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Monday, February 23, 2009

Photography Fun :: Portrait; Friends!

New photos son!

Friday, February 20, 2009

Photography Fun :: Portrait; Cher

If you have been following my blog, or my facebook, or my other website, then you know I have been on a photography frenzy these past couple of months. Most of the photography of recent has been portraiture and I get comments every now and then that some of the photographs are not very flattering images of my subjects.

That said, I am not necessarily interested in taking "beautiful" photos of people in the shallow sense. I am actually much more interested in taking photos of people when they have something to say... or something to hide. In fact most recently, I have been asking to take photos of people when they absolutely do not want their photo taken--whether it be because of their emotional state, or what have you.

Anyway, this is a photo I took of my friend Cher recently. Enjoi.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Music Video :: Kanye West feat. Kid Cudi - Welcome to Heartbreak

This video is awesome. All the pixelatizations and visual treatment is on purpose. Looks nuts!

KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak" Directed by Nabil from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

Michael Jordan Commercial

Monday, February 16, 2009

Photography Fun :: Portrait; Garianne.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Photography Fun :: Self Portrait, and 2 newbies

Took some quick portraits of my friend Kristle and my buddy Charles.

I changed up the lighting setup from the other portraits. These tend to pop a bit more. I feel like the previous portraits have a much more natural feeling to them. For these photos instead of using the strobes and shooting at f22, I shot at about half the aperture and used continuous lighting with daylight balanced fluorescents. I'm not sure what the exact effect is really, but it definitely feels much more dramatic. The skin tends to shine a bit more and light up.

Anyway, I was just experimenting. I want to continue to try different things. Below are the photos.

Here is Kristle. She was completely shy, but I think I got a fun shot of her.

Ok, so here is my self portrait. I tend to not like any photos of myself (like most people, I'm sure) but I thought this was interesting. My skin is full of craziness, but I'm all about trying to look at people in a very raw manner. In that sense, I can't look much raw-er than this.

Charles looks like a rockstar. What's nice about the continuous lighting and the lower aperture is that I can control the focus a bit more. It's nice to hone in on Charle's eyes here and slowly drift the focus backwards.