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I’m very curious about the basics of photographic studio lighting. Strobist is God, as we all know. But, when he dropped the post a few weeks ago “A Walk Around the Monobloc, Pt. 1” I felt like he was holding back some of the fruit of knowledge. He told us about a monobloc, but [...]

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Your humble photographer got some love from LAist.com writer Jeremy Oberstein when in his review of Wilco he referred to me as “the inimitable Michael Orlosky.” Clearly this was just an example if the publication’s ebullient tone run amok, but it’s nice to see.
Jeremy’s review of the show at the Wiltern even tied in [...]

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Even though I live in Los Angeles, I’m not very Hollywood. But, even I knew that down on Hollywood Boulevard, there’d be happenings and spectacle around Michael Jackson’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After some prodding, I grabbed some cameras and jumped on the bus towards the heart of Hollywood, towards The Star.
This [...]

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In a blog tabbed as “Getting Smart About Personal Technology” the writer Sonia Zjawinski offers:
I sift through Flickr on a regular basis for images to use as visuals for my blog posts. As with most things related to the Web, it’s easy to get sidetracked with not-so-work-related search terms like, “kittens” and “vintage bicycles”. Through [...]

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If you’re like me you have five or six BP-511 style batteries for your SLR. And, going out on shoots, coming back from shoots and during shoots, it can be a challenge keeping track of which ones are charged. Some of the batteries came with weak plastic trays that never stay on when tossed in [...]

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Photo by UnclescarMT
Gosh, I thought it was already dead. I have some expired rolls I’ve yet to shoot. I better get on that.
Kodak kills Kodachrome film after 74 years | Technology | Reuters.

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The street was dark, I wasn’t sure if I had the right house as I rolled up and killed the lights. I got out and crept up the driveway. No lights on, or wait maybe a flicker of television behind the drapes. Was this this place? My sneakers crunching the gravel sounded louder than [...]

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In my quest to develop a craft, I went to the Bootleg Theater in Silver Lake on Friday to photograph the band LoveLikeFire. It was yet another venue I’d never been to and didn’t know what to expect for lights. What I saw when I got there were just some dim overhead bulbs. So indie [...]

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Back before I was into photography, my Mom gave me a camera as a present: An ImageTech 3DFX. It’s a plastic fixed-focus no controls camera that had three lenses. It recorded three vertical frames per click on standard 35mm film. Despite my best intentions over a decade ago, I never used it. Back then, [...]

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Local hipsters Castledoor met Brooklyn rockers Hopewell at Spaceland on June 8th. I was there shooting for LAist.com. Jeremy Oberstein was there to write about it. See the feature just posted over at LAist.com.
Hopewell, Castledoor @ Spaceland, 6/07/09 on LAist.com
I had major troubles with the lighting. I’m not at all happy with the lack of [...]

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