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Tiki artist David Schultz

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David Shultz with a background in animation works on wood carvings and Tikis these days. Canon 40D 50 mm 1/320 sec @f5.6

Local Riverside artist David Shultz loves all manner of art but what appears closest to his heart is working with wood especially Tikis.

A chance meeting with Dave at our favorite local coffee house led me to visit and spend an hour with him at his home recently.

Dave uses palm fronds he finds and makes some exquisite work from them.
Dave uses palm fronds he finds and makes some exquisite work from them.

There’s no mistaking how serious he takes his art.

On his front yard stands his thatched roof workshop.

He proudly tells me the his ‘shop’ has few metal parts.

The entire structure is held together by wooden dowels and glue. Continue reading Tiki artist David Schultz →

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Fun and games at Artnival Part 2

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Emilie Michele Gleisberg, acrobat from the Great All American Youth Circus awed the crowds with her display of strength, poise and control. 

Chance favors the prepared, so I read somewhere.

It’s definitely true especially when covering an event.

In part 2 of my coverage of Riverside’s Artnival over the weekend, here are some tips.

Choosing a vantage point that backlights your subjects is often an easy way to make subjects standout. The trick is to watch for lens flare which destroys image integrity by loss of contrast. Ironically, lens flare is now being added in post production in Photoshop to perfectly good pictures as an creative device?

Continue reading Fun and games at Artnival Part 2 →

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Family fun time at Riverside’s Artnival Part1

My buddy fellow photographer Carlos Puma photographed his youngest son for this banner which greeted visitors to the first “Artnival” at Riverside’s White Park.

Artnival, a concatenation of the words “Art” and “Carnival,” materialized as a family fun event in Riverside’s White Park this afternoon.

For its debut, this event put together by Cosme Cordova owner of Division 9 Gallery, showed it’s not all gloom for the arts even in bad economic times.

When budget woes force an austere mentality to glom on to everything in sight  like a hot humid cloud that follows us around everywhere, sometimes all it takes is for one person to have a vision. Continue reading Family fun time at Riverside’s Artnival Part1 →

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Finding the light and using what’s there

Caitlin lit by window light on the right. A Speedlight set on manual power @ 1/32th power to create separation and just enough to accent her cheek on the left.

One of the more difficult skills to pick up is finding the light in any location and making it work for you.

Along with learning how to relax/distract your subject so that they aren’t so self-conscious, this skill, finding the light, doesn’t just happen overnight.

Books and mentors can only show you so much.

You won’t get it until you play with own light equipment and photographing in various locations.

Why various locations?

By trying different locations, it forces you to look and evaluate where the light is.

For my picture Caitlin taken during a demo for Small Flash Lighting, I kept things simple using one Speedlight off-camera.

The main light was a huge west-facing window and it was about 10am so the sun wasn’t shinning directly inside yet. Continue reading Finding the light and using what’s there →