Picture of the Day: Theodore Roosevelt National Park

by Charlie Posted on May 8, 2012

I love this park! It is in North Dakota and is noted for its history and badlands, a landscape I love to photograph. I have not been there in years and would love to make it back and soon.

This formation is known as a Cannonball Concretion and I cant tell you anymore what process forms these, but they make for a great foreground. This is one of my last trips using a 4×5 view camera. I will always miss that!

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I Photographed This Beautiful Woman Last Night

by Charlie Posted on April 20, 2012

Every once in a while I meet a great person and get all excited at the prospect of photographing them.

That happened the other night when I was teaching an Introduction to Portraiture at the Cascade Center of Photography in Bend, Oregon.

The school proprietors: Christian and Regula Heeb, had arranged this model for the workshop and when it was time to do some demos shots of her for the students to see lighting, I thought: “wow”, this is a very photogenic person.

After the workshop she stuck around for a few minutes and we shot a few more images and discussed more shoots in the future.

I used two large light boxes and then some skin softening in Portrait Professional before a B&W conversion in Topaz B&W Effects.

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Photographing Ghosts in an Old Homestead

by Charlie Posted on April 5, 2012

I was in one of the old homesteads in Cades Cove in the Smokys photographing the inside for HDR when these hands started creeping out of the floor. I could not believe it and snapped away.

It was like they were trapped and wanted out or something. I had to really work this in Photoshop to get them to show up more and here is the result.

Have any of you photographers seen this as well? By all means please share your ghost stories.

 

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