My wife, Tiffany, wanted to make sure we got Charlotte into the studio for newborn photos, so here are a few of our favorites:
Here’s a recent example of one of my photos with textures being applied. I’ve done a lot of searching around the web for textures that are of good quality and that the artist allows others to use them on their own work. Some of my favorite texture sites are listed below. I hope you find them useful.
My Favorite Free Texture Sites:
Lost and Taken by Caleb Kimbrough
ShadowHouse Creations by Jerry Jones
Flickr Users Who Share Textures:
A Texture Collection I Like So Much, I Actually Paid For It:
Firenze Italian Texture Collection by Matt Nicolosi
Texture Stock Site:
Texture Vault
In my color class we were given an assignment to make a photograph using saturation to create emphasis. This image of crayons is my final result. I ended up buying quite a few boxes of crayons in order to get enough black, white, and gray crayons. I also took the opportunity to start playing with textures on photos. I really liked the effect and ended up collecting over 2,000 textures from various sources online. I guess I went a little overboard. I’ll make a blog post about textures soon.
My wife gave birth to our fourth child on Saturday. Her name is Charlotte Claire. Her brother and sisters were very excited to finally meet her (and Mom and Dad were too). She was born 8 lbs. 7 oz, 20.5″ long. Here are a few snapshots taken at the hospital:
This place is close to my house and has some neat old structures like this shed as well as an old brick building that has started falling down. If you’ve seen much of my work, I apparently have an obsession with old things.
Here’s a low-key, Yousuf Karsh style portrait that I did recently. If you want to see some of the amazing work of Karsh, here’s a website to check out: http://www.karsh.org
Here are couple of fun shots of Ashley in the studio.
Here are a few of the images from my recent high-key portrait assignment. The first photo is the one I turned in, the others are a couple of my favorite outtakes. I’m partial to the third photo. Which one do you like best?
I haven’t posted any updates for a while. Life’s been busy. I’ve just stared taking a studio lighting/portraiture class. Here’s a maternity portrait of my wife that I recently did in the studio at school for that class.
