May - 21st

Slow Photography in an instantaneous age

Posted at 1:11 pm | Filed Under blog

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/ essay-slow-photography-in-an-instantaneous-age/ Fast is fine, but slow can be much better. Digital photography and the ascent of the Web have quickened our jobs. Instead of one deadline a day, we now have continual deadlines, bringing exponentially increasing speed to what we do at The Times. One advantage of using larger formats is that the process […]

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May - 20th

Sidewalk LOMO series – SOMA district, San Francisco

Posted at 6:25 pm | Filed Under art, lomo

Another sidewalk series photo from the SOMA district in San Francisco. I’ve walked the same streets and alleys in SOMA continually for 15 years and am amazed at the things I see for the first time when looking through the viewfinder.

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May - 18th

Plates, Jingletown (Oakland) CA – Part II

Posted at 6:51 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo

Here’s a different perspective of the previous post, showing a little more scale of whatever these things are. And, my sense of scale is way off – those pallets in the background are probably 4 feet wide at least.

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May - 16th

Plates, Jingletown (Oakland) CA

Posted at 8:21 am | Filed Under art, lomo

  The scale of this photo is misleading. It looks like a small-ish dished plate, but they’re actually two machined plates approximately 12 feet in diameter. Taken out in Jingletown, a post-industrial/art studio/loft neighborhood nestled between Oakland and Alameda near the Oakland Estuary. Jingletown Open Studios coincides with the Pro Arts East Bay Open Studios […]

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May - 15th

Kitchen LOMO

Posted at 6:00 pm | Filed Under art, film, lomo

No other camera can work with low light as well as a LOMO does. Load a roll of slow film, hand-hold the camera, brace it against a lamp post, hold your breath and shoot…

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May - 12th

Barriers

Posted at 10:20 pm | Filed Under art, film

I do most of my shooting with a collection of junk store plastic cameras and a freezer full of film I’m working through. Digital doesn’t compare to film – not knowing what I’m going to get until I get the roll back is delayed gratification compared to chimping on a LCD display seconds after the shot […]

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May - 12th

Graffiti in San Francisco

Posted at 5:10 pm | Filed Under art, film

More fun with the Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim, a cheap fixed-focus, plastic-lensed camera. SOMA/San Francisco, Fuji Superia 400 film.

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May - 7th

Yellow

Posted at 9:17 pm | Filed Under art, digital

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May - 4th

Greyho

Posted at 7:25 pm | Filed Under art, film, lomo

Greyhound Station, San Francisco CA. LOMO LC-A, Kodak HD 400 film    

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May - 3rd

Krappy Kamera Gallery

Posted at 8:08 am | Filed Under art, film, journal

(I so missed this – that’s what I get for not subscribing to EVERY BLOG OUT THERE… Do check out the link to the 2008 winners…) Soho Photo Krappy Kamera® Competition In the upstairs gallery, the Krappy Kollage–all the entries (over 1,400) for 2007’s Krappy Kamera show. The beginning

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May - 2nd

Phone Line

Posted at 7:36 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo

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May - 1st

Continuing my window study

Posted at 10:08 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo

A window I pass by every day on my way to and from work. This time, with a Colorsplash and Fuji Superia 400 film.

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Apr - 29th

Don’t think, just shoot

Posted at 7:19 am | Filed Under art, film, journal

This LOMO mantra’s been getting easier for me – since I’ve been growing my hair longer and spring breezes are here, I’m having a hard time looking through the viewfinder without my hair getting in the way of the lens or the viewfinder! I shot a roll of some generic $.99 cent store ISO 200 […]

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Apr - 26th

Plastic Camera Redux

Posted at 9:14 am | Filed Under art, film

I found a roll of old photos from my TIME Camera and tried cleaning up some of the spots and lines from processing in Photoshop.

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Apr - 25th

HS TAK

Posted at 6:30 pm | Filed Under art, film

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Apr - 24th

My new plastic favorite, the Vivitar IC 100

Posted at 6:50 pm | Filed Under art, film

The Vivitar IC 100 is rapidly turning into one of my favorite toy cameras. I broke from my usual “100 speed film only rule” and shot this roll on Fuji Superia 400. With the fixed 1/85th second shutter and f/5.6 aperture, I can use all the light sensitivity I can get!

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Apr - 24th

Art Explosion Open Studios this weekend!

Posted at 3:07 pm | Filed Under art, journal

From my friend Splicer’s blog. I’m going to try to make the opening tonight, otherwise I’ll be there tomorrow. Splicer and I go way back. He’s someone who knew me first as “Poindexter”…

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Apr - 23rd

Refreshing

Posted at 10:00 pm | Filed Under art, film

This pic came off the first test roll from my Vivitar IC 100, a $1 plastic camera I picked up recently. It’s pretty standard looking. The insides could come from a LOMO Colorsplash or any number of unremarkable cameras. A simple lens, shutter speed and aperture fixed at 1/100th sec and f/5.6, and cheap enough […]

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Apr - 23rd

Mannequin on Piedmont Avenue

Posted at 12:09 am | Filed Under art, film

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Apr - 22nd

LOMO at night

Posted at 7:16 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo

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