Trouble Shooting redux

I’ll probably post some examples a little later today, but I wanted to give everyone an update on my shoot I had last night.  Well, like I thought, it was cold and very dark.  For the group portrait, I shot two ways, high-iso medium-aperture in order to try to equalize the subjects in the foreground with the buildings in the background. It worked to a point.  It’s a little noisy, especially after my brand of retouching, and the guy in the back isn’t… Read More

Trouble Shooting.

So I’ve been hired to shoot some portraits of alumni for a business school catalog.  They’re going to be a cover group shot and some individual interior ones, so they’ve got to be good. While the pictures are nothing challenging, the setting might be, so I thought I’d write a quick post on my thought process about this kind of thing. Most of the stuff I’ve seen that they’ve used in the past have been daylight shots outside on campus looking… Read More

Great pj shots of Obama

All photojournalism fans should check these out. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0810/callie-bp.html Make sure you keep clicking “show more” at the bottom.  I particularly like the one of him in the stairwell and the shot of him cleaning up for himself at the ice cream place. Ooo.. and another interesting link…  http://www.poladroid.net/Thanks to Meg Wachter for both of these. Read More

Lindsay

From Mary super done-up on digital with studio lights, to my lovely friend Lindsay on film with sunlight.  Gotta keep it interesting… Read More

Mary

My good friend Mary came by for some pictures again this afternoon.  Some of the results are below.  Special thanks to Colby Smith for doing an amazing job on the make-up. Read More

Print Shop

There is a very old-school print shop on the ground floor of the building next to mine. I’ve heard that it’s been there for about 100 years.  Well it’s closing and so I wanted to take some photographs before it was gone. Read More

Rob

A couple of months ago I got an email from an old professor of mine at Berklee.  Apparently he saw some of the photos I took of Jhumpa Lahiri in the Improper Bostonian and so looked me up. Anyway, I was in Boston last week with my friend Jonathan who was visiting from LA and so we stopped in to say hello to some of our ex-teacher friends.  Rob is now the chair of the dept though, so he got a portrait taken.  😉 By the way, I ended up bringing my 5D instead of the… Read More

POZ – Waheedah Shabazz-El

A little while back, I mentioned how I had a couple nice assignments in a row, but I had to wait to show everyone. Well, one of them has been published, so I guess I can post them now. Plus my favorites pre-cropping/CMYK printing. Read More

Mobile Sign

On the way back from Boston yesterday (more on that later), we stopped at a gas station, and man that sign way high. Read More

Computer Quandary

I’ve got a bit of a decision to make soon and I’ll admit that it’s keeping me up at night.  No it’s not the presidential election, that one’s obvious for me. It’s also not Canon v. Nikon, as the 5DII has helped me on that count. Rather it’s a platform issue. As I may have mentioned before, I’m not a Mac guy. That’s right, I’m a Windows user about 95% of the time. I like building my own machines a little too much.… Read More