Steve G. Bisig, Photographer

Since I was taking my daughter to the public library, I thought I might grab a few books.

The first is titled B&W Printing by George Dewolfe and from quickly glancing through the book, goes into depth on black and white images from conception, photographing and post processing.

Since I’m a fan of Washington state history, I also picked up the book title Exploring Washington’s Past which gives a brief history of all the areas throughout the state. Some very interesting reading.

The above image was photographed with my Apple 3GS iPhone.

Last August, I was fortunate enough to quicky email back a reply in order to get into an invitation only session photography with Chase Jarvis. The first 25 replies back to his email received an invitation to his studio in Seattle. It was full in something like 90 seconds.

In addition to the Seattle area photographers, there were quite a number of photogs from around the US and Canada that flew in to attend the session.

After meeting at his his studio, the group walked over to the InnerSpace Indoor Skate Park where Chase’s crew set up pro lighting to use throughout the venue. After Chase gave a short talk on how he approaches action photo shoots, he turned everybody loose to photograph the hard-working athletes that volunteered to show off their skate borading skills. All you had to do was plug in the provided PocketWizard and start shooting.

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After writing my post from yesterday, titled “Unnatural Reality”, I came across this post from Scott at Weekly Photography Tips titled Unattainable Beauty. In Scott’s post, he features a video from the Dove Evolution series.

The video shows the transformation of a model through makeup, the photography session and retouching in Photoshop into something unattainable. After viewing the video, I immediately had my daughter watch it so can she can learn that what you see in magazines is not reality.

If you can’t view the video directly, follow this link.