Lost America

Steve McIntyre doing his best George Clooney grin at the heavily weathered movie-prop piano at Paul’s.  Nice shiny new choppers there Steve-o.  That’s Pinkerton’s Hells Angels helmet too-what a great prop.  Red, yellow and blue-gelled strobe.  All hand-held and unsynced.  He had to stand very still between pops.  36-second exposure, short enough that the moon […]

Thanks for keeping the place neat and tidy Dave!

My co-teacher Joe Reifer . . . uhh, taking 5 . . . late on the 3rd night at one of our workshops.  Lit with strobes.

  Steve! This cherry post-war Silversides bus has appeared in over a dozen films, most recently, The Master and the upcoming Jackie Robinson movie.  It spends it’s time off parked at Paul’s.  Hand-held strobe, placed to get that funky shadow.

I try to shoot every student that takes my workshop, posed someplace in the yard.  Ungelled strobe on Denver from camera right, the rest was lit with the Protomachine flashlight.  Or did I do this all with strobe?  I don’t really remember!

Set up on the floor of a decaying portable building, in storage at Paul’s Junkyard (still one spot available for the May workshop here!).  That big green planet outside the window sure looks close, hope we don’t crash into it.  Protomachine flashlight set to blue, purple, green and red.

The rare split-level Greyhound Scenicruiser at Paul’s Junkyard (only 1000 made).  I’ve shot a number of these in various junkyards over the last 20 years and every single one of them reeks of overflowing toilet inside.  A naaaasty design flaw, apparently.  I love how that table/platform seems to be galloping alongside the bus.  I moved […]

A couple more pieces in the vast truck cab collection at Paul’s Junkyard. Full moon (hidden behind the big truck’s sun visor, leaving most of the scene in silhouette), 148 second exposure.  In that two minutes I used the Protomachine flashlight to light the inside of the cab and the spindles of plastic tubing purple, […]

This prewar Chevrolet pick up is crammed into the crowded Northwest corner of Paul’s Junkyard.  Many workshop students have struggled with shooting this truck, so I wanted to give it a try.  Its cut in half, just behind the cab, so it sits with its nose pointed in the air.  I got down very low […]

Want to learn how to do this kind of photography?  I’ve had 2 previously closed spots open up for my May 2013 workshop.  Here’s your chance to spend 3 nights shooting with, and learning from me at Paul’s amazing high desert junkyard and movie-prop storage facility.  There’s also several hours of technique demos and critical analysis […]