kyle_cassidy

I wonder about a lot of weird stuff all the time. I wonder what superheroes

are doing when they're not fighting crime. I wonder "if the trash can is full

at the Hall of Justice and there's no robot butler around, who empties it?" I

figured Batman would empty it because he has an overwhelming sense of

practical civic duty. Superman could crush it into a singularity if he felt like

it, but I think he's probably always thinking about other stuff. Then I started

wondering what Batman would look like if he was carting the Justice

League's trash out to the curb and the trash truck had just pulled away.

terrific portrait. wonderfully mysterious.

nicely done, love the red. the vignette might be a tad extreme for me.

I thought I'd celebrate the end of the world on May 21 with an epic

photo shoot -- An angel hurtling a globe through a ball of fire seemed

appropriately ... big. I discovered that globes are impervious to such

fire and after a good 20 times passing through a giant fireball it

only got hot. The world didn't end, but I got this photo. Thanks to

models Liz and Aaron. I selected this as "fine art" but it could just

as easily be editorial. The line seems to have blurred.

It's probably a sign of a lack of artistic vision to photograph photographers

at places where photographers are photographing _things_. And even

worse to construct it.

Some day, if it hasn't happened already, some pro, somewhere, is going to

shoot an entire expensive wedding with his or her phone. Which to me is

pretty amazing.

Crop down the sides at all? I'm not sure if the final should be 20x24 or

20x36.... Part of me just hates the thought of cropping. That's probably

also the same part that's saying "you should have shot this with that

4x5 gathering dust on the living room shelf"....

too far away and lacking a point of interest, get closer, fill the frame.

hope this helps.

I'm always at a loss with off-camera lighting. I read the strobist, but things are usually more

hit and miss than they ought to be. I figure it's probably just all ... math. Flash here, sun here,

model here ..... I guess I need to do this a hundred times and it'll all just fall into place....

this is really stunning. it's one of those scenes where technical craft is really given the opportunity to shine through. the marvelous and mezmerizing vertical lines along with the very angular branches give it an almost mathematical look. it's one of those places that makes you wish you had a 16x20 view camera and lose yourself in a contact print.

great find.

Not sure if there's enough light on the front of the truck. It was an

interesting lighting experience -- the flashing lights on the front of

the truck would fire my slave units continually as soon as they were

turned on, so I could only use the main light.

Thanks for your input!

In 2004 I started on on a two year odyssey across America

photographing gun owners in their homes -- hoping to make a credible

document of this subset of American Culture. I'll leave it to you to

decide how successful I was. This is Bashir and his dog Cisco, from

Pennsylvania. More at www.armedamerica.org.

Thanks for your time.

Imagine you're at a party and someone tells a joke. Everybody laughs, and someone says "Wait wait! I have a great one!" and they tell the same joke. -- That's kind of how I feel looking at this. The subject is so abysmally over-mined that pluming it once again for a joke that's obvious is painful.

In fact, if you google "american goth" and click images you get this over and over and over.

I don't think the technical execution lifts it into the realm of "we need to discuss it for it's innovation" either -- take out the joke and insert two random people and it's just a not terribly amazingly lit photo of two people in front of a building.

Sorry.

the photo you don't take today is the photo that you never take. get

your camera out and take a picture.