Gig: Local Table Summer Issue

I've been keeping myself busy with gigs and travel.

Here a few shots from the newest edition of Local Table.

Artisan Bread from Twin Forks

Corssair Distillery 

Sweet Stash Cupcakes 

Collier and McKeel, Tennessee Whiskey 

All images ©2012 by Martin B. Cherry

Gig: Local Table

Duck Breast on Sweet Potato Ash

Nashville magazine Local Table gave me a really cool assignment to photograph Table 3, a semi-new restaurant in the Green Hills area.  All the food, by Chef Will Uhlhorn, are from local farmers in the Middle Tennessee and Central Kentucky Region.  Pick up a copy of Local Table in Nashville.

Pork Belly with Polenta Cake

Chef Will Uhlhorn

Many thanks to Lisa Shively and Table 3.

New gig: Table 3

This was shot with my iPhone!!! I did use my DSLR for the actual shoot. The gig was for a local magazine Local Table. More to come after the shots go to print.  Also, check out Table 3.  

Image ©2012 by Martin B. Cherry

Photographer of the Month: Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark is street photographer who inspired my photography in college.  Her revealing, uncropped images were an inspiration for me as a photojournalist.  I never liked cropping my images too much.  I shoot for what I wanted in the camera rather in the computer.

I believe in today's world of iPhones and camera-phones, everyone does some form of street photography now.  Usually for humor, cuteness, updates of their own life or news, but Mark's photograph's are deeper than that.  They are reminiscent of paintings of realsim in the 1850's.  Like she explains in the video, it reveals truth.  Mary Hellen Mark is the modern day realism artist.




(via New Yorker Magazine)

Video of the Week: Bentley Ad

Richard Morris shows how he composited several images for a Bentley promo photo.  Watch, learn, enjoy!





(source, jalopnik.com)

Say Whaaaaaaaaa!

Photo by Justin Quinell via Pinhole Photography

This is a six month long exposure by a pinhole camera! Those lines are from the sun from winter to summer solstices.

source: Gizmodo

This is AMAZING

So this guy got a Polaroid camera in 1979 and from that date until his death in 1997 he took one picture a day with it. Then so his efforts wouldn't be in vain, two of his friends digitized all of them and posted them online.

I like to thank my friend ruth for this link.

There is so much you can say about these photographs - how some are great photos and some are just fun snapshots. Some are very personal and some I can relate. One of the friends in the 1979 series looks like my friend Chuckles. (click the hyperlinks to compare) Also i love the instant film format. The unedited rawness.

I have been basically doing this with my D300 when I first bought it. I think I'll starting doing this myself, while also including my normal posts of whatever I have been posting about. This is also similar to my friends (Vanessa, Lauren and Pang) recent commitment of taking a self portrait everyday for one year. Peep them out as well.

Diptych

My senior show in 2005 was a series of Diptych Photographs of people. Two or three people who were connected in some way. All next to each other on a roll of film. It's been awhile since I've done one of these. Last one was a triptych of children jumping into a pool for The Journal.

I've been wanting to get back into black and white as well.

This is a photo of my friend Katie. I photographed this about a week before I left WV. These two photographs were actually in sequence. When I saw them in my camera shortly after, I felt these shots had nice flow. It seemed like a glimpse into a story that the viewer had to start and finish themselves. Which is natural and, i guess , the point of making di(tri)ptychs.

Also I feel its a nice portrait of my friend.

Clouds Up

I love clouds and photographing them. I like the colors, textures and shape.; if/ when I get HD video capabilities, I will capture their movement.

Is that too lame? Despite my love, I think it's a lame subject matter to photograph.

While photographing the Madison Bowling sign in the previous post, I decided to go HDR on the pretty cloud up above. I photographed it freehand first, then photographed it as a HDR image using a tri-pod.

So I wonder... was this worth to HDR this? One of the two images above is HDR and the other is not, which one is HDR? and which one is better? (im asking you, the readers)

As I have been on my HDR spree, I don't want to take the time to take HDR images when I don't have to... it takes a lot of time, both in shooting and editing, to do one of these.

PS - what do you see in the cloud? a bird, face, whale or just floating water vapors clumped together in the atmosphere

Edgehill

My sis told me about this place called Edgehill Village near Vandy. It's a cool little shopping district. The coolest thing about the place is that they have a Fat Straw. My first one ever after hearing so much about how good they were. I really enjoyed it. Hit the hyperlink if you don't know what I am talking about.

The horse head was found in an empty architect office. Or maybe it was some sort of mafia sign.