Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen, 2004

I was the Tour Manager for Van Halen in 2004 - lovingly called Van-Hagar  - and was out on the road for the first 40 shows. Each night I would go into the audience and attempt to capture a classic Van Halen image.  The photograph above, in my mind, is one of those iconic VH images. Frankly I was amazed at how he was able to pull that off - but as you can see he is in great shape...

Yesterday while processing the image on my iPad2 James Ensor's painting, 'Christ's Entry into Brussels' came to mind. Seemed perfect to use this painting as a catalyst for today's post. The first time I saw the actual Ensor painting was at the Getty in Los Angeles several years back. Having only viewed this image in books or online I was stopped in my tracks by the enormity of scale - 99.5 inches by 169.5 inches...

Original image captured with a Nikon D300, 70-200MM lens
Image processed on the iPad2 using:

Photostudio
Filterstorm
Perfect Photo
AutoPainter

I am doing a workshop at Foto Care in New York next Saturday June 4 - see poster below. I wil be covering all aspects of using you iPhone and iPad to create images like the one above. Click here for more information.

Tables and Chairs

Happy Memorial Day....

Captured with prohdr - hand-held
photostudio
iris
filterstorm
autopainter

Boats, Portree, Scotland

Boats, Winter, Portree, Isle of Skye

Iphone4 - proHDR - tripod
Perfect Photo
Iris
Filterstorm
Photostudio

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Click here: iPhone/iPad Workshop - see below....

Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar 2004

Caught this image of Sammy Hagar during the 2004 Van Halen Tour - so many stories to tell....

Mermaid Parade

The parade is on my mind this morning. This year the parade is June 18. Quite the event if you can make it - perfect for iphone-ography - great color and wacky people....

Canon 5DMKII, 24-105MMlens
Transfered to the iPad
fileterstorm
perfect photo
photo studio
iris

Reflection_Lexington

Sky  - Lexington, KY

Central State

Another image from Central State Asylum. The phone book was from 1992.....Looks like they closed the facility and simply walked out the door. Eerie place frozen in time....

Captured using TrueHDR on a tripod
Perfect Photo
lo-mob
filterstorm
iris
photostudio

Peter Frampton

Peter Frampton, Nassau Coliseum, 1976

I am in the process of revising several music images for use in a gallery show called 'Music and iPhone'. This show will start in Carmel, Indianapolis at the Renaissance Fine Art and Design Gallery beginning September 9. The show will move to Toledo, Gallery 20, opening on October 9. 

Today's image of Peter Frampton was originally shot on 35MM using a Nikon Series Camera, circa 1976. It was scanned recently and processed using the iPad2. This image will eventually be printed on canvas for the the two shows. 

Applications used to process on the iPad:

Artista Haiku

Iris

Filterstorm 

Perfect Photo 

Photostudio

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Bicycle - Central State Hospital

Bicycle, Central State Hospital

 After my Apple Store presentation on Saturday a friend got us into Central State Hospital for the Insane. The hospital was first built in 1848 and was abandoned in 1994.

The first building we walk into has this plastic children's bicycle right in the doorway - I am thinking if this is the only image I make today the trip was worth the price of admission. Oh, did i tell you about my attraction to bicycles....seems like they keep appearing at the strangest places and times....might have to do a show just on abandoned bicycles and what they mean to me...

This image was captured using TrueHDR on a tripod. Pretty much used my current workflow for processing:

Perfect Photo
Artista Haiku
Filterstorm
Iris

By the way the Apple Store presentation went very well. The folks working there could not have been any more helpful. Used my iPad23 hooked to a large Apple Monitor and that was a bit easier then the old set-up of camera over iPhone system. The only drawback, if a drawback at all, is that you can not see the stylus making the move on the screen. Other then that the iPad2 is a game changer. One cable to the screen and you are in up and running...

Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel, Genesis

This image is part of the Music and iPhone series -  circa 1974 on the Genesis Tour for the double vinyl concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The original photograph was made at Howard Steins Academy of Music on 14th street in New York City.

Original image photographed with a Nikon F Series, 105MM lens, Ektachrome Slide Film