Paul Fraser
October 25, 2007
ƒ/2.8, 1/800 s, 100 ISO
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This weekend I had the opportunity to take some portraits of my friend, and regular reader, Paul Fraser. It was a lot of fun.
He’s a budding composer and needed some professional portraits to help amp up his public image. So, Paul, his Wurlitzer, and I went to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden with that giant cherry on a spoon sculpture.
I’m a cloud person. I’ve known for a couple of years now that I am obsessed with clouds. I could spend hours staring at them, and I do all the time. So, when I was shooting Paul up against a lush green backdrop and I noticed that the clouds were looking really cool, I whipped out the fisheye lens, got uncomfortably close, and took this shot. I hope you like it.
Full Moon
There’s a full moon tonight that Jerry and I will be taking full advantage of. We don’t have much of a plan for locations, but I have a feeling that it’s going to be legendary.
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October 26th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Wow, Joe, you really did well there. I like it, does he himself? I’m sure he will. I see you also tagged this with “smile”, I think that’s one of the great bits here that make this an awesome portrait. When I need a bit of an amp, I’ll let you know.
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October 26th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Thanks Nils. I’m glad you like this one. I’m pretty happy with it, myself.
As far as I know, Paul likes it too. I haven’t talked with him in person about it yet, but through email he seemed to. If he stops by here, maybe he’ll chime in and let us know.
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October 26th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Yes, I like it! I think I was laughing at Joe during this photo. I like the thin film covering the top of the junipers, and how the clouds burst out above it. I have some crazy elephant-skin smile lines here, too. Great work, Joe.
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October 26th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
You definitely need to do more “people” shots–the last two photos that you posted are dynamite.
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October 31st, 2007 at 12:49 am
great work joe, i appreciate your work,
keep it up!
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November 1st, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Awesome photos you’ve got here! I came here from 9rules to congratulate you for being one of the Weblog Awards Finalists. There were 4000 nominations and only around 500 finalists, so be proud
Congrats x millions!!!!
9rules Network is also one of the finalists. Read who the others are in Notes.
ENJOY the voting period (that starts late Thursday evening as they have said now).
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November 1st, 2007 at 7:18 pm
@Lifecruiser: thanks! I’m glad you like my photos. And, thanks for the heads up on the Weblog Awards. I’m honored to be included in the finalists and will be looking forward to seeing who wins.
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December 28th, 2007 at 12:41 am
I don’t quite like the processing,i see some PP artifacts around the edge of the subjects…
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January 10th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Hey Joe. I love this shot of Paul. The angle and perspective makes it a kind of subtle caricature. What kind of post processing did you do on this one?
How’ve you been?
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