Archive for July, 2009
Film Developed
I had a couple rolls of film sitting on my shelf collecting dust for the past few months and finally decided to get them developed, along with finishing off a half of one roll. The images that came back were pretty neat, a lot of stuff from May/April of this year. A good portion was some photographs I made while visiting my cousin up in Seattle Washington, here are a few from that trip. The first two are of the city it’s self, I love photographs of huge building clumped together making a sweet skyline. Along with this development process I learned that there is some light leakage going on somewhere, and the shutter on my Holga doesn’t quite match up with the flash sync the hot shoe puts out, that or I was doing something completely wrong that night and made half the roll black. Next time hopefully things will be different with the old Holga.
This one was from the top of the space needle
and here from a huge hill I saw while on top of the needle
Self portrait time inside the library in downtown Seattle, WA. The library was a sight to see itself, each floor was different and the floor you see here was made up of RED hallways.
Finally to end it, was the trip back home, sitting on the plane waiting to get off so I can enjoy some awesome food that Austin, TX creates.
You can find a few more from this roll or 2 right HERE on my Flickr
One Light
So if you have been following my work the past month or so and paid attention to my shooting, specifically lighting technique you would of noticed I’ve been using just one light. I read a lot, not books, but blogs and just about any other information on photography I can soak up on this beautiful internet. I have recently been following Zack Arias who does amazing work, and for the most part sticks with one light for lighting his subjects. I have always been a fan of simplicity as well as the cost of one vs. lots. What I’m more stoked on is to be taking my first photography workshop this coming October with Zack, I have taught my self up until now, and hope to learn a lot from this. After signing up for this workshop I have been trying my take on the simple one light techniques at lighting photographs. While I have 3 speed lights all ready for wireless action, I have set 2 aside and worked on just one for the time being. Here is a recent, a friend of mine just finished chopping and painting his new bike, he rode it over and asked for a quick photo and five minutes later he rode off. Just a quick shot with one light up high and to the right of the camera, nothing amazing about the picture, just simple.
June!
You may recognize June if you have looked through my portfolio any, she is a friend of mine’s daughter and extremely cute! I’ve done a series of shoots with her throughout the past year and this was the last of that series ending with her being 1 year old. Other than getting bigger and able to run faster she still makes the same awesome face and hand expressions, I spent a few hours with her Saturday morning down by Town Lake/Lady Bird Lake and for well over 50 great shots, I liked them all but I just can’t let myself post 50 pictures in a blog posting, so here is 10 of my favorites. Oh, and the dogs came out for this one.
The Germs
Germs put on a great show, if you don’t know who they are then google them, but then again, if you don’t know who they are there is a good chance you wont like them. Shane West portrayed the singer Darby Crash in the movie “What we do is Secret”, Shane has also played in quite a few hollywood hits, and TV series, such as ER. I definitely recommend the movie if you wanna find out about this band, or are just a fan. The show was great and Shane did a great job at vocals, I was definitely impressed. Another awesome thing was standing within feet from Pat Smear, who was the original guitarist for the Germs but also toured with Nirvana, and original guitar for Foo Fighters, pretty awesome. A few other great bands performed before them, Guilt Trip, Coptic Times, and Krum Bums… AND Mr. Lifto, which was a sight to be seen, definitely look him up if you haven’t heard of him before.
Now, for the pictures… enjoy!
Guilt Trip
Coptic Times
Mr. Lifto
Krum Bums
Germs
Zach and Mary
The 4th of July this year some friends of mine got hitched, Zach and Mary Frady. It was a awesome day, and I was stoked to be there to document the day for them.
iPhone 3gs Camera
So I got this phone the day it was released, and since have put the new camera through its rounds. The auto focus is what makes it, the pictures the phone produces are now actually somewhat sharp instead of a complete blur. Not to mention the fact that you can shoot the focus point, and it sets the exposure for that spot. Thanks to this I now have a decent camera with me at all times, and the extra megapixel doesn’t hurt either. Once I’m done I open them up in my favorite app, Camera Bag and process the picture with its now even faster processor I can make some pretty awesome pictures with this camera. Here is some to prove it, all taken with the new iphone 3gs, and edited with the Camera Bag app:
