Water Shots

Watershots using my Nikon Fe 35mm camera.
I used a 50mm lens while shooting these.  Shot a roll
of film then hopped in the water myself and surfed for a couple hours.

Working Bench

                               Above is the work beach.  Taken with my canon 7d featuring the tools I have been using as of recently.  These tools are some of the most useful tools for me lately.  Shaping another surfboard right now featured below.  Its not completed but its going to be a 5'6" quad with a weird diamond tail(i might change this to a normal diamond tail but as of now I like how it looks and am interested on its performance).  The camera picture is a 50mm Argus Rangefinder aka the Brick.  Its a cool little 35mm camera though it has no built in light meter so lately I have either carried around an extra camera, usually my 7D, or done my best at guessing a decent exposure.  The aperture range goes 3.5, 4, 5.6, 8,11, 16.  While the shutter speed range from 10-300.  

Road on the Coast

Just another Road on the Coast to no where. "Quiet Refuge from the storms of Life"  Finals are almost over and it will be time to hit the road for a short amount of time before the holiday activities leading up to xmas with the fam.  Nikon FE with expired 35mm film.

Its Time to Leave

Need to get out and travel again. Newport has been flat need some more waves. Time to get on a place or in a car to go somewhere new.  Other news I am starting a new video project soon that I have been drawing out some ideas for more information soon.

Shallow Depth of Field

Both of the following pictures I use a wide open shutter speed to create two different feelings for the images that really brought the images together in the end.

Nature is amazing this is a shot I took while on my get away in Eugene Oregon.  One of my good friends lives there and attends the university and he took me to this awesome forest which is literally 6 minute bike from the campus.  These vines or plants looked so cool and the picture just came together with the pine cone. I chose to shoot a wide open aperture so I could have a shallow depth of field.  I believe this was shot at 1.4 or 2 on my 50mm lens.  As i had hoped it gave the image a mystical feel with the background washed out visions of the same leaves.  

 The below image is also from my Oregon trip.  It is an incense though to me it felt like an artists utensil to the work which surrounded it.  This is taken inside my friends house and I actually relocated the object as to get a backlit scenario.  This lighting was more of a side light but it looked really pleasing through the Venetian blinds.  Once again I shot in an open aperture this time to provide a quite and thoughtful environment.  I then shifted the black n white image to cobalt-gold colour scheme.  I hope you enjoy my photos leave a comment if you wish to ask questions or want to see certain types of images.

Central Coretex

A unique approach at a self portrait.  Life // two sides to everything // one central connection // one body // one life // yet so much diversity between the halves that make up the whole.

35 Min

This is taken with my Nikon FE and a 28mm wide angle lens.  Nearly Everything in this picture is in focus due to using an aperture of f22.  The image took 35min to take with 100 speed 35mm film.  The only source of light was the lamps located onto of the pier.  On the horizon there is a white line which was created by a boat that was slowly moving towards the harbor.

Tower Under the Moon

Long Exposure of a Lifeguard tower in Newport Beach Ca.  The Exposure was approximately 17mins from what I can remember.  It was taken with a Canon 7D at about 10 o'clock at night. the white line right above the sand is the whitewash from waves illuminated so slightly by the moon.  The skyline looks all washed away because it was quite windy out so it is the motion of the clouds moving over the 17 minutes.  The colors are not manipulated at all it is the naturally color created under the moonlight conditions and possibly some tint from the boardwalk lights.

Small House

 

Took this a while back with my Nikon FM.  It was my first roll of color film with that camera.  I'm not sure of the exposure and aperture but I used a handheld light meter to get the correct exposure measuring the highlights and shaw does then choosing an exposure to balance the two.  This is one of my favorite urban shots.  

Today is the anniversary of 9/11, bless all the families that lost a loved one.