Young Love
I was recently fortunate enough to shoot Howard & Esther as part of my time for prints project. We went out into The Mission District of San Francisco and as usual I brought along Jorge to shoot with me. Neither of us had ever shot a couple before so it was a(nother) new [...]
A Quick Tour of Dolores Park!
I recently had the pleasure of shooting Christina and Laura as part of my time for prints project. I brought along my friend Jorge who is becoming quite a regular on the shoots I do! We went out to Dolores Park in San Francisco on a particularly nice day. Unfortunately the park [...]
Our Rob or Ross
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 [...]
The kindness of strangers
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 [...]
The day the ambient light tried to kill me!
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 [...]
Manu & the grid spot
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 [...]
A fun evening
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 [...]
In a dark tunnel
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 [...]