Under Da Sea

Underwater photography is awesome. Snorkeling with sea turtles is also fun. Doing them both at the same time is epic.


Here are some photos from a recent trip to Mexico. All of these were shot with a Nikon coolpix point & shoot in this Polaroid waterproof housing that worked great. Highly recommended! Check back for more images from this trip taken with my SLR.

A Dedicated Follower of Fashion Part II

Here are the rest of the photos from Gothica: An Alternative Fashion Show produced by Christopher Lee of Geek Girl Productions. I had a great time shooting the fashion models at the show but I think the best photos of the night were of Danny Blu.

The show was held in the LES at the Delancey Lounge on February 12th.

Danny Blu with Attica Wilde

The rest of the band

A Dedicated Follower Of Fashion

So a while back (in February) I did some photography for Geek Girl Productions, shooting the annual fashion show. This year the theme was Gothica: An Alternative Fashion Show. Here are some of my favorite shots of the models. I tried to alternate with flash and slower exposures to get the movement and colors I wanted. There were a ton of other photographers there with flashes firing at all times so exposure was tricky and half of it was luck. The show was held in the LES at the Delancey Lounge on February 12th. More from this show to follow. 

Recent Work

So this is a long overdue update. But here's some recent work to make up for the delay... Shot these during a B&H Photo Department model shoot. I've never shot with professional models before, and I've never really been into portraiture or fashion but I think these turned out rather nice. I was good to try something out of my comfort zone.

I'm affectionately known as "Pinhole"

Apparently I'm affectionately known as "Pinhole" behind the Pro Photo counter at B&H (where I now work in the photo bags area) It was pretty funny, a customer asked me if I knew if we had Pinhole apertures for sale. I didn't know, being new I really have no idea all of the products we have. I figured I'd ask one of the seasoned veterans behind the Pro Photo counter. There is a little area with all the plastic Holgas, Lubitels and Polaroids so I figured I'd ask over there. They didn't know, so I was sent a bit further down the counter where I was asked by the Pro Photo Guy: "Is it an SLR?" Me: "Uhhh... no." Pro Photo Guy: "A point n' shoot?" Me: "No, it's just a box with a hole" Pro Photo Guy: "Oh! I know what you're talking about! We have those!" Alas, we do not sell the apertures separately. My brother came in and purchased a memory card from the same fellow behind the counter and apparently I am now affectionately known as "Pinhole."

Anywho, this started me thinking about my pinholes again. I mentioned to a co-worked that I did a Sleep/Pinhole project and she immediately said "I totally wanna try that now!" So I think this is an apropos time to post some past pinhole work.

Before I do that I should probably explain exactly what a Pinhole is for those non-photogs. A pinhole basically starts with a box or container of some kind with a lid. Many have started with an empty Quaker Oats tube-like container. I prefer mine to be more box-like but it's all personal preference.

So, got the box- right? Now you paint it all black in the inside, tape up the corners and seams with black masking tape to eliminate light leaks. Now on the lid or on the side (in the middle) you're going to cut a little opening, not too big, like half an inch to an inch diameter and put some tin foil or other maleable metal over the opening. You will tape that too so it stays. and now you prick a small hole with a needle or thumb tack in that metal directly in the center of your foil. make sure the hole isn't big, and it must be a clean puncture. put some tape over your new hole, that's the shutter. You've made a camera! Tada!

Photo credit to A. Hanft

In the darkroom, load it up with photo paper on the back wall of your box (double stick tape the back so it's stationary) and close up. Take it out on a sunny day and peel the tape off your aperture. Be sure to keep the camera perfectly still, rest it on a ledge or solid structure and expose for a minute or so (the bigger your camera the longer the exposure, a matchbox pinhole will take a lot less than a pinhole the size of a moving box) also if you're paper is realllly far away from the aperture it's going to take a longer time to expose properly. Once you expose your paper (only one shot!) take it to your darkroom and develop normally (Devo-Stop-Fix-Water Wash) there you go it should have worked. If you've got a totally black image there was too much light, it could be over exposed or you could have a light leak. It you have a white paper it was under exposed, not enough time with the aperture open. You should have some sort of image though, the perspective will be weird (because the aperture's so small) and it will be a negative. For a positive image contact print it in the darkroom, or scan it in and invert in Photoshop.

How it works:

Thanks Wikipedia!

The light is projected on the back of your box where the photo sensitive paper catches it.

OK lesson over! Now to the pics!

The negative came out of the camera, then I developed it in the darkroom and then scanned it into Photoshop.

The image would also be reversed in addition to the Blacks and Whites being inverted, e.g. the head of the bed on the left, but I fixed it in Photoshop. I also adjusted the levels and spotted the dust out in PS. This is "Pinhole #5" in the Pinhole/Sleep Series

Spanish Miscellany

Hey there, here are some more photos of Barcelona.

These two above were shot at Placa del Rei in the Gothic Quarter

Outside of a Metro Station near Parc Güell

A Tapas Bar

Near MNAC and the Magic Fountain

Barcelona Cathedral (La Seu)

Parc Güell Barcelona

These images are from Parc Güell in Barcelona, where I got an invisible cactus spine in my toe. The scenery, however, was beautiful and the Gaudi part was amazing.

Barcelona at Night

Some night photography from Barcelona

The Magic Fountain of Montjuic

The view from our Hostel roof

Placa del Rei

placa se la universitat

The Gothic Quarter

The Gothic Quarter

The Gothic Quarter