Ella Mai revealed some nifty yoga poses towards the end of our shoot, but all the digital ones showed the vein in the forehead that popped out from being upside down. Still like this one from my Lomo Instant Wide camera though!
2018-09-17 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Angel Lin was a model I worked with at least 4 times on every LA trip for a few years. This is a compilation of the highlights of those shoots. Explainer video here!
2018-09-15 14:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
More BTS of my daughter Maggie's birthday in July! And more "bunch of balloons" on our backyard trampoline!
2018-09-15 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
BTS of my daughter Maggie's birthday in July! The highlight for photo dad were these "bunch of balloons" that let me fill up 20 balloons at once with no tying knots.
2018-09-14 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Another image from my shoot with Devon but showing the fuller environment beyond that shower curtain background.
2018-09-11 15:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
When I shot with Devon in Portland, I dragged a shower curtain with a neat background up in case I needed it. This was clipped to a tree branch in a wildlife preserve.
2018-09-10 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons! After a major illness with my tonsils in August, things are back to normal and I'm preparing for shoots in October, which is when my tenure as a high school teacher wraps up.
I haven't done any shoots since June and in the interim I've been thinking of new ways to do this stuff; one avenue that really excites me is to follow in the footsteps of my favorite instant film artists of the 1970s, who largely used the magnificent Polaroid SX-70. It was an SLR instant...
2018-09-07 17:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
McKenzie Eckels in a paper background cone. When I had a studio the paper was donated so we were very destructive back then.
2018-09-07 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I like some severe cropping in photos, not all the time, but the idea that there's more stuff going on outside of the frame is a good way to get viewers to feel some mystery in your work.
2018-09-06 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ana Corbí from our very first shoot and using my prism filter!
2018-09-03 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
New work with Ana Corbí shot on one day and written on the next. Explainer video here!
2018-09-01 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Erika and her boyfriend Alec at our shoot in June. I am not used to having the bf or any "chaperone" around but he was awesome and a big help (holding the reflector and watching our stuff on the beach). Erika just declared her intentions to go full time modeling so if you're in the field of hiring or hosting a model hit her up on her IG @erika_deleijaa
2018-08-28 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Recent work with Erika De Leija! I should have done more of these but I was paranoid about all the fisherman around us.
2018-08-27 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I used to own a 4x5 Speedgraphic camera and used it for mainly art nudes. The slowness and tripod requirements of the camera didn't really work for me but I did a series called Dissolved Girl (after a Massive Attack song) which I tell you all about in the explainer video! Models include Carlotta Champagne, Mosh, Glass Olive and others.
2018-08-25 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When pose, props, styling, and instant film damage all work together as one. Utah 2015.
2018-08-24 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
These "wubble" balls are things you see in Target all the time, and I bought 2 for this shoot. Then the wind blew them all over the place. We wasted so much time chasing them around.
2018-08-23 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
More with Erin in Albuquerque. This cage dress thing was one of her own.
2018-08-21 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a shoot in Albuquerque that was in a weird rented portrait studio and where my family went off to a zoo while I did this. I felt like nothing ever really gelled - like trying to shoot fashion stuff that I brought from Arizona with a model who was probably past a few years of her interest in shooting.
2018-08-20 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
"Momentary" is a video art piece co-created with Ana Corbí and featuring the track "Pulsar" with singing from Alina Lee/ Thumbelina.
"Pulsar" is available on the Primordial Creative LP, which is out on Amazon, iTunes and Spotify.
2018-08-19 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
These are some beach blurs shot with Ana during my June trip to LA! 4th Round with Ana and the first outside of a studio! There's b+w versions and color versions of the same images- one of those rare occurrences where I don't know which I prefer. Explainer video here! Also, a video art piece from this same shoot will be dropping for $10+ patrons tomorrow!
2018-08-18 14:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
SF Lizzie, in the second of 2 decent photos I got out of my first SF model shooting trip!
2018-08-17 22:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Glass Olive in 2015, on our way to the Great Salt Lake.
2018-08-16 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
W new music from some of my all-time favorites (James, U2),
remixes of old favorites I just found here (Depeche Mode),
new bands I just heard of (Silversun Pickups),
new finds in Spotify's electronic music recommendations (Hiatus, Tosca) ,
a track from a record I found whilst vinyl thrifting (Paul Williams)
and things from recent movies we watched (Incredibles 2 + The Muppet Movie, also a Paul Williams classic)!
2018-08-16 01:45:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I used to have a lovely tangerine tree in my backyard that I shot many a model against. From a day where Lux was feeling extra photogenic.
2018-08-15 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I look back on a lot of these instax and tell you guys about the on-set struggles. Most of the time it's super smooth and everyone's on the same page. This was a unique one- the model kept wanting to instagram during the whole thing, asking me to take pictures of her with her phone, and then texting me repeatedly for images over the following weeks. I've noticed this kind of thing with a few of the younger (19-21 years) models and try to avoid it, or lay out the expectation ahe...
2018-08-14 22:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Another from this difficult shoot. I failed to mention in my previous post that I had just got a new camera that I wasn't sure how to operate properly and the fog machine broke. I hate to paint a picture that it was all down to some disconnect between me and the model- there was a lot of bad juju happening.
2018-08-13 22:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The first time I met Glass Olive was back in 2010 in a sparse Portland apartment. Despite the awful hairstyling job we got on great and I tell you alllllll about it in the explainer video!
2018-08-11 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
More of Devi in that accursed Air BnB closet! Though it was blizzarding outside and I don't know where else we could have possible photographed anything...
2018-08-10 22:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
