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My name is James Cornette. I am an illustrator, designer and animator living in Pennsville, NJ. Currently my camera gear includes a Rebel XTi, 100 mm 2.8 marco lens and the 18-70 mm 2.8 zoom. I REALLY hope to grow the gear list!

A few friends that motivate me to shoot more:
Noah Beytin
Kevin Vertucio
Mark Smith
Audrey Kerchner

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day 108: "the hills have eyes—south jersey". we drove to canton, nj to visit my brother and he took us on a quick tour down an isolated marsh-surrounded road. i loved the area as there are no wires or telephone polls. just a nuke cooling tower in the background... and a strange shack in the middle of the marsh... and NO cell reception... and, uh, it was kinda freaky actually. i hopped out of the van and ran half way up the planked entrance to take this shot ignoring the "no trespassing" sign and the full-on assault of green head flies. in mid-shot my brother beeped the horn and drove away leaving me. funny guy. he drove back. i may be heading back here to sneak closer next time. curiosity has me cranked to check out the shack.

day 163 - taken after a massive downpour. the sky was cool looking so we rushed a quick setup. bounced a flash off of a white board at a slight angle upward.

day 345: "full moon". with the new wolfman movie coming out and there actually being a full moon tonight i couldn't resist doing a wolfman shot. just started messing with brush settings and attempting fake hair/fur. i have a long way to go before it is realistic but i had fun none the less.

day 170: "88's". a shot of my wife's upright piano. the ivory keys have seen better days. my wife plays piano in our church on sunday and she is quite good! now if i could just get her to play some harry connick, jr.

day 209: "help me! help me! help me!". there is a nasty spider that has taken up real estate outside of our back kitchen window. i figured a cool shot would be a slight knock off of the movie "the fly". i cut out a little paper man (easier to identify thank a little paper fly-man like in the movie) and popped him into the web. the spider shot down and started to kick out paper man. it was pure creepiness to watch. i had to repeat this several times to get the shot i wanted. finally the spider gave up and shot back up the web. i went ghetto with the lighting with a cheap home depot light hung out of my back kitchen window to light the spider so my macro could actually focus. then i shot a flash through an umbrella at half power at 35mm. i had a lot of fun doing this one but now i swear i feel spiders skittering across me.

day 317: i attempted to get equal exposure on the background and subject by setting exposure for the sky and hitting the subject with an off camera flash. unfortunately, i was late taking the photo and didn't have the right available light. so i went in a totally different direction. for the look of this shot i was inspired by foofighter's song "everlong" due to hearing it quite often thanks my kids playing guitar hero! the look of the video is great and has a few sequences that are a bit harsh in contrast/saturation. the video was based on the movie "evil dead 2".

day 192: "vacation". day one at Ocean City, New Jersey for our summer vacation! i will try to post some shots every day but am dependent on snaking off some spotty wifi. the connection comes and goes. pictured here is a sweet sand castle we spotted on a walk up the beach this evening.

day 146: "signs signs". it is easy to glaze over on my monotonous drive home. i am snapped to awareness with the familiar smells of dupont chamber works (imagine burnt monkey fur and rubber), awesome, thought-out signage and the sounds of cypress hill blaring from a passing mudder... "jump around, jump around". yep, i am home.

day 218: "tea with a touch of spider". wake. get glass of tea. shower for work. go for big swig of tea. spot spider in glass. squeal like little girl. collect thoughts and get camera.

Not my best, crispest shot, but the fact that i almost downed a spider made this a "Shoo in".

day 131: "right eye dominate". i shot some quick photos of yet another abandoned company off of exit 19 on 295 but wasn't feeling the results. then i got the spark to do some eye shots combining my kids. what a pain in the butt to get a clean, crisp shot using the macro when aiming at 2 giggling kids. i had some almost crisp shots of my daughter's brown eye against my son's gray/blue eye but favored the one where my daughter is breaking into laughter and my son is getting ready to break... you can see it in his eye! i will revisit this shot in the future.

day 37: for this shot i threw a comforter on the floor and placed my sleeping daughter on the blanket. then i stood up on a chair and shot down. for lighting i had a small florescent lamp facing her back and then i bounced an off camera flash off the ceiling. after that i found a cool set of angel wing brushes for photoshop and added them in on a new layer set to multiply and cranked down to 80%

day 338: "tracking a day". a friend passed along a free program that records your mouse movements graphically. shown as an overlay above is a recording of about 6 hours of work today. the longer the mouse stays still the larger the black spot. the large black circle seen at the bottom left of the photo represents my lunch break today. all the lines represent the movement of the mouse on screen. if i can remember the application i will post the link here later. it is cool to see your day tracked out graphically!

UPDATE: the link to the application is here or google mousepath.jar.

Friends & Family

Friends: Audrey Kerchner • Chuck & Paula Beehner • Diane • James Hill • Ken Griffith • PaulFrocchi • RichardKane • Robert Jang • Stephen Lee • Tim Voss

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30 photos : the goal: take photos daily and pick one per day to post. do this for a month. no theme this time.

the goal: take photos daily and pick one per day to post. do this for ...

Updated: Feb 08, 2010 8:27pm PST

random faces :

Updated: Feb 03, 2010 2:31pm PST

password protected gallery

Updated: Jan 10, 2010 8:01pm PST

trigger finger : a gallery where honest, constructive criticism is welcomed. no voting and no theme. the goal is to be more exploratory and free with concepts. the goal is to be get feedback to help me improve and hopefully inspire others.

a gallery where honest, constructive criticism is welcomed. no voting ...

Updated: Jan 10, 2010 7:44pm PST

misc : photos of a random nature

photos of a random nature

Updated: Dec 28, 2009 7:50pm PST

pennsville :

Updated: Dec 20, 2009 6:45pm PST

abandoned :

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Colonial Williamsburg :

Colonial Williamsburg

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bugs :

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shamrock festival 2009 :

shamrock festival 2009

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ocean city, new jersey 2009 :

ocean city, new jersey 2009

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philadelphia faces :

philadelphia faces

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macro shots :

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Relay for Life 2009 :

Relay for Life 2009

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dave's ordination

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north carolina :

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new york city :

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arizona, camelback mountain :

arizona, camelback mountain

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philly :

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arizona, red rock trail :

arizona, red rock trail

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shamrock festival 2008 :

shamrock festival 2008

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