These represent the last of my favorites from the Joshua Tree shoot last week. It's very interesting to me that as I keep going back to the originals, I'll spot images that I had previously overlooked. The artist in me wants to continually manipulate my favorites. I loose all sense of time while in Photoshop. However, the reality is that - Photography is also my Business. It provides my family and I a terrific life. For most of my life, I've focused on the my art, and done well in business. For the past year, I've immersed myself in business ideas to expand the reach and impact of my art. I love my "job". It's exciting to pour energy into my passion. These photo field trips are building up a library of images I will make available as fine art prints in galleries and on the web. How will you turn your passion into profit? If you cannot do that, photography will just be a hobby. Enjoy.
Great shots Joe! I have been keeping up with your rss feed and totally dig your posts. Do you mind saying what you are shooting these "almost non-existant depth of field" images with? Is it one of those Lens Babies? Thanks man.
Posted by: craig davis | March 20, 2007 at 09:57 AM
Hi Craig, Yep - Images 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 were shot with a lensbaby. http://www.lensbabies.com/ I've had mine for a year and I'm just starting to play with it now. It's great for the art stuff, because it takes a while to find your focus point. I don't use it for my weddings because it takes me to long to find focus. Becker suggested an auto focus version... I intend to keep practicing with mine to become faster. Thanks for checkin' in daily!
Posted by: Joe Photo | March 20, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Love the texture on 3 and the use of the lens baby on 4! Great work as always Joe and great words of advice!!
Have a great day!
Posted by: Will Parris | March 20, 2007 at 01:30 PM