Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
April 30th, 2017
Today is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day so, of course, I made some pinhole photos.
My friend Ayn was kind enough to take some time out of her busy day to pose for me with my pinhole.
I haven’t decided which of today’s photos will get uploaded to the Pinhole Day site, but it will be one of the three above. Let me know if you have an opinion on which one I should upload.
I used my Panasonic GX8 camera with my trusty old Pinwide wide-angle pinhole.
I don’t upload nudes to the Pinhole Day site because there are a lot of young people participating in the day, but that is no reason not to take a few nudes and share them here.
Thanks Ayn!
Reveille In Focus
April 28th, 2017
As promised, here are some photos of Reveille taken with a “real” lens.
I was using my old 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor for these photos, playing around with depth of focus.
That lens is definitely not sharp wide open at f/1.4, but stopped down one or two stops it gets very nice.
Reveille looks great in or out of focus.
All the photos above were shot at f/2. For this last one I stopped all the way down to f/4 for a different look.
Another reminder: Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is Sunday. Get out there and take some pinhole photos and upload one to their website, just for fun.
Start Your Pinholes
April 22nd, 2017
It’s almost time for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. It’s always the last Sunday in April, so that makes it a week from Sunday, April 30, this year.
I always try to participate and upload a pinhole photo taken on pinhole day to their website.
I don’t upload nudes to the Pinhole Day website because there are many young people involved in the day and I don’t want to cause any issues over nudity.
But I use my pinholes regularly to do all sorts of work, including nudes.
These were shot almost a year ago and feature the wonderful model, Reveille.
I’ll have some more work with Reveille in my next post…and those will be photos done with a lens instead of a pinhole.
Don’t forget, get your pinholes out and go out on April 30 and make some pinhole photos. I love the way pinholes get you away from the silly pixel-peeping that goes on and takes you back to the origins of photography. Pinholes were making images long before a way to save the images had been invented. And, ironically, modern digital cameras, especially mirrorless cameras with electronic viewfinders, make working with pinholes much easier than ever before. With my Micro 4/3 cameras I can actually use the viewfinder and see what I’m getting. And with the high ISOs available on modern digital cameras, I can shoot hand-held if I want to. It’s never been easier to shoot pinhole photos. Give it a try.
Been Gone…Real Gone
April 19th, 2017
Sorry it has been so long since I’ve posted here. A lot has been going on. For several weeks I was moving out of my old house and getting it ready to put on the market. We worked right up to the last minute on that, and then the next day headed out for a drive across the country. We followed (kind of) Rt. 66, staying in old motels from the days of the Mother Road. We visited Las Vegas, Death Valley, Los Angeles and Yosemite before returning home traveling across Nevada and Utah on Rt. 50, “The Loneliest Highway in America.” It was a great trip and we got to visit with several friends along the way.
So, I’m back now and I’ll try to get back to posting regularly. I still have quite a backlog of shoots to work through and I’ll probably post some photos from this trip when I get them edited. They are being downloaded from my portable drive to my desktop as I type this.
Meanwhile, here are a few photos of the lovely ASmallWoman taken at night by the light of a streetlight through the windows of my old studio in Dayton.
Gallery Show In Vermont
March 3rd, 2017
Sorry for the long gap since my last post. I’ve been on vacation with my family. I took some things to do posts while I was away, but frankly, I was just having too much fun to take the time to write a post.
I’ll get back to the regular posting soon. But just after arriving back home I received word that two of my photos have been chosen by the juror for a show next month at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, Vermont.
Amusingly, they are two very different photos, but both of them have two models. The one above, with models Kat and Brooke Lynne, was taken a few years ago in a slot canyon near Page, Arizona. The one below is a more recent photo taken in the Smokey Mountains with models Melissa Troutt and Stevie Macaroni. One in deep desert and the other in a mountain stream. And in each case the two models making the photos much stronger than they could have been with just one. Thank you ladies!
The Darkroom Gallery does excellent shows. I’m always proud to be included in them. If you are in the Burlington area you should check out the show. My friend, Dave Rudin, also has two photographs in this show.
A Small Woman in the Woods
February 18th, 2017
I’m making progress on my backlog of editing. I think soon I’ll be less than a year behind. This shoot was with ASmallWoman in October 2015.
We just wandered around in the woods at a couple parks near my home and shot in the fall colors.
ASmallWoman is a wonderful person and a fine model. I always enjoy working with her.
There are a lot more photos of ASmallWoman coming in future blog posts. We did a number of shoots together around this time.
At a Beaver Pond
February 14th, 2017
After our morning shoot in Vermont a friend took us to a beaver pond in the woods. The light was incredible for a few minutes and Kelsey Dylan helped me take full advantage of it.
Then as the light was fading Blueriverdream went into action and delivered some lovely poses.
All in all a very successful day of shooting thanks to great locations, great friends and wonderful, beautiful models. Thanks to all who worked to make this shoot a tremendous success.
Blue in Vermont
February 8th, 2017
After our shoot in the Catskills in August 2015 Dave Rudin and I, along with two of the models we had been working with, went up to Vermont for some more photography.
I took Dave and Blueriverdream to one of my favorite Vermont locations.
Of course, Blue did her usual wonderful job of modeling and we got a few photos that I’m very happy with.
And Blue wasn’t afraid to get wet…which resulted in this photo.
And, finally, here’s one of Dave working with Blue.
Solo Erica
February 4th, 2017
While it can be fun to shoot a lot of models at the same time, it’s probably better to work with just one model at a time for the best results. That’s especially true when the model is Erica Jay.
The two of us spent a little time working together on this shoot in the Catskills and Erica did her usual fantastic job of modeling. In fact I think she went a bit above and beyond her usually very high level of work for these photos.
Thank you Erica. You really made these photos work.
So Many Models
January 30th, 2017
Of course, with all those models available, I couldn’t resist getting them all together in a few photos.
Thanks to Blueriver Dream, Erica Jay, Claudine, Brooke Lynne, Kelsey Dylan, Stevie Macaroni, Nadine Theresa, and Dane St. Clair.
They all did a wonderful job. And I even shot a few photos of fewer than the full complement of models there for the day. Thanks to my friend, Dave Rudin, for organizing this amazing outing.
