Over the past few days I’ve been mentally preparing myself to teach a friend of mine to take better photos. As a result I’ve been thinking a lot about how I learned to shoot and some thoughts that go way beyond just the mechanical aspects of setting an exposure, framing a shot, and pushing the [...]
During my last shoot with Natalie, I shot almost entirely with a very wide open aperture setting. This made for shots that have a very narrow depth of field. I really like how the in-focus area of the image draws your eye. I also just really like the look of a totally blurred background. I [...]
Last week I stumbled upon a site for a group known as The 120 Group. It’s essentially a group of 12 photographers who are working with film. Specifically 120 or medium format film. I am completely intrigued by the idea that in this day and age film is still used. In [...]
I’ll be shooting tomorrow with the lovely and extremely beautiful Katlyn! I can’t wait! She was fantastic to work with the last time and we got some really great shots. This time I’ll be putting her in the woods and I’m sure she’ll have a lot of fun as well as giving me absolutely beautiful [...]
Earlier today I spent some time playing with post processing in Aperture and found a really interesting look! THe look reminds me of a faded photo printed on kodachrome. I have a few prints at home in a shoebox that have this look.
I’m not totally sold on the look of the image [...]
I will say that after having had some time to reflect and think about the events of last week and my life, I now am going to simply take a break for a short time. This is in order for me to take the time I need to really figure out the decisions that [...]
Last week, Jillian emailed me to let me know that she is going to be in town. I’m, so stoked because she was wonderful to shoot with, beautiful to photograph, and a fantastic human being to hang out with. So as you can imagine, I can’t wait to shoot with her again.
One thing that I’m [...]
I’m thinking about putting together a group of people to go out on photo hunts. The idea is that we would pick a cool place where we would all meet. And then we’d walk around together taking pictures, talking pictures, and comparing what we’re seeing. It could be a hike in the woods or maybe [...]
Well it’s a new year and there are some new things happening and some new ideas forming. If you read my last post then you’ll know that I got a chance to shoot with a friend of mine who taught me a few things about using reflectors. So on my next shoot I’ll be playing [...]
During my shoot with Ella on Kauai, I still had some focusing trouble. A problem I was hoping to fix. I thought that the problem was that the shutter priority on my camera was turned on, allowing me to take a picture before the auto-focus had completed it job. Well, during the shoot I figured [...]
