Recent Professional Works

[Rob C]

Beautiful cars; any chance of details re. model year etc?

Makes it more informative for us non-USA resident car-nutters. ;-)

Rob C

[Gel]

I see that my last post with images was quite some time ago, here's a few things from last year.  I'll put up some architecture a little later.  By the way, the vehicles were all shot with my P45, the architecture will be mixed.  Jim

Lovely stuff. With the blue one, how do you light cars like that?

I have a mental block getting over the gap between what looks believable and real, to the hyper reality that seems to be in most car shots these days.

[HarperPhotos]

Hello Jim,

As always Jim your work is awesome and inspiring.

All the best

Simon

[Rob C]

Hi Jim,

I love the girl with the yellow dress who is sitting in the white "salad bowl" and her attitude. It was love on first sight. The way she is sitting there is the complete contradiction to the architecture. Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!

Best,
Johannes

Too late, too late! She's in my soup!

Rob C

[haefnerphoto]

Careful guys, that's my daughter, Jessica.

[HarperPhotos]

Hi Jim,

Ah the classic look only a Daughter can give her Father to say is this going to take very long dad.

Cheers

Simon

[dougster_ling]

Lake Tahoe area. I am shooting panoramic images of the Sierras for a future project...


5d mark 11 stitched zeiss prime lens.

ds

www.douglassterling.com

[LKaven]

Lake Tahoe area. I am shooting panoramic images of the Sierras for a future project...

Very nice panorama!  [I only wish I could view it larger.]  VERY nice work all around on your site.

5d mark 11 stitched....

I think this qualifies as "very large sensor" photography.

[K.C.]

What I'd like to see is more professional works. Currently we see precious few images posted here and usually by the same photographers. Why is this so when LL is littered with professional photographers?

They're tired of the pointless debate over format ?

In regards to recent, I think anything beautiful should be allowed, film or digital, small or large format.  

Now there's a hell of an idea.

It's a public forum. Threads evolve, digress and progress. You can't stop it. You can accept it and appreciate the work.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Here's some architecture shot in the last year or so.  Both medium format and Canon.  Jim

The ceiling in what I assume is a library is truly magnificent! Where is it?

Jeremy

[Chris Livsey]

The ceiling in what I assume is a library is truly magnificent! Where is it?
Jeremy

Hogwarts ?   

[Rob C]

Okay, speaking of cats and pigeons: painted, mixed types; shot digital. Seriously for sale, as they say about yachts.

;-)

Rob C

[MarkoRepse]

Thank you all for the kind words!

Despite being a composite it's refreshing to see an image that looks as though it was created by someone with a pulse rather than a droid.  

Keith, this was shot exactly as you see it (all of my work in fact), no compositing!

Anyway about the image thread "issues", I vote for a "post anything" thread. At the end of the day it really doesn't matter what format something was shot in, as long as its pretty, as its really (or should be) just an artistic/personal/technical choice. The problem which distorts this perspective is that MF digital is expensive causing other emotions to step in.

[haefnerphoto]

The ceiling in what I assume is a library is truly magnificent! Where is it?

Jeremy

This room is the University of Michigan's Law School Reading Room.  I happened to find it while photographing a project in an adjacent building, it's recently renovated (last couple of years).  I appreciate the compliments on the other images!  Jim

[haefnerphoto]

Beautiful cars; any chance of details re. model year etc?

Makes it more informative for us non-USA resident car-nutters. ;-)

Rob C

The red car is the latest SRT8 Viper, recently brought back by Chrysler.  The vintage vehicle is a concept from Harley Earl (GM), the 1951 LeSabre.  When I shot the GM Design Staff building they were kind enough to bring it in for the project, I thought it was pretty spectacular and asked to have it shipped to my studio for a couple of days.  The lighting of it was accomplished with tungsten lights bounced off large muslin flats with a little direct light added.  Jim

[roskav]

Jim .. lovely architecture pics.  One question ... how on earth did you get all of the lights on for the images of the housing development by the lake?  I presume you did it before any were occupied and had 2 or 3 people in the buildings making sure they were all on.
R

[haefnerphoto]

Jim .. lovely architecture pics.  One question ... how on earth did you get all of the lights on for the images of the housing development by the lake?  I presume you did it before any were occupied and had 2 or 3 people in the buildings making sure they were all on.
R

Those buildings are actually a large technology complex and in use after dark, so I was fortunate that they were working late!  Jim

[Rob C]

The red car is the latest SRT8 Viper, recently brought back by Chrysler.  The vintage vehicle is a concept from Harley Earl (GM), the 1951 LeSabre.  When I shot the GM Design Staff building they were kind enough to bring it in for the project, I thought it was pretty spectacular and asked to have it shipped to my studio for a couple of days.  The lighting of it was accomplished with tungsten lights bounced off large muslin flats with a little direct light added.  Jim

Thanks Jim, it's  nice to know these things! I sure envy you your access even to see these amazing vehicles. Had he been British, I'm sure Mr Earl would have had a knighthood at the very least for his special contribution to automobile design over those golden years. But I don't know - you now have to be an athelete or some sort of singer to be recognized...

Regarding the comment about girls in the soup: nothing dodgy there, just an allusion to a play called There's a Girl in my Soup that ran in London for many years. Your daughter is very photogenic - congratulations!

Rob C

[Rob C]

Rob, definately a pulse; blood, even!

Don't bank on it: probably just dilute beta-blocker and acetylsalicylic acid. I'm sure there's nothing else left. Which could explain a lot.

;-)

Rob C

[Scott Hargis]

Okay, speaking of cats and pigeons: painted, mixed types; shot digital. Seriously for sale, as they say about yachts.

;-)

Rob C

Rob, I love that stuff. Are you familiar with the work of Klaus Lange?