Plastic lens
January 29, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
Digital camera’s are more expensive than film camera’s were when film was the main medium. Now we work with digital bodies and you need to upgrade them every 2 or 3 years. Also the lenses have to be upgraded to keep up with the improving resolution. It all gets cleaner and clearer and more sterile, less soul with every new version. But recently I found a lens that I can put on my camera that’s a plastic throw-back to toy camera cult world. So when they came in I put one on the camera and made this picture in my studio. Kind of fun. I don’t know how I’ll use it yet, but glad to dumb things down a bit.
Listening to Springsteen, “Seed”
Food Groups
January 15, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
Yesterday we also shot at a farmers market, and while trying to do a set up in a creamery on one side of the room, my art director said, “hey look” and there behind us was this sweet real lifestyle moment as a little girl chose her ice cream flavor. I say real moment because try to direct a child to stand that way and tilt you head in a body posture that is so full of the moment and you’ll generally get plastic life, but back to the ice cream. Now ice cream one of the 4 major food groups which of course is made up of vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, and chocolate(butter pecan is a sub-category). So given that significance I can understand her careful consideration.
Listening to Bob Dylan, “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat”
Varied
January 14, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
Today was varied. Started at sunrise shooting on the beach, then at farmers market, then on a navy base runway shooting jets take off. All for a tourism project and yes it was cold.
Chihuly
January 10, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
Looking up at this rather large Chihuly glass exhibit at the Virginia Beach Contemporary Art Museum. Tomorrow I’m supposed to be on a lift above it shooting down on talent looking up in the awe and wonder they are paid to project. I’m not suppose to be any closer to it than 3 feet, and I’ll be happy to comply. Lets hope the lift does it job too.
Movie House
January 8, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
If you saw the movie “Nights in Rodanthe” (I didn’t), this is house it was shot in. Nothing gets in the way of the ocean and it’s taking back this beach and the house won’t soon stand in it’s way. The last storm this fall took out about 3 feet of sand from around the base. As I was told there even used to be a road in front of this house. Someone has bought this house and plans to move it out of there, but it’s hard to see how that will happen. Regardless of the method, this will soon be an empty patch of beach, and perhaps without the homes in the way a natural dune barrier can be rebuilt.
Listening to Dylan, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”
Infinity Pool
January 4, 2010 | Filed Under Photography | Comments Off
Thought I’d post another image or two from the outer banks, since I don’t have anything else to put up at the moment without digging into the archive, and not much time for that. I made this on the sound side of the island and that day was amazingly still. Fortunately, given the temperature, it was free bugs as well. The storm arrived and made this same water look like you could nearly surf on the white caps.
Listening to Jack Johnson, “Do You Remember”