Meters, Hanapepe HI

I was in Kaua’i last week, spent most of my time lounging at the pool and the beach, but took some day trips (short trips, given the size of the island!)

Hanapepe is a funky little artists community on the southwest side of the island with old buildings, artists galleries, a laid-back bohemian feel, and some of the best coffee and sweets on the island, at Blue Planet Cafe.

I brought my LOMO LC-A+ and shot 3 rolls of film. I’m thinking about switching back to my old 1990 LC-A, though. I like having framelines and focus indicators in the viewfinder, and I wanted to shoot with my color flash. The LC-A doesn’t have a setting to force the aperture/shutter speed, so I wasn’t sure how the pictures would turn out. I would have liked to get some shots of “colorsplashed” palm trees at night.

I took most of my shots with my Blackberry Tour 9630 – with a resolution of 3 megapixels, image stabilization, and an adequate flash, I barely took my digital point-and-shoot out of the case!

Posted on July 11th, 2010 in art, digital | No Comments »

Monochrome Stop

This was the combination of a dreary overcast day, a weathered sign, and no de-saturation. All colors (or lack thereof) is as captured.

Posted on June 20th, 2010 in art | No Comments »

I want to be a photographer someday. Any advice?

Originally posted by kylecassidy:

A Reader Writes: I want to be a photographer someday. Any advice?

Yes, lots.
Photography is a mixture of Artistic Ability and Technical Skill — the magic of the mix isn’t written in stone. The world is filled with technically proficient but artistically uninspired photographers, there seem to be a smaller number of artistically gifted but technically unsavvy artists, but they’re out there as well. But the most successful people have a mixture of both — they have an artistic vision, and they posses the technical skills to know how to make that a reality. The technical skills are the easy part, you can learn them from a book — f-stops and shutter speeds and light modifiers, etc. The difficult thing to come up with is an idea.
0) Possibly the most important thing of all: Find creative people and make them part of your world. They don’t have to be photographers. They can be writers, or musicians, or actors or puppet makers. Have a peer group of people who are doing things. They’ll be your inspiration, your facilitators, your idea makers, your artistic partners. Do this for the rest of your life. Artists rarely survive in a vacuum.

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Posted on June 17th, 2010 in blog | No Comments »

Lost advertising of the sealed-off London Underground

c1959 posters as found in disused area of Notting Hill Gate tube station, London, 2010

Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 – 1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway.

This shows several of the posters – and the original Central London Railway tiled walls from 1900.

We will be leaving these intact – and please do not pester the station staff as the posters are wholly inaccessible – which is why they’ve probably survived 50 odd years!

The photos were taken officially – please do credit London Underground in any links.

Uploaded by mikeyashworth on 13 Jun 10, 12.55AM PDT.

Posted on June 16th, 2010 in art | No Comments »

Grate-23

Posted on June 15th, 2010 in art | No Comments »

Light Fixture

Light Fixture, Jingletown (Oakland) CA

I want to try an experiment where I only shoot landscape and don’t turn the camera to shoot portrait mode. Landscape fits the web so much better!

Or, I could try my hand at squareÂ medium format again and shoot with a Holga/Diana.

Posted on June 6th, 2010 in art | No Comments »

iPhonetography, a new Kyle Cassidy project

http://www.iphonetography.net/

THE CAMERA THAT COMES WITH THE iPHONE IS TERRIBLE

Many people decry it’s smallish megapixel count (3), but really, as any serious digital photographer will tell you, size doesn’t matter. The most frustrating thing about the image that comes from the iPhone is the noise. Not audible noise, but digital grain. That, and it’s slow response time, and of course, the lack of control: apart from aiming the camera, selecting a focus area and depressing shutter button, the user doesn’t have any control over aperture (fixed at 2.8) focal length (fixed at 5.9mm), shutter speed, or even ISO, which swings from ~70 into the 1000+ range as it wants.

iT’S A PHONE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

Posted on June 5th, 2010 in blog | No Comments »

Marks The Spot

Posted on June 2nd, 2010 in journal | No Comments »

Safety glass

Posted on June 1st, 2010 in art | No Comments »

Window/Reflections

Blackberry Tour 9630, somewhere in SOMA/San Francisco.

Posted on May 29th, 2010 in art | No Comments »

Quiet Carnival

Check out Amy’s post, Quiet Carnival.

Last Thursday night as I drove home from work, I passed the park during golden hour. Buttery light filtered through the trees and lit up the rides. No more lame reasons. I raced the last few blocks to the house to grab my camera (I had my point and shoot with me, but I wanted my DSLR) and the boy and raced back.

Posted on May 22nd, 2010 in journal | No Comments »

Umbrella

Discovery Museum, Blackberry Tour 9600, and a crazy random happenstance.

Posted on May 20th, 2010 in art | No Comments »

Building with Flare

Another city shot taken with my Jazz 207 Jelly camera. It’s rapidly becoming my favorite toy camera. Again.

And, my original Jazz post is now #3 on Google searches for “Jazz Jelly”!

Posted on May 18th, 2010 in art, film | No Comments »

Four Five Two, Jazz Jelly 207

Shot with a Jazz Jelly 207, fairly high-tech as plastic cameras go. Integral lens cover, built-in flash, small enough to fit in your pocket. Classic plastic wide-angle lensed-goodness, fixed shutter speed. Shoot ISO 200 speed film outdoors. Flash is good for 10 feet if you’re lucky (and shooting ISO 400 speed film).

This roll came out with a Matrix-like green cast.

Posted on May 12th, 2010 in film, journal | 1 Comment »