swimwear ad

One of my photos used in a newspaper ad for a local swimwear store. I love Oregon but swimwear doesn’t always go well with snowy mountains. A wetsuit (or drysuit this time of year) is usually more appropriate.

Still hoping to add to my swimwear port and hopefully soon will have a whole series of coastal beach surf swimwear shots on a real life, warm beach– so stay tuned!

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

beauty hair photo

Hair stylist extraordinaire Julie Ruckman and fantastic mua Terri Lodge at work on model Kellie.

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

hair/beauty photo

hair Julie Ruckman, mua Terri Lodge, model Kellie

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

before and after

Testing out the new computer build and threw this photo together as a sort of “quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” method of seeing if my workflow was still possible on this machine. It is! And my calibration issues are mostly solved too– though I did have to buy a new calibration colorimeter device.

The photos are the first and last images from a shoot last week. model Kellie, hair Julie Ruckman, mua Terri Lodge

Back to regular blog updates soon!

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

the most facinating post yet

So I haven’t been posting much here lately because I’m switching over my computer to a freshly built 64-bit OS system with a quad core and 8 GB ram. I made the big leap a couple of days ago, and everything is working beautifully (love the new GPU and also getting faster web surfing with a wireless n router/card combo and also love x64 web browsers) but one glitch remains:

My Eye-One monitor calibration doesn’t seem to work!

That means I’m currently working on an awesome dual-monitor, quad core, x64 OS system with no monitor calibration. I’ve done some crude calibration within the gamma settings provided by the graphics card, but it’s still a ways off. Hope to get that solved this weekend and be back to regular posting soon!

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

B-17 bomber

Had a chance to fly in a B-17 on Monday. Which is a really, really big deal considering there are only about a half dozen still able to be flown.

Anyway, the shot above is courtesy of Fred Joe of The Oregonian. It was obviously before we took off on the flight– I was trying to get a good shot of the belly gun turret. For more info on the plane and the reality of that belly turret, check out the audio slideshow I produced on the plane’s visit.

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

natural beauty shot

Shot using a scrim behind the model, and reflector in front. The sun created the shadows of the plants on the scrim!

model Kellie, hair Julie Ruckman, mua Terri Lodge

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

Model Kellie, hair Julie Ruckman, mua Terri Lodge

Pete Springer Photography, Portland, Oregon

more hair and beauty photography

Model Kellie, hair Julie Ruckman, mua Terri Lodge.

I know the light is harsh on the above image but I love it exactly for that. There’s no change in hair and makeup between the second and third shot here– just a change in lighting. I love the raw feel of that lighting change– gives it sort of portrait mixed with beauty shot look.

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hair

Here are four basically un-retouched images featuring the amazing hair styling handiwork of Julie Ruckman. Model Kellie, mua Terri Lodge.

Pete Springer Photography, Portland Oregon