HAMBONE!

I have almost finished the next ice-secret photo and am really excited about it, but I can't blog it YET as it isn't done and ready. I just processed the film Monday, but things look good.

Since I don't like to make a blog post on my photo blog without a photo (and in the spirit of my blog's name):
My attempt at an ad for Pocket Wizards two quarters ago in school for advertising photogrpahy class. Like the lint roller before it this photo is a nice reminder that getting it wrong sometimes is part of the process. Reshoot! Ha!

Arists Wanted Competition

I put the secret images in to the Artists Wanted Competition and in addition to the grand prizes offered from the judges selections there are portfolio ratings and a People's Choice award worth 2,000.00! Go put stars on my portfolio already and help a brother out!

Click here to go to my online portfolio.

I've been annexed!

The Vermount Photography Workplace just had an opened themed exhibit jurried by Keith Carter. Forty photographs were selected to be displayed in the Workplace's gallery, and thirty were selected for an online annex gallery. All seventy photographs will be available in the catalog. One of my images was selected to be in the annex gallery! Check out the rest of the images in the exhibit by clicking here.

garyguild.com

Big updates at garyguild.com. I think I got caught up in the spirit of portfolio review at the Art Institutes graduation (which was really fantastic by the way!) and I've updated almost all the galleries with images. The Orphans gallery is still empty, but also still on its way.

secrets

I started photographing secrets frozen in ice a long time ago, first quarter in fact! At any rate, now that I know what I'm doing with a camera and a light I've revisited the series and am having a pretty good time shooting them.

Photo booth installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Erin Algiere has organized a photo booth installation run by AIC students for the past two openings at the MCA Denver. The concept behind this photo booth was portraits of a side of yourself you rarely look at--the back of your head.

It was a lot of fun work for everybody involved, my fellow students: Jen Coudron, Katherine Winter, MacKinzie Willabanks, Amy Blomquist, Anne-Michele Mallory, Beth Eggleston, and Eric Hessler.

Thanks for the wonderful evening everybody!

the squares

The squares to accompany the full leaf images are coming along nicely. This is a little contact sheet of what I have so far.

Summing up the quarter

I'm so excited at just the thought of an actual break on the horizon.

Doris

I remember the first time I walked into Doris VanWyhe's house. It was at night and I was with a lot of people that I'd just met. I was nervous. I've never felt more welcome in my life than I did that night at that place. As soon as you walked into her home you knew that there was no judgement or isolation allowed. Love like I had never felt it before was all around and it wasn't asking before it came in. Real love, that includes dancing, and singing, and hugging when you first meet, and feeling angry, and jumping, and dancing.

The first picture I found of you yesterday is of all of us with the sun on our faces. I think that's appropriate. I think I'll always think of the way it feels when the sun touches the side of your face when I think of you.

I miss you.

Editorial photography?

These didn't go over very well in editorial today, but I'm sure I like them. Oh well:

SNOW DAY

It's a snow day in Denver which has given me a really amazing day to sit at my desk next to the window and get some work done.

The Orphans Gallery is getting very close to having images in it at garyguild.com, and I just made a banner for business class this quarter that I quite like.

f-f-f-fake fstops scoob!

I just learned something tonight and wanted to share with any photographer that may happen to be reading this for any reason at all. Don't shoot with fake fstops! By fake I mean something like f3.2; if that is an option for your digital lens don't use it. Stick to the old fstop scale (1, 1.4, 2, etc.).

I was shooting on the bus and while I was editing a small batch of photos shot at f3.2 and another small batch shot at f4 I noticed it. Sharpness wasn't the issue, what should have been sharp was sharp, it was the out of focus parts of the photograph that were giving me trouble. I don't even know how to describe what was happening to the soft areas of the photo. It looked like it had been digitized into some form of cartoon and my out of focus background became the optical center of my image. I looked at a very similarly focused photo shot at f4 and there was no issue with my background falling apart like f3.2.

And since I like to post a photo with all my posts on my photo blog:

It snowed today in Colorado.

Photobooth Installation at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver!

I helped with the Brown Room Photobooth installation that was at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver on Friday, September 25th for the Barnaby Furnas opening.

After working with the education director to conceptualize a photobooth "room" and bringing in local installation artist Matt Scobey to assist in its design and execution, it took Matt and Erin Algiere two solid days of set up. Friday night, the photobooth went live and Beth Eggleston, Katherine Winter Erin Algiere, and myself shot over 300 people in 3 hours, composited them into photographs and uploaded them instantly to Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ 42854949@N08/

I worked as the head camera operator/director while Beth and Katherine composite, resized and uploaded the images as fast as humanly possible and Erin coordinated the show! It was a lot of fun, and big thanks to Erin and the museum for trusting me to be involved. It was a LOT of work and a LOT of fun!