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Sunset at Salton Sea

In Art, Photos on 2 December 2009 tagged California, landscape, night, Salton Sea, sky, sunset with 1 comment

Thanks to Gerald for letting me borrow his Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM for a few shots, and to Mike for driving.

Few will care

In Art, Photos on 30 November 2009 tagged B&W, blackandwhite, Koreatown, Los Angeles, street photography with 1 comment

While walking across the street from the Wiltern to the Wilshire/Western subway, this man walked between the cars asking for money. The print is pretty much how I envisioned it.

Unfortunately, I’m still trying to get more detail between the man’s head and the trees in the distance. This is probably my 8th print attempt. I’m scared that no amount of dodging will bring it out.

I would scan the negative, but I don’t have a film scanner. I’m not sure if I should save money towards buying a Canon CanoScan 8800F.

Like before, I tried to get this scanned print as close to the real thing as possible. I cropped out the white borders since they weren’t clean.

Contrast filter: #2
Aperture: f/5.6
Time: 17 seconds

Film: Arista.EDU Ultra B&W 100 35mm
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel XS
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Paper: Arista.EDU Ultra VC RC Glossy 8×10
Scanner: HP ScanJet 7400C @ 300 DPI

Chin down, eye on the ball

In Art, Photos on 25 November 2009 tagged B&W, blackandwhite, Los Angeles, street photography with 2 comments

An open letter to friends and readers of this humble [photo] blog:

Since the two weddings I photographed this past October, the busyness hasn’t stopped.

couple Halloween parties (denoted with a portrait of James)
band rehearsals
busted Flickr meetup at Salton Sea (photos still in queue)
paid photo project of a friend’s father’s home renovations
the already mentioned Rx Bandits/Glassjaw concert
another failed photo excursion to a specific location at Mt. Baldy
flu¹
The Scarlet Paradigm show
going-away party for my friend, Philip

Interspersed between those bullet points is my regular work week, which includes my Managerial Accounting (102) class² and basic [film] photography class. I can’t forget the bouts of photo processing from Ginger and Joe’s wedding, in addition to recording songs for our EP.

I have one more wedding to process, and there’s two weeks until finals³. I would say normalcy would return at that point, but what does that even look like?

While working on these wedding photos have been a good experience, I miss processing and posting other photos.

I know I should schedule time to post here once or twice a week. It would separate me from inconsistent bloggers. I’ll make a plan.

I can’t wait for free time to hang out, take more photos, and play some shows.

Until then, you can follow my random shenanigans on Twitter and Flickr. If you aren’t subscribed to my RSS feed here and you’re not sure how, watch “RSS in Plain English.”

Have a great Thanksgiving!

I was knocked out of commission from October 16-20. ↩
I’m getting a solid C, and I could finish with a B — provided I do well on these last two quizzes and non-cumulative final. ↩
The week of December 14th. ↩