Native Sunrise
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Native Sunrise (6/15/2002) - Taken at the
Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute in 2002. The students in the film
program were making a short called The Journey, written and
directed by student Vail Hayes. Actor Taylor Bolding is the young
man in Native American garb greeting the sunrise in this shot. We
climbed the hills around the institute early, while it was still dark, so
we could have the video camera positioned and ready to catch the rising
sun across the water. Of course, I brought along my Nikon Coolpix
digital still camera. In the short he only needed to face the camera
but we asked him to turn and face the rising sun for this still, which
student DP Chase Carver rolled on and it was used as the opening title
shot of the movie. This result is one of my favorite stills.
Photo lower right is the setup, showing (from Left to Right) Actor Taylor
Bolding, director Vail Hayes and DP Chaser Carver.
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Elegant Laurel
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That's my girl -- A photo of my daughter, Laurel, taken Jan. 19, 2002
in our living room. She had dressed in a very nice, black dress and
asked me to take her picture. I wasn't happy with the pictures
because of the quality of the existing light and I thought, if I set some
lights up, this would look REALLY nice. So I did took a whole
series with my Nikon CoolPix digital (3.1 Megapixel). After touch up
in Photoshop this close-up just happens to be the shot I really liked best
and hangs on the wall in my office.
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Sunrise Denver
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Taken from my hotel window during the shooting of Phantoms in December of 1996, this photo shows the Colorado State Capitol Building against an exceptionally gorgeous sunrise. |
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FX Test
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Location scouting for "The Prophecy II" we visited an abandoned refinery searching for an industrial complex we could literally make look like hell. Although this location was never used in the final film I did some shots there at night, all using existing light and with a very long shutter speed of several seconds. I had not brought a tripod that night so I had to rest the camera on various surfaces. Afterward, I went to some active refineries to get flame and smoke elements. In the end I put several shots of the original refinery together along with the smoke and flames, dirtied them all up and showed them to the producer in hopes of selling this location. It didn't work, we shot elsewhere, but I still thought this made a nice photo. |
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Kevin USA
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My cousin Kevin took this self portrait of himself sitting in front of an American Flag. The original was in black and white and he was sitting dead center over the flag. In Photoshop I moved him to the right for a more balanced composition, created all the flag that was behind him originally and would now be visible, and finally, hand colored the flag. This was an early effort for me and now doubt I could do it better (and faster) now, but I still find it a compelling image. |
