Dave Street’s Blog

Transforming the image

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:09:08 +0100

The 20th Century gave us many evolutions and movements in Art mostly reflecting the changes in technology and industry that took place during it but perhaps the biggest influence was the action of taking the representational image and making it non representational. Pick up a camera and press the button and you will get a representation of what was infront of the camera at that point in time. An art school trained photographer has learned the techniques and skills to manipulate that image to turn it into an image that is stand alone and a non representational version of the original. The real trick is to take the original image in a way in which the post production techniques can be applied to their best advantage.

Art school teaches it’s students of photography to develop those techniques and to go on to develop their own before setting out to create images. Once the technical knowledge is in place and the techniques and equipment choices are understood then the student can develop images that have been sketched and detailed at the planning stage or from instructions from an Art director. Aligning this ability to the demands of the chosen sector of the market or industry is what creates professional photographers.

This is the difference that a professional photographer brings to Wedding photography and must be present in the finished album.

New website promotes weddings

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:37:58 +0100

The website has been redesigned to promote wedding photography more as the commercial side of the business is consolidating and needs less on line presence.

Weddings are one off business disallowing for after sales of albums and prints and the website is designed to deliver as much information to a bride looking for a photographer she can rely on to give her that style, quality and service she wants.

Boulder Nevada

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:24:17 +0000

It was late afternoon as we walked across the tarmac at Boulder airfield in Nevada. The pilot was telling me how pipes had burst in his house following the coldest weather he could remember. There was snow just over the state line in Arizona on the higher ground. There was a chill in the air and haze from the cold was in the distance. We took off and flew towards the Hoover dam and as the low sun threw a harsh side light onto the shore of the Lake Mead the pilot banked hard to starboard presenting the image above long enough for me to press the camera against the plexi glass window and use my coat to cut out light creating reflections and get this shot.

Creating a modern look to food

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:13:59 +0000

Working with a stylist that understands the brief, careful lighting and painstaking attention to composition makes this shot appear as if it is in a modern kitchen when it is a studio shot. Controlled lighting ( not a soft box or umbrella ) is used to light the ingredients of the panini whilst maintaining a natural feel to the product showing texture and form.

Shot on EOS 1Ds with 100 mm lens RAW file processed in Aperture.

You don’t need eyes to see, you need vision

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:56:11 +0000

Robert Persig once illustrated the number of individual pieces of information in a scene we look at by comparing them to grains of sand when looking at a desert. He then went on to say we only become aware of a handful of sand from that scene, then we sift through that handful of sand to brush away unwanted grains till we are left with just few a grains in our hands in which we are interested in. Photographers have used this process to draw out parts of a scene, to pull attention to the unusual and hopefully surprise and fascinate the viewer.