"Church" Window
May 4th, 2007
Here’s a window at the “church” on the movie set in the Big Bend area.
Back to Big Bend
May 2nd, 2007
Ok…enough with the pinhole photos. Time to get away from the soft grainy pinhole photos and back to the scorching sun of Big Bend.
Here’s Rose in the partial shade of a porch awning woven from cactus branches. I still have a lot more Big Bend photos to go through, then I’ll be editing the photos from the Ozarks and the Houston area. I’m soooo far behind on all this.
Another Pinhole Photo
April 30th, 2007
Today’s Pinhole photo
April 29th, 2007
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mount Your Pinholes
April 28th, 2007
Just thought I’d remind everyone that Sunday, April 29 is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.
Here’s another pinhole photo of Nemesis from our test shoot getting ready for tomorrow’s shoot.
My friend Dave Rudin from NYC is visiting this weekend and shooting in my studio. (His blog is linked on the right.) Today I found a Pentax 6×7 body cap. Tomorrow I’ll drill a hole in it and mount a pinhole so Dave can shoot pinhole photos with his perferred camera.
With any luck I’ll have something to post here tomorrow or Monday from the Sunday shoot.
Niecy in the sun
April 26th, 2007
Here’s Niecy off a Big Bend trail posing on the brown rocks out in the sun. Again, by paying very careful attention to the exposure I was able to pull the color of the rocks up even though to the eye the sun pretty much washed the color out.
Rocks and Cacti
April 24th, 2007
Another from our wandering off the trail on the way up a mountain at Big Bend. I loved the dark color of the rocks in this area and was looking for a spot to contrast them against a skin tone. Had to find a spot where the sun was not directly on the rocks or all the color was washed away by the glare.
One Week to Pinhole Day
April 22nd, 2007
Next Sunday, one week from today, is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.
Check it out here: http://www.pinholeday.org/
People all over the world will take photos using pinhole cameras on that day and post them to a web site. I’ll be participating, with the help of several models. I’ll keep my submission to the Worldwide site PG-13 (lots of kids are involved in doing pinhole photos for this site) and post the more R-rated photos here.
In the past I’ve used homemade pinholes…made by sticking a pin through some thin metal…but in the past year I bought a set of laser-drilled precise pinholes and I’ll be using them in various manners this year. I have one that is “factory” mounted on a body cap for my Nikons. I placed another at the back of a T-mount adapter for Nikons to get it closer to the sensor, thus making a wider-angle of view. I’ll use both of those on my D200 next Sunday.
I like doing pinhole photos with a digital camera because of the extra control it provides. I can quickly see what is happening with framing and exposure and make adjustments. To me that’s a vast improvement over working with film and just having to cross your fingers that something will work.
Meanwhile I’ve been doing some testing. This is Nemesis, shot this week in my studio. I used 3,000 watts of quartz light for this shot. I usually try to use sunlight through my studio windows, but if the sun isn’t out, it’s a problem, causing very long exposure times for models to stay still. The quartz lights weren’t all that great, but at least I know they work and I can use that as a fall-back option if Sunday turns out to be cloudy.
In the bush
April 21st, 2007
In Ruins
April 19th, 2007
On our second day of shooting at Big Bend we stopped at an old abandoned mercury mine. We stayed away from the mine itself, but explored the many ruined buildings in the area. This is the doorway of what may have been a home when the mine was active.
