Tumblr! Follow me there!

Hey all! I now have a Tumblr and will be posting some picture there along with my blogger. So whatever your cup of tea maybe for getting your information, ill be posting on these two channels.

Check it out!:

http://highercontrastphotography.tumblr.com/

Dancers Photo Shoot Feb 2011

Recently I had the first opportunity to shoot a group a dancers and MY GOODNESS THERE SO MUCH ENERGY! From lively music to people flipping, kicking, popping, and grooving to the beat made this event memorable! Here I had a pretty crazy light set up brining out my Bowens Quadx pack to share with other photographers to share my techniques! With so much power at my disposal I was nailing shots so much it literally dazed the dancers! So a note to you guy who are wanting to do something like what I can pull off, give the dancers a break and try to time yourself like they are to the beat and get those stunning moves!


Here is a photograph of how the set looked at one point:


Doing this event was really fun for me and I got to laugh allot and work one on one with actual dancers to pull off shots. Simply put, we set up a large cardboard mat that is perfect for break dancers to pull off their stunts while its something contrasting with the actual cement ground to give a neat look.

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Each dancer got their time to bust moves on the dance floor while photographers of all kinds got a chance to capture their style of dance. Each session is about less than 30 seconds so shooting is fast! Snapping shots at critical moment to convey the movement they are doing. For this shoot I wanted to freeze them in their element. This gave many times a dramatic look especially for those who were performing martial arts moves!





Other than serious martial arts moves the goal is to have fun and be yourself. For myself, the opportunity for me to use new techniques such as mixing and matching equipment was a treat! Sharing it was fun as well letting some of the photographers who were willing have the opportunity to use my professional lighting equipment. What was neat to see is that other dancers were getting interested dancers some dance lessons to try a new style. Really fresh stuff for me to see and a relief from all the model shoots and car shoots. This is really fun stuff and appears ill be doing more!


Dancers helping out one another. Really funny stuff at times!


Giving my camera some love after doing a routine!


Some of the group for the shoot:


Some posing I really dont know what i was doing... But it was fun!


If you are a dancer or knows someone who wants to have something like this I would love the opportunity to do this kind of photography again! Really fresh stuff for me to try out finally! Let me know from my website or facebook!

It Has Launched!

Okay! Now the site is up to show the internet what Higher Contrast photography is all about! :-D

The website itself is :

http://www.highercontrast.com/

The Flikr photo stream about Higher Contrast Photography is here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/58804969@N08/

If you are a Facebook kind of person the link to the group can be found here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Higher-Contrast-Photography/160193860700038

And soon there will be a twitter to complete the mix of links!

Keeping you all posted!

The Launch of my New Website is Comming SOON!!!!

Yup! I am finally kicking it up a notch and going to have my first ever online web site!

The purpose of it is going to pretty much be like any other photography web site. It will tell people about me, what I do, and most importantly give examples of my work. This is the biggest thing that I been noticing as a shift in the photography world is clients continue demand a portfolio, but they dont want to take the time to see a physical one because of available time and their own personal reasons. This to me ushering a new era of window shoppers for professional imagery. So essentially my web site is now a digital store front for people to gaze into my online workshop and ponder if they want to have something created!

As for my site my photography will be known as Higher Contrast Photography done by yours truly, Robert Adams. Ha, its times like this when I think about the names my parents given me since birth and how "powerful" it kind of sounds since Robert Adams is such a common name. So common in fact there is over 5 photographers with my name that do photography! Therefore the catchy name oh Higher Contrast is the way I will be remembered!

Check later this week for the launch of my site on Thursday and check its progress, evolution, and links to other things about me and my work!

http://www.highercontrast.com/

A Commercial shoot of a VW for my portfolio.

This was a fun for me to photograph a car! But there is one thing you got to make sure, and that is to bring you friggin camera! When I did this photoshoot to help my portfolio, out of all things to forget for the first time is the camera! If I missed out on a light or two, that would be okay since I could improvise where as the camera is the star of the operation! Well, besides the talent behind the viewfinder holding down the shutter button! So after getting stuck in traffic to pic it up and embarrassment I am for sure not going to forget it!

This shot was done at sunset, and that is ideal time for me to take sun photographs. Most of the time I have taken night shots since I had no opportunity with clients in the day due to an hourly job I have and my education, but this time I made arrangements to make this possible to spice things up instead of constant night shots! This totally means more creative locations are going to happen at least for my automotive and motorcycle photography!

What I did is expose for the sky and fill in parts of the car flash by flash to coat the car with an even amount of light. I chose eventually to expose more for the sun, since im shooting right at it. For the flashes, using all of them is way to complicated and confusing so I work my way flash by flash to craft this photograph. The rest is mostly editing to make sure the car looks clean and pulls off the commercial look.

So far the client is satisfied and I will be getting more jobs in the future! Sweet! I will keep you all updated!