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As I have been building a gallery of work for Fine Art America, I have been looking through many old negatives and culling interesting work from prior shoots. This image is one that I don't believe I even printed when I first shot it, yet the light play on David Mahoney's well defined back muscles is nothing short of spectacular.

The Difference

This image is another experiment with digital double exposures -- double exposures created using layers in Photoshop. The model is Craig Davidson. The two images I used to create the double exposure are one frame apart on the same roll. That might seem obvious since there is very little difference in Craig's size and position between the two images, but in most cases the images I decide to use for this effect are not adjacent on the roll. Sometimes they aren't even on the same roll. To create this image I used the Photoshop blending mode "difference" which inspired the title of the image.

Labor Day

This image is from the same photoshoot with Dave Clark as the last post. Shot on color transparency film with a Mamiya 645AF. The rich color is a result of the wonderful medium format color transparency film and the time of day. It was early evening. The pool was completely in shade, creating lovely indirect light with a bluish tint.

The weekend I shot this I was renting the medium format Mamiya to evaluate it before buying one. Moving from 35mm to medium format film seemed like the logical step in my artistic evolution. A few weeks later I bought the Mamiya -which I still have but use infrequently. Once I buy a Canon 5d Mark II - which is a 22megapixel camera - the Mamiya will be completely unnecessary equipment for me.

This will date the shoot further. It was the Labor Day weekend before 9/11.

After the Sun

Over the last few weeks I have held off updating my blog because it always seemed that I was just a week away from a new shoot and having new photos to share. Unfortunately I have been plagued with model cancellations.

So this week's photo is another from my catalog. The model is Dave Clark.

This photo is available as an inexpensive print on Fine Art America from my photo gallery and has been getting a lot of views there.

In case you are interested in purchasing a glicee print or a canvas print of this photo or any of the others at Fine Art America, the link to my gallery is
http://www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/thomas-mitchell.html

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This photograph from a shoot several years ago of model Bryan Cramer seems a fitting image for the following announcement. In addition to this blog and the web galleries on my website, my work is not being exhibited and sold on fineartamerica.com. You may visit my gallery on their website by clicking on the following link http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/thomas-mitchell.html?hideadministration=true The images on display at fineartamerica.com range from my earliest to my latest. I will be adding to the gallery every month. Paper and canvas prints are available for purchase from fine art america starting at $37. Fine art america also sells custom mats and frames for every print you buy. Prints are available in a variety of sizes from around 8x10 to 20x30, depending on the image. All the images display there are also available as gallery prints.