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Formula: Take two photographers, an empty studio due to a cancelled shoot, and a bunch of studio strobes and what do you get? Well it’s pretty simple; me and Grant just messing around with some lighting setups. He took some of me. And here’s mine of him, I also managed to sneak in some film shots as well with my Lubitel, sent those off to Dwyane’s today, soon as I get them back, I’ll post a couple of those for a compare/contrast.
Tags: 50 1.4, Beauty Dish!, Dallas Tx, Grant Meeks, personal
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I’ll go ahead and say it…I miss film, I miss the feeling of knowing that you only had 12, 24, or 36 shots. I miss that rhythm of opening the back of the camera, taking out that exposed roll and slapping another in its place. I miss that smell when you opened a new unexposed roll. I miss the simplicity of it. I miss the all metal cameras. I feel all of this each time I pick up one of my relics from the past. Not that I have a bunch of old collectibles, all my film cameras were bought used….well used. Paint worn down to the brass around the edges, scratches, buttons that had popped off long ago. I always considered myself a shooter not a collector, I didn’t care how it looked, if the meter worked, and it was light tight, it was good enough for me.
Today starts what I am going to work on becoming a reoccurring feature here; Random Film Love. I’m going to hit the streets, pound the pavement, and get back to the basics. I’m going to get back to what I loved about photography in the past. Not that I don’t love it now…it’s just it was different back then. I don’t know if I’m going to go as far as bringing 1/2 of the darkroom back (the developing stage), I don’t really have the space for the enlarger and trays and such, and I don’t think I want to go back to constantly mixing up developer and fixer every 3 or 4 months. I’d like to thank Dwayne’s photo for the develop and scan of these rolls of film!
I always seem to come back to my old Junior High. It was my first school upon moving here 20 years ago. I met friends here that I still have to this day. I remember playing basketball on the rough asphalt courts during 9th grade PE, then during summers when I was in High school and on into college.
Went back on two separate days – once in 35mm:
And once with the Square:
Tags: arlington tx, Dwayne's photo, golden hour, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson photography, life, Olympus SP35, personal, photography, Slide film, Yashica Mat 124G
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Just got some images back from ScanCafe….shooting film these days takes some dedication; either you breakdown and get a scanner (and if you’re really serious, learn to hand process your own film, that way you don’t have to send it to a lab and wait almost 2 weeks to get it back…), or you subject yourself to the time it takes to get a couple of rolls developed and then paying the cost to have someone locally scan it (or send it off for scanning).
These are from the first time that me and Grant Meeks, met and we went for a small photowalk through the streets of downtown Dallas, he shot digital, so he had his post up on this within a week or so of us shooting it….me well it’s almost August and I’m just getting the images up, I got the disc from Scancafe back about a week ago. I still want to shoot more film, I just need to make the investment so that I don’t have to have such a long turnaround time on the images.
Tags: Dallas Tx, GOYA!, Grant Meeks, GrantMeeksphotography, Laidric Stevenson, personal, Steven Sow, Steven Sow Photo, Stevensowphoto
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Just 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:
Tags: 35 F2D, Dallas Tx, Deep Ellum, golden hour, GOYA!, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson photography, Nikon D700, personal, Steven Sow Photo, Stevensowphoto
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Due to a miscommunication, a shoot that I had scheduled for Sunday didn’t go through, so I decided to go shoot some random images, something that I don’t do often enough, and something that I’ve forgotten how fun it could be.
I didn’t want to wade through a full card of images, so I took very few, only about 8 or so, and I liked these five: Also, I tried slowing down: I walked up, framed the image in the viewfinder, metered, then shot ONE shot. Chimped a little, but honestly, if you’re only taking one shot, what’s the point of chimping? I plan to shoot like this more often!
Tags: 24 2.8, Fort Worth Tx, golden hour, GOYA!, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson photography, Nikon D700, personal
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With some dirty wrinkled seamless I had lying around…and an excuse to test out my new Creative Light softbox, I think I’ll be buying some more of their stuff, this is one Nikon SB-80 flash, very even coverage. From a 1 x 1 softbox.
Tags: 50 1.4, arlington tx, creative light, Laidric Stevenson, Nikon D700, One light pony, personal, softbox
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I 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:
Tags: 35 F2D, GOYA!, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson photography, New Year's Resolutions, personal, second shooting, self-portrait, Steven Sow Photo, Stevensowphoto, Welcome to 2010!
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While at work today, I got a text message from my friend Josh saying that he had left a present for me on my porch. It. Was. Awesome:
I always love Josh’s birds and other assorted animals that he draws, and I’ve been waiting for this limited edition framed print of Bela!
Thanks!
**I do love Field Notes’ motto: “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now” – something that I’m making a resolution to do next year, with a lot of other things (in an upcoming post)**
Tags: arlington tx, Josh Gaynor, Joshgaynor.com, Laidric Stevenson, life, Merry Christmas!, Nikon, Nikon D300, personal, Steven Sow, Steven Sow Photo, Stevensowphoto, Tamron 17-50
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Sorry! Don’t think that I didn’t remember to post the last port of call of the cruise! Cozumel, Mexico – a land of beautiful blue water (it was really that blue!)
Stephanie loved her fan that she bought, both for the way that she looked when fanning herself, and for the cooling effect. It was hot, not Cayman Islands hot, but still pretty hot!
After the little shopping that we did, we took in lunch at Pancho’s Backyard, a nice little place right close to the port. If you’re ever in Cozumel, I recommend it. We even got a free appetizer coupon from our cruise shopping director (that’s that tiny dish in the upper right corner…small, but can’t complain too much, it was free after all!)
Collecting some sand – taking in the view…
Oh Yeah, can’t forget the towel animal that we got that night!
We enjoyed this experience of traveling on a ship, can’t wait until we are able to do it again!
Tags: Carnival Cruise, Cozumel, Cozumel Mexico, cruise ship, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson photography, life, Mexico, nikkor, Nikon, Nikon D300, Pancho's Backyard, personal, Steven Sow, Tamron 17-50
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Saturday night, my good friend Sai sent me this text message: “I got three tickets to the game with your name on one of them!” It took me about .5 secs to respond back that I was in. This is the second Cowboys game I’ve been to, both of them against the hated Redskins. Jerryworld or Jerryland (which ever you prefer) is a massive structure, truly a work of modern engineering art. The game could have been a little better, but we all were happy with the outcome. As Coach Phillips would say “A W is a W”
The massive JerryTron (bow down to its massiveness…), the new hole in the roof, and my collector’s ticket stub, gonna frame that baby!
The View!
Jon, $10 Nachos, Jeff and Sai…
Patrick “Fair Catch” Crayton with the game-tying TD catch.
And some final parting shots…
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