from the archives & just for fun

7th & 8th grade.

rw | visuals

This is the image I'm using for my new site's homepage. It's almost finished!

-ryan

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All Gain. | St. Louis

Just jacking around with lighting and high key on white seamless.  I look a little stoned...I wasn't.  Holl snapped the shutter.

-ryan

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Inspiration | Ben Button Poster

Holly and I were inspired by the posters advertising David Fincher's new film, so we shot each other and I tried to match the post-processing.  I'm also a Ridley Scott fan (hence the tribute at top).  Fun times!

Portrait Study | Painting with Light

This shot resulted from a shoot Holly and I collaborated on to create a movie poster similar to the new posters in theaters advertising "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", directed by David Fincher.  Holly snapped the shutter, and I processed it in post.  I threw a lot at this image to get it where I envisioned it being.  I started with the RAW file and went directly into Photoshop.  The workflow went like this:  Color-correction, retouching, removed the reflections in my glasses, LOTS of dodging and burning, painting with light, applied monochrome noise, overlayed a golden tone on a new layer, then a brown tone on another layer, then applied a deep yellow photo filter to a copy of the background layer.  Finally, I ran a smart sharpen command on the overall image, then did some selective sharpening to finish it out.  I really dig the results!

-ryan

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Self-Portrait | Kodak