June 2010
1 post
Changes
Hello! I’ve been taking a bit of a breather from taking photos, but I’m getting back in the swing of things and decided to update this page. We have a new URL, a new design, but most importantly, a new writer. YOU.
Where before, being featured on 28thfloor was invite only, I’m now allowing people to submit their own story to be featured and read on the site. I will of course...
September 2009
1 post
Content vs. Presentation
photo and words by Robert Schultz
As artists we have many tools. These tools can come in both hardware and software forms. And when used in the proper manner, they can communicate something that cannot be obtained; emotion.
However, these tools are frequently used to achieve a particular style that does not help the photograph convey emotion or feeling, but rather hinder it unintentionally....
August 2009
2 posts
As the Sun Sets
photo and words by tim jones
This shot was taken on my last trip across the Northwest. I had been driving for several hours across central Oregon. My goal was to hit Idaho to crash for the night. As I topped this hill, the sun was setting and I immediately pulled over. Needless to say there wasn’t much traffic out there, so I grabbed a couple of exposures. This is one of those shots that...
Mugshot
photo and words by evan travers
This is a huge panorama, about 3 high and 7-8 wide. This lends a great DOF to the image, as well as pulverizing image noise to tiny tiny bits. It also enabled me to shoot at a wide angle with a 70mm f/4 if I remember correctly.
I have barely modified this image, it pretty much looked like this after I pulled it out of photoshop’s photostitching app. I was...
April 2009
6 posts
High Score
photo and words by evan travers
I have had an obsession in my photography recently. I’ve been fascinated with contrasts between warm and cool colors. It’s been something I’ve noticed really grabs my eye when I’m browsing my contact’s work, and it’s something that draws my eye to scenes. Although it’s gotten me in what feels like a bit of a rut...
Capturing Time
photo and article by Luis Argerich
This storm picture is a composite of 4 images taken during a storm over Buenos Aires. Some might say it is not “real” but reality is a delicate concept in photography. To me a picture is a representation of what we think, feel, see and remember. About this storm this is what I remember, the brain remembers not only one instant in time but many and...
The Colorful Story of Desaturation
photo and story by Olivier Garand
People often ask me the how I produce images with a my signature desaturated look. No way! I won’t reveal any post production secret. Simply because there is no secret there since the truth is elsewhere. This picture was taken early in the evening with a 50mm 1.8, aperture priority, 1/1000, in raw mode. I was watching the young lady playing with the leaf,...
Curiosity Doesn't Always Kill Cats
photo and story by bernd zeisberg
I have made many pictures of my cat, and over time developed a specific technique to get good photos. Usually cats are very curious animals, so it should be no problem to get a good portrait shot. Some of them are very shy, so they have to habituate to the camera. If this is the case, go slowly forward to the cat. If the cat looks fearful, don’t move on....
Objects In The Mirror...
photo by Evan Travers
It was a very rainy day, and we were getting ready to shoot Sloss Furnaces here in Birmingham AL. As we pulled up to the parking lot, and waited for the front gate to be unlocked, the curator of the museum pulled up in an exquisite 1970s Volkswagen Beetle. I took the usual front on shots, and all the other angles, but this was the shot I really loved.
I shot with a Sigma...
