Archive for September 2010
My Need to Create
The past couple weeks have been full. I’ve been working on the sets of TV commercials, shooting business head shots, property listings, corporate events and a golf tournament for USC. None of these shoots resulted in photos that I felt inspired to share. They are the bread and butter that helps pay the rent. Over the past week I’ve felt and realized that I need to shoot for me. For me that typically means working with a model to create something interesting or beautiful. I’m working on lining that up.
In the mean time a family adventure netted some photos I did like. For those of you not in southern California, the blue whales are migrating south to Costa Rica and because of our cold summer they are only a few miles off shore. We booked a boat trip and saw a handful of whales. I spent half the time shooting the coast and water and 40% of the time trying convince myself that I wasn’t sea sick (I lost that battle).
Malibu California
Whale Fluke
Blue whale Spout
Everyone's shooting the whale's and I want to shoot this spectacle
I want to shoot for Fast Company Magazine
I figured why not throw it out there. I want to shoot for Fast Company.
I was sitting at lunch reading Fast Company thinking that it would have been great to have met and photographed Nike CEO Mark Parker. As I turn the pages I see great photography coupled with stories about interesting people. That’s what I love.
I subscribe to a lot of magazines. Of the seven magazines that get delivered to our house, I only really read three; PDN, American Photo and Fast company. The Fast Company subscription started like the other unread magazines that get flipped through, stacked and maybe have pages torn out and saved for inspiration. I subscribed to Fast Company for one reason, Jake Chessum. His interesting and relaxed portrait style is one I admire.
So why not throw it out there right? So if you know someone, hook a brother up.
This week, in addition to shooting an OWASP security conference in Irvine I assisted Craig on another shoot with Engelbert Humperdinck. Craig is the only photographer I have ever assisted. When I met him in 2003 I didn’t know how to use a light meter.
Behind the scenes of an Engelbert Humperdinck shoot