The Problem
Jamey Henderson, executive director, of Samaritan Caregivers committed to help a family out that had a serious mold issue in their house. It was so bad that several floors had to be replaced. Luckily she had people she could turn to. Mainly Sam Weirauch and Randy Teachout.
The Carpenters
Sam Weirauch of the Original House Doctor
Randy Teachout of Teachout’s Touchups
The Assistant
The Project
They started at 8AM and by 4PM they replaced floors in two rooms.
We are finally done!
The Happy Homeowner
It was really fun (and some hard work ) to be able to help someone else out. Nothing is can give you more satisfaction in life or is more rewarding than giving to someone or something else. Hopefully the lesson learned is to make myself more available to help others. Thank you Sam, Randy and Jamey.
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It’s not everyday you get the chance to go to Florida and have a free place to stay, so on pretty short notice Angie and I grabbed the opportunity. We had to get up at 2AM to make an early flight, but we were in Florida before noon. The first evening was spent at the Naples Pier. The clouds created a great background. But the most amazing of part of the evening was as we shooting, we saw another photographer walking along the beach. It was the same Photographer, Monte Nagler, we had met this summer in Traverse City, MI. Life is always providing these little twists.
The following picture was taken about 15 minutes after sunset. There are several others, plus I am working on a 7 exposure HDR, maybe I will be able to share. Hopefully more on the way.
As you are aware, last week or so we had a couple of days of frozen fog which transformed our city in to a winter wonderland. Saturday morning Highland Park was buzzing with vehicles cruising through to catch a glimpse of nature’s beauty. I have been to this place before for sunrise however, it was the red barn contrasting against the white trees and pale blue/white sky that caught my attention.
Nikon D300, 70-200/2.8
Below are just a few of the Father-Daughter dance couples from last Saturday night. While hectic ( photographing 98 couples in less than 3 1/2 hours), it was a lot of fun. While I thought I would be done with all them by today, I still have a few left to finish. They should all be done early next week.
It is a photographer’s delight to photograph such an outgoing beautiful and photogenic model such as Faith. This is just one of many keepers. I think every pose and every expression was great-just makes my job so much easier. We just used one large softbox camera right and a large reflector for some fill.
Nikon D700, 70-200/2.8
This is my first post to our new website. We are hoping that navigation of this site is much easier and it has a blog feature as part of its home page. We would appreciate any feed back as we will continually strive to improve this site. Part of the reason for the blogsite is to force more blog posts that will cover many aspects of photography from weddings and portraits to post post production, software and technique. We hope that you will enjoy.
January is a good time to reflect on last years successes and not so successes, but it’s not a time to dwell on them. We need to move on to 2010 and just improve on what we did last year and this first month of the year is already half over. Obviously we all need goals: some of the obvious ones are to continually improve my photographic skills,find new methods of post production, improve marketing and business practices, but some of the others are more personal oriented like better daily planning and prioritizing, more specific goal setting and so on. So as I sit here and ponder these things I could write a long list of things to improve on. If the list just gets overwhelming then just start prioritizing the list. An improvement in one area is better than none. Go out and enjoy 2010.
I thought this photograph was appropriate for the post. This photograph was taken about 20 minutes after sunset this past October at the Kokomo Reservior.
Nikon D700; 24-70/f2.8
We know that winter is cold, too cold for most of us; but if you embrace the cold, and look for the opportunities that abound in every season of the year (or seasons of your life), winter is all about attitude. I will have to admit that when the sun comes out, it is better. I had a chance to spend some time this Saturday doing what I do, that is taking some photos. I did get that many that I liked but here are a couple.
Ken Cave Photography has been following the Young Santa Claus (Allan James) and Z92.5 around Kokomo. The first stop was the Original Treasure Mart located on Vaile Street and the second stop was with Darlene Rice at A Lady’s Place ( located at 456 East Southway Boulevard, Kokomo, IN
Digital Photography Age-How cool! Today’s digital darkroom is an array of RAW converters, cataloging software, plugins, photoshop actions, lightroom presets and other filters to streamline the digital “workflow” process. I know I have just lost most of you who do not lower yourself to such pixel depth- and who could blame you.
Needless to say, the digital darkroom is a wonder and jungle. Both streamlining the process and adding an extraordinary amount of time to you self imposed budget.
For instance, the four photographs below:
This first one was taken with a 2800K white balance. In other words, the cameral was adjusted to match the color of a tungsten light bulb because I had small tungsten neon light pointed at the shoes. As a result the stained glass widow became much cooler (bluer) which I new would happen-thought it might be a cool effect-you be the judge. So lets just develop the picture using a RAW converter, save as jpeg file and be done, but no-that’s not good enough-lets waste some time seeing what else is possible after all we have such wonderful tools.
This next picture was adjusted to match the color of the sun shining on the window, so now you can see a little bit of the tungsten (yellowish) light on the shoes.
Then it was go through a list of filters and presets looking for another combination of development configurations that may produce a cool looking image. This next image is similar to the first but has some punched up colors.
That’s not enough. He is another adjustment to a sepia version. I would not have thought that it would of turned out since it had so much color in the original, which is what I was attacted to in the first place.
One more, of course there are hundreds of ways to develop a picture, but that would be a waste of time- or is it?
