Lines & Squares

March 21, 2012 in Blue, Color, Kristin & I, New Topography, Street walking, Strong Lines

TEASE

March 16, 2012 in City Life, Color, Design, Kristin & I, Street walking, Strong Lines

February 28, 2012 in Black & White, City Life, Color, Design, Fashion/ Style, New Topography, One View, Self Portrait, Signage, Street walking, Strong Lines

VELVIA & NEOPAN

FUJI: git that shit!

First in a Few Fears

February 25, 2012 in Black & White, Color, Design, One View, Street walking

I am posting things a little backwards here because this shot is it for me. I pass this ally every day on my way to work and it has never made a compelling image until I picked up a Canon EOS RT a few days ago. This is the first time I have shot film in about 5 years; I was scared. It was interesting shooting in lighting that I know and second guessing myself. But, true to form, I trusted my gut and this is what came out. I would like to think I could have made this shot digitally, and I most certainly color corrected it that way. But even with my level of understanding of the technical side of both analogue and digital techniques, this film shot "has it". The "it" that is lacking in all the other images I have made here. So, kudos to film?

The images below are also shot with film, and they are also my first few shots on this new camera. Funny enough, of things that should never be shot on 35mm (action photography).

I started shooting at about 13 because some of my friends skated for a large team. Those road trips and silly antics made me fall for the art, but I sure dont miss the high frame rates and low success rates of this type of photography, especially with film. So, kudos to film?

Soooooo, Kudos to film for inspiring me to love the art. Kudos to film for making me switch to digital. Kudos to film for re-invigorating my passion in image making during busy times!

Still Watching

January 24, 2012 in Blue, Clouds, Color, Design, New Topography, Signage, Street walking, Strong Lines

Lately, I have been shooting more and more. I am acquiring a lot of data. And I feel, once again, that I dont know what to do with it all. The difference? I'm ok with it this time. I dont care if all my images have METADATA. I dont care if they get catalogued or even set for web viewing, let alone printing. I had high hopes of getting back into printing, but what? I dont know if I could cull my work into a show. Meaning, I think anything attributed statement wise from a "show" of mine would be contrived. Im just watching the world. It's pretty out there. I wish more people truly looked "out" more.

I dont meen to sound so dreary. I am shooting better and better work every day. Hopefully this, whatever it is, will help me to edit more. Maybe something WILL come of my view on this life I live. Maybe a book is due...

WATCH OUT

LINES: they have been drawn

January 23, 2012 in Clouds, Color, Design, Kristin & I, New Topography, One View, Street walking, Strong Lines

I never had any profound loyalty to the idea of photography as a medium but simply as the most efficient way of making or recording an image. -Lewis Baltz.

Windows: My Voyeuristic Tendencies

January 17, 2012 in Color, Kristin & I, One View, Street walking

I often walk around with a camera, something I learned when going to school for photojournalism. Something ingrained deep within. So much so that when I don't have a camera on me, I feel "lacking". Even to the extremities of my best judgment; my shoulder throbbing in pain would be one example. One reason is that I feel like I might miss something. BUT the biggest reason of them all, I like to look through a lens.

I specifically like to train my lens on people or some form of "signs of life". To be frank, I like to watch people without them knowing. I like to catch them. At the most extreem of this activity, I watch windows. Hoping that, in some brief moment, I will catch a glimpse of life within.

1.4.2012

January 04, 2012 in Black & White, Color, Design, Kristin & I, Love, Street walking, two lens'

As a society we share space and time, yet somehow the experiences remain unique to the individual. Take for instance Josh and I, we are a couple, we both got our BFA's in Photography, we both wait tables in San Francisco and we live together. Despite all the time and experiences we share our view of them are completely different. On our first day off together in 2012 we rode past the de Young museum on our bikes after we had coffee at the beach and we decided to go up to the observation tower. These are the images we came away with.

Josh Rosenthal

Kristin Delzell

Josh Rosenthal

Kristin Delzell