Daryll Schiff

The images of Daryll Shiff that I saw at Photo LA reminded me of some of the work that I've done. I'm not sure of the technique that he uses but I set up a tripod and set a long exposure with my strobes set to rear sync. I'd like to try and pop the strobes at different times throughout the exposure to get different effects. This appears to be how he's done it. Or he's done some layering somehow.
I like the effect that this gives. It's kind of like saying "This is how your eye sees." Not your brain, your brain makes sense out of it all. The eye just sees.

Here is a link to his website gallery: http://schiffphoto.com/home.html

You can read Daryll Schiff's biography here: http://schiffphoto.com/bio.html

Here is a link to an interview and some of his images: http://schiffphoto.com/bio.html

Seung Hoon Park

Seung Hoon Park is a Korean photographer that I became aware of at Photo LA 2014. I was drawn to a couple of images that were on display and I wasn't quite sure what I was looking at. At first I thought that it was a mosaic of film stills. You could see the sprocket holes of the film in the images. It wasn't until I went back home and started to research some of the photographers online that I found out that the film was actually weaved together. I'm not sure if he weaved them together after exposure or before. The way that some of the images seem disjointed gives a suggestion that it was done after while others look as if he weaved them together before exposure and put the weaved film into an 8x10 camera and exposed it that way. I will have to do more research on this later. It is a very interesting result however and each time I look at one of his photographs I discover new things that I hadn't noticed the last time I looked at it. The online images do not do the work justice. At the Photo LA exhibit the images were printed rather large and the amount of detail in each square of the weave was amazing. The series is called Textus and can be seen at

http://susanspiritusgallery.com/artist/seung-hoon-park/

More information about Park as well as more images from Textus can be found at the following websites

http://www.madeinslant.com/2011/08/seung-hoon-park-weaves-stips-of-movie-film-together-to-create-photographic-images/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/08/seung-hoon-park/

Photo LA

Went down to Photo LA last Saturday. It was very overwhelming. I have never been to anything like it. So many exhibitors in one place it was hard to wrap my brain around it. There were photographers from all over the world displayed. I'm working on a short list of photographers that I found interesting from the show. I'm going to list them and try to explain their processes. I need to do some research on them so what I plan on doing is covering one every other week. I'll also put links to their work so you can go look for yourself. I'll be posting the first one in a couple of days.

Lensbaby 3G

I picked up a used Lensbaby 3G over the Christmas break from KEH Camera (www.keh.com). I've heard great things about KEH as far as used equipment and they did not disappoint. The lens arrived in the described condition, which was like new, and shipping was pretty fast considering it went FedEx Ground. I've been playing around with it a little bit and I've been getting some great results. You can see examples on my flickr page. I'll give a more detailed post on this later, I've been trying to get ready to start the new semester at Brooks.

Opteka Speed Grids

Just got three new Opteka speed grids off ebay today, can't wait to try them out. I've been checking out their stuff on ebay for open box returns and such and got a real great price on them $8.95 a piece.

I purchased one each of the 1/8th, 1/6th and 1/4th grids. I already have a 1/8th. These things are great for getting a nice tight light on your subject and for the price you can't beat them. They use a velcro attachment to attach to your speedlights that with a little fiddling works pretty well. I'll show you how I attach mine in a later post. If you've got the money head over to ebay and do a search for Opteka and check out their open box stuff. You can usually get it for a good price and usually their stuff is pretty decent.

Brooks Grades and Christmas

The semester is over and the grades are in! I received two A's an A- and a B. Not to shabby. Need to do a little more work on my Art History. Looking forward to starting next semester already.

Also wanted to say to the folks that follow this blog: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Have fun, be safe.

Brooks Institute Update and Other Things...

The first semester is over. There was quite a bit of writing in this semester and I'm expecting more writing in the next. I'm now on a four week break and I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. I do have some images to post from this semester and will be putting those up in the next couple of days.

I'll be putting together a little lighting talk at the Lompoc Photographers Guild on the 15th of January. I'm so looking forward to it. It should be a lot of fun. It has to be an hour long, I'm going to shoot for about a 45 minute talk and demo with 15 minutes for questions. This hardly ever works out because people always want to know about lighting.