Untitled 3, McMinnville Spring '22
One of my newest image series from the first photo walk here in Oregon. I really like these images. They resemble my style from Bozeman closely, but feel different, at least to me… Which is only natural. New place, new images, and evolution in style, even if it is slight. That’s the beauty of creating art in a different or new space; you always seem to see a change in style that stems from the change in space! I love the style of photography and editing I developed in Bozeman, but I am excited to grow and change as an artist.
My editing style is also a little bit different as well.
I am definitely happy with the feeling of both of these images. I experimented with editing to embrace and accentuate the haziness and softness to try and provide a serene, yet unsettled feeling. Like I talked about earlier with Untitled 2, the green-toned shadows comes back in both of these photos. A change that seems to have taken place is less grain in the entire Untitled 3 series than before… I am going to experiment with it more in the future. Something that isn’t my favorite about the technical quality of these is that there is more softness than haze if that makes sense, and it takes away from the subject matter more than I’d like. Something to work on with editing.
I ended up editing these mostly to help with speeding up the workflow and with the thought process. It is evident in the final images. These two above are edited to emphasize the warm highlights and cool sky. I really like how the sky in the second image catches the light pollution. It adds a ton of depth. Although I kinda hate light pollution… Once again the first image utilizes the green shadow tones to cool the shadows and not totally blacken them. Otherwise, the photo was a bit flat outside of the highlights and midtones, which was just a part of the image. Something else I did with these was messing with the grain and noise again to create a more, maybe nostalgic, look… Not sure exactly, but I enjoy the results. These are technically my favorite images of this series.
Here are the last four images of the series. They are more standalone photos that I edited all separately. The first photo was definitely was by far my favorite out of camera, and when I took it, but the edits seem to fall flat and did not do too much for it. The flower petals that show are in shadow, and since it was taken during blue hour, they are cool and it makes them look almost transparent. They are normal flower petals nonetheless, unfortunately, I had no timing with the lighting. Such is life when you shoot very spontaneously. I may go back before the petals fall with better lighting. We’ll see… The shot of the bridge was cool. I tried initially to edit it hazy and soft, but could never get the have without desaturating or de-contrasting the photo. I do like how it turned out though. It reminds me of my Bozeman photos more as far as lighting goes. I also like the tree root and branch shots. I don’t have much to say about them right now.
Lastly here are the contact sheets:
Now onto New Stuff
Ok. That, I think, is everything I can get onto here as far as previous projects and series that I have shot and edited. That was a lot of file sorting… But from here on out, it is all new stuff. Thanks for checking it out!
Also, check out the bottom post in recents to see what all is happening, or search “Hello, New Stuff Happening Here”. Copy and paste if you want. I don’t judge.
Alpine Exploration, Silverton Spring '22
This series was hard to sort through because I shot over 700 images, and edited over 50, but I will likely put the same series that I have on Instagram because it is my favorites series in the aspects of continuity and storytelling. I will also have the contact sheets containing the 51 photos I edited, but in unedited, uncropped form. Here is the caption:
Marching around Molas pass in March!
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More alpine exploration in one of my favorite spots! Seeking out low tide spring conditions amidst quite a scary snowpack elsewhere…
The Tusk, Bozeman Winter '22
Change in pace. Here is a series from a ski tour we did this winter near Bozeman on an undisclosed peak :). I posted a ten image spread on Insta, but I believe I have 17 edits here. I also have the contact sheets as well, but with most ski tours, the image count is in the hundreds, which would lead to dozens of contact sheets. On these sheets, are 54 of the representative ‘best’ images. The edited 17 are all a part of the 54 total on the contact sheets.
I won’t be getting into the non-photo parts of this ski tour now, but in the future (next winter, and beyond) I would like to start doing a more ‘image and writing’ type of storytelling for my documented outdoor adventures.
The Insta caption reads:
Getting steep on a fun new line, a story.
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Gotta love 4” of unconsolidated pow on bulletproof icy crust! Despite hard variable conditions, we had a rad day in the alpine, along with awesome weather, we even found a few decent powder turns at the bottom! Couldn’t have been much better.
(not caption) I won’t have these in the exact same sequence as there are seven more photos, but it’s similar.
Untitled 2, Bozeman Winter '21
Here’s an ‘unpublished’ series with a contact sheet from a photo walk in Bozeman this past winter. I ‘rediscovered’ these images on a mission to find a cover photo for a playlist. It was a good find…
I really like these four images and the editing I did. It’s a little over the top but not too much and it was a study into ‘overediting’ a style of photo that I shoot a ton and usually edit lightly… Not sure if I accomplished anything, but I am happy with the resulting photos.
Untitled 2-1 is my favorite, with the heaviest editing for sure. I was experimenting with integrating tree colors into one image by changing the color tones of the shadows, midtones, and highlights. I believe the shadows were green, midtones orange, and highlights red, but they turned out more pink. I have gone on to use green shadow tones in my editing more as well, but it almost developed separately to try and add depth to the deep shadows often in my photos. I’ve started using it here in Oregon because everything is so green, it seems to add to the photos… Examples of this above somewhere…
