Play'n in the garage...

It's starting to get cold again which means its time to break out the extra layers and the space heater in the garage. However, I have found that taking pictures allows your hands to stay much much warmer than turning wrenches.

My newest promo, just in time for Halloween!

When friends find out that you know how to use a camera, it is inevitable that someone will ask for portraits. Some friends are sneakier than others, you know who you are, and some folks just ask. Either way I have no problems with helping out. Recently a good friend from Winston asked if I would shoot her wedding portraits around her loft in one of the old mills downtown. We ended up getting a ton of beutiful shots. This particular shot was a bit more serious and thus stood out from the rest. I brought in some clouds and enhanced a few other elements to create this creepy image in the spirit of the holiday.

Sick!

I don't apologize, I'm a motor-head and this is just too awesome.

A fungus in Pink Beds

Pink beds is a hiking trail that is part of Pisgah Natioanl Forest in the mountains of North Carolina. I over did it a bit with the saturation but I figured the interesting shape lends itself to the otherworldly color.

A trip to Brevard

A camping trip up to Brevard,NC. Thought I'd post my first pseudo HDR image from the trip. This is just one exposure using simple camera raw processing. I cleaned up some of the edges and desaturated it a bit. I think it turned out great. More to come...

"Living the Map"

Daniel gave us a visit this week on his trip around the country. I had a chance to help out on the shoot which was produced by Black Box Studios and shot by Kim Hummel. We were latter graced by the presence of fox news. Sadly I didn't make it to 10 o'clock that evening to catch myself on the tube.

Bring on the Summer!

This image was inspired by some old beach photos I came across while doing some spring cleaning a few weeks ago. I'm experimenting with different methods of manipulating variations in depth through more than just color, tone and form.

A bit of Fashion work

Did some retouching for Mike Carroll a few weeks back. Hard to keep up with posts when your busy. This was a test shoot Mike did with Katherine at 1141 Lynbrook Ave (Mike's studio). Visit my site to see the before and after images. www.byFireLite.com

Here is a shot by Cameron Triggs. He took several shots through dusk to get an exposure for each element of this image; the exterior, interior and sky. I did a bit of retouching using these multiple exposures to bring the sky and interior lighting to a closer ratio as well as equalize the color balance a bit. I also had to remove a sign and car from the parking lot in the background which couldn't be moved at the location. Finally smoothing the tarmac to give it a wet look. If you want to see a bigger version go to Cameron's website: http://www.triggsphoto.com/

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New work

Over the holidays I started working on a new art piece/series. My concept and method for this work is based on numeric data relating to precession.