Posts Tagged: Portrait


29
Sep 09

Portraits

A few portraits and lifestyles from this past summer that have not been posted yet. Some are film, and some are digital. Not going to say anything about them, you decide for yourself.


31
Aug 09

Jerod Stoner: Portraits of People I Know

Jerod is the local pro I guess I could say. He has 4 tracks at his house, a 80 foot + jump, and a few other smaller ones. This is one of the smaller ones in the woods and by smaller I mean a 50ft step up jump.

Jerod


24
Aug 09

Doug Usko: Portraits of People I Know

Doug is one of the first people I ever snowboarded with at Ski Roundtop when I was in my early teens. Now 7 years later we still skate in Harrisburg when we can and Philadelphia for my first time last month.

Doug


12
Aug 09

Holga Stories

I became interested in Ektachrome 64T Tungsten film so I bought myself a roll, and shoved it in my Holga 120N. Typicaly my Holga has no light leaks but because I took the frame holder piece out a lot of light was able to leak in. Unfortunately because of the light leaks it kinda ruined some of the effects I was trying to achieve with the film, so I’m going to buy another roll and try it again.


7
Aug 09

Bladhill Billies

I spent the afternoon throwing Horseshoes and taking some action/portrait photos with a bunch of kids from the Baldhill area. Not a lot to write just look at the photos.


6
Aug 09

My First Roll Of Kodak E100VS

Bought a roll of this film off the advice of Sam Muller and have to say it’s now my favorite super saturated slide film. I like it more then Fuji Velvia because it’s easier to scan and has much better skin tones. I shot a few frames at Big Blue with Alex, two portraits of Olivia Arden, and tried out a double exposure with her also.


4
Aug 09

Olivia Arden Loves Nonsense

O my fish in the sky, shoes on the ceiling and trees walking by, bending down high, reaching up low. Everything seems to be wrong, right?

While most people might think fish in the sky and trees walking by are wrong, Olivia Arden does not. She loves ridiculousness and seeing the most peculiar things. She was really upset while the photographs were being taken that she could not see a girl with balloons on a roof herself.


29
Jul 09

Contax IIIa

When my grandfather passed away this winter I received all of his camera gear, and one of the items was a well preserved Contax IIIa Camera with the original leather case. The camera itself looks beautiful, the metal still has a bright shine, and the leather case is in perfect condition. After doings some google searches I found a user manual for the camera and loaded in my first and probably last roll of film threw it.

The manual did not explain the controls of the camera very well and after using some WD-40 to loosen up some of the dials and some playing around with it I was able to figure the controls out. The few features I did like were the built-in photoelectric exposer meter, F/2-F/22 Lens, timer mode, bulb mode, and the 1/1250 shutter speed. The features I did not like was the max film speed that could be used with the in camera meter was 400 ASA, weight of the camera, and the lens. The lens is a 50 mm I believe and it was just never what I wanted for the situation I was shooting.

Overall the camera is not going to be one I take out very often, and will probably sit on my shelf as a collector item. Below is a photo of the camera along with a few of the photos I shot with it.


9
Jul 09

Polaroid of the Day

I ran out of film. See the older days on my flickr.


8
Jun 09

Balancing Backlighting With Flash

 

Have you been in a situation where the subject you wanted to shoot was in the shade or had a shadow cast on it, and the background was blown out in your attempt to properly expose your subject?

EXAMPLE

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In this post we are going to cover how to make much better photos out of situations like this.

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