Another Pan Picture
March 8, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
I made a mushroom sauce friday night and it took a while to reduce. I was watching the steam, and the fire and the pan, and I ended up making a picture of those elements.
Listening to Shearwater, “Castaways”
A Little More Snow
March 3, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
View from my balcony this morning with a little bit of new snow. Spring is less than 20 days away.
Listening to Tom Waits, “I’ll Be Gone”
Pan Rack
February 25, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
Mid night last night and I’m testing a lens shooting some odds and ends in my house. Hadn’t planned to do a post from any of the work, but I kind of like this image I made of the pan rack.
Listening to Mahotella Queens MBube from the South African Legend compilation.
Bouncing Winter Light
February 22, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
This time of year the light bounces off other buildings and hits the front of the building where I live and work. Same bouncing fill light technique we would use on location, just a giant reflector doing the work. Paying attention to this probably makes me a lighting geek. Also the visual bonus in the upper right side is the blimp flying around down town that day.
Listening to Lauren Ellis, “Blame It On the Real World”
Point and Shoot
February 18, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
So I used to carry a Lomo camera in my pocket and just point and shot at the least bit of random visual interest. So I played again with this lens, and it’s freeing from the normal control of an assigned shoot. No serious self important photographic pretense, just shoot.
Listening to Eric Clapton, “Walk In The Rain”
Plastic Glass
February 16, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
I recently bought some plastic toy camera lenses that can be adapted to my digital camera bodies. Late Sunday afternoon I finally got a chance to go out and shoot with them. So I have a high end digital file with trash glass, or plastic, focusing the light. It’s like putting junk tires on a Ferrari. It does give the image more soul, since digital lenses and camera’s tend to create a purity that I think is stifling. Not sure what I’ll do with these, but I’ll keep experimenting. I use to shoot this type of system with film in a real uncontrolled fashion and it sometimes gave up some fresh free work, so maybe this shakes things up a bit.
Listen to Jimie Hendrix, “Stepping Stone”