Talk To The Hand

Posted on Sep 11, 2011 in Featured Images

Talk To The Hand

Talk To The Hand What an amaz­ing city Philidelphia.  I was on vaca­tion there a cou­ple years ago and we were tak­ing a stroll off the beaten path down­town.  Our des­ti­na­tion was the Philidell­phia Museum of Art to see the Cezanne exhibit (which we ended up not doing…looooong wait times to get in). On the way we tooks some not so tourest trav­elled side streets (I was look­ing for some non-tourist type of shots) when we came across this fan­tas­tic bit of street sculp­ture enti­tled “Free­dom” by famed Zenos Fru­dakis.  The fig­ure you see  here...

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Blue Balls

Posted on Sep 11, 2011 in Featured Images

Blue Balls

Blue Balls Back in 2010, one of our assigned top­ics for the the Sch­enec­tady Pho­to­graphic Soci­ety monthly print com­pe­ti­tion was the topic “Blue”.   After much con­sid­er­a­tion on how to approach this, I came up with this image.  It actu­ally took first place much to my sur­prise and delight. The image is not Pho­to­shopped other then for some detail sharp­en­ing.  It is as it appears.  Shot inside a table­top tent using 3 strobes (sb-900 as key, and 2 sb-800’s as fill and back light­ing.  I added blue gels to the back and fill lights.  The...

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