Photos of Artwork for Portfolio

My friend Stephanie asked for camera ready copy of a painting. Here is the painting, the setup shot and works by a wood carver and by a student-architect. Artists are amazing people. The fun part is working with another artist and making the absolute best rendition of their art possible. Good quality photos are especially important if you are submitting work for a juried show or for a portfolio review. I work from my Falls Church, VA photo studio with professional lighting or daylight as needed and understand the process. Contact me at Virginian1711@verizon.net if you have artwork that needs to be photographed.

 

Noble Gull

Noble Gull? This was at the overlook for Chatham Light and Lighthouse Beach in May of 2014. The gull would pull trash out of a public bin just under the binoculars and flee to the top of the binocs when people came by. 

The Trouble for the Noble Gull was that most people would very kindly put the trash back into the bin - kind of tidy up. I've never seen a sea gull look exasperated before - but this one did.

So the gull would squawk a bit every so often, fly back to the bin and pull the trash back out again. Someone comes by, he hops on top of the binocs, waits a while, and sure enough a kindly stranger (knowing nothing of what went on before) puts the trash back into the bin ever so kindly. This repeated itself 4 times for us. A very nice little show for free. 

Newt Gincrich and a Few Baltimore Memories

Does Anybody remember that song: The streets of Baltimore?  Do you remember the Fuji F31d camera?  It was a cult classic in its day, circa 2009. Nobody at the time had better high ISO ability, and the pictures coming out of that little camera were just plain amazing for their day. Mine finally died after it failed a salt water swimming test.  It was all for the best though. Each little point & shoot since then has been better than the last, and each one has been sort of a little friend among pocket cameras.  Fast forward a few years and I still like the visual quality of the images we made together (the F31d & I that is). There's no doubt the newer cameras have better and better technical quality. My job is to keep the quality of my Vision moving forward at least as fast as the technical quality of the camera does.

 

Here's a few examples:

 

 

 

35mm Project

Friends of mine make really great images with modern digital rangefinder cameras like the Sony RX1 or a Fuji X100T. They have a fixed focal length lens on either a full frame or a cropped sensor. I never really considered any of these the cameras - they are expensive and there is that little bit about not having interchangeable lenses. But - WOW -  are they getting gorgeous images! So my question to a few other friends was: "What is like to only have a 35mm focal length"?

To make a long story short, I got an answer to a different question: "What's so good about primes"?  Shallow depth of field, sharpness, compact size, etc. So I guess the only way to find out what its like to have only a fixed focal length is to put a prime lens on a camera and keep it there all the time.  ITS A GREAT IDEA! Here are some example photos. The subjects are all different -- the common theme is that "restrictive" 35mm lens choice.