Cute Red
August 13th, 2024
There were some old buildings at the location where Cute Epoxide and I did our shoot. They made some nice backgrounds for a few shots.
Farewell for now to the lovely Cute. There will be more photos of her in coming months.
Water and Old Wood
August 10th, 2024
More from my shoot with Cute Epoxide.
A little bit of water and a beautiful lady.
And a beautiful lady beside an old building.
Cute in the Jungle
August 5th, 2024
A while back I had a great shoot with a fantastic Florida model, Cute Epoxide.
She took me to a great location near her home.
The Florida jungle is an interesting environment. Add a beautiful and talented model and photos happen. It helps when the light gets interesting too.
Troutt Eclipse
August 1st, 2024
When I was shooting with the amazing Melissa Troutt I noticed that a lunar eclipse was going to be happening.
In the days of film with Tri-X, perhaps processed in Acufine which gave a pretend ISO of around 1600, the idea of shooting a lunar eclipse with a model in the foreground was just impossible. It wouldn’t even be worth trying.
But times have changed. With my Nikon Z7ii which can go up to an ISO of 256,000…well, who knows what is possible. Melissa was game, so I decided to give it a try. Why not?
Of course, even with the high ISO I had to shoot wide open…f/4 in the case of the lens I was using…so depth of field was an issue. No way to get both the moon and Melissa in focus at the same time. But I was able to find a bit of a balance that sort of worked.
Not the greatest photos I’ve ever taken. But I did succeed in getting both the eclipse and Melissa in the photos with a reasonable level of detail. It is incredible what is possible and how good the results can be at that absurd ISO level. Who knows…in a few years that ISO might go even higher…and I could try this again and stop down enough to get everything sharp. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility. In the film days we never would have thought anything like this would ever be possible.
Thanks to Melissa for being willing to put up with this nonsense.
Miscellaneous Troutt
July 29th, 2024
A few more photos of Melissa Troutt from a shoot a while back.
Troutt In The Shower
July 25th, 2024
A few photos of the lovely model, Melissa Troutt getting clean in the shower.
Troutt On The Dock
July 19th, 2024
I had a great shoot with the amazing Melissa Troutt at Edisto, SC.
These are a few from a morning at a dock.
Back in a Gallery Again
July 13th, 2024
The photo above has been selected for a juried show, “The Shadow Aspect,” at the Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis.
Thanks to the lovely Angie for making this photo possible.
A Shitty Photo
July 11th, 2024
I’ve just been notified that I’ll have a photo in an upcoming exhibit at the LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon. It’s their annual “Analog Forever” show.
This photo has a story. I was in a bit of a disagreement with another photographer who was enamored of Holga photos. They insisted that only a Holga could produce the kind of photos they were after. Having worked with a Diana camera in the past, I knew that wasn’t really true. And I made the point that you could really use any shitty camera to make shitty photos. Then I went on and said I could tape a $3 drug store magnifying glass to the front of a camera and take shitty photos. They were certain that that was not possible.
So I did it. This was taken with a cheap magnifying glass taped to the front of my Speed Graphic. The focal plane shutter and ground glass focusing screen made this fairly simple. I used a Polaroid back with the wonderful and much missed 3000 speed peel-apart Polaroid film.
This was the first exposure I made with that rig. I was guessing at an exposure since I had no idea what the “aperture” was. I guessed wrong and severely overexposed that first sheet…with this result, which I consider pretty much perfect. Thanks to the lovely EM Hayes who helped me make a lot of art once upon a time.
Little Finland
July 8th, 2024
Twice I’ve visited Little Finland north of Las Vegas with the beautiful model, Eden. Twice fate has been against us and limited what we were able to do.
These photos are from our second trip there. The first time our GPS misled us down a seriously rough “road.” If we had not turned when the GPS told us to we would have soon come to a direction sign pointing the way. We eventually found our way there and did some photos, but we only had a little time left before we needed to head back out of the desert to avoid night driving there.
But the place is a great location, so I planned a trip to return and try again. This time, when we arrived at Little Finland I was feeling very ill. Eden told me she was afraid I was going to fall off one of the cliffs and hurt or kill myself. I could barely hold the camera up. But I did manage to get these few photos. When I got back home I learned that I had COVID. Probably was exposed to it on the airplane on the way out. Fortunately I managed not to infect Eden with the virus.
I haven’t given up on this location. There are many more photos to be made there. I had hoped to make another trip this past spring, but had to cancel that one because of other health issues. It’s always something… But I hope to try again one day.
