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I nearly made a hilarious mistake.
A few nights ago I went to see Leroy Powell at Harvelle’s — a very dark little bar. The only camera I wanted in that situation was the Leica M2 with the fast f/1.4 lens. But it had a roll of ASA100 film that wasn’t usable for a [...]

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Recently, I did a series of publicity photos for local musician Seven Saturdays (a.k.a. Jonathan Haskell). We hiked up to an idyllic mystical patch of forest in Griffith Park where the light was swirly.
It was a fun shoot. Jonathan, like many people, wasn’t a fan of getting photographed. I kept the energy up [...]

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This is commentary on: For Annie Leibovitz, a Fuzzy Financial Picture - NYTimes.com.
I’m ashamed to admit that for many years, I dismissed the name Annie Liebovitz as fluff celeb photography. This was before I got into photography myself. To be sure, she does some really flamboyant work for Vanity Fair, but she is a very, [...]

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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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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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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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