Large-Breasted Tire-Iron Woman Seeks Chat

I was checking my email and had to make a screen shot of this advertisement to share on the blog. It has appeared daily for a few weeks, and is especially interesting. The model is rather masculine and very large breasted.

I once took a college photo class where we critiqued images. This certainly would have made for a delightful class discussion.

I noticed that Facebook allows you to click a 'thumbs down' icon if you find an ad especially unappealing. I wish I had that with Yahoo.

I wanted you to suffer with me for just a moment. We live in an interesting world...

If you have 10 minutes and feel like you're no good at what you do(photographers and musicians especially!), watch this.

My Buddy Brawner

I once was working as a landscaper. The boss assigned me to clear out a deep and narrow trench that was over-wrought with large stones. I broke a number of shovels trying to dislodge a particular rock, and eventually had to call out for help. Along came Brawner, who, with what seemed like his left pinky, lifted the massive element from its roost and discarded it over his shoulder as one might do after opening a pair of socks for Christmas.

Brawner's birthday isn't so far away, and he is simply one of the coolest, baddest, most talented and unique individuals I have ever known.

Here is a picture that I made of Brawner when we were still in school from around 2003. He recorded my band, Copacabana. I dropped the 'cabana' part since the kids these days keep confusing it with 'Copabanana.'

The album is available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/copatunes3 and is a pretty righteous rock record.

Dogs and Neighbors

As I pass the small dog, who,
in his small fenced-in world,
has little fear and all necessities provided,
but begins to bark.

His neighbor and friend-
the neighbor dog-
answers back with gusto.

Their unseen but alerted friend-
the neighbor dog's neighbor-
joins the chorus.

The owner of neighbor dog steps out and begins to loudly rebuke neighbor dog,
perhaps to make a gesture of neighborliness on my behalf.

The neighborhood resounds with uproarious nonsense.

At first, I was tempted to kneel beside the fence that keeps the small dog
and lend him a soft word and the scent of my hand,
but now it seems best to pass without pause.

The Philos Challenge

Welcome to the "Adventure's in Photography" by Rory! To begin, please allow me a brief business-minded offering: If you need a pretty cool gift to give for Christmas, you may consider the following 3 pretty cool options: Choice A: purchasing a photo shoot for a friend or family member (I'll happily send you a quote via email), Choice B: if you have starred in one of my past shoots/events, consider purchasing a photo as a gift from my photo vault here. Choice C: if you starred in a past wedding that I have shot, consider giving one my huge books as a gift by clicking here. Now, allow me to change from salesman to storyteller...:) In this month's adventure, we invade an aged, enigmatic downtown church to create the latest album cover for the rock band Philos, whose latest single "Defying Gravity" has been collecting grandiose attention from coast to coast and has earned them the special audience of Steven Schwartz, who originally wrote the tune for the musical Wicked. Their ultra-modified version of the song is invigorating, and demands an appropriate image to accompany the promotion of the single. The leading picture, which succeeded in becoming the cover for their iTunes image, is an example of either providence or dumb luck in action. We had a number of large, empty rooms at our disposal with tons of windows, but started the shoot late in the afternoon and we were left with only a few minutes of natural light in the sky. I had to compensate for the darkening sky by leaving my shutter open for 4, 8, then 15 seconds per exposure- a technique that, for better or worse, creates sci-fi light effects when combined with perceivable motion. I wanted to avoid having to use Photoshop to composite the image, and so I recalled one of the first neato photo tricks that I ever learned..utilizing multiple flash pops in a single exposure! The Magic Bush I had the honor of meeting photographer Gregory Heisler when I was 17 and very curious about photography. He described to me how to leave the shutter open and use multiple flashes to impress two different scenarios into one frame, as demonstrated by this photo that he had recently shot of George Bush Sr. George had to look in one direction and be lit on one side, the flash would fire, and then George would turn his head towards the other direction, and another flash would fire from the other side-giving him two faces in one frame. It was my understanding that this was done in one exposure, without the use of sandwiching two negatives. His 'behind the scenes' description was as transforming to me as when Spiderman found web glands in his wrists. I was ready to have of fun with visual fiction! I started to invite friends over to my house and make photos of them holding their own head in their hands, standing beside themselves, slugging out differences between themselves, etc. It was a like David Blaine discovering what he could do with a bathtub. My Take on the Birth of the Multiple Exposure In the early days of photography, exposures lasted for many minutes, requiring head clamps to be placed behind the necks of the subjects (ouch!) in order to keep them from becoming blurry in the photograph. Eventually, the chemistry used to record light was improved and became more sensitive, so that artificial light could be used to make an image. Some photographers utilized a hybrid technique, as represented in these black and white images: Thomas Eakin's "History of a Jump" from 1885 and Harold Edgerton's image of Densmore Shute from 1938-employing both a long shutter speed and powerful pulses of light. Oh yes...back to dumb luck: I hadn't intended to make a double exposure for the Philos image, but the light in the sky had grown so dim that my exposures required 15 seconds to get any light exposure from the windows. It was an impossibility to have the boys of Philos remain absolutely still for that length of time without my head and body clamps handy (Where did I put those again?). So what could be done to make a successful image? As you can see, the boys looked especially dramatic laying down on the ground. We juxtaposed the vulnerable, sleepytown-version of the boys laying on the floor with the pretense of a standing 'rock star' look-and we came out with the final image that leads this article. For the shot, we turned off all of the lights in the room, I pressed the shutter to fire the first flash, then the boys fell to the ground, assumed their sleepytown positions, and I called out for our faithful assistant Robin Giannattasio to fire the second flash. Note in lead image how the window light exposed in the area where Kenny's chest was when he was standing-giving the scene a ghostly look that, by dumb luck or providence, fit wonderfully with the theme of "Defying Gravity". I am grateful to Kenny, Micheal, Robin, and Vince, for their especially generous attitude during this shoot--they embraced my far-fetched idea, they were willing to lay upon a dirty floor in their funky duds, and they arranged the wonderful location for us to use. They are noble sports! If you would like to visit Philos on iTunes--just click here. Until next month, many cheers and Happy Thanksgiving! Rory Rory White Photography 1609 Linden Avenue B Nashville, Tn 37212 615.631.0106 | chilidogcowboy@yahoo.com

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The Branded Sons Mailout

Welcome to the "Adventures in Photography" Newsletter by Rory! This installment of adventures in photography pits us face to face with the fierce Branded Sons (brandedsons.com), who had just picked an alley fight with some unlucky opponents in an old Midwestern township. I was able to teleport them from the 1930s and bring them into the studio for a few photographs. They were distraught, obviously, but offered great expressions which we will now savor. Please note the extra-ordinary battle scars, compliments of Tianna Calcagno, who just happened to have her brass knuckles on hand the day of the shoot. She was able to inflict the exact amount of violence upon the Sons according to my 3 aesthetic preferences: Brutal, Extra Brutal, and Tarantino Brutal! Kudos Tianna! To my other photography friends: Tianna is interested in doing more makeup for shoots if you need it, or she can simply provide security for your next social event :) In these two detail shots, you can see the bruises and cuts detailed in Tianna's work. You may also note that the light on the subjects' left shoulder and face is from a reflected light created by directing a powerful flash head into folded foam core board (a trick I learned from Master Ninja Photographer John Scarpati), the light coming down from above is from a flash head with a narrow grid. The eyes were far too dark-so I put a long strip box in front of their faces at low power--which allowed me to get a sparkle from each of the Sons' eyes. The background was created from cardboard science display boards purchased at Hobby Lobby. The lines were drawn with the largest Sharpie marker that I have ever seen, and I believe that I am still trying to rebuild brain cells that were lost during the inadvertent inhalation that occurred during pre-production. Laws, the Branded Sons charismatic front man, described for me the look of the alley from which I had teleported them from, and I just so happened to have a similar alley behind my back yard. The Sons each suddenly produced a weapon, cigarette, or other contraband, and were ready to pose. They were amazed by our surplus of power lines (shown here), and were also quite taken with other aspects of our post-modern era: cell phones, glow in the dark objects, and my ultra suave teleportation unit (Honda CRV), of course. Thank you ever so much for sharing this adventure with me! I'll see you next month! :) Rory Rory White Photography 1609 Linden Avenue B Nashville, Tn 37212 615.631.0106 | chilidogcowboy@yahoo.com

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