This is a panning shot, from the manhassett car show the other day. This also would be for the cover of the magazine. I like how it came out. 

car and driver cover shot

This photo was shot for the assignment where we try and emulate what would be on the cover of the magazine we're reading for class. My magazine is car and driver. For this article relating to the photo, it would talk about something like "S2K new trend" or something like that. This photo was just outside of a boat yard and it is naturally lit. 

fall photos

My friend Kaz and I went to a bunch of cool spots around my area yesterday and took advantage of the fall weather.I shot the top photo of kaz when he was walking ahead (not staged). The sun was at a pefect point in the sky for the photo. The lower photo, explains it self pretty much. I was walking through the woods and found the perfect opportunity for an interesting sillouet. 

I've been real busy with school work this week, and finally got some time to shoot some photos today (not for school). I met up with Paige (the model) and we went to a local spot that I used to hangout at when I was younger. I had two flashes set up for this shot, but for some reason the flash on the left, wasn't firing. So I ended up using one flash positioned at a 45 degree angle from the model. I am pleased  with this photograph, but it is not what I pictured the photo to be. We got to the spot a little to late and it ended up getting dark way to quick. Going to redo this photo real soon, and would like it earlier in the day.

reach out

"As is well known, viewing a color photograph is different from looking at a black-and-white one. Film theorist Stanley Cavell has noted that both in photographs and in movies, black-and-white pictures are psychologically perceived as documents of completed action. The motifs in color photographs, however, appear to be from the present, or even in a certain sense from the future. They are less burdened with the labor of memory, and are therefore easier to approach. As source material for scholarship, they are more exact, because the colors of the period concerned are reproduced. Since color photographs are one stage less abstract than black-and-white ones, they seem to us to be more concrete and to have a more direct connection with the world."


I read this today when trying to write an essay for Art144. This view on color vs b&w film photography is perfectly described in this paragraph.I really feel like this is 100% relevant to my work right now.Being that I love black and white photography and I shoot 80% of my work film, I usually am having a conflict of b&w over color. I have this conflict because I love color film, but these days it is so hard to keep it totally pure. By pure I mean, Take the picture, process the negatives,develop photos all your self. And with the society that we have, and the advanced in technology I feel that it is hard for me to do something that is not totally pure. So I stick to b&w for the most part which is a more serious and abstract photograph. I hope I get to shoot color film and use a color lab sometime. It is a true art.

first october days

Went into long island city for the weekend, had a awesome time. Went to the Art book fair at the MOMA in queens. It was really awesome, saw tons of awesome photo/street art books that I wanted to buy. One day I want to have a huge art book collection in my house. I also wish I was able to spend more time in the darkroom, went today for the first time in a couple weeks and had a good turn out. I will post a couple photos later on in the week with what I did.

This was pretty awesome, I found it on vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/29777584

Brilliant.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raaphorst/4648497458/

Note to self:I will print this many of my b&w's by the end of this year.
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mcgee/img/BM_2.jpg