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Saturday, November 8, 2008

A collaboration with a great digital artist, a full page ad in Newsweek and a 2 page spread in Black Book and...

The above photo is gonna be coming out as a full and glorious 2 page spread in the BLACK BOOK volume 3 Photography and should be pretty disruptive I hope. Black Book is the leading resource in the world for creative pros and that's me, yes? You betcha, wink wink, let's go moose hunting.
ALSO-
I had the great fortune and real honor of having Dennis Dunbar of Dunbar Digital out in LA work the nail holes in the hands of Christ in my Ascension of Christ Ft Lauderdale photo. He immediately grasped the illustrative and kitsch nature of the task and returned me his 15+ layers, masks and adjustments to "get" the rotting, splayed back, bruised nature of the nail holes. Below is a close up of the forward hand. I attach a copy of the final full image as well for a look at the whole image. He left me a single layer he titled "MEAT", for which I shot week old chicken bones and bowtie pasta dug out of our nice compost pile. Yes, gross to the max, but worth the effort in the end!

There is a real need today for collaboration in the making of any photograph, but especially when it's high rez digital with several people involved and an art director has asked for a specific look. Many shooters (Stan Musilek, Finlay Mackay, Gregory Crewdson and many others) rely heavily on in house post production, a very complete option for leading photographers.
Dennis does lots of big time Hollywood work and we chatted we'd like to do some more stuff together again. Yessir.

This was (kind of) the image that ran as a full page spread in Newsweek this last week. I had to put the dollar sign a-glowing over her head for this version, it just struck me. I don't think there's any other reason for an MBA degree, other than to make big money. Not like us, right? Come now, we make big money, it's just too rarely...

Some afterthought compositing and a wander by with my 2 mpix iPhone camera finish off this week's drone. Tome, sorry.
You know how you just are STOPPED DEAD IN YOUR TRACKS when you move along sometimes and realize there's something unique and expressive and attention grabbing about a thing you see. This happened to me when I passed this bible thumping, evangelical church in South Miami (whilst canvassing for Obama!) the other day. It just had the right light, the right colors, the right balance. For ME! Waddya think?

Next photoshoot coming up is going to be about bodies and the human fascination with eating food- consumption. Or so it's called. What is it replacing in our more balanced past state I wonder? Parenting, love, sex? It's gonna be really cool and I'm shooting it in Asheville, NC with some cool local talent both couture-wise and actor-wise.
Look for it soon.
Plus, we have the Black Book, volume 3 coming out any day with a full eclectic 2 page spread of the one photograph this year that illicited more "unsubscribes" from my bought email lists than any other.





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Wick

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LIGHTSTALKERS where in the world are you and what the hell are you doing there??