My main question is: What on earth were they thinking when they made this video? Haha there are so many things awkwardly wrong/hilarious with this… from the Mayor’s dancing, to the awkward cab driver and his facial reactions, to the excited girls at the end of the video.
Our headquarters for Sundance 2012
My video production company, 8112 Studios, was named the official delegation representing DC’s interests in filmmaking at Sundance by the DC government. Pretty big honor. Never thought I would officially represent the DC government for anything! Looking forward to an adventure-filled week. If you’re here and want to connect, hit us up!
The morning view according to my iPhone
If you’re ever in Sebring, Florida visit Alan Jay Automotive’s Chevy/GMC/Cadillac dealer. You can see an installation of about 14 six to eight foot long canvas prints of exclusive automotive photography that I shot right in Sebring for the client. The client wanted unique automotive adverting content shot exclusively around their home base.
I originally teased this photo shoot on my blog a few months ago. Click here to see more photos.
Shout out to Canvas On Demand Pro Support for working on our pricing and incredible shipping rates. Imagine how much 14 canvas prints averaging about 6′ long cost to ship… Only cost me a total of $30! Everything shipped cost under $5k to print with COD’s holiday discount codes.
As you can imagine, the file sizes were huge! I shot these on Canon 5d Mark 2′s originally and used Perfect Resize 7 by onOneSoftware.com to enlarge these images without serious file quality degradation. I used Nik Software Photoshop plugins Viveza 2 (check out those moody clouds) and Color Efex to bring out detail in the cars, clouds, and background content and Silver Efex to do some awesome black and white conversions on color files (see below).
What a great group of people over at Alan Jay Automotive. They have a great reputation for being an honest dealer with excellent customer service. Next American car I buy will definitely be through them!
Some examples of the prints are shown below:
8 images. 2 very long prints. Main showroom.
8 feet long!
Customer lounge
See your Photoshop World email this morning? They announced that you can have a chance to do a photo walk around DC with me during the next photoshop world in March, which takes place March 24-26, 2012. Happy to have the opportunity! I mean if youre going to do a photo walk around DC, might as well do it with a Kelby Trainer thats born and raised around DC!!
More information: Register for Photoshop World from Monday, January 16 – Friday, January 20 and you’ll have the opportunity to participate in an exclusive pre-conference photo walk* on Friday, March 23. Taking place in the afternoon, the “Explore The District” photo walk, led by noted photographer Douglas Sonders, will take you through Downtown DC and give you the chance to absorb, embrace and capture the essence of Washington D.C.
To take advantage of this special offer, simply use this special code-PE12-DOUGWALK-when registering online or by calling NAPP at 800-738-8513, M-F, 8:30 am – 7:00 pm EST..
So make sure to register today to get inspired education that will change your life and an expert-led photo walk through the streets of Washington, DC!
Hope to see you guys there! Keep in touch via my facebook photo page: HERE
Drifting Cobra Mustang cop car chasing drifting modified Triumphs. If you like Ken Block’s drifting videos, you’ll certainly love this one. Thanks for the tip Matt!
Remember when I was looking for a 60 foot chinese new year parade dragon in the LA area ? Well here is how the advertisements came out. I shot this for the agency Plan C on a white background with full plans to drop in a background. Read the previous blog post to see how I located the dragon on short notice. I set up this entire shoot while travelling across the country on 2 other shoots with a little over 3 days notice. Thanks to everyone that helped!
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I was in Florida this past weekend for a few projects. One of which, was to take some shots of a client’s racing team while hanging out in the pits. It’s actually my first time doing such a thing, but I had fun. Here are a couple of snapshots from my time there. Love working at the Daytona Race Track. It’s so beautiful. I had been there before for previous events.
I really had fun with my Nik Software plugins on these 2 track photos. Viveza 2, Silver Efex Pro 2, and Color Efex Pro 4 were all used on both images.
Im starting to look over my recent blog posts and I’m seeing a lot of car stuff, which is pretty weird considering I’m primarily a portrait guy. What is going on!? Haha I guess that’s the way things go for a guy who bleeds 100 octane. No complaints from me!
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If you didn’t catch my Instagram iPhone photography feed this past weekend, here is what you missed:
I flew in one of these
I arrived to the Daytona track in one of these... (the new Lamborghini Aventador). Whew I'm in love.
Saw one of these at the track. Beautiful Ferrari 458 race car
My weekend loaner car was one of these babies 
#lotusfanatic
I share some lighting tips on the 100th episode of the online photography show, D-Town. I discuss using soft boxes to create dynamic looking people portraits. I start showing up around 4:55. Check it out!
I blogged about this shoot a few weeks ago. Thanks to some long hours at the computer by myself and my retoucher, Justin, here we are. This image above is a combination of multiple exposures of the same shot. I essentially would have an assistant walk around the car and light it part by part. The background and the fog was added in post. Im pleased how it came out and can’t wait to print it out very big!
Shout out to Nik Software. Viveza 2 and Color Efex Pro 4 did play an important role to this final image.
I shot this as part of my ongoing Unicorn Project personal photo series dedicated to iconic TV and movie cars. I think it ended up great. Special thanks to Cinema Vehicle Services in North Hollywood, CA to help arrange the Charger and the police vehicles.
Walking around the car with a strobe taking multiple exposures.
iPhone photo from on-set
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