Bacon.

This week I shot Ama and Lauren as they made dough with real lard and cooked bacon on Lauren's soon to be trashed vintage stove. I used four cameras, my canon d30, Lauren's Canon AE1, my Yashica, and Danielle's Hassleblad. The 120 film didn't turn out as the light was too faint by the time I shot the roll, but it was a really nice experience just using it (thank you!!!). These are photos from the Yashica and the 35mm Canon. The Digital shots need to be edited along with the 35mm from the Canon, but I still enjoy the results right off the negative.
xo enjoy.

Renny... just do what you would do if I was Terry Richardson.

It's really fun shooting a photographer. I was pleased to shoot Ren, a friend and longtime client of mine because I really got to work with someone encouraging and comfortable. Ren let me shoot on his medium format camera (what kind I don't know) which was a fantastic experience. I also used the regular line up including the ever so exciting Yashica. Again, these are unedited, right off the negative.

Tim and Caitlin. two.

This is the second run of photos from Tim and Caitlin's big adventure. I'm happier with a few of these ones and I think it's because we were all more relaxed and I was developing a better understanding for the lighting. This is the second roll from the Om10 and the black and whites are from the Yashica. If I were to show these I'm sure I would still do some minimal photoshop work but I'm trying to avoid needing to.
PS. The common is playing "more than this" and I'm totally singing along... out loud.

MAS!

We always have a lot of fun.

Now I'm broke.

I have eight rolls of film to take in for development. Eight. I hope you're all happy...
The other day I had a really great time shooting medium format with Ren. Halfway into the roll we realized we had been double exposing everything! Ha ha ha ha. Luckily I also shot with the Yashica and a few other film cameras so I'm hoping we did something right! This Sunday I'm shooting Lauren and Ama and possibly shooting Anthony and Aleen on Wednesday. After these four I need to take a serious (financial) break and work on my paintings for April and my photoshop skills for the shots I've already done. Thanks for reading!

Tim and Caitlin.

The new year comes with some new thoughts. Last year was dedicated to capturing my friends in a stark and predictable manor. This year I wanted to see my friends in their homes surrounded by what makes them comfortable. The challenge I found in my first shoot was how to capture what's natural while still having somewhat of a posed 'sears' quality that I find campy and fun. I'm not a great director and that's something I'm going to try to work on. I'm also going to try to work with different cameras every time. I haven't worked with film in a long time and I'm happy to bring it back. For this set I used an Olympus OM10, one studio light and 160 speed color film. Soon I'll have a roll from my Yashika T4 of these same two.

Kalan

Kalan stopped by to tell me some seriously great stories.