CREATIVE
Total Solar Eclipse… Totality Awesome!
My favorite shots during totality of the total solar eclipse over Rexburg, ID On August 21, 2017, a rare phenomenon happened from the coast of Oregon to the coast of South Carolina: the total solar eclipse. Throughout history, light has been seen as symbolic for...
Special Effects aren’t for Video Only
Three cool examples of how special effects can make photography exciting, different and artistic. Special effects in videos and movies are cool, but I personally like special effects in photography even more! Wherever you are, whatever you have, these three special...
Time to Light the Night with Light Painting
Create awesome photographs at night with light painting One of the things that I love most about photography is showcasing the delicacy of light. Photography at night is one of the most difficult environments that a photographer can shoot in. With any long exposure...
Watercolors without a Mess
Creating watercolors with Photoshop is fast, easy and fun! I had a lot of fun creating this watercolor piece in photoshop. I took this picture of Boston, a 15 year old model here in Rexburg, a few months ago at a shoot. When shooting this picture, I wanted to keep it...
Creative with Composites
Photoshop is awesome when you have a great tagline for an advertisement in mind but no means to make a photoshoot happen! I created this photoshop composite advertising the Ford Expedition. I drove one for a day on a recent photo excursion in Grand Teton National...
Getting Serious with Scanography
How an ordinary day with an ordinary item turned into amazing abstract artwork. Scanography: The process of capturing digitized images of objects for the purpose of creating printable art using a flatbed "photo" scanner with a CCD (charge-coupled device) array...
Nonstop Service to Hollywood: Movie Poster
When the avgeek, photographer, and designer in me come together to recreate the movie poster for "Sully". Design and photography are essential to movie posters. Both of these being my passions, I needed to think of something else in my life that I absolutely love. And...
Creative + Ordinary = Extraordinary
Instead of thinking about life through a lens, start living it; Capturing amazing moments of real life with street photography and still life photography. Think of your daily route to work or school. You do it so often it becomes boring and ordinary. I know there have...
Low Key Lighting, Highly Dramatic Photography
Create dramatic photographs with a simple lighting technique that results in low key portraits and epic photographs Epic. Dramatic. Softness. These are just a few adjectives that describe low key photography. Before shooting for this post, I’ve always had a...