Doug Boutwell the occasional odd thought or image
New Blog Format (Again!)
So, for reasons unbeknownst to me, my blog decided to stop working this morning. I was kinda over the blougbloug thing, so I just said screw it, let’s start from scratch. Updated to the latest version of WordPress, which is pretty neat, and installed a new theme called f8, which is very different from what [...]
Room With A View
Sorta got lost retouching this shot, and now it’s noon. This shot didn’t work out 100% the way I wanted, but I learned a few things from the process. The moral of the story is, if you’re shooting something stationary, and you’re lighting it, shoot several shots with different combinations of the lights firing. It [...]
Chenin and Max
Shot my amazing wife and beautiful little boy this afternoon. Just a quick portrait of a mother and her child while we still have this amazing weather. Kinda a hack retouch job, but I have an early morning tomorrow… I’ll tweak it some more later I suppose.
Ten Years Ago
I got a wild whim to go poring through old negatives a couple days ago, and came across some shots from college. Took me back to the days when photography was fucking magic, before I was all jaded… where every time you picked up a camera it was just awesome to press the button, and [...]
Too Many Cameras!
We were taking inventory of all our gear and I just had to muse at how much stinking photo equipment you tend to collect over the years. We found stuff I didn’t even know we had… for instance, I had no idea that we have 3 5D’s, nor that we still have 3 550EX’s. I [...]
Last Dance With Type 809
When Polaroid decided to stop producing film a while back, I was pretty bummed. I had just recently invested in an 8×10 processor and started shooting the 8×10 color film (type 809) from time to time, and really, really liked it. I had one box left when the announcement was made, and that was the [...]
Happy Birthday to Maxfield Banks Boutwell
Born Feb 16 just before 2am. 8 lbs, 3oz, 19″ long. Our beautiful, little baby boy. Welcome to the world, little man!
The Backcountry of OC
Yesterday I hit the wall on babywatch. Couldn’t just sit around and wait for Junior to come for another minute without pulling my hair out. Had to go do something. Weather was gorgeous, so I went outside for a few hours, discovered some backroads that I didn’t know existed, and took my new 1Ds MkIII [...]
Pre-WPPI Wisdom
Have fun at the tradeshow, everyone! Wish I could be there, but Chenin’s about to pop any minute now, and I wouldn’t miss baby Max’s 0th birthday for all the photo-blankets and Fong-Dongs in the world. So go out and buy some photo shit that you don’t need and will regret buying later. It’s good [...]