I have been working on a new website. It is through a company called Showit which offers adobe flash based websites which are much easier to build than standard html sites. I will eventually have it linked to my regular domain, but for now you can find it here.
http://thompsonphotography.showitsite.com/
Please take a look at the new site and let me know what you think.
This weekend I was able to check a big feat off of my to do list. I was able to shoot at the world famout Wayfarer Chapel in beautiful Palos Verdes California. I have known of this chapel for years, and it is a wonderful location to have a wedding. The couple were great fun to shoot, and we were able to get some wonderful shots for them. It is located on a hillside overlooking the pacific ocean, which makes for some beautiful shots. However once we arrived, an fog bank was moving in, and by the time the couple was ready for pictures, it had obscured our view of the ocean. Fortunately for us, right after the ceremony there was an opening in the fog, and we were able to get some great shots for them overlooking the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean. I hope to be able to go back there and shoot another wedding at this beautiful location. If you would like more infromation on having a wedding at the Wayfarer Chapel, you can link to them here http://www.wayfarerschapel.org/ .
Photo #10 of my Challenge. For this one I wanted to do a still life, but not a bow of fruit kind of still life, something that reflected me and would be of interest to me. I decided to shoot film!!! I wanted to pay homage to the medium I learned on and all the hours and hours (and money) I spent shooting, developing, printing, and hunched over a light table looking at slides through a loupe. The setup was a white seamless background I have made from some bathboard I bought at lowes. I used two 500watt photoflood studio lights to light it. The first was placed to my left and behind the film. It was about a foot above the table. Its job was to light up the bakground, illuminate the slides, and give some nice shadow detail on the front. The second studio light was just to the right of the camera and back a couple of feet. It was about 8 feet high and shining down. I wanted this fill light to be less bright, but still give some detail to the front of the objects and bring some detail to the shadows. The camera settings were ISO 100, f16 and 1/8 second, tripod mounted, incandescent wb setting.
In photoshop I made a duplicate layer, removed color from the top layer, erased that layer from the slides revealing the color base layer below. I then bumped up contrast saturation, etc… to get the look I wanted.
Hope you enjoy the picture as much as I enjoyed making it.