More photoshop fun




Ben Frank was over the other day and he let me in on some of his post processing photoshop fun. I can't even begin to touch Ben's photoshop wizardry skills, but it was fun to swap some ideas with him. After he showed me some of his signature kung fu, I pulled up some archived stuff, started messing with it and hey presto it's 3 in the morning, resulting in this heavily processed picture of Shaun, channeling tarantino. Anyways, though Ben is a big deal designer, he's turning his brain towards photography. you can find his pictures at:

www.benfrankphotography.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benfrank/sets/

Ben and I had an interesting debate over whether it was good to share trade secrets or to keep them to maintain your signature look. I know I've spent the last year trying to learn how to shoot like a photographer I much admire, but in the process I've learned to shoot like him and not like me, so now I'm going to stop studying his photos and start broadening my influences.

I tell new songwriters; there will always be people who can play better than you, sing better than you and write better than you. But only you can say what you have to say.

make your own art.
live your own life.

btw, haven't had much chance to shoot with the 5d, but I am loving how that camera renders pictures. skin tones! pow! Only bummer was giving up my canon 10-22 and discovering that the expensive 16-35 2.8L does not have the same crazy perspective distortion I love from a 10. I ended up buying a sigma 12-24 which is sadly only 4.5 at it's widest aperture, BUT has the distinction of being the widest, rectilinear, full frame lens in the known universe. In other words it is the lens of which no wider can be purchased.

Here's one of the finals from the Jason Gray shoot, the shoot that convinced me to mortage my soul for a 5D.

Posted: Sun - November 26, 2006 at 03:49 AM          

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