Finally connected with Helene Veldman (model) for a fun shoot.  Sneak peek of our Rock and Roll shoot.  Thank you Jeffery for allowing us to borrow your 1970 Buick Skylark and playing some great tunes during the shoot.  Melissa Hurley on MakeUp, lighting and everything else… Looking forward to checking out if I was able [...]

In an attempt to broaden my network, seek feedback (good and bad) for my images, and learn from others whose work I admire, I have decided to give Flickr another run. My assignment.. Working with textures.  This morning I searched for a texture overlay that I thought suited my tastes and I came upon one [...]

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Hawaii Beautifully Bent is a collection of photographs taken around the Hawaiian Islands. Bent is the light, the lens distortion and color palette. Photographs were captured with Nikon D200, Nikon D700, and various toy cameras. I used ultra wide angle lenses, regular zooms, old manual Nikkors and modified toy camera lenses mounted on my D200. On camera filters were used including COKIN and Hoya to Adobe Photoshop filters and texture overlays.

DIY Lens Modification of a Kodak Instamatic 33 This is the resulting image using my Nikon D200 and a modified Kodak Instamatic 133 plastic lens.  I have been crazy about the look and feel of the Holga toy camera images and want to try everything on my D200 and D700 to see if I can [...]

Holga Effect Mokes Here is another Holga effect processing test.. (First test click here)I could create these all day long.  I tweaked this image quite a bit from the original action I used by rawimage.  I am reading about holga modified lenses for the Nikon.  Hopefully I can use the nikon mounted Holga and do [...]