I just got home from a fun evening with Jorge & Rob. We were in a tunnel in the Marin Headlands shooting away for hours, trying new things, working things out, drinking beer….good times!
Rob was our model for the night, I think he only took two or three shots as he is far more [...]
Last night I was in a field in Palo Alto shooting a family a part of my time for prints project. Once we were done Jorge, Chico and I continued to shoot, using ourselves as “models”. Jorge posted his shot of me in this mask on flickr this morning so there’s no better [...]
As you know I’m running a time for prints project so I can learn how to light and to build a portfolio. I’ve shot a few people now, but I knew all of them so it was easy to just go and do it with no stress involved. Of course, I can’t spend [...]
Continuing on with attempting to learn to light I met up with some friends of mine, John and Mel. John and I have shot together before so it was a nice relaxed shoot….in the middle of the day. Shooting in the middle of the day is hard! The ambient was very bright [...]
It’s been weeks since I posted anything here, in fact it’s been weeks since I took ANY photographs at all. Reasons? Poison Oak, Prednisolone treatment for Posion oak making me crazy, apathy, frustration and most of all…no models! It is therefor, with great pleasure I present to you another shot of my [...]
This was supposed to be a landscape post. Obviously it’s not!
We drove down to Pescadero so I could take some long exposure shots of Pigeon Point Lighthouse but when we got there there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Generally I won’t waste my time shooting landscapes if there is no interest in [...]
This is the second and final shot I’m posting of my friend Manuel from San Francisco Daily Photo. This was taken using a single Canon 580 EX II using a 1/8 Honl Speed Grid. The strobe was positioned to the camera right, about 6 feet up on a light stand, 1/4 power and [...]
Last Sunday evening, after shooting Manuel, I met up with my friend Jorge and his family for an informal portrait session. Jorge is a San Francisco lad and was keen to be photographed with a San Francisco icon in the background so we headed into the Marin Headlands and used the Golden Gate Bridge [...]
As you may be aware I’m trying to get a time-for-prints project off the ground. It hasn’t been easy to get any takers thanks mostly to the recent Media Temple outage that took my site offline for a week. Thankfully Manuel over at San Francisco Daily Photo came to my rescue and came [...]
Last night I took some shots of my wife’s cousin & her fiance, just for practice. They know I am just trying to work out what I’m doing and it was all just a bit of fun.
I learnt a few important lessons from the brief shoot;
1) Choose your background wisely. I though I [...]
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