Goodbye Darkroom.
Shot in Carpinteria, CA.
Oh this is sad.
My wife insisted we clean out the laundry room. Why is that sad? Well it’s a really big laundry room, and it has also functioned as my darkroom for the past few years. Except, well…the darkroom hasn’t gone dark very often lately. Maybe once in the last year have I actually done any ‘old school’ photographic printing, or even ‘older school’ alternative printing such as kallitypes.
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Model Portfolio: Guerrilla Style!
Things come together sometimes in ways you can’t predict ahead of time. I had read and/or seen videos of a few photographers shooting ‘guerrilla style’ (Mentioned on the David Hobby’s ‘Strobist’ site here and Bert Stefani’s blog video here), which is just a fancy way of saying that you’re traveling light, finding locations as you go, and seeing what you can come up with on the spot. Jazz improvisation for photography, basically. Meanwhile, I’ve really enjoyed the commercial shoots I’ve done recently (here and here), and wanted to do more. So I finally decided it was time to actively pursue it. I sent out some inquiries to local models on modelmayhem.com, and Sharylyn responded and liked the idea. And here are some of the results of our adventure in downtown Ventura, CA.
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Film! Square! Medium!
It’s been awhile since I developed my own black and white film in the laundry room. I used to do it a lot more when photography was just a hobby (albeit all-consuming). But since I’ve been a professional portrait photographer, well…the fun little things like film development just fall by the wayside. I’ll usually shoot a little color film on a client shoot, but it gets developed by the lab. So I finally got around to developing some rolls I’ve had sitting for a few months.
It’s not the developing of the film that takes up so much time.
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The Kindness of Strangers
People give me things. For free. Mostly camera-related stuff.
I’m not sure why this is.
Early this week, I went to the local craft-supply store to get some picture-hanging stuff. I almost went to the other one in town, but I’m glad I didn’t!
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