I recently replied to a CL ad, and the first part of the reply email said “I see that you’ve worked with my friend Josh!” E-Young wanted a intellectual hip hop look, so we met up in Denton to shoot that, and I think that we made that happen!
Posts Tagged ‘35 F2D’
Artist – E-Young (Continuing my Six Degrees of Separation…)
August 10, 2010I look forward to working with E-Young on some other shoots in the future.
2/2 of a GOYA shoot
May 31, 2010Here’s the rest of the recent GOYA shoot with Grant Meeks.
Oh, and for those that are wondering what GOYA means….Get Off Your A** (From Zack Arias)
1/2 of a GOYA shoot….
May 25, 2010Just having some fun in Downtown Dallas with Grant Meeks….getting off our butts and shooting something. We did one of these not too long ago, Grant shot digital and I shot film…which should be reaching Scan Cafe’s scanning center right about now. This time we switched roles; he shot film and I shot digital. Next time we’re both shooting film, or we’re both shooting digital. Also with shooting with my philosophy of one shot no chimping…I shot this like I had a roll of 24 exp film, I ended up with 25 shots, with about 12 finals, here’s six of those:
Artist Josh Hurt Reshoot!
April 11, 2010Josh Hurt Rocks. The Nikon D700 Rocks. Beauty Dishes Rock. That is all.
I’m Shootsac’n! ***Attn Geek-Speak!***
March 30, 2010I recently ordered a Shootsac, a great way to solve a problem every photographer who shoots with multiple lenses faces: What to do with your extra lenses while you are shooting? When I’m at a wedding, I usually carry a 17-55, a 85 1.4or 1.8 and a 70/80-200 2.8. That was when I was shooting DX, but due to a recent investment, I joined the Nikon FX camp with a brand new D700 and now I’m back to shooting primes. I’ll be carrying a 24, 35, 50, an 85 and a 80-200. Five lenses. In the past, even when I was carrying only 3 lenses, it was always a problem carrying the other lenses around, I would usually sling a smaller camera bag on my shoulder which was a pain. Especially because you would have to keep the lens caps on when you put a lens back in the bag. Enter the Shootsac, it’s made of neoprene firm enough to hold the lenses in place, and soft enough so that it doesn’t scratch the glass. When I got home today I found a box from Adorama on my front porch.
It’s well made and extremely light, I don’t have a lot of heavy glass, so I put my longest glass that I have in it, a 180 2.8 AIS (I rent all my long lenses now) and my 50 1.4. The bag is comfortable, but I’m not sure how I’m going to handle it with the R-strap that I usually wear when I shoot, two straps crossing each other across my chest, but I’m anxious to try it out during a live shoot!
I love the tip card from Jessica Claire, I wonder if you get a different one for every product you order. You can change out the covers for different patterns, the majority of them are more feminine, so I stuck with the basic black, can’t go wrong there! One thing that I did notice walking around with it, the neoprene gets hot against your body if you wear it messager bag style. I’m going to have an opportunity to test it out fully in a little under a week and a half, can’t wait!
Business Cards!
March 11, 2010Being an amateur photographer, I’ve experienced when I’m out somewhere taking pictures of something, anything and someone sees what I’m shooting with, I get asked if I shoot ____ (family portraits, weddings, etc). Last October I was at my niece’s birthday party, at Incredible Pizza, and one of the people working there was getting married and she asked me if I had a business card because she was looking for a wedding photographer. Business cards? They’re something that I know that I needed to get at some point in time, but also something that I stressed about quite a bit. I wanted them to be perfect. Did I need an image? or several images? Which ones? Did I have “those” images that I could put on a card to advertise what I do? What about text? What about color? Vertical or Horizontal? I was sent an invite to attend a Pictage group meeting (which people who weren’t members could come, I’m not rolling like that….yet!), where the topic of discussion was going to be second shooting/shooters for wedding photographers. Hmmm, I’m trying to be a wedding photographer (along with other subjects as well), and I’ve been looking for opportunities to second shoot for someone, and there’s going to be a discussion group on this topic, with plenty of networking opportunities. As I was getting more and more excited about attending, I noticed a sentence saying “Bring lots of business cards”….Again with the Business Cards! There’s nothing like short term necessity that motivates you to action doesn’t it? Thanks to the advice of Ashley Kinney (who also passed me along the invite to the Pictage meeting), she recommended VistaPrint, who just happened to be running a free business card promotion, free cards! so I created an account, and had them rushed to me 3 day FedEx, and I must say for free business cards, I’m pleasantly surprised and happy with the way they turned out!
My First Second Shoot – 12/26
January 26, 2010Last month I had an opportunity to help out by second shooting a wedding for Miranda Smith Photography in Fort Worth. This is my first time really second shooting with someone. I’ve partnered to shoot weddings before, but second shooting is different, and fun! You shoot and turn over your files to the primary, Miranda was nice enough to give me copyright of my images for usage in my portfolio. Thanks Miranda! I’d like to share a couple of images from the day.
Venue: Adorable Weddings
I’d like to thank Miranda again for taking a chance on an unknown kid!
Looking forward on 2010…
January 13, 2010I know that it’s been a while since I posted anything – and I don’t want to let this blog just sit here with nothing for the new year posted. I’m prematurely excited for 2010; I’ve had this feeling for the last couple of months that I’m sitting at a crossroads. Both personally and professionally. I have this feeling that something is going to happen for me this year, this is going to be the year for me. I have a couple of posts in the works right now:
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I had a wedding December 26th(yes the day after Christmas), that I shot as a second shooter!
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I’m going to post my new year’s resolutions.
I know, I know (about the resolutions) everybody is making them and posting them on Facebook, Tweeting them, blogging them. But that’s not why I’m doing it. In the past I’ve made resolutions and then not followed through, because there didn’t seem to be accountability. They didn’t seem concrete. They were just words in the January air, they left my mouth and then kept going and going, until they were out of sight and out of mind.
Blogging, just adds a permanence to my thoughts, so that I or anyone can go back to that post and say “See, you said that you were going to do this and you didn’t” You broke your resolutions. I think that because in the past, I just like everyone else, seemed to make resolutions that we all knew in our heart of hearts that we weren’t going to follow through with, we were stretching too far. You know the “I’m going to stop smoking” resolutions – when you’ve been a 3 pack a day smoker for the last 10 years. Or I’m going to run 5 miles everyday, but you really haven’t been exercising on a regular basis. The goal is too big – therefore too easy for you to give up on. I’m going to make some smaller goals that I actually will follow through with, and there by giving me momentum to accomplish something bigger!
Now I know the rule with photographer’s blogs is that we can be serious with our words, but there usually has to be a photo accompanying the words, so here’s a self portrait of me looking serious…or looking toward the near future:
Kodachrome….
October 6, 2009By now everyone knows about Kodak putting the nail into a piece of photographic history by killing off their legendary emulsion Kodachrome earlier this year. And Dwayne’s in Kansas, the only lab in the world that still does the K-14 process (how Kodachrome is developed) announced that they are going to stop developing and processing Kodachrome. I bought two of these rolls of K64 about 5 years ago, (these rolls expired in October 2003) and stuck them in my freezer. Due to a recent move out of my old apartment, I took out all the film that I had frozen (most of it expired). I had forgotten about these rolls, I was saving them for some special occasion or something. And now, with the end of the year rapidly approaching us, I need to take to the streets and shoot something with it, just to say that I shot some Kodachrome. I don’t know exactly what though….
Wow, I have stuff to post!
September 27, 2009I’ve tried to be the type of photographer who doesn’t let wanting to buy more gear get in the way of taking photos, and I’ve never subscribed to the logic that if I just had X (lens, flashes, different camera body) I could make great photos, but I have neglected equipment from time to time. I was recently inspired by Bert Stephani, a fantastic fashion photographer, who was inspired by Jeff Ascough, one of the top wedding photographers in the world, to make more usage of one of the most basic lenses that every photographer has (or should have) in their bags – the 50mm. As Bert says, before the kit zoom lens of today, when you used to by a SLR in the film days, you more or less bought it with this lens, it’s usually the cheapest lens in a camera line (depending on speed, faster the lens, more money you pay), I have three fifties, one that I got when I bought my first 35mm camera, an Olympus OM-1. when I first got that camera, that was the only lens that I had, so I had to shoot everything with it, and you pretty much could /can shoot anything with a fifty, step back far enough, you can get a decent wide establishing shot, they focus close enough where you can capture details or close ups. Now that I have Nikons, I have two fifties, a 50 f2 AIS (which I bought when I bought my first Nikon 35 mm – the F3) and an autofocus 50 1.4. Bert is pusuing a personal project he calls 50/50. That is he’s shooting everyday details (and some assignment stuff) with a fifty mm lens over the course of 50 days. He’s an amazing photographer as it is, but what he is doing with just that lens is on another level, it forces you to make the shot without some of that other stuff creeping in. Instead of reaching for a wide angle or a zoom or a tele, you have to make it work with the angle of view that the 50mm provides. Hell, this got me up and off of my ass, shooting just for the fun of it with only one lens. Unfortunately I don’t have a D3 or a D700 so that I could use my either my 50 1.4 or the AIS. But I do have the 35 f2, which is a great little lens in of itself, that I bought about a year ago, and haven’t used much, so I’ve put all my other lenses away and just struck out with my D300 and the 35 F2. While my results aren’t any where near Bert’s, I am starting to see patterns in the way that I shoot, which is the first step to developing style as a photographer. It’s also helping me with editing, over the past week or so, I’ve shot 72 photos, took those 72 and narrowed them down to about 20, and here are some of those twenty:
