A few shots from an early morning visit to the Diablo Foothills and Castle Rock regional parks with a visit to Shell Ridge mixed in.
New Online Store
For many years, I have been using Fine Art America for my online store. While the site offers a huge choice in photo products and high quality images, the pricing for shipping was insanely high. In some cases I saw shipping prices over $300. Because of this, I have opened up a SmugMug online store. This store offers high quality images printed by Bay Photo, with reasonable shipping costs. The new site is at:
Lotus Bonsai
I have been lucky enough to spend some time at the beautiful Lotus Bonsai Nursery a few times in the last year. These are a few pictures
Mount Shasta
I visited Mount Shasta recently and took a few pictures.
Sky replacement was done in Photoshop. Original sky was just solid blue.
Return to the Delta Gallery
After being away for 4 years, I am returning to my roots by selling some prints at the Delta Gallery in Brentwood from now until January. Visit the Delta Gallery in the Streets of Brentwood to get a great deal on my prints.
Goodbye to Independence Trail
This week during the Jones fire in Nevada County, we lost an amazing hiking and landscape location in Nevada City. At this moment, we don’t know the level of damage, but we have seen photos of the boardwalks burning. These are a few photos from the location:
Newcastle Lavender Farm
I haven’t been shooting very many portraits the last few months but I did visit the Nescastle Lavender Farm with a return to my roots of landscape photography.
Until Further Notice
With the world shutdown, I thought it would be a good idea to see how it has impacted a normally very busy Broad Street in Nevada City, which is lined with small businesses.
These are the closure signs put up by the shop owners who need our support the most.
Haley at The Book Cellar
When Haley Renee said she wanted to do a concept shoot, I immediately thought of shooting at The Book Cellar in Lincon, California. This used book store is full of great decorations and hallways and props everyplace. Haley wanted to try a sexy librarian concept and these are the results.
I shot with the Fujifilm X-T3, 35mm f1.4mm lens and an on camera flash.
New Domain
Just a quick note, that I now own the domain pepperwoodstudio.com, which will direct you to images shot in the studio.
World Model Hunt Calendar
I am excited to announce that World Model Hunt Magazine selected a few of my images for a 2020 Model Calendar featuring Rosie Petal. Sadly the magazine used the wrong photographers name for the photo credit, but these are still my images. Rosie is trying to get selected for an upcoming issue of the magazine.
Best of 2019-Landscape
I didn’t shoot very many landscape images in 2019, but this is the selection of my best work.
Best of 2019-Portraits
It’s time to feature the images I consider my best of 2019. The selection is made by only my own opinion.
Annaliese
Becca
Rosie
Alex Jade
Laura Tipon
Marissa
Bella
Leanna Sommer
Autumn
Fashions with Leanna Sommer
Model Leanna Sommer visited my studio on Sunday and we got some fun pictures all over the studio and yard. A few samples of our work.
To get the laptop light, I placed some LED lights in front of the computer screen. I also had the model sit on a roll of paper towels to raise her up above screen level. I also had a Godex continuous light to camera right in a strip box.
My Links
Halloween with Annaliese
When Annalise Nobile said she wanted to shoot at Bishops Pumpkin farm, I really didn’t know what to expect, other then a lot of people. I had never visited the farm before but I was really amazed by the size. It was more of a county fair grounds environment vs a farm situation. Not only did we capture some great pumpkin pictures, but we also found some places to get a unique moody vibe.
Pioneer Park with Marissa Mutascio
I had a chance to work with actress Marissa Mutascio in Nevada City this week on a fun portrait shoot. All photos are taken with the Fuji X-T3, 56mm f1.2 and Godox AD400 with a large softbox.
State Fair with Becca
I went with Model Becca to the state fair and captured some fun colorful shots.
Vintage Looks with Laura Tipon
Model Laura Tipon asked me to shoot her around the old homes of Nevada City to help compliment her already vintage look. I am really happy with the results.
Taken in Nevada City with the Fuifilm XT-3 and a 28 inch Glow EZ deep parabolic softbox. Godox AD400 strobe.
This one was shot using natural light as the sun was going down.
Unboxing the Fujifilm Instax LiPlay
I picked up the new instax LiPlay camera/printer. Basically it’s an instax camera that can print from your iPhone over bluetooth. It includes an LCD screen to preview the image before printing. I was super impressed with how easy it is to use. The menus are logical and the iPhone app is simple. The only item on my wish list is the ability to print directly from the X-T3 to this printer. Right now, you have to use the Fujifilm app to transfer jpg files from the X-T3 to your phone, before you can print. The camera also supports miniSD cards, so I added a card so I can transfer files to lightroom.
Camera uses the Instax Mini film and I happen to have a few boxes of expired film going back 3 or 4 years. The color quality for the expired film isn’t too bad.