Recent Professional Works

[haefnerphoto]

I appreciate all the positive comments!  Thanks alot!!.  Kirk, since I only have a BFA (RIT'76), I'm just happy the shots design well and have nice light.  By the way, I did spend 2.5 years in Albuquerque studying photography at UNM.  I wish I could live there!!  Jim

[ondebanks]

OMG! and I was thinking there were allot of beautiful models in Ireland based on Ashley's pictures!! But for real, where do you stop retouching the picture and why not just leave people natural?

She is beautiful, in the original. That sort of "retouching" is unnecessary and just wrong.

[BobDavid]

More doggies in the studio.

[feppe]

More doggies in the studio.

I think this belongs to the animal cruelty thread.

Just kidding! The pic made me smile

[Rob C]

Well, it didn't make me smile. No, nothing wrong with the shot, just that our old alsabrador died of cancer and after both operations she wore an old T shirt to cover the surgery wound and the gentian violet.

Damn it, cancer seems to be almost everywhere you look. Once you are made aware of it, you can't seem to avoid it.

Rob C

[Kirk Gittings]

I appreciate all the positive comments!  Thanks alot!!.  Kirk, since I only have a BFA (RIT'76), I'm just happy the shots design well and have nice light.  By the way, I did spend 2.5 years in Albuquerque studying photography at UNM.  I wish I could live there!!  Jim

When were you at UNM? I got my bachelors there and I taught there part time for ten years.

[pcunite]

She is beautiful, in the original. That sort of "retouching" is unnecessary and just wrong.

Nice in theory, however the woman most certainly would be highly upset if she was not retouched. That is how woman are, dove commercials or not.

[haefnerphoto]

When were you at UNM? I got my bachelors there and I taught there part time for ten years

Kirk, I lived in Albuquerque in 1971-73.  As I recall Rod Lazorik and Anne Nagle were instructors then.  I lived at first in the student ghetto then moved to Placitas and also spent some time in Janito (?) just north of Bernalillo, not too far from Danny Lyons.  Jim

[Kirk Gittings]

I was just finishing my bachelor's in 72. I mainly did work with Rod, James Kraft and Coke. Did you know Paul Paletti?

[feppe]

Don't want to be turning this into some sort of righteous discussion - which will probably just go around in circles - but just to add: she happens to be the head of marketing at this hotel - and they emailed this evening to say that they want to use this image, as well as the rest, for the next 5 years in All Media.

Which to me, means a very good result indeed.

So it's time for another Guinness 

Cheers
Ashley

Congratulations! It's a good photo.

I wanted to comment on this earlier: I can't get enough of the concept that they have a portrait of a cow on their reception wall. Cow portraiture is an unfortunately neglected niche which demands more quality contributions. I sense a visit to my uncle's farm in the near future...

[Frank Doorhof]

From a recent campaign we did for Sym.
They took a huge chance because normally they use the "normal" flatlight images for their advertising.
It's for the European market for the Sym Orbit and Jett.

[robert zimmerman]

cheers, kipling

[Chairman Bill]

Oh for heaven's sake, that'll never fly. Any self-respecting witch knows that the broom goes the other way about

[haefnerphoto]

I was just finishing my bachelor's in 72. I mainly did work with Rod, James Kraft and Coke. Did you know Paul Paletti?

Kirk, Paul's name isn't familiar to me.  We probably bumped into each other in the darkrooms though.  Did you ever participate in the model shoots Rod organized?  Jim

[Craig Lamson]

"I wanted to comment on this earlier: I can't get enough of the concept that they have a portrait of a cow on their reception wall. Cow portraiture is an unfortunately neglected niche which demands more quality contributions. I sense a visit to my uncle's farm in the near future..."


Now cows are highly regarded subjects in some cultures, BBQ material in others...

[ondebanks]

Don't want to be turning this into some sort of righteous discussion - which will probably just go around in circles - but just to add: she happens to be the head of marketing at this hotel - and they emailed this evening to say that they want to use this image, as well as the rest, for the next 5 years in All Media.

Which to me, means a very good result indeed.

So it's time for another Guinness 

Cheers
Ashley

Congratulations. But does she know and approve of the way you radically altered major aspects of her body shape?

[Abdulrahman Aljabri]

Why indeed Abdulrahman ?
Why use lights, why style, why not just leave people natural and shoot what's there ?

Well I guess, if that's what the client wants and believes in - then they don't need us - would be my short answer, because they can take those pictures themselves.

Ashley,

Using lighting and liquify are not the same thing for a simple reason. As you know cameras do not see the world exactly as people do, they are inferior to human vision. Photographers use lighting in interiors to bridge that gap between the camera and human vision. Some times they go over board with lighting, but for most good photographers lighting is used to complement not alter.

Your pictures are good example of that. You use lighting and editing to create beautiful but natural interior pictures. Without those two things, among other things like composition, you can't do justice to the interior you are photographing. It will look ugly compared to seeing the actual place.  As for liquify I just cant see how its being used to improve the scene, it's really just changing it.   

It's also worth mentioning that most major hotel chains have very strict lighting requirements. That is to insure hotel's customers are not mislead by their pictures.

[Abdulrahman Aljabri]

Congratulations. But does she know and approve of the way you radically altered major aspects of her body shape?

lol good question

[Jeremy Roussak]

Oh for heaven's sake, that'll never fly. Any self-respecting witch knows that the broom goes the other way about

And anyway, that's a brush, not a broom. New-fangled nonsense. Birch twigs, that's what she needs.

Jeremy

[Rob C]

Birch? Flagellation? This is supposed to be architecture!

I am shocked.

Rob C

P.S.  She's got nice legs, though, so I can see what excited you.