Gavin Seim

September 12, 2010

Ghosts of Clepsydra Geyser – West Yellowstone

I’m on the road, headed to Minnesota for my HDR & LR workshops. It’s a month trip with my wife and kids and we’re getting to see amazing things. Many of which were in Yellowstone. I just did an episode on Photo Couch on Yellowstone, so if you listened to that, you know I was awed by what we saw there.

We discovered Clepsydra at the Paint Pot Geysers during our first drive into the park. Just in front of it out of the frame is the bubbling Spasm Geyser. It turned out to be an incredible sunset and after walking the boardwalks a bit, I knew that this was what I wanted to focus on. I set up the tripod and spent some time planning my frame in a way to being out a beautiful but ghostly feel. This is the result.

For Photographers. How it was made:
I don’t like to be boring, but I’m going to get a bit technical for those of you who want it. The rest can just enjoy the sunset. Because this scene was so stunning I did a few setups, but as I mentioned in the last Photo Couch I’m trying to take more time in composing an planning my fine art images. In the end I think we end up with better work by doing so, than just trying to shoot every angle.

September 2, 2010

Gavin Seim, Lighting, news, Photography Podcast, Pro Photo Show Podcast, ProPhotoShow

Pro Photo Podcast #71 – Things I've Learned

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30x70 Family Wall Portait on Canvas — This is the 30x70 classical framed canvas Gavin made from the large family project discussed on this episode. More links below.

Today’s Host... Gavin Seim. This week Gavin look at news, a bit on LR3, the stolen photo and a look at the technique and results of the large family portrait, the underwater senior session and more.

Podcast #71 forum discussion:

Notable Time Indexes:

00:00 Introductions and news
01:40 Lightroom 3.2
04:44 Stolen photo update
08:35 Canon Lenses still coming off
12:00 Introducing Power Workflow 3
14:19 Things I’ve Learned
16:50 Fusion Wedding Videos
23:30 The Twin Cities Trip
25:30 The large family portrait
41:43 The underwater portrait session.
52:24 Pick of the Week.
52:12 Closing nerdyness.

PS. These are things I’ve learned. I’m only 25 so I have a lot more to learn. I reserve the right to learn better in the future 😉

Gavin’s new Power Workflow3 LR Presets. Use code PPS to save 15%

Gavins new fine art blog. f164. A travelogue and deep analysis journal.

August 12, 2010

Gavin Seim, news, ProPhotoShow

The f164 Project

by Gavin Seim: In a few weeks I’ll be loading our the trailer as myself and my family will embark on a month long photo adventure. It’s like nothing I’ve ever done and I’m very excited. The final destination will be Twin Cities MN, where I’ll be teaching my HDR and LR workshops, but the trip itself will be all about photography. I intend to try new things, explore new places and push my skills a bit further.

With that in mind, plus the fact that I plan to embark on these sort of adventures more regularly, I’ve started a new site. Don’t worry, I’m not closing my other projects. But I’ve been planning for some time to make a site for my fine art work. I did that, but with a bit of a twist. Instead of just making another portfolio site, I did what I wanted to do. I made a travelogue and a journal. A book of notes if you will. It’s called f164.

It’s not that I don’t enjoy Pro Photo Show, Seim Effects, or my client blogs. But this is more like a diary where I can share what I learn, show what I’ve made and let me hair down (though my hair is not very long).

While on my trip and beyond there’s likely to be quite a bit of activity on 164. I hope you’ll join in and share our journey. Pro Photo Show will remain active, and some favorite posts from f164 may even make it over here. But if you want to see a bit more of the emblazoned adventurous photograoher, come on over to f164.

PS. On a side note, I’m pretty proud of the f164 site. I built it all in WordPress, using the Twenty Ten theme and a lot of CSS tweaking.

August 8, 2010

f164, journal

Silver Waves of Grain:

Silver Waves of Grain. | Near Moses Coulee in Central WA | This image is available in print.

Making landscapes comes with the privilege being able to focus on one subject. Unlike with a wedding, where I need capture a multitude of stunning images, the goal with fine art is a single frame. Lately I’ve been focusing on the idea of a large effort going towards the single frame. Sometimes the more work it takes, the more pride I feel for the piece.

I am satisfied with this and it will probably appear in my Signature Collection as a 30-40 inch piece. That does not happen every time I go out, so I’m happy. It’s a simple landscape, yet it embodies northwest farming without clutter or distraction and does so in a way that I think in unique, the sea of blurred grain surrounding the lone family of grain bins which will soon have their bellies filled with the very ocean that surrounds them.

For Photographers. How it was made…

July 27, 2010

Gavin Seim, news, ProPhotoShow

Gavin's HDR & LR Workshops coming to Twin Cities.

Summer is moving right along. Come September I’m hitting the road for a month in our new trailer taking a photo tour with my Family. My destination is Twin Cities and when I get there I’ll be doing a 3 day HDR workshop followed by my 1 day LR Power Workshop.

I won’t make this long. You can click below for info on either workshop. Whether you’re local or traveling in, I look forward to seeing some of you there. There’s also talk of some kind of a PPS meetup, so stay tuned… Gav

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