Sunday Feb 6th I think...Super Bowl Sunday anyway

Cool and cloudy all day..Added several new images to the completed folder, and then went to friends down the street to watch the game outside on the big tv.   Hat, coat, gloves and wrapped in a big comforter, the gane was good although not the outcome, but stayed warn thoughout.

Judy is catching a cold and she leaves for home on Wen to photograph nursery schools.  Hope she gets over it, what ever it is.  She turned in early right after the game.

Me, I am still fighting the low sugar thing.  But trying to work though and past it, just try and eat every four hours and not gain the pounds back that I managed to get off last month..It is such a struggle after a life of eating like a goat.  Eating anything and everything with no after affects.  Now seem like everything eaten has some negative effect.  OK..enough of the personal stuff.

Talked to a friend in Flint, MI this morning..and things seem to be getting even tighter for him with the bad weather.  Had multiple sports cancellations and now is looking for anyway to make morgage.  It is still going to be rough going for high school senior photograpahers unless they develope a style the  "out ranks" the regular pitcher takers.  One way besides a great personality is to develope a lighting style that just says
YOU.  Use more directional light, along with some kickers and proper hairlight for separtation.  One might even go back to the double key light, ala Don Blair.  It requires the use of parabolic reflectors and barn doors however.  A lighting style that has gone away with the use of wall size softboxes.  It may be time for the return of the "painted with light" look.

Here are a couple of images from todays work.  One, a twist taken from the old poloroid painting look where you shot the picture on poloroid, then befor the emultion set, moved the emultion around with at sharp stick,.  Well, not a stick, but a styest, most used a golf tee.  I think I still have a full package in my desk.

A church front that I found most inviting, and a gargoil...yes a gargoil in front of a hardware store.

That is a different image and a shot of a four and a half foot gargoil outside a hardware store we came across yesterday at the art fair.  How the image got to this stage is impossible to tell.  I should really keep track of my steps as I create images.  But is a focused thought process of useing differend aspects and functions of Photoshop.
Anyway, in its own right, I think it is cool.\  All comments are welcomed too by the way. 
And images from others are always welcomed.

This was a fun project using a style that I have not used for a long time.. It was great to get out the ole Liquify brush and play.  A few "Overlay" layers, and such came into play also...  This place just had a storybook look to it for some reason.  It is just a house that sits back from the main street, and you could walk by it without giving it a second look, but the fact that it was misting and clowdy gave a low ratio image that allowed  for the extentive tonal manipulation.

Here is the result of the white gargoil in front of the hardware store...not really my style but was good excercise.

Now this is in keeping with my style.  Buildings and beautiful entrances seem to grab my attention.

Here is a Church we walked past on the way to the Art Fair.  It is most inviting I think.

That is about it for tonight...coming up on midnight again.

Good night and congrats to the Packers on winning the super bowl.....bout time dudes!

B