Photo of the Day 1/16/16 - Icy Stream

Happy New Year everyone! It's been a couple weeks since my last 'Photo of the Day'. I am continuing the nature/winter theme today.

I really like the strange patterns that are created in a partially frozen stream...

Night Sky

A long exposure of the night sky that I captured while visiting friends in South Carolina a couple weekends ago...

Exploring the Ancient Ruins of Decatur Waterworks...

Yesterday I took a trip to explore the old Decatur Waterworks Ruins near the Atlanta/Decatur border not far from my house. Built in 1906 this former water pumping station supplied the area with water until the 1940s when it was abandoned when a larger water processing plant was opened which supplied a larger part of the metro Atlanta area. It was used briefly during World War II to supply a nearby local Naval Air Station which later became Peachtree DeKalb Airport. Since 2006 the area has been recognized as historically significant by the state of Georgia and has been incorporated into the nearby 'Mason Mill Park'.

I think the combination of nature and graffiti covered debris would make for a very interesting setting to return to for some portrait and/or fashion photo-shoots in the future.



Here is an aerial photo of the facility from the 1940s before it was abandoned: (Care of Dekalb County Parks Dept.)


Bones, my pitbull also accompanied me on this photo taking adventure:

Caitlin

Yesterday morning I had a professional headshot shoot with Caitlin Mangum, a local on-camera reporter. It was a great day for it with good natural lighting. The Downtown Decatur area provided us with many excellent locations to use as backdrops for the photos. I am pleased to say that I think we achieved the balance of business and casual feels that she was looking for in her headshots.

Kenneith

Last night I had the pleasure of working with local singer Kenneith Perrin who has just returned to Atlanta after a performance in LA. He needed some album cover and updated promo photos for his new CD. The shoot was a lot of fun and it was also cool to hang out with someone else who is new to the Atlanta area. We got a lot of great shots on a few different backgrounds and lighting arrangements in the studio. One fun idea we tried was to have him pretend to sing with the lighting equipment set up to provide a 'spotlight' effect. I wanted to share a couple of the shots here on my blog:

You can learn more about Kenneith and hear some of his music at his Reverb Nation Page.

Fun With Lighting

I did a mock fashion shoot last night in the studio with Teagan to test out my new solid black seamless background and barndoor/honeycomb diffuser. I played around with a few different lighting arrangements before settling on this one which I'll probably be using somewhat regularly with fashion shoots from now on. It's a simple setup with the honeycomb on the main strobe at a roughly 45 degree angle with very little fill light.

'Vacant City' Project in Atlanta

A few years ago while living in Boston, MA I began a project called 'Vacant City' the basic concept was that I would photograph very busy urban areas in the early AM hours when they were for the most part 'Vacant'. I have taken a break from this project for the past year or so but have recently decided to continue the project here in Atlanta. This photo is the first of the series to be shot in Atlanta. I took advantage of the emptiness on the streets around 1am on Christmas Morning and took my camera out by Piedmont Park.

I will be continuing to shoot for this project somewhat regularly from now on and will continue to post the new images here on my blog. To see some of the previous images from the series (mostly shot in Boston, MA) you can view the 'Vacant City' gallery on my website.

Halloween Masquerade

Happy Halloween 2012 from Jason Ginman Photography!

Here are a few samples from a Halloween Victorian Dress Fashion Shoot from Earlier in October.

A sample from today's test shoot...

I've been very busy these past few weeks, keep an eye out for some new work going up in the website portfolios soon!

I just made a few big updates to my portfolio website. I added a few new photos and took down a few older ones. Check it out and let me know what you think of the new layout in the galleries. jasonginman.com

Kennel Visit

Recently I was contacted about doing some photo work for an animal hospital in nearby Tucker, GA for their new brochure. Today I spent some time photographing in the Kennel area of the hospital where they board the dogs and cats.

These are a few of the shots from today, I attempted to not just get pictures of the pets in cages but to reveal some of the animals personality to show them being happy and relaxed in their temporary homes. Some time in the next couple weeks I will be returning to get some working photos of the staff and some portraits of the Doctors.

Guess Who?

This was a bit of a test shoot experimenting with pushing the limits of my usual style. I hardly ever shoot digital photos in black and white. I felt that with the right theme it might still be able to work for me, in this case a 'vintage' advertising look.

What do you think?

Model & MUA: Teagan Marie

Captured with a Nikon D2Xs SLR Camera with a Sigma 28 - 105mm Lens. (set at 28mm). Natural lighting from the sun coming through a full length glass door.

Flytraps: Part 2

The new Flytrap Images I that I mentioned in my previous blog post 'Flytraps: Part 1'.

As you can see this plant is much larger and has red 'jaw' leaves. It had recently caught insects with a couple of it's 'heads' so I was about to get some shots of the 'mouths' both open and closed.

This will be it for now for the Flytrap macro photos at least until I acquire my next plant.

Flytraps: Part 1

As some people may know, raising Carnivorous Plants is somewhat of a hobby of mine. These photos of a small Venus Flytrap were taken last summer using a macro lens on my Nikon D2Xs, my reason for posting these images now nearly a year later is that I am planning to revisit these types of images tomorrow with a new much larger Flytrap plant which I have recently acquired.

If all goes well it may become a new personal photo project of mine. Macro 'Portraits' of each of my carnivorous plants as my collection grows could be a fun concept to explore and expand upon.

What do you think?

A New Way of Sharing

Today I got myself into gear and decided to start using this Photo Blog to tie my Website and my various social networking sites together into one cohesive 'experience'. From now on instead of making similar updates or posting the same photo to my pages on several different networking sites (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, & LinkedIn to name a few) I will be posting the majority of relevant information and new photos that I wish to share here on the Blog, then sharing that post across my pages on other sites. You may have noticed that I have already begun using this method for my previous few posts on both my Facebook and Google+ pages.

I feel that this is a more efficient, consistent, and professional way to manage sharing my images as it keeps them centralized in one place yet still allows them to be shared, viewed, and interacted with by people on social networking websites just as easily as always.

What's your name?

I've been watching this spider each day who lives between my kitchen window and it's screen since I moved into my new place earlier this month, earlier today I caught her wrapping up a snack... Does anyone know what species she is?

The World's First Digital Camera by Kodak from 1975

I stumbled upon this article on Kodak's website while looking up information about cameras, I thought it was pretty interesting so I figured I'd share it here on my blog. Although the methods have changed, "Film-less Photography" has definitely prevailed.

"It was a camera that didn’t use any film to capture still images - a camera that would capture images using a CCD imager and digitize the captured scene and store the digital info on a standard cassette. It took 23 seconds to record the digitized image to the cassette. The image was viewed by removing the cassette from the camera and placing it in a custom playback device... There you have it. No film required to capture and no printing required to view your snapshots. That’s what we demonstrated to many internal Kodak audiences throughout 1976. In what has got to be one of the most insensitive choices of demonstration titles ever, we called it “Film-less Photography”."

Read the full article here: http://pluggedin.kodak.com/pluggedin/post/?id=687843

Full Moon

Full Moon over Atlanta, GA. 3/8/12