Archive for Retouching

Working Inside the Box

Business, Magazine, Retouching on July 31st, 2010 6 Comments

There is no better feeling than being employed directly out of school, especially at that slightly “out of reach” studio on the top of your list. Four years at SCAD just to be thrown out into the world to fend for my needy self, and boy could it have been any better of an experience. [...]

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Five “Simple” Steps

Retouching, Video on April 15th, 2010 5 Comments

As a photographer and digital artist I often have people ask me if my images are real. It’s no secret that I enhance almost every image I use and often composite several images just to create one final piece. To traditionalists and purists who disagree with the heavy handed use of Photoshop, I say look [...]

We Are Plus

Business, Internship, Retouching on December 1st, 2009 No Comments

I was able to pick up another internship while in NYC through a connection. I’m working as the junior retoucher at We Are Plus in Chelsea. They specialize in company branding through various media including experimental media, and do a pretty awesome job at it. It’s a great environment with an especially young design team. [...]

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Trick-or-Treat

Fun, Retouching on October 31st, 2009 No Comments

I’m feeling festive for the holidays so here’s an image of a “dollar store” setup I did last year. This is a test shot that I edited later, however the final was captured in those fandangled large format cameras. I love shooting 4×5 slide film because it puts the skill back into shooting.
Time to O.D. [...]

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New Work

Friends, New Work, Retouching, School on October 20th, 2009 1 Comment

While I have a lot of projects that are in the works and should be done soon, I thought I would post a fashion image that I’m currently working on. The potential of the image hasn’t been fully realized yet but here’s what I got so far…

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The bar has just been raised…

Retouching, Video on October 7th, 2009 No Comments

If you’ve been in the photosphere recently than you’ve probably heard of Photosketch. For those of you who haven’t then be sure to look at the video below. It’s a prototype software from students in China that grabs images from the web and then composites them according to any sketches that you provide. To be [...]