The Cotton Belt Rail Depot is located in downtown Saint Louis, MO,USA. The Cotton Belt Depot was built in 1911 and was in service for many years, and then just left alone for several decades. I have photographed the Cotton Belt Depot for the last several years, with the permission of its current owners. It is a great location for a model shoot.
For my recent shoot, I wanted to use the Depot as a backdrop for a models portfolio. The upper floors of the depot are lined with interesting, ever changing graffiti, but the light can be very challenging. I decided to utilize a flat panel flash.
The panel flash puts out a great deal of soft light with little or no shadows. For Infrared it is a perfect match. The only challenge with the panel flash is that it has just one setting, on. The camera was white balanced using the concrete as a reference and images were captured in RAW.
The images were processed using Canons DPP; a second White Balance was done once again using concrete as a reference.
The converted images were then processed using NIK Color efex, NIK Dfine, NIK Silver Efex , and Fliter Forge.
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Dan Wampler
Dan Wampler is a digital artist from St Louis, MO. Having been interested in art and photography since childhood, he spent most of adult life working for Kodak and in the portrait photography industry. A student of the works of Ansel Adams, Any Warhol, and David Hamilton, Dan attempted to keep a wide range of artistic style.
As an early adopter of digital imaging, he found it gave him a way to completely incorporate art and photography. Began shooting Digital Infrared in 2004, and had first camera converted in 2006. His work has been seen in numerous gallery shows, is featured in an iTunes app. He produces Infrared and natural color digital art for sale and teaches his post-production techniques online.
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