Photography Post Vol. 2

[arevalo]

Yo,

Thanks! Gonna be doing a series of masks/gals.

[arevalo]

not mine. ;D

mine. ;D

[mike lowrey]

I havent taken much portraits but I liked how this one turned out

[airfrogusmc]

Mike yeah I like it allot. To me a good portrait is an honest look at the person being photographed.

[masuerte]

Love the portrait mike.

I love all your posts arevalo.

Here's my apartment windows on a grey summer day.

a brighter summer day with my family's bamboo plants

If anyone has helpful comments pls go to my flickr ... I want to learn more about anything to do with being more thoughtful about taking pictures.

[mike lowrey]

thanks guys, I agree airfro, thats a good definition.

that window shot is interesting, though the monitor is a bit distracting, without it the pic would be pretty cool I think

[airfrogusmc]

Mike I usually don't like landscapes with horizons that divide the frame in half or eyes on a portrait that are making a line that divide the frame in half but there are always exceptions. When composed like that it has a tendency to make the image very static. Sometimes when I'm looking at a portrait and get the feeling seeing the subject for who they really are those things like I fore mentioned are not as important. In fact in the setting of your portrait it adds a calmness to the image and fits very well. Heres an exception to the rule that really worked. I tend to put horizons or eyes in a portrait at the top third or bottom third of the frame but will on occasion go for the center line.

[arevalo]

[dkatz]

Is this house in the Presidio? If not then it looks a LOT like some houses they're restoring there! The 5th picture in my post on the last page (#422) was actually taken outside one of the houses they're restoring.

[arevalo]

Is this house in the Presidio? If not then it looks a LOT like some houses they're restoring there! The 5th picture in my post on the last page (#422) was actually taken outside one of the houses they're restoring.

This is actually on the other side of the Golden Gate, Fort Baker.

They're tearing down these houses to build a hotel.

[xcoldricex]

can't believe the geese and swans are still around...

[C0C0]

i see you made it to superfuture arevalo lol welcome =P

[masuerte]

How does this appeal to you photogs in terms of composition?

[airfrogusmc]

How does this appeal to you photogs in terms of composition?

Its always a question of ballance. The frame is very heavy to the left and the subgect is moving and looking out of the frame.

[Carl]

Put her in the clean sky, Mas, and you've got yourself a solid frame.

[Spaghettini]

Old favorites, terrible camera

[Guest walt]

[SuSu]

Olympic Sculpture Park (Seattle):

[Guest DUM]

Any tips, comments. ec. would be great. These are all taken with my Yashica Electro 35 (as recommended by Arevalo actually)

[youngluc]

photograms... i have to do them in some dumb class tomorrow. any thoughts on what to bring in? everything i find is either inappropriate or not transparent and wouldn't work well.

[arevalo]

GAS.

[ayn]

^ some cool toys you got there! I checked out your portfolio, good stuff... do you scan the negatives with a flat bed scanner with some of the images? looks like the focus was a bit off here and there, and I am sure it was fine in prints and on film, so my guess is that the problem was with the scanning... a photog friend of mine with Hasselblad had the same problem in his online portfolio... but I could be wrong...

Some of my random old portrait work:

[arevalo]

^^

Yeah, scanned my negs. It's hard getting the film completely flat with the neg holders that came with the scanner.

[ayn]

that's what I thought, my friend who shoots MF got online images that look exactly like that... drives me crazy... hahah... with 35mm a quality film scanner is relatively cheap, but I guess when you do MF it would cost a fortune to get a pro film scanner...

[Carl]

Shot my first magazine assignment this past weekend. It was for Fader magazine. I drove up to Chicago and followed around David Vandervelde and his band for 2 days. It was fucking great...getting paid to party and smoke weed with cool dudes while taking pictures of them.

David is a pretty good musician, check his shit out: www.davidvandervelde.com

Here are some selects;

The band

Stewie, the house pit

David

David and Stewie

The living room

Hanging out

Friend of the band

Random guy at the 24 hour burrito place

[ayn]

carl, good stuff!!!

[Carl]

more...

outside the house

At the bar

Dude fucking bombing stand up at the dive bar

Two ladies at a party

[youngluc]

http://flickr.com/photos/xlucx/

threw a bunch of stuff up. comments/criticism wanted please!

[canice]

beautiful. congrats, fader is a great magazine. which issue will it be in? i want to own some carl goods.

[ishboo]

arevalo--

time to spot those images, man (from your website). its pretty nice work, but lots of dust on 'em.