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From the archives: taking off for Hawaii from LAX long ago.
From my recent trip to New York, this is a rooftop shot of the Empire State Building a my little Canon SD1200.
I think this is shortly after take off in Los Angeles headed east towards New York. Canon SD1200.
Waiting to take off for New York. Canon SD1200.
Gas station somewhere in the middle of Texas. Canon 5D.
We pulled over somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Texas with pretty much nothing in sight. Canon 5D.
Testing some lighting for a jean shoot. Canon 5D w/ 20″ beauty dish.
Taken from a rooftop in Hollywood of the Fido Apartments near Cahuenga
A shot from the airport in Hawaii, pretty empty cool place. Canon 5D in B&W straight from cam.
On a photoshoot for my band, I snapped this of Andrea while in the backseat going to a new location. Shot with Sean Murphy’s Canon 1Ds MKII 24-70.
The whole crew.
Shot photos at my friends birthday “quincietta” party on Saturday, some really cool stuff came out of it. Here are the two birthday girls. Canon 5D w/ Beauty Dish.
Did a recent shoot for some friends and this was just an extra random shot. Canon 5D w/ 36″ softbox.
Another shot from last night in Utah. Canon 5D, 30 second exposure @ f/14
So I just arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah for a weekend with the family. Pretty awesome here, tons of snow, it’s been a while since I’ve been in it. Here’s a quick snap.
The last from the series thus far, taken in that great looking book store.
Bringing back the headless series since I never finished putting them up, here’s #3.
A Southwest Airlines plane coming in for landing at the Burbank airport.
Here’s a shot from a trip to Colorado a little bit ago. We were passing through New Mexico and stopped at a gas station and this was what was on the other side of the street. Pretty run down in the middle of no where.
One of my favorite photos in quite a while, taken by the school right by my place on my way out somewhere. Amazingly this was 1/5000 @ f/2.8.
Friend of mine on his PDA at Fred 62’s in Hollywood on Vermont. Some great Bokeh going on here. Canon 5D w/ 50mm @ f/1.8
These apartments looked pretty cool at night against the big sky scrapers. Sort of looks like a model a bit, Canon 5D 24-70.
A shot from the other night at the beautiful concert hall. Downtown has some great places to shoot at night. Canon 5D, 1600iso hand held.
Okay so first off, sorry for the gigantic delay in this supposed-to-be-daily photo blog. I was out of town and things just got crazy and I lost track, but I am found again. I’ll be updating the archives so keep checking back for those as well as new stuff every day.
Here’s a night shot of this old red truck near my house. It’s pretty cool what you can find at night just wandering around.
Sticking with the sky/clouds theme here’s another.
30,000 feet up somewhere over the mid-us.
Not so much, but a pretty shady looking place right between LaCresceta and LaCanada. Finally got some rain here the other night, winter might be coming after all!
For this photo I was using my wide angle 16-35 f/2.8 lens but had the lens hood from my 24-70 f/2.8 on it, it created some pretty cool/strange vignetting which I really like for these photos.
Here’s a long exposure night shot of this great old windmill right behind my house. I think exposure was around 30 seconds or so.
Another from New York, great time of day and these buildings just looks incredible.
…Or maybe not. It’s not really here yet, but I guess it’s sort of starting. It’s really sad that Halloween isn’t the same as it was 5 or more years ago. By this time years ago all the leaves were gone, fall was in full swing, there was actual weather here (rain, wind, cold), things were amazing because it actually felt like Halloween and that Summer was over.
Unfortunately it’s been like this for the last many years, no real change in season until late in the year. Oh well, at least we can look at this and pretend it’s here. Amazingly this was shot on my old Canon SD400.
Another from my friends place, awesome stuff all over, including the bunny mask of doom which has made many appearances… Canon 5D with some sort of 22″ beauty dish lighting… might have been ceiling bounced, I don’t remember. Great color tones here, I love blues/yellows/browns. PS. give me that shirt already I want it!
One from the vault of yore. Sweet looking alley on Pasadena right off Colorado Blvd.
Such a beautiful building here in Downtown Los Angeles, here’s a more abstract shot of it of it’s amazing architecture.
Another from this series when I was shooting in Downtown LA, I really like this one, it’s very surreal to me, the building and bridge just look fake in a cool way.
Photo #2 from the Headless Series.
So I’ve been toying around with this idea for ages in my head. I was going to sleep one night and woke up all of the sudden with it, I got up immediately went over to the computer and started tying up ideas. A few hours later, I had what I thought was a good starting point.
I’ve been working on this first series of 4 photos for many months now on and off but have finally decided to post them up. I will continue to do more, but here’s the start. Look for the other 3 in the coming days.
Collection of old skate decks hanging on a friend’s wall.
Shot this weekend of my friend at his place. Little jack on the rocks in a nice matching glass. Canon 5D 24-70 f/2.8 and a 36″ softbox on the floor angled up.
Neat little laundromat in North Hollywood on Magnolia / Craner, cool vintage sort of colors. Canon 5D 24-70 f/2.8
Went to this amazing little book store today in North Hollywood called Iliad Bookshop, a huge and great collection of used and rare books. I managed to pick up a copy of Michael White’s 100 Suns for only $25. An awesome place to check out if you’re a book enthusiast.
Here’s a quick snap of one of their many impressive isles filled to the brim with books.
*EDIT: I had to close the comments on this because I get about 5 porn spams a day relating to this… why?
A quick peak at some new post work from an old shoot. I like to pull out older stuff from time to time and see how I treated it at the time, then see what I could have done differently. In this new set, it’s got a very different emotion than what I had originally done, but I like the darker feel of them all. I’ll post a before and after sometime.
Another at Cleveland / Kenmare at this great looking little stop called The Corner.
From the top of the Empire State Building. New York is quite beautiful from above, so much architecture.
From my recent trip to NYC (which happened to be my first), this was taken at Broadway / Canal - I’ve got a million more from this trip I’ll be posting in the future.
Here I’ll be showing you how to turn some bland snaps you’ve got sitting around into vintage works of art. I’ll be giving a quick and easy explanation for how to achieve something like the look I’ve gotten in the photo below.
Below we have my two source images and my Photoshop layers palette. As you can see the source photo is a bland quick snap, next to that we’ve got a texture I scanned from a book, and lastly my layers palette. It’s pretty much self-explanatory with my settings in the layer names. All you’re really doing is duplicating your photo and setting each to a different mode which give a different effect.
Then as a final touch I’ve added the adjustment layers above it to help with saturation and contrast. All I’m doing with the contrast is increasing the highlights and shadows as well ass boosting some midtones so it doesn’t blow out as much.
Of course there are a thousand ways to spin-off of this method, so go ahead and try different things to get effects that you like.
First of a few taken in Downtown Los Angeles. Canon 20D 24-70 f/2.8 @ 1600
From a trip to Yosemite a little while back. Nice golden trees during the fall.
A new shot in my set of Hollywood Miniature series. This time looking west over Hollywood towards the old Pacific Theaters and the surrounding living areas. Canon 20D Hartblei 85mm T/S.
Walking to my car on the way home I snapped a few from the hip candid shots of this mother with her two daughters. One had this great fairy costume on and the other can be seen off in the background with a white dress on. In the second photo the other daughter is now the focus. The T/S gives a great effect to these two shots. Taken with Canon 20D Hartblei 85mm T/S.
Well here we have it, I’m starting my photo blog back up finally! Hope to have a new image each day for your enjoyment.
Here we have 2 shots from a single day taken from Hollywood / Cahuenga. The first of which was taken around 2:30pm and the second taken at Sunset around 6:15pm.
