PhotoshopScaresMe
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Tutorial: Painting With Fire Video
I get asked all the time to show how I make fire pictures. Well thanks to the amazing directorial and camera skills of my lovely wife, I here present a brief look at fire blowing, throwing, and spinning. We use road flares, steel / wire wool, magnesium, hairspray and corn flour. Epic is probably the…
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Grand Canyon Golden Falls
If you’re going to carry a tripod all the way to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you may as well use it for something interesting. This is Angel Falls. And it is spectacular. You get to climb up behind the water and look out over the alien landscape. To get some idea of just…
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Tutorial: Bringing the Storm
Today’s lesson is in adding dark storm clouds to a beautiful clear sky, without doing all that complicated selection nonsense. There’s always a debate raging amongst photographers about how much you’re “allowed” to change an image and still call it a photograph. Clearly studio model shots that are then composited on to images of urban…
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I’m on Artists Wanted
I’ve no idea what Artists Wanted is. They tricked me. They lured me in by saying that I could get a photo on a billboard at NY Times Square. The next thing you know, I’ve got a website, and I’m entered in to something called OneLife. Anyway, do me a favor, visit the below pages…
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Under the fire red umbrella
The Star Circle Academy recently invited Eric and I to burn some stuff for them. And so on a warm Friday evening, 20 people climbed down on to the beach in Santa Cruz and proceeded to make mayhem. Steel wool (wire wool if you’re British), magnesium, lighter (BBQ) fluid, flash lights (torches), and all manner…
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Lady Joker
The after-mess of the Dancing with Flour session was truly staggering. There was flour over every surface in the garage and poor Deanna was caked in it. So I took a few snaps and used Photoshop to enhance them in places. And by “in places” you’ll see that I mean I added blood to…
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Dancing with Flour
Thomas David recently made a storm of news by throwing flour around and capturing it as it danced. Seemed like a fine way of spending a Saturday night, so we did the same. Convincing Deanna to cover herself in flour and jump around was easier than you’d think. However, it’s taken her two trips to…
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Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon
Deanna and I booked a 3 day hike with ‘Just roughin’ it‘, down the North face of the Grand Canyon, across the width, and up the South face. To use the vernacular of the kids, it was awesome. Three days carrying everything we needed to camp, eat, hike and generally survive. None of this would…
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Tutorial: Making an Antelope Goddess (multiplicity tutorial)
The image of my multi-armed wife worshiping in Lower Antelope Canyon generated more conversation and ‘likes’ than anything I’ve done on Facebook ever. It was mostly ignored on Flickr, and has generated reasonable traffic here, so I decided to show you how to make one of your own. First, find an 8 armed friend… Plan…
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Antelope Gods (playing in Antelope Canyon)
The Native Americans that control Upper and Lower Antelope Canyon are (rightly) very restrictive about what they will and will not allow you to do in their spiritual places. The list of rules for photographers is long but the reality is that the place is run by really nice guys that really love cameras. The…
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Birth and Death at Horseshoe Bend
Page Arizona is home to some stunning scenery. The town itself is a tad scary but the views make it well worth the long drive. Deanna and I ended a stunning day sat on the rim of nearby Horseshoe Bend, drinking wine and watching the sun go down. I then started the following day sat…
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Nikon needs to fire someone
I had a dream that my D300 broke. Before I tell you about that, let me tell you what will happen when I break my iPhone. I see it clearly in my mind. I knock my 3Gs off the table, I reach for it, grasping the air. I almost make it but it slips from…
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