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 […]
SF Street Photography on Film
Because I’m shooting film much more than digital of late, I took my film camera into San Francisco a week ago and took photos at a Chinatown street fair, on Market Street, and around Yerba Buena Center. It was a different experience from shooting digital, mainly because, unlike with digital, there’s no immediate feedback: I […]
Venice Beach Portraits
I was in L.A. for a photo conference, and one of our excursions was to Venice Beach. I was expecting a sunny day at the beach, but no. Overcast, hazy and pretty cool. But that’s not necessarily bad weather for outdoor environmental portraits. I saw this woman with red hair that coordinated with her outfit […]
Back to Film
Like many photographers in my age cohort, I shot film for decades before digital came along. Also like many others, I did some darkroom work back in the day, developing and printing black and white film. But I hadn’t shot film in probably 20 years … before buying a film camera a few months ago. […]
