My primary involvement with photography has always been photo retouching and collaging, using images provided by the client or purchased. Sometimes I also art-direct photo shoots with photographers, which I enjoy very much (when I'm not bored between setups!).

I now also offer my own photography services. Some samples of my photography are shown below. I have my own 35mm Nikon SLR equipment, and a Nikon digital camera that I've had lots of fun working with. My digital camera has also made the move into panoramic photography a natural step. In this case the term "panorama" refers to the "stitching" of several overlapping photos together into one image. I have a few samples of panoramas below. I also have an Epson 850 and an Epson 1270 printer for printing.

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One complicated area of photography involves “color management.” This is a rather technical skill involving special software to allow accurate scanning of originals, display of colors on monitors, and proofing on color printers, using what are called “ICC profiles.” Apple’s “ColorSync” software, and software available from others, uses these ICC profiles to define color accurately between these devices. I’ve spent considerable time developing my own color management workflow so I can virtually guarantee color fidelity.

All of the images in the “ Studio Photography” and “ Outdoor Photography” sections have ICC profiles embedded to allow proper color display on your monitor; if you’re using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Macintosh that is. The Internet does not yet offer a reliable way to ensure that these photos look good on every platform and browser, though Explorer for Macintosh only now includes support for the use of “embedded ICC profiles” in web images. (If you have a Macintosh running Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, select "Preferences" under the "Edit" menu, then select "Web Content" in the list under the "Web Browser" section and make sure the "ColorSync" box is checked.) You can test the effect on your Macintosh by viewing any given image (with an ICC profile embedded) using Explorer with ColorSync enabled, then viewing the same image in Netscape Navigator which doesn't support this. Or just turn ColorSync on/off in your Explorer Preferences as described above, and try to note the difference in color and value. The difference is especially obvious in the “Studio Photography” photos.

If you use a Windows or UNIX browser, there is no such support for color accuracy, and the colors will look different to you (likely a bit less colorful, and different contrast and brightness). In the future I’m sure that browsers for Windows will support ICC profiles... in the meantime you could open them up in an aplication that does support ICC profiles, like Adobe Photoshop. But if you calibrate your monitor carefully, the display should be close enough, and this is something you should do regardless of which platform and browser you use. For a quick method of monitor calibration, go to the "Computer Darkroom" web-site. Note that this just makes sure that your brightness and contrast are close to optimum; it does nothing to ensure that the color balance is correct.

Photo Manipulation and Collage:

• NEC product photos. I art directed the photo shoots, and created these photo manipulations.
   
• Compton’s product catalog cover (Adobe Photoshop).
   
• Data sheet photo for the Radius “System 100” (Adobe Photoshop).
   
• Manual cover for the Radius PrecisionColor and ThunderColor video cards (Adobe Photoshop).
   
• Packaging for the Radius “PrecisionView 21” monitor, the “MultiView 21” monitor, the “Precision” series video card, and the “Thunder” series video card.
   
• Photo manipulation and collages for Apple’s “The Guide to Getting Started in Multimedia Development” brochure, including close-ups of an ear, an eye, lips, and a smile. Also, a TV screen with a screen image I created in Strata StudioPro, and a monitor and keyboard, a woman with monitors, and a Power Macintosh System, each with screen images I added in. There were many other images as well.

Studio Photography:

These samples were all created using my digital camera. As I mention above, my photography services are offered for those times when the schedule doesn’t permit hiring a true professional.

• Mountain Bike Detail (shot with my digital camera using one speedlight and two ordinary incandescent lamps).
   
• Male model (digital camera, one speedlight mounted inside home-made “softbox” to the right of the camera with a white “bounce card” to the left, and a black velvet backdrop).
   
• Female model (digital camera, one speedlight mounted inside home-made “softbox,” slightly to the right of the camera and behind the model, and another flash just above the camera.

Outdoor Photography:

These were all retouched and adjusted to varying degrees, mostly for accurate color and to remove blemishes.

• Panorama shot of the Pioneer Inn on Maui, Hawaii. In this case I shot 5 photos of this historic hotel and stitched them together. The curvature is casued by the extremely wide angle of the view.
   
• A panorama of a meadow near Stanford University, created in the same manner as the ones above with 5 overlapping photos.
   
• Or, to get even crazier with panoramas, a VR panorama from the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This one is a 360 degree VR object that you can navigate through. Uses a Java viewer -- no plug-ins or viewers required!
   
• Daisy (digital camera in macro focus mode).
   
• Point Piños Lighthouse, Pacific Grove (digital camera).
   
• A white pelican, and an endangered brown pelican (35mm film camera).
   
• A California gull (35mm film camera).
   
• Bryce Canyon National Park (35mm film camera).
   
• Floatplanes in Alaska (35mm film camera).