Personal Project | Refractographs

I've been away the past few weeks working on a personal project.  I came across the work of Australian Photographer and Visual Artist, Rob Turney and the gorgeous refractographs he created.  Rob had also produced the only informative tutorial I could find on the Internet, so I decided to give it a try.

I had to work in a completely dark space with no stray light and in my case, this required working well into the late night hours.  I found this project to be incredibly challenging, since these are shot without a lens on the camera.  My biggest hurdle was positioning the piece I wanted to refract to my liking.  No post production (editing) has been done to these images, they are straight out of camera.

Please feel free to check back, as I will be adding more and trying different techniques.

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Evening Fog | Bellevue Portrait Photographer

I was so lucky to take some time off and go into the nearby Snoqualmie valley and take some images during the recent week of heavy fog.  As a local Bellevue portrait photographer, it's a refreshing rejuvenation of creativity that only transcends into my work with my portrait clients.  

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Bellevue Portrait Photographer | Just for fun...

I attend a photography meetup a couple times a month and one of the recent assignments was "Intentional Camera Movement."  This type of photography is so contrary to the final outcome I try to achieve as a portrait photographer.  I could never have imagined how fun this could be, or how inspired I'd be to see what the other members of the group shared. 

Love it or hate it, it was a fun project that included everything from a camera toss, to zooming the lens while exposing the image, panning, swirling and swooshing the camera. 

It got me thinking that I could really create some fun backgrounds for high school senior portraits.  Of course,  my style of photography would cater to the blended much muted color backgrounds versus  the abstracts.  All in all this was a challenging project that left me with a liberating feeling to break the mold once in a while from the kind of shooting I do for clients.

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Bellevue Photographer | Before and After | Personal Project

This is the before (on top) and after (below) of an image I took with my iPhone.  It just started raining and the lights from the restaurant across the street were making these gorgeous reflections on the street.

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