Project: Real Estate

   Recently I decided to start a new project. To sum it up briefly I'm doing a small series of photos with hopes of a real estate office having interest in prints. I have never really tried to make the concept of real estate related art... interesting but that's why I was interested in doing it. Because I've never done it before and it sounded like a good creative challenge.

    There is a house just 3 houses West of me that I have taken notice of many many times. The front of it is plain and ordinary and blends in perfectly with my bland ordinary street. My street is not a bowl of spicy chili. It's more like a bowl of boiled ham water.. Like the rest of the town, and most small towns for that matter.

Here is a shot of the side of the house I like, to give you an idea of the before:

 
    I started off picturing black and white artsy shots of house features.. I may go back to that yet. And then I thought to myself, how could I do this in a way that's similar to my normal stuff? So I decided to go the route of HDR with post-processing;Three shots, some do more, for now I'm sticking to 3... Then running them through Photomatix Pro(a cool HDR program) Then photoshop adjustments... Then Topaz(a sweet Photoshop plug-in) Then some other random things. After showing it and getting input from friends and family. I eventually got to this point:

             

     I wanted it to look semi-surreal. I really like how the colors pop in the HDR version below, but I kind of felt like they took focus off of the house itself.

Here's the same photo with the same white fadeout I added to the black and white sky:

Intro

         Greetings and salutations! Odd I would say that. It just popped into my head as I decided to finally start writing my first post. Then after typing it I questioned my own spelling of 'salutation' and decided to double check it. While doing so I discovered it literally means: A salutation is a greeting, in particular a formal greeting used in a letter. So by saying greetings and salutations you are basically saying hello... twice. Now that I know that I will likely never use it again in that manner... Or will I? Muwahahahaha!
   
       I guess I should let you know the point of this blog. I'm using this as a platform to share with readers my love of photography, the journey I take to get the shots I want, and a way to offer print sales to those who may be interested... And to help justify the way too many hours I may spend on editing photos. Consider this part travel blog, part photo blog, and part.. Well whatever you want it to be. I'm sure I'll figure it out as I go along.

  
Thanks for reading!
-Dan