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New ‘Dual key’ images

January 13, 2009 – 8:44 pm

Wow, 8 days since I posted last. Sorry about that! I have been having a very busy, interesting, crazy personal life this year. Behind on work too, so the blog sadly has taken a backseat. I don’t have time yet to do a full post, but I figured sharing a few images with you guys would be better than none at all, so here are a few I designed recently.

I have no idea what to call these infrared-like images, so I am calling them ‘Dual Key’ because they aren’t high-key and have too much white to be low-key, and are pretty much mainly black and white tones (meaning: little grey or midtones). FYI: doing this processing pretty much destroys the quality of the image, producing massive noise, so I’m not sure I would print a dual key processed shot, but I still find them interesting to look at. 

Taara.

Apollo.

Fergus.

Apollo, Ethel.

Apollo, normally a redhead. 

I love Apollo’s collar in blue, but it looks seriously punk rock in black. And we all know how I love punk rock! Random fact: Social Distortion was the band that changed my life when I was 14. You?

More images to come soon! Hope everyone’s 2009 is going well unlike, sadly, many people I know! Seems as if there is something weird in the air. The recession perhaps? :-(

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more low-key black and white dog photographs

December 21, 2008 – 7:14 am

Some of you may remember the first post I did on low-key black and white shots back in September. It has been awhile since I designed any low-key images, so I decided to pull some shots from recent shoots to see how they fared with the processing. Some were naturals, some took more effort. All done in LR2. 

these shots of Addy were practically begging to be converted to low-key b-w.

Apollo as a blond. Love these. 

I have every confidence that Fergie could hold her own in doggie prison. Or human prison for that matter. In my neighborhood late at night there are some interesting and shady characters, and one night while we were out walking a very drunk woman came swaying toward us, spotted Fergie and then immediately cut us a wide swath in the sidewalk, veering as far away from the dog as possible. She was laughing heartily and said “WHOAHH. NO ONE would want to mess with you with THAT dog, huh huh huh”, laughing all the way. I laughed too because I found the whole thing so funny. I see this photo below and think “Yep, I think she is right”. :-)

This will be an ongoing series, so expect even more low-key images after this! If you have any requests to see a specific shot in low-key let me know and I’ll be happy to try. 

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more archives- original b-w digital images

December 6, 2008 – 8:00 am

This is a follow up to my post from a couple of days ago on my original black and white film photographs. When I made the switch from film to digital for the first year or two I was still all about black and white dog photography. There is a different part of my brain that I use for shooting in black and white, and even now I know when I take the shot if I want to see it in black and white. (FYI: I now shoot exclusively in color and exclusively in RAW, then convert to black and white in Lightroom). It’s all about lines and contrast and simplicity for black and white images. Sometimes I miss the black and white shots my old Fuji digital used to take- I swear they were better than anything I can reproduce with software.

All shots taken with my old Fuji prosumer digital camera between 2003-2005. Mostly wide angle cause wide angle rulz. Yes I said rulz. 

The shot that was on my homepage for years. That’s Henry the bulldog. I was his dogwalker. I love Henry very much. 

Hope you enjoyed all of my original film and digital black and whites! :-)

 

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new black and white

May 8, 2008 – 2:56 am

I take almost all of my shots in color, then convert to black and white in photoshop. After years of using the same conversion, I decided today while converting images for a client that it needs some revamping. What do you think?

New:

Old:

The differences are subtle but I like the new conversion better.

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