Tag: SoCo
Continental Club Hot Rod, Austin Texas
by John Rogers on Mar.26, 2010, under Architecture, Austin Texas, Music, Travel
The Continental Club in Austin Texas is another one of those iconic landmarks that are a part of every city. When I saw the old hot rod parked in front I pretty much had to take the shot. Unfortunately, the lighting was not good. If you look through my images you will find that I really don’t shoot much mid day. I really prefer late evening or early morning light. To make matters worse, The Continental Club sign was back-lit & quite blah. In order to try & get the image to pop I did quite a bit of (some may say too much) post processing. I smoothed every thing out to give more of a painterly feel & although the neon sign was on, I hand painted in the neon to increase it’s relative brightness. Now that’s it done, I really want to go re-shoot under more favorable light.
Hey Cupcake!, Austin Texas
by John Rogers on Feb.07, 2010, under Austin Texas, HDR, Travel
One of the standards of Austin’s South Congress or SoCo area is the old Air Stream ‘Hey Cupcake‘ trailer serving up outrageously yummy cupcakes. (No they are not paying me to say that.) This was actually shot as a test for an upcoming photo shoot. More details (and photos!) regarding that soon.
