Recent Street Portraiture
I don’t take a lot of street portraits, so accumulating enough for a post takes some time. Here are several recent ones, all shot on film. This is Mateo, who commented on my camera, and we talked photography for a few minutes. I placed him in front of this plain background. I found him a […]
Two Cameras, Two Looks
Because I want to end up with silver gelatin, black-and-white prints that I do myself in the darkroom, I’ve begun shooting film alongside digital when I do a portrait session. I used both cameras when I photographed a friend recently at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Getting images that are in sharp […]
Charlotte in Mono and Color
In my recent portrait session with Charlotte, I used both my digital color camera and my film camera loaded with black and white to get two different looks. The color images benefit from capturing her beautiful, natural red hair. They’re also much easier to process and alter—which should come as no surprise to anyone who […]
Portrait Session in the Mission
I recently did a portrait session with Kiki in the Mission District in San Francisco. We arrived early, when the streets were uncrowded and we had a clear sky with angled light. I’d scouted some locations ahead of time, and chose mural backgrounds—ideally, without discernible letters, which could be distracting. There’s no shortage of murals […]
