POD: Day 183 | 2.13.12

Baptist Hospital, in a perpetual state of construction | Bus-40 E 

Westin | Atlanta Perimeter North

This is a really beautiful love story

Davis, watching a trailer for the movie The Swell Season outside a/perture cinema in downtown Winston-Salem. 

POD: Day 66

(See, I told you!)

High Five

POD: Day 20

A Painted Skyline

The Winston-Salem skyline at night can be quite stunning sometimes. Tonight was one of those times, but when I pulled over to capture it, the photos seemed bland, tired. I decided to play a little by moving my camera (while it was on the tripod) and try for a "painted" look. I have seen it done before with magnificent results. I think practice is in order for me, but I like that despite the abstract lines, I can still "see" the buildings. It was a fun experiment that I will continue to explore. 

POD: Day 18

Headlights

Getting home late results in an experimental POD. This is a ten second exposure of a section of Business 40 near the Lockland Avenue on-ramp.

POD: Day 8

Sound & Vision

Psycho Killer

"I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire / Don't touch me I'm a real live wire"

This was the third night of painting with light for this week's Small Format class. We were to use flash as the only light source and other than that, we were just supposed to have fun. I had a few ideas which included rigging a hula hoop with several LED lights, using multiple pops for multiple images of the same person in a single frame and so on. I settled on using a gelled strobe and with the help of my willing assistant, Davis, and a wireless remote (thanks, Hal!!), I was able to get pretty close to what I envisioned. I originally started with green, but there was no story to go along with it. I switched to red because it looks sinister---especially when there's a guy in the garage holding a huge knife.

Flashy Silhouettes

While shooting a flash assignment for Digital Imaging class, my classmates, Courtney and Molly, and I really liked the effect created by placing the strobe directly behind the subject; a golden halo outline, leaving everything else in total darkness.

Bo•keh

"The aesthetic quality of the blur"

In Small Format, we were given some creative breathing room for our weekly: Bokeh. We could "play" and we didn't even have to have a person in the photo. Upon driving home one night, I saw the lights in this parking deck and had an idea. Davis was gracious enough to be my model for the evening and it was easy work for him because he just had to stand in place and look forward. I purposely placed him in between the two rows where there would be a few lights above him just to throw the symmetry off a bit. Luckily there was also a street light nearby that gave illumination to his silhouette. I have never photographed a scene with the intention of capturing bokeh, but I think I will now try that technique from this point forward because this was a lot of fun and I am really pleased with the results.