There’s No Biz Like Strobist
January 25, 2010I get a few emails every week asking me about strobist stuff. What to buy, what equipment do I use, how to trigger off camera flashes, etc. I can answer those questions. The thing is, I have no idea how I get the light I get sometimes. It's tricky. You're dealing with f-stops (aperture), shutter speed, EV values, ambient light, fill light, and plagues sent by God. But the three biggies are aperture, shutter speed, and distance. I've only been doing work with flash for a little less than two years, so in my eyes ... read more
Strobeless Lighting
January 25, 2010If you're independently wealthy and money is no object then please, feel free to skip this article. If you're more like the 99% of us chasing the dream read on. You start taking pictures with your point and shoot and find something about it so appealing that you eventually want to buy a better camera. You save your pennies and eventually plunk down the cash on one of them fancy cameras, yeah the kind that you can put those big, long lenses on. You fight this beast of a camera into submission and somewhere along the ... read more
Look at the Place Where You Live
January 15, 2010I'm a very geographically sensitive person. Where I am in this world -- my coordinates on the map, the zip code to which my mail is directed, the ground upon which my home stands -- is practically determinative of my ability to be and express myself. A change in location is often all it takes for me to dust off old aspirations and regard myself with kindness. I've often wondered why I am this way. I'm fairly certain that it is just plain old curiosity. Those who know me best (and get to call me on ... read more
Time Takes All
January 15, 2010It's the time of year when everything seems to slow down. The holidays are over, it's back to work, it's cold outside, and daylight is a commodity. It's the season of the photographic funk, the photographic depression. This feeling seems to hit me twice a year, once in the depths of the winter and again at the apex of summer. During these times I shut down, I just turn off. I don't pick up the camera for days and when I do I feel like all the pictures I take are worthless. In a post earlier ... read more
Progression
January 13, 2010Today I want to talk about...goals, progression, and perseverance. I've been watching the Zack Arias Transformation video and felt I needed to comment. Over the past few months there's been a progression in my photography in which I find myself moving away from shooting myself to this deep yearning to turn the camera towards others. It's easy for me to capture my emotions and display them , but shooting others scares the hell out of me. When a friend and I set up the strobes in an alleyway recently and we asked passerbys if ... read more
Film Trouble
January 12, 2010Over the past few months I've been shooting more film than digital for my personal projects. I like the weight and feel of the old cameras, the sounds they make and the nostalgic process of manual everything. The process of manual everything includes developing the film and getting it into a medium that it can be viewed on. I've stopped getting prints and go directly for scanning to digital files. Recently I've been running into trouble and thought it'd make a nice series of posts. I send my color film to a lab to be processed ... read more
Words
January 12, 2010I've had an account on Flickr for over the past two years. One of the things that's always intrigued me about the site is being able to add words under the photo to discuss whatever one wishes. As a lover of the written word, that appeals to me. This was one of the entries I wrote several months ago while doing a second 365 Project that I eventually abandoned. I had a conversation the other night in which a friend and I discussed the words we put in this box, whether photos should (and can) ... read more
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