I grabbed a quick couple of shots of the always beautiful Evil Overqueen on the stairs this afternoon.   I’m still experimenting with black & white and the difference in texturing, composition and tone as opposed to color.    It’s a shame, really, because her skin tone is just fantastic.  I may post the color versions later.

Break for the boob averse. Beyond here lies nudity.

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C. Blake Powers and I thoroughly enjoyed an evening of good conversation and even better bourbon at this week’s Metro Atlanta Scotch Club’s bourbon tasting at The Bourbon bar inside the InterContinental Buckhead hotel.

With such pretty bottles of amber goodness sitting around, how could I not take a few photos.

Four of the selections. My favorite was the Rowan’s Creek. It had the most amazing caramel after notes.

The full selection of bourbons. Noah’s mill was interesting with a good spicy after touch.

Playing around at the AFVE meetup on 3/28/2013.  The photos say it all.  A few more photos from the night here.  Not quite safe for work. Enjoy.

When a man pulls out his big hard mug, the girls come a running.

(edit: Added one more photo to the gallery.  It’s not a part of the sequence below, but was from the same shoot.  It’s just too good NOT to include.)

Whenever I feel I’ve made a breakthrough on some new technique, I will go back and revisit some of my photo sets from past shoots.  I’ve been known to go back 10 years or more and pull a new gem from the pile and polish it up to something I didn’t even know was possible then.

I’ve done that with a set of the lovely FireBitch from 2011.  You’ve seen a few of the images from that set in both color and black & white, but this new tone & texture technique works much better for one of the sequences from that shoot than either of the ones I used then.

Enjoy, and you shouldn’t need the warning by now that images after the ‘more’ are not safe for work.   Click for the full gallery.

Added after original post. Just too good not to include.

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A few more photos from last night’s group shoot at Plaka.

We had an open shoot at our weekly photo meetup at Plaka tonight.  The lovely Aly Martini played around in front of the camera for a few of us early on.  Here’s a taste of what you missed.   (gallery nsfw)

Aly Martini playing around for the camera.

Smile!

Chains.

Going back through my archives again.  This time, from 2006-2008.  You may have seen some of these before, others I know no one has seen.   All of them have been taken from the raw shots and re-edited / corrected / cropped, etc.  using the stuff I’ve learned in the six or seven years since I took the shots.   Enjoy.

2007 – Wendi in Marietta square.

2007 – Wendi reading something online; probably Livejournal.

2008 – Jess learning handgun handling from Duncan prior to a photo shoot.

2007 – Purple Flowers. If I remember, this was taken at a rest stop on the way to Arkansas.

2007 – Galen (at 2 years old) and Daddy (me) sleeping the afternoon away.

2007 – Galen reaching for the camera.

2007 – Those eyes. Gonna be a heartbreaker, that one.

Steve goes on a journey to the stars.. whether he wants to or not!

“Abduction” – Day 34 – 365 Project

Exposure: 10 seconds @ f/4.8
Manually triggered strobe at 1/32 power below and behind the skull to give just a touch of fill inside the jar.

Editing: color, contrast and cropping.

I’ve been going through some of my better photos from the last couple of years and revisiting my techniques for B/W conversion.  I think this one works much better than the old technique.  I was able to bring out the details on her jacket and give her some hair back.

Model: Jessica Taken in 2011.