Don’t Try This at Home: Skate Magazine Shoot – Topside Soul Grind on Double Kink Rail

Your looking at Mark Wodja (pronounced; Voe-da). Mark is a smart guy. In fact, he’s a psych major at Boston University where he studies the mind, but apparently he’s lost his own. Don’t get me wrong, he’s quite lucid. On the surface he’s just a friendly mid-westerner like myself, which made spending half the day photographing him a real pleasure. Still, the guy must have a couple of screws loose to skate down a handrail like this one. Adding to the sheer lunacy of the drop involved, there was a brutal wind blowing directly over the rail. Gusts picked up velocity as they funneled thru the outside corridors of the adjoining apartment building. I saw my second camera, which was on top of a sturdy tripod, begin to go over a few times. (Gee, I hope my insurance carrier isn’t reading this, for several reasons come to think of it.)

The wind was much more of a problem for Mark. Getting blown off the top of that handrail would have meant

Barton’s Way Media would like to thank everyone involved with the Personal Journalism Wedding Site Shoot.

We first introduced you to Carrie and Louis in an “Unforgettable” HD cinema wedding trailer that was posted to our HD Vimeo channel a few days ago. It has been a popular clip, getting 314 views in 6 days. Not too shabby considering we haven’t done anything to create an audience for it outside of submitting it to a few groups on the initial posting. But I digress.

The thing that I want you to know about Carrie and Louis is how generous they were to give up an entire Saturday to model for

Before picture alluded to in previous post.

How do you like that title? Pretty bad huh? Well, I thought a photo as ugly as the one above ought to have a title to match. This raw unprocessed image looks a whole lot different than the processed one below. Still it’s amazing what’s possible with today’s pro equipment. When the original 1D came out ( I still have my two), shooting at ISO 3200 wasn’t even an option let alone having an image with enough “raw” information to look this good after processing. 7 years of evolution has created a big difference Indeed! -Jack

Upcoming New Wedding Trailer for Vimeo Channel You “Won’t Forget” in 2 hours.

You’re looking at a wonderful couple, Carrie & Louis, who recently married in CT. We filmed and photographed their big day with our good friend and one of the best wedding photogs in the biz, Mr. Joe Pecoraro. The images looked so good, we thought we’d whip together a little trailer just to show off a little bit. The shot above spoils the ending, but I can’t get a screen shot of the edit at the moment because, well… it’s being edited. This image above is a still image of their first kiss as a married couple. I was at the back of the room, so I used a Canon 1DIII with a 300 2.8 lens. Camera settings: RAW, Aperture Priority, ISO 3200, f 3.2, 1/30 sec. I used Adobe Lightroom to do the post-processing. I should post up the before picture so you can see what a difference a little processing can do. -Jack