fuel cell medical stuff ???

the products begin ....

Headshots

Yea ...... some headshots not on a white background.

Cray fish 2

For the second part of the story on crustaceans, I photographed Dave at the Haw River. You can usually walk across the river from rock to rock, but we've had so much rain lately the river was high and the water level came up about 6 inches in the hour we were there. From were Dave is standing it's about a 4 foot drop off into the water.

attack of the crayfish 1

Images from a story on the keeper of crustaceans. I did take a blue background with me ....

One of those days .......

So it was one of those days ...... I've been holed-up shooting in the studio for almost a week products,products,products, and had a location shoot today. I was really looking forward to getting out. Did I mention my court case ? It's now going to the distric court and has turned into a copyright infringement and fraud case. More on that later. I got a shot list and spoke with the agency. I get a call yesterday saying the art director won't make the shoot and I'll deal with the in-house marketing guy. They email me the address and the road is spelled wrong, it's an "E" not an "O". That took 20 min. to figure out, thank you MapQuest. I arrive alittle before 9AM and nobody has a clue as to why I'm here. I call the in-house guy's number I've been given, it's his home number. About 9:45 he shows up, sorry our office moved. We drive to the new office, I just need a 3/4 exterior shot of this building. Here's direction to our other office 45 min away, see you there, Bye..... Half building is in sun, half in shade. Do you think if you were doing exterior shots of a building you'd look at the direction of the sun ? It'd be a good shot at 7AM. I shoot the building from the other side..... I drive to the other office, same thing 3/4 exterior shot of the building half in sun half in shade, never mind the full parking lot. Headshots, here's a space about 10 feet X 10 feet. No problem ... I split 400WS and still shot @ f/11. We need some new shots of the CT room, were behind schedule with patients, you have 10 min., Sorry you can't set up any lights .... Just another day ..... grabbed afew cool quick shots.

BBQ

I got a chance to revist the past. I'd shot this BBQ joint back in 2004, back than I used a Nikon D1X/SB-28 and a SC-17, Hmmm... times have changed. I had a vision of what I wanted to capture in the smokehouse and was pleased with my results, small umbrella camera right and 30˚grid backlight, high quality AB and an old school Vagabond. Did some shots inside, this was the fist time I cranked up my ISO on the D3 to ISO 800. I must say I was very surprised with the low noise in the files.

parking garage

I came into the studio very early the other morning and I pass by this parking garage everyday. It'd been raining for the past few days and was full of water. I didn't have time to stop, so I got up early the next day. Most of the water was gone but still afew puddles. I'll have to wait for another big rain .......