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Metal Meltdown
I’m not a heavy-metal aficionado. I will dial up some Tool once in a while and I do have a playlist I may listen to infrequently, but not my go-to genre.
I first met Garrett Curry on a photo/video job. I was to use my drone for some aerial shots while Garrett was to get video. The shoot was a few miles out of town, he was getting his car serviced, so I offered to pick him up and drive both of us to the site.
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360° Interactive Panoramas
These are 360° interactive panoramas I’ve created. Most were photographed using a drone. The home virtual tour was created using a Sony a7R series camera with a TTArttisan 11mm ED F2.8 fisheye lens. A very inexpensive lens that is a lot of fun to shoot with.
The images were initially edited in Adobe Bridge/Photoshop to adjust white balance and adjust exposure as needed. Then combined using PTGui Pro. I prefer the Pro version as it will handle RAW formats.
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Macro photography with pine cones
Background I’ve been attempting macro photography for some time, but didn’t really know why I wasn’t happy with my results. Realized I wasn’t working on my focus stacking techique.
For example, I really like this photo. But I could have done so much better had I taken the time to get tack-sharp focus on all of the flower, bringing out all the details of the droplets in the background as well as the foreground.
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My New Site
I finally moved my website.
In the beginning… I started off with my domain registar, I think because it was a discounted price, but there was an additional charge to host it. In addition I think it was difficult to provide content, uploading images, writing files, posting, etc.. It didn’t motivate me to really work on it. It was much simpler to just post to Facebook, which I didn’t really want to rely on because I know there are those out there who don’t want to be on Facebook, and I don’t blame them; at times I wish I was not on it either.
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Concours d’ Elegance
The annual Easter Concours d’Elegance held in Forest Park in 2022, hosted by the Horseless Carriage Club of Missouri, one of the oldest car clubs in the world. I was trying to use a fisheye lens to get some interesting images of the cars. As I am a huge St Louis Cardinals baseball fan, I chose to wear a red pull over that day. Many of the grills I photographed reflected that.
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Molly's Miles
Molly’s Miles is a mid-Missouri event benefiting the Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) held late April.
I first volunterred to photograph the 2020 race event but that was cancelled due to Covid-19. Afterwards the lead photographer moved away and I volunterred to became team lead. I’ve been heading up the photography team for the past two years. A rewarding experience and a very worthy cause.
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