HL2 is one the largest reasons I decided to leave my old job in TV control room and pursue photography, more recently commercial photography and Art Directing. The scenic maps and renders in the game made me realize I was up for more of an adventure, and that I needed to get out and see the world outside my century old concrete box.

I've been attempting to bring in 3d models and textures from the game and combine them with some selected HDRs to show people something like I saw the first time I played through. This first one took about a week to complete because I know next to nothing about texturing 3d models, but it has been very well recieved.

Striders hit Danville!

Hello all, my name is Barney D. and I am a full time student running a commercial photography company with my Dad, Mark Davis.

We both specialize in working with HDRi, but that is where the similarities between us tend to dead end. He is mainly interested in photojournalism, and I am interested in just about anything commercial. I am also in school as a business/marketing major, aspiring to be an independent art director.

Enough about us, enjoy some pictures from the last meeting of the North Carolina Photography Group taken by me with my friend Chris Richardson:




















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