This past week I had the opportunity to team up on shoot with my good friend Karl from Dimension Three Architectural Illustrations.  Karl was actually working while I was hard at play working on a shot for my latest #p52 post.   Karl does amazing architectural illustrations and hopefully he’ll let me share his finished work here when he’s completed it.

But back to playing.  Karl’s not missing a twin but here’s what they would look like if they were weird enough to dress exactly the same.

I also shot a quick 5 image panorama.  It’s stitched here.

Here’s my contact sheet for shoot.

These images were shot a few months back when a good friend was in town with his son. His son Jakob didn’t have much experience with the beach and so it was great to watch him interact with it and have some fun. Fortunately Jake agreed to confine throwing sand at his father and I was let off of the hook since I had camera in hand. The lighting was absolutely horrible and I hate to shoot mid-day but I’m glad I decided I tout along the Nikon.

Jake’s dad mentioned to me this past week that he really liked the shot below and so I cleaned it up a bit in Photoshop and added some effects. You’ll notice the coloration difference. It actually has a gradient color cast from one end to the other also with a touch of the diffuse glow effect. The other other change is cleaning up some of the sand that I found distracting.

This is the contact sheet from the shoot. Something I’ve missed since switching to digital is contact sheets. I used to come out of the dark room and lupe ‘em and try to find the shots to enlarge. The digital work flow is much better and easier to find the shots to work on but I still like seeing all the shots together. It gives a different sense of the shoot somehow and helps identify where I might have done something different next time.