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Today I wanted to know if a red filter on a Canon 5D Mark II would deliver a rich dark sky if the camera was set to shoot black and white. These images were shot as RAW images with camera’s user profile set to monochromatic. For the unfiltered photograph of the sky, I opened the shutter speed up 2 1/2 stops so that the exposure would have the same brightness. Sadly, the RAW CMOS image sensor did not deliver the dramatic results that using a red filter with black and white film produces. The resulting black and white images showed a very slight difference in the blue sky’s tone. I may have to return to film for the red filter effect. Yes, there are RAW processing options that perform red filter effects, but they look strange to me. Have a nice day!
All processing was performed in Canon’s Digital Photo Professional program.
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Yancy Shoot and RORSHAK cubed: Video+Website+Exhibit
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Yancy Shoot, Rorshak Video+Site+Exhibit
Welcome to the New Year! Without hesitation I present to you the apex of my January excitement:
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YANCY
Its exciting for me to include some pictures of Yancy in this newsletter that I hope you will see popping up elsewhere in the world. Yancy is an entertainer who specializes in helping young people have the time of their lives through song, and travels from coast to coast delivering the good news with a guitar and a microphone.
For our day together, Yancy delivered 5 giant metal Vegas-styled letters and gave me the challenge of figuring how to work them into an image. Though the possibilities are quite endless, we took a simple route and kept the set graphically open, leaving some space for words and other potential design elements. With a bed of Plexiglas underfoot, we were able amplify the existing character of the light-up letters using their reflections, and the set took on the character of a stage where Yancy seemed to feel right at home. I touched them out, but keeping the heavy metal letters standing up is fishing line tied to a long bar suspended over the set. Yes, the set did eventually fall into the background paper and made for a bit of light-hearted drama as we worked to resolve the matter. All sandbags were in place, but they were no match for the heavy metal JESUS letters!
We put a few more sets together to help round out her publicity portfolio for the upcoming year. Here are two more from our shoot day:
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Christmas Credits and My Big Cat Mr. Meow Riding a Sled
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Happy Holidays
Thank you for being a part of this newsletter throughout this last year and providing me an audience with whom I get to share my stories and photographic adventures. Your readership is very much treasured, and compels me to keep things interesting!
In celebration of Christmas, my fiancé AnnaLiisa and I created this special self portrait in the spirit of our favorite claymation Christmas special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Though the Bumble and Yukon Cornelius were unavailable join us for the shoot, we had to operate as stand-ins. Mr. Meow refused to lead the sleigh, however, and insisted that we pull HIM! He’s a very demanding fellow.
A Thank You List
As a closing note to this year-end newsletter, I want to express my gratitude to the following talented artists and stylists who’ve aided many of the shoots featured in the newsletter in the last 12 months:
Food Photographer Kyle Dreier (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/02tf2c): Kyle continues to draw clients to Nashville with his jaw dropping dedication to providing the best culinary imagery bar none. Without his applied skills, leadership, and the employment it has provided to myself and much of the local photo community, most of my work would not have been financially possible. His work continues to expand into inspiring new territory and raises the bar of expectation across the industry.
Rock and Roll Photographer Scarpati (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/gvuf2c): Scarpati’s wisdom and experience are an oasis for any knowledge thirsty photographer. He has helped me in countless ways throughout the year, published a book that you must purchase here (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/wnvf2c) and selflessly shared lots of tips that anyone can use in this old podcast (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/cgwf2c) that I dug up from a deep place in the internets which will no doubt offer him great embarrassment.
Giovanni Delgado, Makeup Artist (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/s8wf2c): Gio provided many of my subjects with not only a great looking mug, but his contagious enthusiasm keeps the set bubbling with optimism. One of my favorite of our many adventures together includes the girl’s makeup in this blog (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/80xf2c) post.
Rebecca Neenan, Stylist (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/otyf2c): Rebecca is a shooting star, and I’ve been fortunate to catch her while she’s still accessible to my small corner of the art world. Her work on the Swedish Ice Fishing Team shoot, as well as her help on the Charlene Ava shoot have re-enforced my growing belief in collaboration as being an essential element in success.
Tianna Calcagno, Makeup Artist (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/4lzf2c): Tianna’s daring makeup application on the Swedish Ice-Fishing Team established a momentous precedent for the on-going cut-out series. Read all about it here (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/ke0f2c).
Cory Basil, Artist (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/060f2c): Apart from being a worthy chess opponent, Cory has bailed me out numerous times, sometimes pushing the shutter button when I’m short an extra hand, or helping me move set pieces in the studio, or helping talent find just the right pose simply by following his instincts as a natural born art director. Cory just put out a really cool poetry book that you can check out by clicking here (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/gz1f2c).
I’d also like to give a shout out to my photographer friends and associates Ian Riley (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/wr2f2c), Brian Griska (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/ck3f2c), and Danielle Atkins (http://e2.ma/click/s0mij/wj4js/sc4f2c). Their help and talent continue to make me want to perform with greater excellence.
There are so many more folks whose helpfulness deserves acknowledgement. However, this short list will have to do for now. Please use this email as a helpful resource in the future if you need talented artists for any level of your next production!
I wish you a great end to 2012, and may your 2013 be even better than this year!
Rory
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Cutout dolls, Flying folks, Piano Portraits
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CHARLENE, CHRISTIAN, BROOKE
Happy Holidays! May you get to spend special time with your loved ones throughout the next few weeks and may your home be full of delicious food and cheer. This little newsletter has been very still for most of the summer and fall, and its time that some of this year’s past adventures receive a small glimpse of the spotlight.
CHARLENE AVA
In accordance with the Swedish Ice Fishing Team paper dolls image (refer to the original post (http://e2.ma/click/gf2aj/wj4js/sk62zc)) Ms. Charlene Ava was a good sport and let me create a fantasy world for her, too:
Charlene is an amazing vocalist for hire way up in Manhattan, but is developing a solo record of her own. We made a few images that will hopefully help her along the way.
CHARLENE AND CHRISTIAN: FLOATING PEOPLE
Also as part of Charlene’s shoot, we started another new series: pictures of people floating in the air. Here are the first two utilizing that idea: with Charlene on the left, and my new client and friend Christian Smith, who let me kick start his modeling portfolio by coming to the studio for an afternoon:
BROOKE WAGGONER
For those who may have missed a few of my (http://e2.ma/click/gf2aj/wj4js/8c72zc) when the following picture was buzzing about, here is one of my friend Brooke Waggoner who was able to use it in this (http://e2.ma/click/gf2aj/wj4js/o572zc) posting. Brooke was able to play the new record during our shoot and I have no doubt that you will be hearing it echo across the heartland on television and in radio throughout 2013. Keep up with her at (http://e2.ma/click/gf2aj/wj4js/4x82zc) and snap up her many albums-they are especially fitting for when you’re nursing a hot tea on a cold day. A perfect gift! ;) Do you remember when we made a RORSHAK picture together last year? (Remember (http://e2.ma/click/gf2aj/wj4js/kq92zc).)
Note the ‘black piano keys’ made from foam core that ate up my xacto blades, each supported by an apple box from behind Brooke. The spotlight’s shadow made a tie-type shape on the background-further reinforcing the reference to musical symbols. That was incidental and discovered on set. Serendipitous!
In an upcoming letter, I look forward to sharing some of Yancy Richmond’s fabulous new photos, a few more from Brooke and Charlene as their projects develop, as well as highlights from this year’s model shoots.
EXHIBIT
A RORSHAK exhibit is hanging at (http://e2.ma/click/gf2aj/wj4js/0ia3zc) in East Nashville through the end of November, and will be announced at a new location in December with the next newsletter.
A commitment to brevity forces the conclusion of this note for the month, however. If you need pictures anytime at all, please let me know!
Thank you so much for being a part of my newsletter simply by reading through it.
Rory
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Rory Rorshak: Tape Transfer Photography Exhibit + Spaghetti Gospel Cigar Performance w/ new record available. $5 @ The Building in Five Points. 9pm TONIGHT!
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Hola from the Swedish Ice Fishing Squad, Tape Transfer Exhibit and Concert
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Rory Rorshak show dates announced.
The Gospel Cigar will be lit:
1. April 14 @ 8ish in Hillsboro Village at the Red Earth Trade pop-up store. FREE.2. April 23 @ 9 at The Building in east Nashville WITH RORSHAK Tape Transfer Photo Exhibit!!! $5 BYOB.
3. June 19 @ 8ish at The Basement, Nashville. $3 normally.
Make a calendar note and bring a friend or a date after dinner to hear something interesting. The new Gospel Cigar CD will be available. Free mustaches and RORSHAK magnets at every show.
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Philos, rock and roll band from Nashville. Circa 2009.
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RORSHAK in Popular Photography this month.
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Blitz Turned into April Exhibit
Great news: last night’s blitz photo exhibit was invited by the ownership of ‘The Building’ to keep hanging for a while. So the RORSHAK Tape Transfer series is up @ ‘The Building’ @thebuildingnash venue at least til May. Killer venue. 1008C Woodland Street, Nashville, 37206. Check local event listing to see when the doors may be open. They’re in a little room with a few big lights :)! and there’s a new, really far out piece: “high fashion ice fishing from the arctic circle” to make it worth your while. @katymaki @annaliisamaki
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Blitz RORSHAK Photo Exhibit- Tonight Only
@ “The Building” behind Beyond The Edge, Five Points, east Nashville. 7 pm til ..?…—-the tape transfer series and a few other goodies along with a host of other artists’ great work.
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An artist must project the very same ambivalent and dispassionately critical eye that one may use for assessing other artist’s work towards one’s own—-to see if it still passes the test of scrutiny and excels at stimulation.
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Ugly Mugs Music+Photos Sat March 24 7pm
Laws and Stacey Rushing+RORSHAK. Live Music+Tape Transfer Photo Exhibit+CD Release of The Gospel Cigar by Rory Rorshak. Ugly Mugs, 7-9 pm sharp. Saturday, March 24. FREE.
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Ugly Mugs Sat March 26: photos and music
Stop in to ugly Mugs bohemian Mecca to soak in a performance of my new record, view the tape transfer photo series, and to fall in love with the sounds of Stacey and Laws Rushing. Bring a date or a friend! It’s free, and there’s great food, coffee and ice-cream nearby! Last night for the photo exhibit!
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