Old Slide Sunday 7

This photograph stopped me in my tracks. It has the best composition of any that I've seen so far. Everything from the ladder in the foreground to the just barely visible kitchen appliances inside make this gem of an old slide beautiful. It reminds me of an Arnold Newman portrait.

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Old Slide Sunday 6
Old Slide Sunday 5
Old Slide Sunday 4
Old Slide Sunday 3
Old Slide Sunday 2
Old Slide Sunday 1
Old Slides

Old Slide Sunday 6

These slides are color balanced for daylight, so any time a photo is taken in the shade the colors shift to give the photo a cooler (or bluer) palette. Conversely, photos taken indoors, lit by lamps, take on an orang-red warm hue. While bad color balance can ruin some photos, I definitely enjoy the way it makes photos like these look.

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Old Slide Sunday 5
Old Slide Sunday 4
Old Slide Sunday 3
Old Slide Sunday 2
Old Slide Sunday 1
Old Slides

Senior Show Sneak Peek 5

I found something out recently. These photos have a 38 linear foot home waiting for them come November 8. It's time to really start thinking about scale, order, and presentation.

"Oh, ho ho Garrett..." A hearty laugh is heard from across the room. "It's way too late to be thinking about those things now. You're up the creek, bro. Again. When will you ever learn?" My superego has a resounding, highly punctuated, wizardly demeanor. And an English accent.

"He's been working really hard on this, give him a break." My ego rebuts, plainly.

My id scratches his head.

Old Slide Sunday 5

Season changes always trigger nice memories. Summer changing to fall brings to mind the smell of winter coats being brought out of the attic, brisk winds and new pencils.
Visually it reminds me of images like this.

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Old Slide Sunday 4
Old Slide Sunday 3
Old Slide Sunday 2
Old Slide Sunday 1
Old Slides

Senior Show Sneak Peek 4

Old Slide Sunday 4

This is my great grandmother, Frieda. I have nothing but wonderful memories of her. She always had candy in a little dish in her living room. She had a hearing aid that made lots of noise and her house was super cozy. This is her around 1975, she lived to be 100.

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Old Slide Sunday 3

Senior Show Sneak Peek 3

Senior Show Distraction

HAHAHA. HA?



Yo Gabba Gabba is a kids show on Nick Jr. I'm not sure if they got the name from the Ramones' song or not, but the show itself is amazing. Guests include Biz Markie and the Aquabats. It's fun and funky. Also worth noting is Jacks Big Music Show. Andrew Bird has made a brilliant guest appearance as "Dr. Stringz."



Kids today have it so good.

Senior Show Sneak Peek 2

Work is definitely underway for my show. There are still a lot of unanswered questions, but I am happy with a lot of what I have come up with so far on an image by image basis. The general theme seems to revolve around life. I don't know if this is subconscious surfacing of issues I've been struggling with lately, issues in the media, or just what fits well with shooting up close.




Shooting this close comes with many challenges. I am really enjoying the shallow depth of field look, but so many frames are thrown away due to being either out of focus, or incorrectly focused.




Work continues, let me know what you think.

As for portraits...

My most recent acquisition, a 50mm prime 1.8 lens, has settled into my camera bag as a very strong player. It is perfect for many situations, but mostly when I want to get some dramatic depth of field action, which makes the lens especially fitting for a solid portrait. This doesn't come as a huge surprise, I mean, it's calleda portrait lens. But still I was surprised ot see just how much the lens' speed, clarity and over all what I am going to call "tightness" the lens allowed me. No fooling with zooms, just point a shoot and make a great picture.

Old Slide Sunday 3

Happy Labor Day! This picture is actually from the fourth of July, the bicentennial, apparently, but I couldn't wait. This photo was taken in my grandparents' back yard, in Greenwich, CT.
I remember the patio they had, with steps that led up through the ivy and into the woods. I wasn't alive when this photo was taken, but I can still picture myself there, kicking a ball, or hiding from my little brother. There was a canopy of trees overhead, so we were always in the shade. There was a rich, damp smell to it all, The patio was made of big red pavers with moss growing out of the cracks. If it still exists, that patio has seen a lifetime of grill outs, fourths of July, anniversaries, and birthdays. Their house was close enough to the airport that you could hear planes overhead on a fairly regular basis.

Slate roofs, vine-covered brick and mortar, overgrown oaks and maples. That whole town had a Victorian feel to it, like stepping into a time machine. Cliche but true- you can never go home again.

Previously:
Old Slide Sunday 2
Old Slide Sunday 1
Old Slides