Tours of Duty

Photographed the chest of a marine at yesterday's wedding.

Royal Oak Location Scouting

Later this week I have an engagement session to shoot in downtown Royal Oak and I wanted to see what this city had to offer photographically. This city has a lot of great features that will make for some great engagement shots, and I am very excited to see what we can come up with during the evening. I think I'll be using this park bench for one of the shots. Stay tuned....

Hammer Head Studios and Pyure Salon

Yesterday I had a photo shoot with Richard Maurer of Hammer Head Studios. We photographed some of his amazing metal work that was procured by Pyure Salon in Maumee Ohio. The first piece that we photographed is my favorite and easily the centerpiece of the salon. It's where the nails dry and the conversation flows.

Next we have the steel dividers that separate each hair cutting station. Each station has a purse hook and a shelf built into the divider.

Every salon needs to display their hair care products, and these stainless steel shelves were specially built to do the trick. The color on the shelve is really a shiny stainless steel color, but it looks green in this shot due to the green coloring in the Pyure shopping bag and window tint.

Another shot of the shelves from the side.

I pushed the color on this a bit accenting the green from the windows reflecting on the steel.

Hammer Head Studio's did not produce this next sign, but I thought it was really great. The water flows over the Salon's logo giving a tranquil feeling and an awesome opportunity for photography. This first shot was taken at a high shutter speed which stops the water action and makes the logo look a bit like it's melting.

Here's a second look at this sign with the shutter open a bit longer allowing the water to mist over the logo.

Special thanks to the management at Pyure Salon for allowing me to capture some of the amazing artwork inside.

Sparks A Latte

A new Starbucks is going up here in California (go figure) and this is one of the decritive pieces that will be going in.

Relative Time

Relative Time

Here is my submission for this week's photo challenge "Time Piece" with fellow blogger Kevin. I captured this in the back yard while at a pool party this weekend. All week I took photos of my wrist, my watch, threw my watch into the air, but none of them were as interesting as this sun dial. When I saw it I was glad that the camera was at my side. Check out Kevin's blog to see how he interpreted the challenge.

Camera: Nikon D80
Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 42 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Dead Pixel

Dead Pixel

While my friend Kevin is taking awesome pictures of the sunset in California, I am at home attempting to see things around the house in a different way. The sunset here in Michigan was equally stunning, and had I not been doing my day job I could have captured it's brilliance. Instead, this clock was the choice for today's post.

I have a dead pixel on my D80 camera that is almost in the center of the frame and it's really starting to annoy me.

Once the file is converted to jpg the pixel deformation is not as noticeable, but I still know it's there. Is a dead pixel on a brand new Nikon D80 camera a normal thing? Should I have it repaired or will that make it worse?