Taggers
This next photograph was by far the most involved photo I’ve shot in a long time. It took maybe a week or more of leg work by myself and Allison (our new news intern) to build up the trust for a Portland based graffiti tagger to let me photograph him. Their where lots of things to consider, [...]
Timbers’ Media Day
canon 1ds MarkIII – ISO 100 – f5.6 – 1/250 – Canon 550EX @ 1/32 power – Open shade I was looking back at some of my Timbers photos today and found this outtake from a portrait I did of Portland Timbers’ returning midfielder Ryan Pore. He holds a league best of 15 goals during [...]
Just a kid again
Canon 1Ds Mark III, iso 100, f5.6, 1/800 sec Like most of my days as a newspaper photographer, today was great. I shot a few different assignments, but I stepped away from news gathering to find a nice honest all-American moment. The clouds burned off early in the day and left us with an [...]
The many faces of funny-man Brad Fortier
For next week’s Q and A we interviewed Brad Fortier, a fantastic improv comedian that stars at the Brody Theater down town. I did a simple two light setup, one medium soft-box on camera right and a second bare strobe behind him on camera left. The soft-box acted as my key/fill light and I feathered [...]
10min Portrait
Yesterday was especially nice for photography. The light in the sky was amazing, as dark clouds rolled over the city, some rain fell creating stunning rainbows all over town, and bright sunlight broke through. Here is a quick portrait I did of the new Milwaukie High School football coach. Shot with the 1Ds Mark III, and two [...]
Joggers not bikes (UPDATE) = Success
I walked back out onto the Morrison Bridge during rush hour to try one more time at a cycle photo. This time I brought my 430EX II speed-light and a PocketWizard TT5 transmitter. The TT5 lets me do high-speed sync, so I was able to underexpose the frame while leaving my aperture open to increase [...]
Variant
An impromptu portrait session with of all my good friends down at the Variant. I shot this series on Kodak Portra 400 film with my Mamiya 645 and used two FloLights and a small LED to light it. We setup outside on the sidewalk in north Portland and did a total of 65 portraits from 8pm-2am.
Gotham City Mayor
I shot a portrait today of the mayor of our fair city, Sam Adams. I brought my trusty intern/assistant Patrick with me to help with the lights and stand in while we setup the lights. It’s always a good idea to have your setup all ready when you’re working with high-powered suite and tie personalities. [...]
Q&A, Physics
I photographed a physics professor at Lewis and Clark College Friday for this weeks Q and A. He has an award winning physics blog, but the real story is about his beard. He told one of his classes that the student to get the best grade could determine the kind of beard he had to [...]
More fun with strobes
I’ve been shooting for our online car section each week so I thought I would try lighting the cars with my strobes. My first attempt was of a Jaguar, I used four lights, three exterior and one interior. Really the hardest part about this setup was minimizing the reflections of the strobes in the car’s [...]
Lighting the Bee
One of my assignments last week was to photograph Taggart Siegel, a local documentary film director who recently finished his film “Queen of the Sun.” Taggart is most known for his film “The Real Dirt on Farmer John,” and his new film is premiering at the Hollywood Theater Sept. 17. I photographed Taggart with his daughter in [...]
Available Light
For the longest time I’ve considered myself an “available light” photographer. In the world of photography, this basically refers to photographers who prefer naturalistic and ambient light when shooting (not using flash). Being an available light photographer has really helped me develop my style, but I think it’s time to move forward with my photography and start controlling my [...]
Rolling with the Portland Police Gang Unit
Let’s start by saying thanks to Portland police gang unit Sgt. Tony Passadore, his partner Dan, and gang outreach worker Purnell Brown. I tagged along with Tony and Dan during their shift Tuesday night and I got a real sense of Portland’s gang problem. On the surface North Portland seems to be often tranquil and [...]
Looking through Olympus
I took my dad’s old Olympus OM2 out of the closet and shot a roll of Tri-X B&W film the other day… Here’s a selection from the roll of 36.
Ducati Track day at PIR
My brother came down to Portland with his Ducati 848, so I grabbed a 400mm f2.8 super telephoto lens and trekked out to the track to take in the action.
Shrimp
I got a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 “point-&-shoot” for my birthday this past Christmas and I finally got around to downloading some of the pictures off the card. It’s amazing how many 10mp RAW images fit on a 16gb SD card. I shot this last month at the ABC Seafood Market on Powell, the best and [...]
Vegas Fashion Shootout
I did a little fashion shoot in north Las Vegas Wedsday afternoon with my old college pal, and L.A. wedding photographer Garrett Davis during the 2010 WPPI show. I had never really done fashion/style portraits before so it was an interesting experience. Anytime you work with models on a public street, you’re bound to get [...]
St. Johns after dark
I’ve been spending a lot of time working on a project with my new medium format Mamiya 645 film camera and thought I should take out the 5DMark II. I’ve had my eye on a few spots near St. Johns. Now the light today was nice, don’t get me wrong, but there’s something special about [...]
Blazers v. Nets
I shot the Blazers game Wednesday as they faced off with the 0-14 New Jersey Nets. Here are a few selects from the game. My favorite… The fans with front row seats. You can see the rest of my photos from the game on my photoshleter page HERE.
Seeing surprises
I was driving through a massive rain storm the other day in Portland and realized that rain is not a good reason to leave my camera at home. I framed a few amazing photos in my minds eye, as interesting scenes unfolded in front of me due to the crazy weather. A car stuck in [...]
Halprin Panoramics, and a bowl of noodles.
I’ll start off today with an interesting photo of a man, eating a bowl of noodles alone in a chinese restaurant. I was walking from my car over to Harrison Street and found myself drawn toward this scene. I’m often captivated by events that invoke a sense of quiet isolation among a busy city environment. [...]
Polaroid Test
Just for laughs, and a change of pace, I took out one of Anna’s Polaroid Land Cameras and took a few pictures. The film was old, really old, to old in fact. Turns out the film was expired and the photos came out with some interesting expired film looks. It was a fun little experiment [...]
Blazers and the Changing face of breakfast.
I stopped by the Portland Tribune today and secured my credentials for Sunday’s Blazers Nuggets game. So in the spirit of my home team I thought I would post something red, my breakfast, a huge bowl of Joe’s O’s. Check back Sunday night for some pix from the game.
The Harrison and Lawrence Halprin
The Harrison Condos in downtown Portland have proposed a remodel project for their three towers along the Harrison pedestrian corridor that was inspired by famed landscape architect Lawrence Halprin. One of the proposed upgrades is a series of large black and white landscape/cityscape photos of the green covered pedestrian walk to be displayed on each [...]