tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291253342011-07-07T21:15:53.331-07:00Welcome to the online portfolio/ blog of Arizona photo artist and educator David Miller.Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11355935644379278737noreply@blogger.comBlogger2241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29125334.post-46739862566606004502010-10-08T18:19:00.000-07:002010-10-08T18:19:24.163-07:00

Over the last month I've been a lot smarter about my social networking/ web presence.  I made a livebooks site, David Miller Photoworks, renamed the business to actually reflect my real name and point to the fact that these are artistic photos ("Photoworks"),   I made a facebook fan page which reaches far more people than this blog and now I have a tumblr.  Needless to say it makes this crochety

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I set up an Etsy shop and, as the aesthetic is vintage or handmade, I took the time to dig through my archives for alternative process and photo-based printmakings to sell in my shop.  I haven't done much of either since I started shooting models last Dec.  There is a creative bug to do handmade stuff and get away from the technology that's ruining my eyesite and making me a stationary blob in a

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Every year I make a concentrated effort to put together a good portfolio site and it's always a pain deciding what should go up to represent myself, what I think will generate work and what is stuff I am really fond of, and what will give the impression of my style.  The problem lies mainly in my style is all over the map.  Every project I do I try to do a new style for, and every model shoot I

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I'm writing an article about the various options Polaroid lovers have in a post-Polaroid world and one of those is the Poladroid freeware.  It's silly and cheesy but dang if it don't make some interesting images out of older snapshot type images.

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So it has been over 2 months since I last put up anything and it's shameful.  I've still been doing shoots but somewhere in there my 3 day jobs picked up in the amount of work I've had and there really wasn't much to say.  Still shooting models and fashion, still traveling, still got kids, blah blah blah.  First bit of equipment news, I bought a Fuji Instax, which punks out horizontal "polaroids.

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I just shot a studio setup for a clothing line, http://www.rivarlrystyle.com/.  A lot of my personal favorite fashion photos are the kind that pull the curtain back and show the model getting ready and done up-- fashion with a bit of documentary to it. Because 99% of my shoots are location shoots instead of studio, random encounters happen all the time and if I'm lucky it gets caught and maybe

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When I taught high school the students would ask if they should go to art school or university, a lot of them thinking if they only did art school then they wouldn't have to "waste time" taking the humanities or science or English courses.  I usually tell them those were by far the most valuable classes I had and will lead your art to deeper ideas beyond the thousands of silly creature graphics

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I should say the blog titles come from Phil Ochs.  I have no freaking idea what to name this stuff.  Anyways, 4 down and 4 to go... Rebecka is a Swedish jazz/ folk singer and for some reason that escapes me we decided to do a night shoot around her house in Hollywood.  I've mentioned the difficulty of doing a night shoot in previous blogs, especially when you are doing only ambient light and

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This month I was given a week and a half to get my life together-- find work, get a new place to live, make art without interference. The last goal was done in a trip combining the inspiration that a road trip always sets off with the newer focus of using models for art photography.  Knowing that fulltime and overtime wage work was around the corner, it also became clear that, with a few

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\Over the last month I have started working with an amazing hairstylist, Jenny Strebe.  I will now testify before all known deitites that amazing hair brings fashion to life, inspires the actress in the model, makes my raise my game to match the artistry I see in front of me.The first shoot I did with Jenny involved was the Hollywood Glamour shoot which I posted early March.  The images seen

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I just finished up a week of totally random shooting.  There is something about randomness that I think makes the best art-- the kind with the rough edges, the imperfect lighting or sound, that hasn't had the life throttled out of it by technique.  The problem with randomness is you might not end up with anything whatsoever.  You could drive for hours and not find anything special enough to

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Most of the time I am a stay-at home dad who does side teaching and shooting.  Otherwise, Patrick and Magdalena go on photo expeditions/ location scout all over central Arizona, or do art and music with daddy at home.  A typical day starts with them bringing me their shoes after breakfast and heading straight for the front door, saying "go!"  Truthfully I cannot think of anything we would be

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When I photographed Vania 2 months back in one image that sort of accidentally evoked a classic Hollywood look, it made me look into the real 30s Hollywood glamour shots, espeically those of George Hurrell.  Flash forward and I have my first honest-to-gosh glamorous images and collaberation between the model, hair and makeup artists, shot full studio style.  That was the starting point, anyways.

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Many artists/ painters/ photographers I know of have a sort of regular stable of people they work with, and the more they work together the better the art is for it.  I've only been shooting models for 3 months now and there are a few people I feel really comfortable working with, where both parties have a pretty good idea of how the photos should come out, and where the model is repsonsible/

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Shot the most elaborate setup yet this week-- my friend Dan Richters had made dresses out of CDs which he used in several fashion shows in Nebraska, and after last week he let me pick them up and use them here in Arizona. Somehow my co-photographer Vania Elise and myself got 4 models willing to wear such ludicrous gear and we even took the time to rent a ringflash for added complications.Alright,

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Variety makes better photographs and I am trying to stretch my art in newer directios each time.  Do something a little simpler, next time more design elements, next time a lot sexier, the following time more romantic or with more interesting makeup and wardrobe.  Everything starts with an idea, like "let's be sci fi..." as in this image... Within the last week I've shot models in a snow field

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Omaha, my hometown, is an ugly city where cool places are constantly being opened and innovative concepts are attempted, only to be beaten down by an indifferent populace more focused on going to restaraunts and watching football.  I went back for a few days to collect materials for a shoot, photograph a model, see friends and family.  One of the interesting bits of the trip was being around

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 Alan Moore says "each new thing you do, try to make it a little smarter, a little more sophisticated than the thing you did before, eventually people will notice, and you will start to move beyond what everyone else is doing."  If you focus on something you love to do for purely its own sake, and because you want to get better and better and better, he says, "you'll probably do alright."  So at

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So forget about a fancy blog template.  Minimalism is a good aesthetic.  It says, "I shall only use what is necessary and neither waste not or want not."  I am trying to apply that to both my personal life and my art.  Eat only enough to survive, don't buy anything arbitrary, use whatever you have to make something great.  I remember when I worked at a camera store, renting out $10,000 worth of

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So I shot two fantastic models at night this week.  Night shooting is really a roll of the dice, it's slow and there's a lot of fighting with the equipment and the models can't move as much and I can't move as much because I'm on a tripod and it's cold and I have trouble seeing to focus.  Sometimes it is hard to tell if you even have any good pictures at all. Having said all of that, there is a

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Been taking some of the lessons I pick up from shooting models and applying them to my family.  Magdalena is 1.5 years going on 30 here. Anyways I was digging through my archives, looking for other people images I could work up alongside the stuff I've been shooting over the last month, and there's something strange that happens to artists when they go through their old material-- they think it

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Did a couple more shoots this week until I got very sick and the weather turned briefly nasty.  I've shot so many people recently to get a portfolio of fashion/ models/ portraits and I am glad to say I am almost at that point where I won't be relying on others to do free stuff.  It is really complicated for me to network, organize stuff and get my kids watched and so on and so forth, all for free

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Trapped in LA thanks to our van overheating.  I did manage to get a few snaps of the kids, always hard when they are constantly on the move.

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My first blonde model!  Really trying to push each shoot in a new direction.  Also trying to incorporate some of the influences I mention on this blog... Federico Erra definitely was in the forefront of my mind as I shot and processed these. The true blast of having other people to work with, who are already aware they are the subject of a photographic session, is that each time I get to try

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My first pinup shoot, done with someone very into 1940s classic pinup and airplanes, shot at the Mesa Commemorative Air Force.  Lots of fun.  Every shoot I do with models is vastly different from the last... different concepts, different people, different equipment.  This "legs" picture in particular goes along with a sort of iconic graphic image that I would like to have as one of my artistic

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Roger Ballen is someone I failed to appreciate when I got to see a show of his work in front of my face when I was visiting MCAD a few years back.  It was a show of freakish South Africans in desolate rooms, and at the time I took it as a riff on Diane Arbus, very flat looking portraits.  Since then I've wised up considerably and now Ballen is one of my favorites.  His art is stark and wirey,

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Spent my weekend slaving over a hot laptop developing more images from this week's model shoots.  There were some raised eyebrows in the house that so many hours were spent staring at these images but I still maintain it is a form of hard labor.  These two I posted together as they are the same concept, girls on stairs shot from above.  I thought it worked quite nicely though some stairs are

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An unhappy Patrick, probably because we wouldn't let him do some fool unreasonable thing.  I'm taking some of the gimmicks I'm learning doing portrait images (infrared filters and fake miniature quick masking) and applying it to family photos.

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As I venture into portraiture I am looking at some of the big modern names in that field-- Dan Winters is one of the most accomplished portrait photographers around.  In a recent interview on the Candid Frame, he talked about his history and of working with basically no real setup and no assistant, doing whatever he could to cut costs, and also how portraiture was the one avenue of expressive

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Haven't posted any 4x5 images in a while because I haven't developed anything since maybe May, not that I haven't done an occasional shoot with it, but being hot outside and having 2 kids on each leg made it a more difficult shooting sensation.  Plus, I thought it would be fun to save up a lot of film over a longer period of time and develop it with less attachment to the whys and wherefors of

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Rejiggered the blog and it's going to take some getting used to, however it was simpler to update blogger as a main website than it is to try and struggle through the "official" website, which I'm closing. Kind of ridiculous that flickr, blogger, facebook etc. have a much better sampling of my work than the actual site, and they're all free tools. Life circumstances have thrust upon me the

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>Since the last post I've photographed a series of models with varying degrees of experience, and I think I've got a much more defined style emerging-- kind of light and airy, highlighting texture and pattern but with the subject's personality shining through rather than being submerged. A lot of commercial stuff comes across to me like they would've preferred a lifeless mannequin, within the

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Today's influence is Federico Erra. I was looking for interesting model poses in my magazines when I came across him in JPG, then found a huge wealth of images online. It's a world of twilight, a world where evil and lonliness are the norm. Best of all, he has a tactile quality to his work that flies in the face of all the super slick kind of portrait photography that dominates today.I did a

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I've been making the rounds at all the local gardens and nature areas-- the Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens, Tohono Chul in Tucson, and my all=around favorite, the Gilbert Riparian Preserve. A lot of these places have similar characteristics, and quite honestly I have the same hundreds of photos of pretty nature stuff that all the other photographers I see wandering

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I recently watched Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" movie and there is a character who had orbited the sun for 7 years. Boyle decided to film this character, who was the villain of the piece, as bleeding light, so bright you could only make out bits of burnt skin, as opposed to the stereotypical shadowy/ evil character. On a sunny Sunday morning, I fooled around with zooming while dragging the shutter

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Andreas Gefeller is a German photo artist who does contemporary landscape work; I connected with his images of urban areas that resemble aerial photos but are composites from hundreds of exposures. When an image is presented from this Godlike perspective there's a judgement, an evaluation between the works of man and the works of nature. And it looks really cool. I find myself really enjoying

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In October I joined a networking site called Model Mayhem, "where professional models and professional photographers meet." I haven't done a great deal of portrait work outside of the classes I teach, so in coming up with images for my profile I had to dig deep into the archives and scan stuff from 1999 and 2000. My model shoots decreased after that when I started dating and eventually married

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Halloween is my favorite holiday, shooting home portraits of the kids is one of my least favorite activities. No one holds still, when they have accessories on their heads they remove them withing a nanosecond of them being placed on, but the worst part is there is no room in my house for the light set up. These were shot with a 3 750w light kit I bought because I was sick of renting lights

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Wife and Magdalena were out of town for a few days, and I used the oppurtunity to photograph for 3 days straight with Patrick. Day 1, with no sleep to speak of, we drove to Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon. Ate in a UFO themed restaraunt, hiked Bell Rock and Slide Rock. Patrick was absolutely wild.Day 2, with a little rest, we spent the day in Tucson, redoing some recent shoots that I didn't do too

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I go to the AZ State Fairs and Maricopa County Fairs every year, mostly to photograph the animals there, but as that well is running dry I wanted to try some panos that utilize movement-- people moving and disappearing where the images overlap. Something as kinetic and frantic as the fair should have lots of lights and movement.

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A few weeks ago I mentioned doing a weekly investigation of a photoartist to broaden my horizons. Today, I can report on two suchartists, both very famous Japanese photographers, Masao Yamamoto andHiroshi Sugimoto. I came across Yamamoto checking out some of thephoto gallery shows coming up in Tucson. He was part of an upcomingshow co-featuring one of my old professors, Carol Panaro Smith, and

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I was trolling through the net and came across FILE Magazine, a journal of "unexpected photography"-- accidental, street style stuff with little commercial bent. hese are the first 5 images I submitted to them. All these images were just whims, taken solely to see what they looked like as photographs, to paraphrase Garry Winogrand.Kids make it easy to do "accidental" photos because they never

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Spent a day photographing gruesome things in Seattle. Nothing serious, just fooling around, looking for inspiration-- something that reflects my love of bizarre, sci-fi, weird history kinds of topics. Been watching a lot of Twilight Zone and Outer Limits...

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One of the photo podcasts I listen to, the Candid Frame, has a photographer reccomendation at the end of each episode. I realized that between photography, music and comics/ graphic arts I could easily rattle off 5 artists I idolize in each category except photography. Which isn't to say I don't love many photographers' work, but I can't name them off in a fannish manner as I can creators in

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I feel I'm nearing the end of my Animal Sight series, meaning there aren't many avenues presenting themselves lately and I think I have enough great material for a book and exhibition. The process of editing, printing, designing the book will take me through the rest of this year, but in the meantime I'm looking towards doing something different with animals for another creature project. I

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Somewhere in the back of my mind has been a photo series involving antique toys. Right now I'm just in the beginning phases of "collection," where if I come across something I'll photograph it, but I won't neccesarily seek out toys. I got these at the Flagstaff Pioneer History Museum. At the Northern Arizona Museum just up the street, I saw the work of a fantastic artist named Judy

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I posted a bunch of Patrick's summer going-ons, and now do the same for 1 year old Magdalena.

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Been a few weeks since I've done any purposeful photography. To rectify that, a day trip to Flagstaff was completed today, with raptors, antique toys, and dinosaur bones on the photographic menu. I was particularly pleased with the raptors as I was the closest I've ever been to a horned owl and a falcon. Every time I think I'm near the end of my Animal Sight project, or couldn't get anything

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Two panoramics, same source files, one created with the "cylindrical" merging style and one done using the automatic/ perspective style. Though the perspective is more true to real life, I like cylindrical for the more unique look.

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Patrick on the loose this summer.

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I had a few rolls of medium format film floating around the house for a long time and this week I finally got around to getting them developed. It's all around the house, family type of stuff. I did find some photos of Wife when she was pregnant with Magdalena (who just turned 1 year old) which I thought were particularly cool. Almost makes me wish I hadn't sold the camera.

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This round of images comes from the Anchorage Air Museum, a great stop when you're waiting for your redeye flight to Seattle. Anyone following this blog may remember that for years I have been photographing at airfields and constantly struggle with getting images I'm happy with. Since the last time I did one of these air museums, I've picked up a lot more skills-- macro shooting, like on these

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A state where the sun barely sets is quite the photographer's dream. I shoved so much stuff in what little time I had it's silly; the Anchorage Air Museum, Anchorage Art/ History Museum, a drive to Seward and the Alaska Sea Life Center, the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, Portage Glacier, the Anchorage Zoo, the Coastal Wildlife Refuge, with some wandering aimlessly thrown in for good measure

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As perhaps the best birthday present ever, Wife had set me up with a trip to Alaska using positive space tix from her employer, Alaska Airlines. We have a bunch of these lying around but rarely use them as other considerations, like kids and dogs and $, rear their ugly heads. So here I am, struggling on my own in Anchorage, while Wife and the kids are enjoying quality time together in the

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More panoramas. I think at this stage when I use my digital camera, I shoot more for panoramics than I do "standard" photos. Old-timey stuff with a bit of Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Next up is Alaska!

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Every few months I rent a set of lights and do some portraits of the family as well as students in the adult education classes I teach. I'd like to own my own set but it never seems quite cost effetive enough to buy them, not to mention the sheer frustration when I set them up at home and there's no space/ the kids don't hold still whatsoever. Here's a few from this week's shots.

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Summer is burning up the landscape and suddenly my days of dragging the family around the state and shooting large format leisurely are over for a while. Quite honestly I wanted to put that work aside for a while as I was getting a little burnt out on it as well, not to mention I broke the glass on the rear of my 4x5 camera maybe 1 minute after arriving home-- knocked it over when I bent to pet

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The heat is creeping up so I'm finding it more comfortable to shoot indoors. Hard to find stuff that appeals to me photographically indoors, but it is out there; these were taken at Jackass Flats (a town consisting of one miner guy's burro ride and a bait shop) and Tortilla Flat (the town of 6 people with a restaraunt and gift shop, where I shot the Yosemite Sam image a month ago). Interesting

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These are a few of the large format images I did very early in the morning, running all around Magdalena, New Mexico. From a ghost town to a graveyard to a WPA gym to a RV lodge to a residence with yappy dogs and numerous antlers adorning it to the library/ "Box Car Museum," I covered the town in 3 hours, all before breakfast. I don't really try to present any particular location in most of my

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In our household, someone is always making something. Besides my photo work, I am currenly doing linocuts and recording music, and at other times I'm in our pottery studio on the wheel or doing comic strips. Wife makes jewelry and crochet crafts. Parick has his Playdoh and drawing table and easel. Magdalena makes poop. So here we have images I took of Wife's earrings for her etsy site. I used

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As in all belief systems, when photographing you tend to find what you are looking for. I look for jarringly odd scenes, primal moments of life or death or birth, and so on. I find bizarre memorials, skeletons, mysterious objects in midsize towns across the southwest. Forget really small towns-- there's barely anything there. Big cities? Bah. They're too manicured. You need a place like Globe, or

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Wife looking sultry. I like the look, she doesn't. Shot on location in Scorpion Gulch ruins by South Mountain in Phoenix. Wife in a less-extreme, though still madeover look. Shot in a home studio setup in the backyard. Wife on an average day with Magdalena. Shot spontaneously, on the fly, in our driveway.

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This is the first of many posts dealing with a full-on photo road trip, sans Wife and kids and dogs, throughout Eastern Arizona and Western New Mexico. I did so much that I thought it would be better to break it up by subjects. One thing I should be doing more frequently is take a photo tour. This was driven home during a behind-the-scenes paid tour of the Spirit Wolf Sanctuary near Ramah,

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Completely random animal images from the last few months. I realize it's been a while since I've posted anything along these lines, but animals are still my primary photography subject. I'm spending 3 days shooting the critters this week all over New Mexico and Arizona.

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Fixed up some new panos and tweaked some of my older ones to fit into the apocalyptic wasteland series I started with the Miami/ Globe work and the dead dog. I would say it has potential, but I don't want to have it be completely about style over substance. I also find that I'm doing a large format black and white negative and a digital pano of the same things-- shooting on two different cameras

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Magdalena at Casa Grande. Wife on her 30th birthday. Patrick at a rest stop.

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I'm shooting with the 4x5 6 days out of the week and I'm really finding the groove with it. The baseball was done in the backyard, with light coming through a tree illuminating only the ball. Easily one of the most difficult shots I've ever had to do because of uncooperative creatures-- 2 dogs and a son who would snatch the ball when I was ready to trip the shutter. It took maybe 10 minutes for

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Magdalena hasn't appeared in nearly as many photos as Patrick. Lots of reasons for this. I'm trying to make up for it now that she can sit up and fit her head in a jar.

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I've been doing a lot of 4x5 landscape and really falling in love with it. A lot of shooting oppurtuniites presented themselves from when my sister moved to Phoenix, and I spent several weeks showing her around, and during Spring Break, where we took our first full family camping trip. I'm almost to a point where I can start working on a book; I feel like there should be an equal balance of

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At one point in today's shoot, I saw a speedboat in the middle of a huge open lot; when I drove up close to it, there was a bag with a dead bulldog in it right outside my car door. As horrific as it was I was compelled to photograph it, as much as any reporter does in any horrific or miserable scene.

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Patrick has improved a lot with staying in one place while Daddy takes a nice picture of him. I wish I could say the image with his hand down his pants was a playful pose but unfortunately it's the real deal. Taken at Chiricahua National Monument, at home in front of the TV, and at South Mountain in Phoenix respectively. In the last picture you can barely see Magdalena attached to my chest.

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These images were done last week in Miami, Arizona, a very rundown community filled with oddball whatnot like giant Hamburglers. I shot digital panos and 4x5; decided to add on some additional production to make them sort of go together more, and to exhibit more stylistic choices beyond presenting well-exposed but plain images. So these are two of the panos that I have worked over and I'm fairly

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I realize pictures of my kids are popular amongst some readers so here's a smattering of recent images of Patrick and Magdalena.

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A recent portrait of Wife and Magdalena from a weekend at the Salt River. It's probably not visible on the monitor screen, but the branch shadow crossing one eye of each of my subjects has their pupils large, while the alternate eyes in the sun have their pupils small, making an off putting, strange effect I really liked.

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More cosplay portraits. These were done "on the scene," as it were, at the Phoenix Japanese Garden during a Cosplay Tournament, as opposed to the studio set up with controlled lighting in my previous portraits. As such there is a considerable amount of photoshop including some new tricks I've picked up from teaching. I couldn't tell you the names of the characters beyond the first one, who is

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Some 4x5s that I have been sitting on for a long time (early December in this case, from my last Palm Springs trip). That's not going to happen again-- the one place in town I can take them to get hand developed raised their prices, so for 30-some pieces of film it was over $90 and it took 2 weeks. It's as if they don't want people to develop their film there. So for better or worse I will be

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"Animal Sight" continues! This is the best time of year to get animal stuff because there is so much going on in town. This hornbill is a creature I've been trying to get some pics of for a long time because his eye is so engaging, however I needed a little help getting his attention. So here we have one of several eye images I took, and an image of what was going on behind the scenes.

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Wanted to drop a note that I have 2 splinter blogs, Comicsaurus for comic-related work and reviews and Electrofolk for weekly free mp3s of the "Artificial Human" project and music related stuff. In the meantime... here are two versions of one of my "cosplay" portraits.

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Page 3 of the 4 page story I'm putting together for my Fumetti demo. Students will work in teams to create their own photographic comic book. One of the great things of working with high schoolers is they regularly leap beyond their limitations and come up with amazingly inventive works of art... amid all the angst and sometimes outright laziness. The Green Lantern is Mr. Bargman, who teaches

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So lately I have been in a portrait mood. We have just finished up a portrait project in my high school class and I'm also midway through teaching an adult portrait class. It's one of the few things the kids let me do. It also is somewhat of a breakthrough for me because I am not a social person by nature, thusly I've barely scratched the surface of portrait work in all my years as a

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Already a bit into the new year and I haven't got any new photos to show for it. Instead I've been teaching photography in both high school and for City of Chandler 45 hours a week, working 16 hours at athird job and being a daddy in whatever time is left. Not a bad life, as none of the work is particularly fast paced, and praise Obama it's all photography related. but both shooting images and

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These are maybe 2 months old shots of Magdalena from our backyard. I'm listening to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts, "The Candid Frame," with an interview with Jim Miotke. Jim is the president of www.betterphoto.com and talked at length about child photography, about how when he met his son he fell in love and had him as the centerpiece of his art for years. Now, I probably take my

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Some seasonal photos done at our house and at the Mormon lights.

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We went to check out the lights at Mesa's Mormon Temple on Christmas Eve.For XMas I got most of my presents weeks, or in the case of the D700, months early. Besides the camera there were several graphic novels, a subscription to Lenswork, and a 2 pound bag of Swedish Fish for me. We stayed at home and dressed up the kids, set up the home studio and did some shooting which I will post at a later

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I am composing this on my wife's new G1 Google phone and it's a bit of a revolutionary experience for me. Computing without a computer. The world's wealth of information at my fingertips.Still catching up on all the Oscar winning / highly acclaimed/ indietrash films I've never seen before. Midnight Cowboy was well crafted. Disturbing. Not something I ever want to watch again. Shadow of

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So I've made another music album, the second this year, with my music handle "Artificial Human." Both albums were kind of cleaning up the nearly one hundred tracks I had created in the last 10 years, with this album being 10 trip hop tracks and 2 ambient tracks with no vocals in sight. It's kind of soundtracky, DJ Krush/ Meat Beat Manifesto/ FSOL without the jazz kind of material. The first 2 AH

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Stuck on a X Mas present for your loved ones? Buy a fine art photo book! If you need a more specific hint, turn your eyes an inch or so to the right and you'll see tags for the Blurb books I've put together this year. I am extraordinarily proud of them. After years of the gallery scene and ludicrous framing costs with no feedback or say in how they are displayed I believe the photo book is the

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Spent another day shooting around Palm Springs, Salton Sea and up on top of San Jacinto. Except for pics of the kids, this is the last of 2009's shoots. I'm thinking about the last year's worth of images and how I've learned more about the tech and about pumping up the quality of the images, and the shaping of light rather than just accepting what light was available, and the sequencing of images

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Finished my practicum work at 2 schools and all that's left is 9 weeks of student teaching starting in January and I'm a teacher, as in, a real one. I am getting my certification through Rio Salado online college, which is big and professional and not the sort of thing from late night tv infomercials, however I have to say in the end I didn't like the online class process. It's just too easy to

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Took the kids to the Phoenix Zoo today to see if I could do any better than the last year's batch of animal photos. Our zoo is less than ideal for getting close to the animals--there is another zoo in the West Valley which is better for animal photography but it's about an hour drive and that wasn't gonna happen when I'm wielding the 2 monsters on my own as well as the photo gear. Besides being

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So I got the D700 and an accompanying 24-120mm lens from Nikon's new lens line. It's a glorious camera. I feel so unworthy. Only had a short amount of time to fool around with it over the weekend, and most of that was at a friend's house. I ask all the gentle readers out there to savor the manificent tones of a full-frame digital camera; my Christmas present to the universe. Of course I am

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It's finally happening: the big sell off. My digital gear and medium format are departing the household, alongside the majority of my sellable DVDs and other nonsense. I'm aiming to cover student teaching fees (and lack of income during those 9 weeks), purchase of a D700, and potential grad school fees as I begin that application process. Thankfully there is no shortage of shit to get rid of

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Here I am, sitting up all night because I'm so thrilled over Obama. I was on the way back from teaching when I stopped at our polling place, where Wife and the kids had just finished voting; I voted with Patrick on my knee, something I think would be a cool tradition to maintain in the future. I have decided to have lots and lots of fun during his presidency. Not that we didn't have fun before

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Went to the Arizona State Fair 2x and shot animal eyes until the camera batteries died. This makes the 4th round of animal eyes at the fairgrounds over the last 2 years and the question comes up, am I getting anything new? Well, improved lighting with the wireless flashes seemed to really improve some cow and tortoise shots. I have enough cow shots to fill a book all on their lonesome, and

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Traditional 4x5 images I took at Bear Canyon in Tucson and Oak Creek Canyon/ Sedona in Sept. and Aug. respectively. We haven't had clouds in weeks so the 4x5 sits untouched. As beautiful as the images are I can see how it's such a limiting piece of equipment.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11355935644379278737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29125334.post-44084385476252955672008-10-09T14:14:00.000-07:002008-10-13T21:36:39.159-07:00

I'm writing this because I'm feeling an extreme amount of joy about our country-- imagine the feeling of never having won anything in your life, then getting a million dollar jackpot? It's pretty clear that Obama will be our next president. I've supported Obama from the beginning and took Patrick to one of his rallies at ASU last year. Now, I'm a pretty cynical guy when it comes to politics. I

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11355935644379278737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29125334.post-90217655817379593462008-10-08T16:15:00.000-07:002008-10-08T16:24:52.272-07:00

Some more fish eyeballs, along with a lizard and a penguin. I think these are among the best of the Animal Sight series to date, certainly of aquatic life.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11355935644379278737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29125334.post-37743903714218225032008-10-07T12:33:00.000-07:002008-10-07T12:33:00.701-07:00

Starting to get dizzy from all this traveling! Over the last month I've been to Oregon, California, Nebraska/ Iowa twice, yet the most punishing, scary trip was a day trip I took by my own lonesome to Tucson on Sept. 30th. It was the first time in a long time I could get out on my own without considering family or work, so I decided to push myself and take on Sabino Canyon's little brother Bear

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11355935644379278737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29125334.post-8227713088206330092008-10-05T18:32:00.000-07:002008-10-05T18:32:00.731-07:00

Some shots I did with a model. I belong to a stock agency that calls for tons of book cover photos, almost all of them girls in different situations. I'm still learning many lessons in photograpy and the lesson here is: don't bring your kids to a photo session.

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