Ridiculously awesome video

Synchronicity! Old cameras? Just got sent a box full of goodies - a couple Twin-Lens Reflex, Polaroid, bunch of filters. Architecture? Started working with an architectural photographer in LA.  Now, there's this sweet video by Alex Roman at Third & Seventh combining the two! It's 12mins, so give yourself a nice long break. Love the swings in depth of field, and it's paired with awesome music.


The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

b-uncut - new art marketplace

 My friend Sydney Townsend sent me news about this site.  From what I gather, it's an online art gallery, or a place to get emerging artists' work out to people who might want to purchase it.  You can read the background at b-uncut.com. At the very least, it's a collection of like-minded creative people, which is pretty cool.

Anyway, one of my photos was featured today - Floating Donut. You can see it online here, and I've also posted it. One of Sydney's images is right next to mine, too!

Gas Station - Beverly Hills

Took some photos the other night at a gas station nearby. Just playing around with processing and exposure blending - really crunching it up. Looks nothing like it actually did at capture - the sky nearly dark when I took these. That's the power, good or bad, of digital. Let me know what you think.

Angeleno Magazine event photos

Angeleno Magazine - a high-end fashion/food/entertainment publication in LA - used some of my event photos in their January issue!  I photographed their 10th Anniversary party in December, and it's pretty cool to see my images in print.

You can see the issue online at the Modern Luxury Media, I believe it's page 59.

Bokeh Video

Just playing around with holiday decorations and street lights, making super out-of-focus balls of light.  I like how the colors overlap. Plus, who doesn't like a little Otis.

The fire of photography

I just thought of this wacky simile.  Photography is like a fire.  Someone just put a bunch of fresh logs on - digital photography.  In the ashes are glass plates, daguerreotypes, tin types (though I saw an awesome exhibit Joni Sternbach's Tin Types at the Peabody Essex Museum this summer). The embers underneath the fire, still glowing, is film.

I've been playing around with cameras and film this winter. Here are some images from a trip to Joshua Tree National Park.



Film is great for trying to be more creative. You have less control of the process in a way, because you can't see immediately how your images turned out. You can either plan your shots more carefully. Or just look, see, and press the shutter, and move on.

3D to 2D

One of the weirdest things about photography for me, is thinking of how a scene will look after the picture is taken. Ansel Adams was big into pre-visualization - imagining the final print before pressing the shutter button. What makes this difficult is that we see in three dimensions, but an image is only two dimensions. This means objects get flattened out, and with the right lenses and lighting, it produces an interesting visual effect, like this image below:

This image is of a building with a curvy front facade along Wilshire Ave, in Beverly Hills. But, by using a telephoto lens, and removing other elements that might give perspective (like trees, or telephone wires), the image becomes abstract. It reminds me of a barber shop pole.