Check out this first glimpse of Call Of Duty – Modern Warfare 4 dubbed ‘Plastic Ops’….
Just kidding!
I made this little mock-up as part of a Christmas present for someone who wanted Call of Duty MW3. I put the game is the bottom of a larger box and filled it with packing peanuts. This was in the box at the top so it was the first things the gift receiver saw when opening the present. I guess I could have timed this better and gotten these pics out of April 1st, but time got away from me.
For the record, I have never played any COD games nor do I have any interest in playing any COD games. I may be a nerd, but I am not that kind of nerd. Maybe that means I am not such a nerd….or not.
You may have seen some of Erik Johansson’s photography composites floating around the interwebs. In a video from TED, he discusses how he develops his ideas and turns them into a final image. It really is a mixture of photography and illustration which creates phenomenal results that will blow your mind. The tools he uses are readily available, and as he says, the only limit is one’s imagination. If only I had his vivid imagination!
Eric’s personal portfolio is available on his blog.
This is a very cool shot of Taipei 101 taken in the evening by Flickr user yameme. I found this shot while looking at picture of Taiwan on Flickr (I have been their once and enjoyed my time there) and was amazed by the color and vibrancy shown. The body of work from yameme also has many other shots from Taipei, Taiwan and east Asia which are all excellent. Check out his (or her) Flickr photostream for more.
Here is a little sample of some fun with dry ice in colored water I was working with on the weekend. I have a few variations on the theme and A LOT of shots with all manner of lighting and backdrops.
I will be submitting a number of them for microstock. Hopefully it will get me over the line with ShutterStock.
This shoot has given me a lot of ideas for more stock and the confidence to do more product photography. Some more lighting would help though (Ranger Quadra…wink, wink).
I have decided to see if I can make a few extra bucks on the side by dabbling in microstock photography whilst I fill in time between my day job (not much time left to fill in after that), paying photography jobs (a lot of time between them) and everything else I do (which has a habit of filling in more time than I can afford).
About a month ago I submitted a range of 10 images of a variety of subjects to what seems to be considered the “Big 4″ of Microstock agencies. It was interesting to see what was accepted or rejected by each agency, and what the reasons for the rejections were. I also figured it was worth publishing the acceptance results of my submitted photos and some comments about the process so other prospective Microstock contributors can understand what you go through when you set off into the world of Microstock photography. Continue reading →
You may have seen me out in the middle of the track taking pics at the 2010 Track Attack BMX round and came looking for the shots here. To save you waiting around here, all of the pictures I took of Track Attack are over on my other website, Xenon Photography. You can even buy them there now! Enjoy.
Steven Gedye at Park Orchards Track Attack 2010 (Round 5) - Used with permission of Xenon Photography
