Kicks....for kicks

So I have decided to join the "web 2.0" world and hop on the blog wagon.  Why?  Ego..no well perhaps but, I have found loads of information and inspiration through the blog world.  

One of the blogs you should check out is a guy named Chase Jarvis. 

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/

Loads of information and how to things.  This guy has one of the best attitudes (next to mine :) about sharing information with each other.   

So one of the things I have started doing is shooting things that I want to shoot.  You might say well...duh.  I know it sounds simple but after being the biz for awhile, I found myself in a rut of not shooting for myself.  It is very easy not to when you have been fairly busy with work.  I have created a nice niche being an interior / architectural photographer.  Now I want to try new things... old things....whatever.  So over time you will see new images from me that I will call..."things I want to shoot".  Clever title hun...I want to show AB or AD things I would be into shooting.  So here is the first one.  As we go along I will be much better to video or actually shoot the set I'm working with.  So hang in there with me.

The Ed Hardy Kicks

So what I did here is placed the shoes outside on my front curb.  I photograph this in late morning, but used a strobe to overpower the sun.  2400 watts on one head with a snoot.  The jeans are hanging from a C Stand.  I purposely left jeans at "hi water" height.  If I lower them on the jeans then they would not sit right.  These are things you do when you do not have a model on hand.  I then photoshop the pants down to the shoes closer.  I knock out the background and placed this existing shot of downtown Edmonton Canada behind it.  The Edmonton shot was a "pick up" shot I did at 11:30pm earlier this summer while shooting for the Westin Hotels chain.  I did some photoshop to the background to make sure the shoes were the stars.