tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178346912024-03-13T19:48:59.114-04:00ShadowDetails.comThe Photographic Blog of Commercial, Editorial, & Documentary Photographer Patrick Cavan Brown. Asheville, North CarolinaPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-32048439899404106872011-03-26T18:04:00.003-04:002011-03-26T18:40:54.722-04:00Steve Jobs Ruined My WebsiteYes, it's true, Steve Jobs ruined my website. Every website I've ever had I built myself... from scratch... I learned flash, dreamweaver, html, and designed and built all of it for all of them. My last website was black... I thought it made for a good stage... it helped isolate the pics, kinda like watching a movie in a dark theater. But then Steve went and decided he was going to turn all of Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-59180168348376563412011-02-14T15:29:00.004-05:002011-02-14T16:05:43.653-05:00Cascada de Tamul... a Big Freakin' Waterfall!Attention paddlers and wanna-be paddlers!!!! Visit your local pro-shop and pick up the latest issue of Rapid Magazine! The good folks up there in the nether-regions of North America have always treated me well. In this latest issue you'll see a kayaking pic a took in Mexico of my friend Ben Kvanli. Ben is an Olympic lunatic who must paddle every day, lest his brain explode. This photographPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-804537186633896532011-02-07T13:45:00.014-05:002011-02-11T00:02:33.011-05:00Meet George Hincapie...Meet George Hincapie... George has raced in the Tour de France 15 times! He is one of only 2 riders to have raced on 8 winning teams. George currently races on Team BMC and rocks his own line of clothing, Hincapie Sportswear. George is a total badass, and a completely nice guy.I have had the good fortune to shoot for the good folks at Bicycling Magazine a few times now. When their photo editor,Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-24691949940971770162010-11-15T12:14:00.006-05:002010-11-22T13:07:49.557-05:00How is it lit? Free print to the best guess...How is it lit?In a selfish effort to completely whore myself and my blog, I am giving away a free print (up to 12x18) to the person who diagrams most accurately the setup from the photograph above. It is the most intricate lighting setup of all the portraits featured in this layout, and I wanna see who guesses it... and it ain't all that hard. Please include, if you've got the voodoo, the underPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-71182837808328083722010-11-09T14:48:00.010-05:002010-11-09T15:21:32.962-05:00Don't Use Crappy Photographs!!! Generic Photos Ignored OnlineI saw this first on the NYTimes Blog, then on A Photo Editor, both referencing this study by web consultant guru Jacob Nielson (considered "the world's leading expert on Web Usability" by U.S. New and World Report)... now I am jumping on the bandwagon and presenting this very important information to you, my prospective clients.The lesson: Bad photos don't work... Generic stock photos don't workPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-27696625184750201942010-10-30T11:21:00.007-04:002010-10-30T13:32:30.082-04:00The Greatest Puzzle...I never really post just the spreads, but I think I will this time around, because this is one of my all-time favorites. The super talented folks at WNC Magazine whipped this one up. Huge props to Denise Szakaly who just got promoted to Art Director... Yay Denise! As a photographer I've seen my images butchered in a bad spread, and I've seen them flourish in a good one... here you see them Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-59308374984421784652010-10-13T15:35:00.005-04:002010-10-15T13:27:40.711-04:00My Second TV Commercial...Another exciting week for me, as my 2nd TV commercial is airing! I am shooting a short series (3?) of :30 spots to promote ASAP - the Appalachian Sustainable Agricultural Project and MTMA - the Mountain Tailgate Market Association. We are highlighting different farms in the area, folks who sell their food at the tailgate markets. The second farm highlighted here is East Fork Farm. These are Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-91593127846020532092010-10-08T09:33:00.008-04:002010-10-10T23:45:22.186-04:00My First TV Commercial...This is a pretty exciting week for me... my very first produced-all-by-myself TV commercial is airing! I am shooting a short series (3?) of :30 spots to promote ASAP - the Appalachian Sustainable Agricultural Project and MTMA - the Mountain Tailgate Market Association. We are highlighting different farms in the area, folks who sell their food at the tailgate markets. The first farmers profiledPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-35089254822568746262010-09-22T13:00:00.004-04:002010-09-22T13:46:08.743-04:00Our State Magazine - Cherokee NC CoverGreetings to all! Yes, I know that it has once again been forever and ever since I've posted on this thing called the blog... sometimes I just want to take pictures and forget everything else... I'll try to get better at that.This is October's issue of Our State Magazine. My first cover for them. Mike Crowe Jr is the Cherokee on the front... an awesome guy, Mike portrays legendary Cherokee Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-2883717899400925792010-06-23T10:47:00.007-04:002010-06-23T11:55:00.186-04:00Meet Wesley Corn...Meet Wesley Corn... a fellow photographer. I've never photographed a photographer AS a photographer... I've used photographer friends for models, photographer friends for stand-ins, etc... but I've never been asked to shoot a portrait of a photographer and represent his or her craft. I'm not sure if I was nervous or excited about this shoot, maybe both. Thank heavens Wes is a cool dude... Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-61477481644974782732010-06-16T10:49:00.008-04:002010-06-21T15:40:31.625-04:00Meet Dustin Spagnola...Meet Dustin Spagnola... the second artist I shot for WNC Magazine's On The Verge contest. Dustin uses images of famous folks he finds via Google, blows them up really really big, and incorporates them into his oversized, super fantastic paintings. As a photographer that idea bothered me: using someone else's images without credit or compensation... so I knew going in that I would ask Dustin Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-55952288662490556972010-06-08T09:04:00.013-04:002010-06-21T15:37:45.044-04:00Meet Severn Eaton...Meet Severn Eaton.... He's a cool cat: a father, a husband, a ginger-ale brewmaster, and an artist. Severn's paintings are right up my alley: they have meaning. In one of my favorites black helicopters emerge from a wasps nest... and in another a soldier walks among a field of poppies. I shot Severn as the first in a series of western North Carolina's top emerging artists for WNC Magazine. IPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-39246785864177838082010-04-22T11:47:00.009-04:002010-06-08T10:11:17.836-04:00Meet Wayne Dickert...70mm :: 1/2 sec @ f8, ISO 50Meet Wayne "Wayner" Dickert... Olympic paddler and all around awesome fellow. I shot Wayne over the winter for the Canoe & Kayak Beginners Guide magazine (on newsstands now). We had one of the toughest winters on record out here in North Carolina, and when C&K asked me to shoot Wayne I don't think they had snow and ice in mind... but snow and ice is what Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-75367687657903647012010-04-13T11:27:00.007-04:002010-04-13T12:57:24.352-04:00Meet Russell Stall...35mm :: 1/200 @f/4.5, ISO 100One of the things I love about this job, location portraiture, is the challenge... seems cliche, I know, but that's one of those things about cliches: they are often true. I get to shoot a lot of "everyday people"... not rockstars or movie actresses, but folks like Russell Stall who run Greenville Forward... Folks with an office, a cluttered desk, an assistant, andPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-33555168199943399172010-03-24T10:53:00.011-04:002010-04-13T13:15:02.499-04:00Meet Kym Petrie...59mm :: 1/125 @f/2.8, ISO 50Meet Kym Petrie...Kym is the Executive Vice President of the Downtown Greenville Development Initiative, ThriveDowntown.com. Their basic goal is to lure businesses into the downtown area... They've got a neat website, check it out.One of the frustrating things about shooting for regional magazines is the lack of budget. If I need an assistant I've got to call in a Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-14181680863188492852010-03-15T11:38:00.009-04:002010-04-13T13:16:11.063-04:00Meet Peter Waskiewicz...55mm :: 1/160 @ f/5.0, ISO 100Meet Peter Waskiewicz of Sow True Seed. A couple of years ago he starting a small seed company in Asheville that is now exploding... they specialize in open-polinated, heirloom, and organic seeds. We dug tilled the garden this weekend (my back hurts) and plan on filling it with Sow True's seeds very soon... I'll include pics when I update this post, so check backPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-18350062290026603872010-03-01T11:50:00.005-05:002010-03-01T12:15:40.650-05:00Xaden... Firestarter!Meet Xaden, the Firestarter. This is one in a series of many (planned) portraits highlighting ordinary (heroes) pictured in creative situations around the United States... I'm calling the series Has Anyone Seen America Lately? The title came off a used t-shirt I bought from a little old lady in a dung hut with a tin roof in Nowhere, Kenya. It was blue shirt, very thin cotton, and had on it an Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-57425460878124134242010-02-22T18:24:00.007-05:002010-05-04T15:40:22.904-04:00The Land of Popular Photography...I was recently approached by Popular Photography Magazine and asked to contribute to a "How To" lighting column. They specifically asked to use a shot I produced for a personal project in which I photographed a group of small town police officers... Pop Photo wanted to use this particular shot to highlight solutions to obstacles presented when shooting into the sun. I said "yes" immediately, Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-63446284824034884272010-02-17T22:26:00.002-05:002010-02-17T22:30:05.093-05:00Life @ The Top...Mount Mitchell circa 1920Heading up to Mount Mitchell, NC for a few days... shooting a picture story on the lives of the Park Rangers who live on the highest peak east of the Mississippi during the winter.... over 4 feet of fresh snow... should be fun!Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-25764123143951617222010-02-09T15:50:00.008-05:002010-02-15T18:21:01.242-05:00My Dead Mac...My Dead Mac...Yup, it died... what to do with a dead iMac? It's a few years old, white and plastic, but with a big beautiful 24" screen (not glossy!!!) and a giant hard drive. I took it to my local repair shop, Charlotte Street Computers (no Apple Store in my town, but they are Apple Certified), after a $60 diagnosis they came back saying it's a "board problem", and boards aren't fixed, they Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-91189052872593369392010-01-22T11:47:00.006-05:002010-01-22T12:18:36.079-05:00Meet Dr. David Shi...Meet Dr. David Shi... President of Furman University and co-author of the popular textbook America: A Narrative History. Dr. Shi is retiring this summer after 16 years as President, and plans to write another book that he began taking notes on more than 2 decades ago about loneliness in modern American culture... There are days we could all offer him some notes...It was a very cold and blisteryPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-10561413673820664282010-01-18T14:34:00.011-05:002010-01-18T15:02:59.997-05:00Portraits of Hope - HaitiIf there is one set of memories that I would take to the desert island, it would be from my time spent in Haiti. It was a few years back, and one of the most impactful experiences of my life. This country deserves to be saved... who will do it?Just encouraging you to help with the post-earthquake operations in Haiti. Here are two worthy North Carolina organizations directly involved in Haiti: Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-8908268041966023572010-01-15T11:33:00.012-05:002010-03-22T15:36:47.751-04:00Meet Trey Pennington...Guess which city has the second largest social media club in the world? If I told you it was Grenville, SC, would you believe me? Well, that's the truth! And Greenville has Trey Pennington to thank for it, social media instigator, entrepreneur, writer, father of 6, and a really nice fellow.I arrived at his office building, very modern - filled with concrete and plexiglass - and began searchingPatrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-21700824684124605212009-11-30T14:51:00.002-05:002009-11-30T14:57:38.035-05:00My Printed Portfolio...Just found an interesting website, ISSUU.com, that lets you upload and "publish" a PDF... I embedded it in my website HERE and am now doing so on my blog too. This is the most recent update to my printed portfolio, the one I mail to folks I want to work for. I've got some cool shoots coming up in the coming weeks, included the former governor of SC, so this sucker will be updated regularly...Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17834691.post-59324698816883222372009-11-24T10:24:00.009-05:002009-12-01T19:03:48.016-05:00Family First...The holidays are upon us... in reality today is Tuesday, but in life the workweek is just about over... time for family begins. And so in that spirit I want to introduce you to 3 spectacular families; these are couples who, once they began having children, gave up their normal office dayjobs to turn their homes into workplaces that allowed them to actually be home. While shooting these 3 Patrick Cavan Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857076610235647361noreply@blogger.com0