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Liquidity

RickH — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:10:30 +0000

My wife is out of town. Bob’s wife is out of town. We couldn’t find anyone to shoot this weekend — didn’t even try, really. So what are two bored photographers to do?

Well, we’re sure not going to sit around waiting while our lives drip away.

Heck no! We’re going to photograph our lives dripping away!

These are my favorites of the lot.

If you want more than just a drop in the bucket, check out the full gallery of water studies here.

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Probably Not Home Alone 2

RickH — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:16:38 +0000

“Home Alone” was followed by “Home Alone 2.” Since my last post was a play off of that movie and I wanted to post the same beautiful woman again, I’d be just as…uh…”creative” with my title.

Look at the original image, and you’ll see I did quite a lot of work, including “moving” her to the side to align the image more with “the rule of thirds,” plus a few other adjustments and painting in some areas of the skin to get better tonality and control of highlights.

What I’m really working towards learning is the sort of full-scale “digital painting” that MichaelO does.

I suspect, though, that I’m not going to live long enough for that.

Probably Not Home Alone

Probably Not Home Alone

RickH — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:08:04 +0000

This ain’t Macaulay Culkin we’re talkin’ ’bout here; this is Kaulin. Take a look and I’m sure you’ll agree: if she’s Home Alone, it’s by choice and it’s everyone’s disappointment.

I’ve never had a model before who needed almost no direction from me to strike a good pose. The flash went off — *poof!* — new pose. The flash went off again — *poof!* — another new pose. Like shooting models in a barrel. Only as you can see, there’s no barrel surrounding this gal.

For more of this lovely lady, check out the full album of minimally edited images here.

Probably Not Home Alone 2

The Dolphins Leap Tonight

RickH — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:02:16 +0000

A we got wet, a we got wet.
A we got wet, a we got wet.

In the fountain, the spouting fountain,
The dolphins leap tonight.

There’s no fooling some people. This image was one of the very first night images I attempted after buying photographer Bob Marcotte’s Canon 5D. I laid down on the ground, shooting upwards, to catch the moon in a vain hope that I’d later fool Bunny Chafowitz into thinking that I’d managed to photograph dolphins leaping out of the water over my head. When I showed it to her, she was not impressed. Not even a little bit.