When you surround yourself with creative people, amazing things can happen. Someone once said to me that to be an artist is to have the ability to believe in two completely contradictory statements. I am that walking contradiction. On one hand, I find that I can be one of the…
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When they announced they were remaking the classic Stephen King novel IT, I truly was skeptical. Afterall, who can live up to Tim MF Curry? Well, I saw it this past week. And it’s flipping awesome! While I agree the movie is far from perfect, I really enjoyed myself! In…
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Background I am surrounded by inspiring and creative people. I’m not sure if this happened on purpose or if it’s something I lucked myself into, but I truly am a fortunate dude. Between my family and friends, the people I work with, and my amazing studiomates (shout out to my…
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Hey everybody! Here’s quick before and after of my latest piece Heaven’s Fire: To download the PSD (low-res), please join my e-mail list 🙂
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It has been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to sit down and do a little writeup for my site and quite honestly, it feels amazing to be back! Over the past 2 months or so, I’ve found myself becoming obsessed with costumes and special effects makeup. In fact,…
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When I was starting off in photography, a big resource to help expand my knowledge were the before-and-after photos other photographers would share with me. When given the chance to see a before photo, more often than not the a lot of the techniques used by the photographer become extraordinarily…
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I’ve really been inspired by underwater photography as of late. While I do have access to an underwater case, Chicago’s frigid weather sort of limits our options (and sadly, I don’t know anyone with a pool). I had to improvise. The following shot was setup as follows: As you’ll notice this is a 3-light…
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Life is an interesting thing. You see, the past year of my life has been absolutely insane. Like, so insane that I basically took a year-long hiatus from shooting any personal stuff as I needed the extra time to situate the situation. I’ve slowly been crawling my way back to…
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I’ve been slowly working on a collection of commercial art projects over the past few months and felt it was time to share this one with you guys. When deciding on a product to use, I knew I wanted to do a photograph where the product in question would illuminate…
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