Last night’s photo shoot got me thinking more about portraiture work.
While Thomas Escalante’s antics in front of the camera might have spoiled the shot as a group photo, it demonstrated the fun that can be had when shooting someone as charismatic and animated as he is.
Went out to 3700 Main to take some shots of The El Orbits for possible use on the upcoming new album as well as other promotional material.
Let me tell you, shooting for fun is one thing, shooting on spec is a different animal entirely. I shoot in my own particular style and “as my mood dictates.” I capitalize on opportune lighting and subject matter and I do it for my own pleasure.
Setting up a shot and trying for a specific effect combined with dealing with various personalities makes me edgy. Of course they’re all friends and that helps. But still, I get stage fright from behind the camera if that makes any sense.
I have a ton of photos to process this week. These two jumped out right off the bat:
We’ll see how they stand up after I’ve had a chance to more fully review what I’ve got.
When I first got my 50m 1.4 lens for the Sony Alpha 100 about a year ago, I shot a couple of quick, casual shots of my friend Jim while having lunch.
They were very clean and I really liked what I got just off the cuff, as it were.
In looking at them now I decided I could probably coax a little more life out of them with a few tweaks in Photoshop.
The originals can be seen here.
The party celebrating the 12th anniversary of Technology Bytes was, by all measures, a huge success. We had a good crowd and a good time was had by all. DJ Amanda Robinson was excellent in the mix and The Free Radicals were quite a lot of fun, especially when they performed a version of the theme song we use to open the show each week.
Thanks to everyone who came out!
Here are some random shots I managed to take in between all the socializing…
Spotted The Vagrant outside of Galway.
As it happened, I was joining my friend Owen and his family at their lovely home for lunch.
Wouldn’t you know, Mr. Finn and The Vagrant are old pals.
An Irishman? A sheep? No good can come of this!
Trust no one….
My radio show co-host, Peter Hughes, surprised us with group rendering of the crew in Simpsons form and posted it to the show’s web site.
It’s scarily accurate.
Hey, Matt Groening! If you decide you want to use the crew of Technology Bytes in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons we’ve taken care of the hard part!
You can create your own Simpsons avatar at The Simsons Movie site.
Rich Davis and I pose for the obligatory tourist photo…
