Air and Space Museum

We shot promotional material for the Air and Space Museum San Diego last weekend, advertising it's facilities as a wedding venue. Here are a couple fun shots.

Very cute miniature person

This is sort of embarrassing, but I recently calibrated my monitor for the first time---ever. Turns out my monitor was very warm toned and bright, which would make everything I produced look somewhat unsaturated and dark, everywhere except on my screen. Hopefully, from now on the images you see will look more the way they were intended to be viewed. For those who haven't done it, I highly recommend calibration. This, in conjunction with the correct color profiles for image output, makes a world of difference!

Lake Tahoe-Part two

From Mono Lake we continued on to Lake Tahoe. Tahoe is a photographic gem, deserving at least a full year to document the full spectrum of seasons and moods the lake can take on. We unfortunately, had two days, two sunsets, not nearly enough. The beautiful weather made shooting comfortable, but left ours skies a bit subjectless. We'll just have to go back!

Portrait of Lucy the pug copyright Jeremey Tripp

Lake Tahoe-Part one

My wife, two of our best friends and Lucy the pug got away for a long weekend to Lake Tahoe. We hit Mono Lake right at sunset on the way up. Fortunately for the patiently waiting girls, it WAS right at sunset, because Jeremey and I could have been there for hours otherwise. As with many things within the photographic realm, a seemingly unattractive lake to those passing by on the 395 becomes very interesting upon closer inspection. Especially at sunset, it has a majestic presence with a dash of creepy coolness, not unlike the Salton Sea.

The cloud image is one-click art, (under expose the image by a stop or so depending on how much white's in the frame, then auto levels did the rest in photoshop) but we don't get many cool clouds in San Diego, so when I see them I'm like a magpie attracted to something shiny. It makes driving very interesting.

We have the technology...we will rebuild it, faster, with less clicking

I just aged myself. I actually do remember watching the Six Million Dollar Man as a kid!

The new site's now live! Some new imagery, less clicking. Hope you like it!

www.masterworkimage.com

A few more

Model Portfolio

We got a good range of images as Ashley needed a fresh start to her (CA) portfolio. Thanks to Philip of Aqua Models and Kimberly Carlson,kacartistry.com, for her ever masterful hair and makeup work!

World's worst models

Yes they're beautiful, but can they stay awake?! And where's hair and makeup? We got an ear flipped!

The rocks are back

I'm not the most observant person in the world, but have noticed, from almost three years of living in San Diego, that rocks show up on our beaches in numbers once (maybe twice?) a year. I shot this last night on a tripod, f/10 and a 15 second shutter with a split-neutral density filter and had to set the rocks back up three times after waves knocked them over.

Cedar Creek Falls

If you're looking for a perfect day hike, Cedar Creek Falls in Cleveland National Forest will not disappoint and now is the time to go! The falls are running high and it's not too hot yet. All downhill on the way to the falls, a jump into the pool at it's base will cool you off before the all uphill hike out. Fortunately, I shot there for San Diego Magazine after our winter rains, but the falls slow and everything turns very un-green as June/July approaches. Then again, if you're in to rattlesnakes...