Music Rehearsal

Los Angeles Rehearsal

Out in LA working on a project - made this image using Camera+ and the iPhone 4s. Additional applications were Photo Toaster for the color and the frame and Filterstorm for sharpening and the selective focus management.

Learn this and so much more in the following workshops:

Whidbey Island 4 day iPhone/iPad/IOS5 Workshop


The Last-Pixel Show Workshop in Carmel, Indiana

Toledo, 1Matters and the iPhone

New iPhone Friends

The Music, iPhone and Other Neighborhoods show in Toledo went very well. Sold 8 pieces at the opening to benefit  1Matters.org, a charity that works to find housing for those, for whatever reasons, are not able to house themselves. From my personal experience last weekend I learned that our stereotype of the un-housed is not really correct...I was totally moved the dedication of the volunteers that work with 1Matters....folks who give of themselves and their time every day to make someone else feel comfortable - my hat is off to them - there are too many to mention here....

In addition to the gallery show, we created a silent auction that runs through October 30 to raise money for 1Matters. The images are in the photo below - note the Mellencamp photo is a canvas print signed by John, and, the Billy Joel (traditional print) is also signed. There is also a canvas print of Leonard Cohen from The Beacon Theater and a more traditional print of Mountain (Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi) from Dec 1974 at the Felt Forum in New York City (now the theater at Madison Square Garden). These images can be viewed by clicking here...

The Birdyboo bag below is also part of the silent auction - it was donated by Kathleen Stevens who runs the Renaissance Fine At and Design Gallery in Carmel, Indiana. Kathleen's description of her art is below"

'Birdyboo: A pique assiette work made with vintage bits of china, stained glass, rhinestones and victorian findings. The artist loves to use found items that possess a beauty all their own, creating a new life for bits and pieces that might otherwise be lost to time.  Birdyboo is a piece from a collection that honors re-birth of the creative spirit and what that can mean to individual artistic expression'.

 

To make a bid on the silent auction contact Eric Hillenbrand at the 20 North Gallery in Toledo, Ohio....Eric will advise what the last bid was....This is for a great cause... the phone number is 419 241 2400

Music and iPhone

Eddie Van Halen, 2004

I spent most of my working life as a tour manager for various rock bands before retiring, well there are those who say I have not really retired, in May 2008. I almost always had a camera close by during these years....

So fast forward and my good friend Ken Leslie and I get together and decide to create a gallery show to benefit his organization, 1Matters.org which is based in Toledo, Ohio. I first met Ken while on the road with John Mellencamp a few years back and greatly admired his tenacity in working to help one person at a time overcome not having a place to live. Ken went out and found a space in Toledo, 20 North Gallery, to host the show. After several discussions between myself and Ken it was decided this was the right time to pull out the archives and show some of my music images - time to rescue them from the shoe-box's they lived in for years.

Having been a child of the 60's, San Francisco, etc, my thought process is to take these images out of the standard musician on stage genre and make them a bit more like my perception of live music...music being the fabric of my life since the mid-sixties. To that end several of the images will be printed on large stretched canvas.....other will be printed on Epson 9900 and 3800 printers using archival Epson papers.

Some recent landscape and personal black and white images will also be part of this show. More on that in the coming days on my big boy camera blog, http://hsandler.blogspot.com. 

Click here for more information about the Toledo show. Additionally, this work will be shown in Indianapolis, Indiana at the Renaissance Fine Art and Design Gallery.

The new image in the header is Billy Joel, circa 1985, performing in Tokyo at the Budokan.

Eddie Van Halen

Another image from the 'Music, iPhone and Other Neighborhoods' series.......These images and more of my traditional work will be shown in Toledo, Ohio at the 20 North Gallery  to benefit 1Matters,  an advocate with and for those who have lost domestic autonomy. Watch this space for more information.

Photographed on the 2004 Van Halen - Sammy Hagar Tour with a Nikon D300 and processed in the iPad2 using:
Transfer
Filterstorm
Iris
Photostudio
Perfect Photo
Texture of live lighting situation

Leaving Maine

Rockland, Maine

After the long week in the John Paul Caponigro and Kevin Ames compositing workshop I was up and out early on Saturday, 530AM, looking for one last image of Maine. Ended up down by the dock in Rockland, Maine and caught this sunrise both with my iPhone and high resolution camera.

This is the iPhone version.

TrueHDR (tripod)
Photoforge
filterstorm
Dynamic Range

Rock and Roll

Concert, Portland, Oregon

So many way to get creative with your iPhone. Check out my iPhone classes on the left side of this blog. Come learn ways to get your creative out with your phone, err, Camera...Everything from Capture, and resolution through Printing....


This image hand held at a concert in Oregon a few years back.

Captured with Camera+
Pic Grunger
Photostudio
Perfect Photo
Photoforge