A Little Flare.

My jury’s out on this image. I’m experimenting with how to make the digital camera “think” the way that a film camera might. Specifically, I’m trying to get some working lens flare to work out.

Feel free to weigh in.

Inspirational.

This is from waaaay back when I was figuring out how light worked and how to move it around.

Despite the fact that I’m on the faculty, we got kicked out of the library (or at least told that we couldn’t shoot photographs there) moments later.

Good Help Is Hard To Find.

And as such, when I do find it, I try to be gracious.
These are some shots for a kind, young soccer coach I know.

If they look like some other shots you’ve seen here before, that’s because they’re a second try. I played with the lighting some and I think I prefer the way the light spills in from the windows behind her on these. They give a little more atmosphere than the straight on, even light of the flash does.

Reflection.

I’m working on retooling the online portfolio right now and I’m putting together some new stuff to shoot.
I’ll be back. I promise.

More Grub.

I got down to the Six Burner Restaurant near the end of last week. After we shot together for their website, the head chef, Lee Gregory, and I conspired to have me come back from time to time to shoot stuff for their blog.

I enjoy the challenge of shooting food without natural light, so hanging out in their kitchen was a treat. Here are a couple of the dishes they served while I was there.

Winter Scenes.

Temperatures over the past weekend and into this week have been in the upper 70s. Without photographic evidence, one would never know that Richmond had been brought to a veritable standstill.

I have some of that evidence:

All Tatted Up.

I’m diggin’ back through the archives until I get some new stuff to put up and I thought these might be a nice pair.

The first is from a wedding I shot (pro bono for a friend, as the assistant). The bride’s mother had made her gown and it was amazing. Really, the photo doesn’t do it justice. It shimmered in ways that I could never capture on film. I did the best I could, but cross processed film is persnickety. Her tattoo was amazing in the middle of this dress.

The second was this girl, although I never shot this as a part of the series she asked for. It’s the serenity prayer, which is kind of a cool thing to have with you at all times.

Meow.

These are the top 25 blogs. I’m not sure how they’re calculated but what I thought was interesting was that this one was included in this secondary list. I kinda always thought this image might work for that site. *Shrug.*

I guess you never know.

Bokeh.

One of the local camera stores is liquidating much of its inventory, getting rid of things they’ve had in stock for ages. They put ads on Craigslist to notify folks of what they have and there were a few manual focus Pentax K-mount lenses left so I picked one up for fun.

It turns out, the 28mm lens I scored is faster than any of my other Pentax lenses and is smart enough to allow the camera to control its aperture despite the manual focus.

The reason such things are interesting is called bokeh. It’s the blurring of the elements in a photograph due to the way the lens “sees” because of depth of field (roughly, the combination of focal length and maximum aperture).

Anyway, this image shows that, despite having been shot with a Hasselblad.

I Suppose I Should Post Something.

This is one of the first portraits I ever shot.