SB800 into white umbrella high and camera left, SB800 bare camera right.
This is an old photo from the December shoot I did with ShipShape for Difuse Mag. I pulled it out because A) I’m trying out my new post process on old photos and B) I’m listening to a kick ass cover of “Still Fly” done by Mike and his band, The Devil Wears Prada
Dear Asshole Who Stole My Shit,
First of all, thank you for relieving me of my wallet, my camera, and Liz’s iPod. All three items were due for an upgrade anyways.
Second of all – are you blind? Because apparently you didn’t notice the kick-ass lobster tie, the bag of sour patch kids, or the $1,000 worth of lighting equipment that you left behind. Seriously, lobsters are sweet and sour patch kids are the shit. What were you thinking?
The thing that upsets me the most is that you smoked in my car, dick. Or maybe you didn’t and “smokey douche-bag” is just the natural scent that you leave behind. Either way, my car smells like shit now, you stinky fuck.
And I hope you’re comfortable with your sexuality – because you stole a pink iPod. Homo.
I can’t believe you haven’t even filled up your tank on my credit card yet. Unless of course you don’t have a car … which I suppose is quite likely being the second-rate bum that you are.
If you’re smart enough to figure out how to turn my camera on, I hope you enjoy my family photos. If I’d have known you were going to steal it, I’d have taken a picture of my balls, so you could lick their digital representation.
I hope you plan to donate the proceeds of your thievery to cancer research – because you’re going to get it.
Thanks again for the inconvenience,
Zac
Incidentally, if anyone comes across a Nikon D70 with a Tokina 12-24mm wide angle lens on it – let me know.
I decided to go back and post process some old photos using my new non-HDR method. I’ll be releasing a get-you-started Photoshop action for this sometime in the near future, so stay on the lookout!
This is a photo I did for Steve’s sister, Becky. It was a Father’s day present to her husband. The lighting setup is very simple: 1 SB800 into a white umbrella camera right and the sun fairly low in the sky, camera left.
This is about the time that I developed my non-HDR quick-process. When you phase out HDR, a lotless needs to be done to the photo to tidy it up. The noise-reduction step is far less painful, and you don’t have near as many ugly blowouts on the forehead. All I did for this was Enhance Local Contrast, Non-destructive D&B, reduce noise, resharpen, then a few color adjustment layers. Took about 30 minutes, and then 15 or so for each photo after that.