Carl Weaver Photography

Remember recently I posted some delicious photos of Valentine’s candy and referenced Dawn Casey of Casey Multimedia? Well, Dawn finished the video interview with me. Here it is:

Still gearing up for Valentine’s Day. I shot this while being interviewed by Dawn Casey of Casey Multimedia for a video project she is working on. Go check out her site and tell her Carl sent you.

Valentine’s Day isn’t that far in the future, so I thought I would do a few shots in that theme. More to come.

I was handed a couple boxes of various jelly candies last week and told to shoot them in a number of different ways for a promotional piece. I had jelly snails, tarantulas, alligators, hearts and even something I could not quite identify that was shaped a little like a chocolate kiss. Or maybe a nipple. I’m not entirely sure what it was.

There were also jelly shoes. The shoes were the most fun of all because they are representations of an actual interactive item we use every day. Arranging them in different ways can make us think of walking, standing, creeping or other things we might actually do. I think these are visually interactive in a way that a gummy alligator is not. Lots of fun to shoot.

I was recently given the assignment of photographing these lollipops from the Melville Candy Company. They really are that beautiful and they taste great too. Of course, one of them arrived broken so I had to eat it to put it out of its misery. Go check out the company and see some of the great stuff they make!

Do you need your products photographed? Let me know. I’d be glad to help you out.

And finally, a single calla lily for you. And in case you were wondering, that thing in the flower that looks like a banana candy really is a banana candy. Great creative use of other candies, in my opinion!

I had a great visit to Albuquerque a couple months ago, during which I took some artistic shots in the very scenic Old Town section. I love the extremely shallow depth of field possible with this lens. Everything is clear and crisp, too, a feature well known to those who have used many Pentax lenses.

I spent this past weekend in Harper’s Ferry, WV. Usually I am not particularly interested in photographing monuments and standing in line with the other tourists to photograph what someone decided was the best view of the town. However, I almost always travel with a camera.

You never know what you might find along the trail you know not. For instance, just this morning, my wife and I wandered into Beans in the Belfry, a lovely coffee shop and restaurant in Brunswick, MD that was built in an old church. Check out some of the photos I got of the place and the old stained glass.

We got good coffee, a great meal and just a bit of church this Sunday. So maybe the church part doesn’t count. However, I find it difficult to gaze upon stained glass and not feel something. I guess the church part counts after all.

If you are out that way, be sure to stop in. It’s a great place.

I know – my last post was all at f1.4. Why didn’t I use that setting this time? Honestly, I just got a wild hair and decided to mix it up a bit. What do you think? I took these while escaping the rain with my lovely wife a couple days ago at a new coffee shop in DC’s Chinatown neighborhood.

I recently got a new fast lens and wanted to play around with it and noticed that a number of people on Flickr were doing something similar – shooting at 50mm at f1.4. If f-stops confuse you, that’s okay; I have a handy dandy tutorial on them. The shallow depth of field allows for selective focus and as a result some really neat imagery.

I walked around the Georgetown part of Washington, DC a couple days ago on my lunch break and shot these. Let me know what you think.