http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeltuuk/tags/cigarette/ Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:56:21 -0700 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:56:21 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2732/buddyicons/43754620@N04.jpg?1256752358#43754620@N04 http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeltuuk/tags/cigarette/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeltuuk/4553465100/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/michaeltuuk/">Michael Tuuk</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeltuuk/4553465100/" title="Half Dead"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3019/4553465100_e18a993221_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Half Dead" /></a></p> <p>I took a photography workshop this weekend and was out on our afternoon &quot;assignment&quot;. The rules:<br /> <br /> (1) Use your widest lens -- 10-20mm in my case<br /> (2) NO headshots or plain-old portraits -- if you're shooting people make them<br /> environmental shots.<br /> (3) NO edits allowed -- images presented for critique in front of the class had to<br /> come straight from the camera w/o adjustment or cropping.<br /> <br /> We were shooting along South Congress that afternoon and I approached this guy and asked if I could photograph him. He graciously agreed and ended up being a great model. You can't really tell from this shot but he is the spitting image of a younger Ed Harris -- really strong facial features, very tough-looking. This is one of the shots that the instructor picked as a keeper out of the 25-ish we were told to submit.<br /> <br /> The &quot;half dead&quot; reminds me of Billy Crystal's line in Princess Bride...&quot;he's *mostly* dead&quot;.</p> Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:56:21 -0700 2010-04-23T17:22:26-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Michael Tuuk) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/4553465100 Half Dead <p>I took a photography workshop this weekend and was out on our afternoon &quot;assignment&quot;. The rules:<br /> <br /> (1) Use your widest lens -- 10-20mm in my case<br /> (2) NO headshots or plain-old portraits -- if you're shooting people make them<br /> environmental shots.<br /> (3) NO edits allowed -- images presented for critique in front of the class had to<br /> come straight from the camera w/o adjustment or cropping.<br /> <br /> We were shooting along South Congress that afternoon and I approached this guy and asked if I could photograph him. He graciously agreed and ended up being a great model. You can't really tell from this shot but he is the spitting image of a younger Ed Harris -- really strong facial features, very tough-looking. This is one of the shots that the instructor picked as a keeper out of the 25-ish we were told to submit.<br /> <br /> The &quot;half dead&quot; reminds me of Billy Crystal's line in Princess Bride...&quot;he's *mostly* dead&quot;.</p> Michael Tuuk portrait sunglasses tattoo dead cigarette coffeeshop congress workshop half photowalk jos southcongress 2010