A Few More

The Tracy & Ian Wedding of course.... I am finished sorting and down to trying to 'shop ones that I like. In between that I convert everything to B&W so there's an original compressed image, color shot and a B&W for each shot.

Bourne Style...

The Bourne Ultimatum is the best action movie I've ever seen... and it had a sweet poster. I found a tutorial on styling a picture like the movie poster and thought I'd give it a try. I tweaked mine just a bit from the tutorial but I think it has the same vibe.

I left out the gun... and the taglines. Though that could be fun too... perhaps I'll add a tagline or two:

The Thomovits Ultimatum
This Fall, Tracy & Ian Seal the Deal

lol@me

Tutorial is here: Bourne Ultimatum Color & Motion Blur

The Problem...

... with Photoshop is that there are SO many variations and they all look good, and I'm the kind of person who can't even make up his mind what he wants at a fast food joint, never mind with a bunch of shots which all look great!

Here's some more Tracy & Ian.





I like this one (above) the best, I think.


(above) One of my favorite shots I think I've ever taken, period.




I liked this shot but it had some bad shadowing and a crack in the mirror that (of course) is in a really bad spot. I think I was able to fix it realistically though.


I like the grainy one above best.

Ian and Tracy

Wedding day yesterday... and we have some awesome pix. It's going to be a big job - I have 1200 shots to weed through, and Rhonda has almost as many. Here's a few to start (I had to beat Rhonda!)

An old favorite

Just dug this up from the bowels of the hard drive. The problem with the amount of hard drive space I have (half a terabyte, give or take) is that stuff gets lost!

Portrait Practise

Rhonda and I got some new studio equipment... these are some of the first practise sessions.

Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park

Obligatory and clichéd yet still impressive. And one of the things I can now cross of my list of "Things To See Before I Die". It was a privilege to visit Yellowstone, which is surely one of the most unique and amazing places on the planet. I hope to return... there is much more to be photographed.

Landscapes, Yellowstone National Park

For the uninitiated, Yellowstone is not only a place of extraordinary beauty, but danger as well. Most of the pictures in this series are of geothermal formations featuring water which is either at boiling or close to it, or acidic enough to eat the soles off of your boots. The park is full of danger and even death for those foolish enough to ignore the many signs! Being boiled alive would surely wreck an otherwise fine vacation.

The following two shots feature a waterfall from a geyser which dumps tens of thousands of gallons of boiling hot water into the river below every day...




The park is full of walkways which are the only safe way to explore the geothermal features.






This B&W shot seems somewhat out of place but it was the most effective way of featuring this particular scene.

Patterns & Textures, Yellowstone National Park