Waverly Hills Sanatorium

I have just returned ghost hunting with my wife Debbie at Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Waverly Hills is located just south of Louisville, KY. What a wonderful place to photograph, 160,000 sq. feet of empty space, or is it. We did not see any ghosts during our visit but I did manage to get a few nice pic's.

Deb and I were able to go inside Waverly during daylight hours to capture the following images. These where all shot with my Olympus 5060 wide digital camera. I hope to return someday to shoot with my larger digital cameras.

There are a total of 5 floors in this former TB hospital. Waverly was build in the early teens and had over 60,000 deaths related to TB. This is a view down one of the hallways on the 4th floor. The 4th floor is thought to be the most haunted?

Here is a small detail in one of the rooms.

Here is a window detail from the veranda.

Here is a view of the veranda where the patients would be rolled out for fresh air.

Another detail of a lamp on the ceiling.

This is how my one of my Fine Art images are printed. I hope to show the Waverly these prints with hopes of selling a few to raise money for the preservation of the Waverly.

OxBow-PocketWizard

It has been quite some time since my last post. You see, my father is gravely ill. For the past several months my sisters and I have been taking care of my dad. Since March, my dad has been in the hospital 3 or 4 times for various problems. Dad is now home with hospice, my sister Dottie who is an RN is taking care of him. Needless to say, trying to run a business and caring for family not only dad but my wife Debbie and son Chris. To be perfectly honest, it's my wife Debbie that holds everything together around here. I could not do what I do without her love and support, I love her dearly.

Anyway, how about looking at a new photo shot late in June 07. This photo was taken for OxBow Corporation, I was contracted to photograph a coal mine. The client wanted helicopter aerials as well as some surface photography. On the surface portion of the assignment, I set up the following shot.

I used 3 Nikon SB-800 strobes and 3 PocketWizards to trigger the flashes. The photo on the left show the placement of each of the strobes. There was one on the main subject (Erik) wearing yellow slickers. Another is placed inside the building at the top of the stairs. The last strobe was placed under the stairwell to light the back wall for separation.

The following images are production shots showing the placement of the strobes.

With a photo like this, walkie talkie's are a must. I was able to communicate with Erik and direct him of power settings needed on each strobe as well as his movements. I enjoy setting up shots like this one. Here is the final image and a variation.

As a side note: My father "X" Tejada passed away July 16th at the age of 89. I was a wonderful man and will be dearly missed. Love ya Dad. DT

Fine Art Edition Prints

I have recently added a new printer into my studio, the new Epson 3800. And as such, I am now offering my Fine Art Edition Prints. The prints I'm offering are all printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Photo Rag Bright White paper. This paper is acid free and exceeds ISO Standard 9706, museums and galleries prefer this paper over any other.

My prints look like the one shown here, the type on the front of the print contains print information and copyright notices. This information is easily covered over when matted and framed. An example of each are here for your review.

I'll be adding these prints for sale on my web site as soon as possible, Deb is real busy working on other clients web sites. As soon as I can, I will be posting images for sale there as well as here.

Surgery with DaVinci

I was recently asked by a local hospital to photograph a surgery which was using the new DaVinci machine. The DaVince machine is seen here in the foreground, the surgeon using the machine is looking into a 3 dimensional view of the patient prostrate.

The surgeon working on the DaVinci machine move the controls real time and the surgical tools above the patient move in tern. Cool beans.

As far as lighting is concerned, I placed on the floor between the surgeons legs a Nikon SB-800 with the diffusion dome on. I placed another SB-800 on the floor pointed towards the patient. This strobe also had the diffusion dome on the strobe head. Both strobes where fired using the Nikon SU-800 command unit. I was able to control both strobes right from behind the camera.

Detroit Transportation Corporation

Several months ago, I was in Detroit shooting for an engineering client of mine. I was there to shoot a few things for my client, a coal fired power plant as well as the Detroit People Mover.

The Detroit Transportation Corporation saw the images that I produced for my engineering client and asked me to shoot some additional images for them. The DTC wanted me to produce images that shows their People Mover within the urban landscape. This images is one of several images I did this past week.

Detroit is a beautiful city and the Detroit People Mover is celebrating it's 20th year in operation.

VOA Portrait

I was contacted last week by the National Headquarters of the VOA "Volunteers of America" to photograph the chairman of the board David Kikumoto.

The lighting for this portrait was pretty much straight forward. I bounced one head into a white panel I had placed against the wall (camera left), the flash head had a 1/2 CTO gel over it. I placed a small Nikon SB-800 strobe behind the subject, I directed the strobe outside and up to light the wall on the right and above the subjects head.

I was asked to photograph David in a manner that would match another photo that would be appearing on the same page of the annual report. Client loved the photo and so did the subject.

I've been shooting professionally for 24 years, specializing in location work for annual reports and advertising clients. To view additional work, please go to tejadaphoto.com.