When do you start post processing?

When I photograph something for my self I am always in a hurry to start the processing. But when it comes to clients I want to wait a few days before starting. I have wondered why for a while and through some introspection I have finally figured it out.

I need that time to forget about the specifics and technical information of the shoot so I can focus on making the images beautiful. Beauty always starts before the photograph is taken, but lets face it we all have our own recipe when it comes to post processing. If I don't make myself wait then my brain gets too clogged up with information and my creativity disappears.

I also prefer to do post work in the dark. With it being summer time the sun stay up longer which makes working in the dark a bit more challenging. Working in the dark has several benefits for me. No glares on the monitor to deal with and it gives me that feeling you get in the darkroom developing and printing film.

Now if someone would make a candle scented like Fixer.

2012 Jester Awards

I photographed the nominees for the Music Theater of Wichita's 2012 Jester Awards last Friday evening as they entered on the red carpet.
There was a brief moment where the sun screamed in through the windows creating the perfect moment for my friend Mr Flair.
Pictured here is Sophia Macias and Gavin Myers both of Bishop Carroll High School making their entrance.

Madison

For mother's day I took a photo of the three kids together for Wendy. While setting up for that shot I had Madison stand in. I was pleased with the test shot so I am sharing it with you. The wind picked up to blow her hair across her face. I hope you like it.

rose

Playing in the back yard with the homemade lens.

I hope you enjoy! Please share the link with others, thank you.

Nathanael Everett Ross, Part 4

We had a little photo session one Sunday afternoon.

Colorado Dreamin'

On Labor Day weekend of last year my wife and I took a trip to her families cabin in southwestern Colorado. The cabin's location is great as there are several mountain passes in the area. This image was taken from the same mountain pass as the panoramic image a few posts down, Molas Pass. In my typical fashion, I was so focused on one image that I walked right by these flowers without noticing them. Wendy stayed atop the pass while I hiked down and shot the panoramic. When I was finished she pointed to the flowers and asked me to take a photo of them for her because her camera phone wasn't doing it justice. It is funny how these things work out because this is one of my favorite images from that trip.

Nathanael Everett Ross, Part 3

Nathanael Everett Ross, Part 2

Nathanael Everett Ross

Born on February the 12th, two thousand twelve.

Welcome to the neighborhood.

A lot has happened since my last blog entry.

I was employed at this place called OLC Global for a few short weeks. It was a nightmare. It was in a former daycare building that looked like a castle. What I did there was call small businesses and try and sell them access to their Dunn & Bradstreet business credit report. I feel that it is a giant scam, and had zero heart in it and zero desire to take hard earned money from business who were already struggling to stay afloat. Besides not having any interest in the place, it was ran by a lot people who should not be in charge of anyone. The human resources department was actually fired while I was there, so it was a mess.

So I am happily employed now at a tractor dealership. I work in the parts department doing all sorts of things. This job is great because I each day is something different. I am thankful to have found this job. If you know me, you know that I know absolutely nothing about farming and farm equipment. So I am obviously learning a lot. My daily commute is 100% rural, and I love it. I drive around 18 miles outside of the city into the vast farmland that is Kansas.

Here is the entrance to someones field that I drive by every day. I thought the sign was funny.

Enjoy.

Steller's Jays

Steller's Jays from Tyler Ross on Tyler Photography.

Molas Pass, Colorado

Life Update

I have relocated to my home state of Kansas. Everything is rad right now, and life is what it should be now.

I have randomly been updating my gallery, please take a look, vote, and leave comments.

Have an awesome day!

trying someting new.

blogging.
twitter.
facebook.
google+.

research.

inspiration.

repeat.


This gets old pretty quick. I have done the math on how much time I actually spend doing these things and it is ridiculous.
During some of research I found a website that combines all of these things into one place, streamlining my amount of time spent online. Time is money.
I really do not know how often I am going to be updating this blog.


Please visit www.foveaphoto.com

Thanks.

Portrait Session Preview

Many of you know that when it comes to taking portraits I pretty much suck at it. It's not my thing, it is a weak area that I need to work on, so I am doing just that. Here is a few images from a portrait session I shot Saturday morning of my friends Doc and Stephanie. I went into this session shooting unnatural to me, but then I just started shooting what I was seeing. I hope they like them, I am pleased with the outcome.
Thank you for looking.

You say tomato, I say what ever.

A home away from home.

North Carolina from Tyler Ross on Vimeo.

What I think of when I think of home.

Kansas from Tyler Ross on Vimeo.

Macro shots of a pink flower.

I was again playing with the home made lens and a flower from the greenhouse. This time I added a new element to the shoot, water!

Thank you for looking at this blog.

Fern

Yesterday I had a few moments to play with the lens I built a few weeks back. I grabbed a fern from the greenhouse and snapped a few images.

Rooks County

In western Kansas there are a lot of old houses. This house is located in Rooks County. Back in its time this house would have been massive. I imagine that there are combines harvesting the wheat surrounding this house right now.

continuing images from the custom lens.

I got a rose out of one of the studios today and shot a couple of images.

Thank you for looking.

Can making my own camera lens respark my creativity?

I have had a creativity block for a long time. It didn't matter what I seemed to be doing, nothing was turning out like I hoped, and there was nothing I was hoping to turn out. This is not a new thing for me because this has happened from time to time throughout my life. However this one was longer than what I can remember. I would throw together random videos with random songs post them on youtube, shoot random photos of random things and post them on this blog and nothing would satisfy me. The fact that there is absolutely no traffic on this blog does not help things either. Even thought I would remind myself that this blog is for me and not you, it still bothers me.

So to get out of this funk I have been reading a lot of blogs and looking at things on the internet. One site I ran across was a do it yourself website dedicated to photographers creating things for their craft. The things on there are from basic fixes to complete construction of some complicated things. The one thing that caught my attention was the construction of a custom lens. I had two broken lenses laying around and started thinking I could build a lens from the camera mount plate on them. I also had two broken enlarger lenses for parts to add to the pile and options available to me. Constructing a lens is rather basic, but it can get as intense as you want it too at the same time. I like to keep things basic as I am not a scientist or an engineer.

While trying to figure out the design I was testing in video mode and hand holding things.

Here is a link to that video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMZiC5Z3Ls

After coming up with a solid design held together by black photo tape I took a photograph of Super Mario. To shoot this photo I used direct sunlight outside on my patio. The Super Mario is about an inch tall and is on my key chain.

Here is the first photo


After deciding I was happy with the design, I then started the gluing and solidifying process. This took all of one evening.
The next day at work I shot a couple of test shots of flowers. The first shot is of a yellow carnation, and the second is of a some random purple flower off some plant in the studio greenhouse.

Here is the carnation.


Here is the same image in black and white. If you frequent this blog, you know how much I love black and white.


Here is the random purple flower.


Finally if you are wondering what this contraption looks like I have included a photo for you. I am proud of how it looks, it looks pretty legit and honestly I kind of impressed myself here. Included in this photo are the two flowers pictured above.



Thank you to Travis and Lucein for sending me the 35mm film camera with broken lens about two years ago. That lens is the lens mount on this, so without it I do not know how this could have come together.

Thank you for looking, and leave comments if you want too. If you are unable to leave comments because you do not have a sign in, send me an email to foveaphotography@gmail.com and let me know. I can reset the setting on the blog to allow anyone to leave comments. I do not know if it is set up like that right now so until I get an email from someone I will never know if it is.

Have a wonderful day/evening/night/morning or what ever.

Tyler

personal work at work.

The bossman at work challenged everyone to create some personal, portfolio quality photographs to help boost creativity. The designers reached into a hat and pulled out names. I worked with designer, Jennifer Cameron on two projects. We had complete freedom to do anything and everything we wanted. So we had no limits except the limits of ourselves. Upon our first discussion we made it clear with each other, that we wanted to get out of the studio. We then tossed around ideas and came up with two stories we wanted to tell.


One of our ideas was to tell a story of how things come together at work, from the idea to the final product. Generally everything starts on paper and through a lot of hard work by carpenters, painters, designers, setup crews, and photographers the end result is a beautiful photograph of the clients merchandise. I see this as an analog to digital type of process. So to tell this we looked around the Triad and found the perfect place in Winston-Salem's arts district. The story goes like this, the idea to paint a giant mural on a wall starts as a drawing on paper, then gets painted on a wall and finally it is photographed. Here are two images from that session. Design work by Jennifer Cameron. Photography by me. Model is Doc Geren.

Washington DC

I was in Washington DC last week, I took several photographs. Enjoy.