Feeling a little under the weather and with the colder shortened days I've found myself messing around with Photoshop lately. First image comprised of a photo of Marina, a photo of my laptop and lots of filters and manipulations in photoshop to create. Not entirely what I was looking for but went with it for now. Planning to get one where a person is coming out of the screen in 3d like motion and another with broken glass. These will take a great deal of time though and finding that is hard as of late. Next one is a photo of Derik, photo of 4 aces and again a little photoshop. Neither of these are at the level they should be but hopefully give an idea of what can be done. The cool thing about them is that nothing was taken from anyone else. As they say create, don't steal. Plan is to let people know that the level of photography can be creative beyond the "say cheese" and "nexxxxxxtttt" level offered by most photography chain studios. Photos can last a lifetime, why not make them something worth investing in?!

Couple of my latest projects pictured below. Derik came in for his senior photos earlier today and mentioned that he liked to play poker in his free time. He wondered aloud if I could get a shot of something like that and alas I finally got him to smile a little! Using two strobes, one camera right sitting on table and one camera left I was finally able to create the mood and depth of field I was looking for. This shot was taken in my lobby which is something I've thought about doing for a while now with the beautiful wood wall as a backdrop. Tell me what you think?