photorama

It’s my 29th birthday today. Almost 30! I’ve been saying for years that I can’t wait to be 30. Now, I don’t really care so much.. I’m too busy to actually care about that.

I don’t know if you know much about me but my full-time job is being a Production Engineer for Yahoo!. Basically I manage thousands of servers (~7,000) with 6 other people for the Right Media adexchange. It’s not related to photography at all, however it affords me the ability to chase my dream of becoming a professional photographer.. funny though, since I can’t seem to catch it… yet. On the side I shoot the occasional party, mainly for The Rub and when I’m not there, I’m off somewhere with my Mamiya RZ67 trying to fully grasp manual photography as it’s been quite a few number of years since I was 100% manual. I don’t really have much of a point to this entry other than it’s been awhile since I’ve updated.

Earlier in the entry 6×7 Heaven you will see a scan of my first 6×7 frame. I really like the photo itself, but I don’t feel like the scan really represented it well.. so I rescanned from my new Nikon Coolscan 9000.

Yeah, the difference is pretty signifigant, and there was hardly any color correcting on my part.. mostly just a bump in the blue saturation. Even the sharpness is better, probably due to the scanning tray I used.. not the default one which I’m sure sucks ass. Regardless, I’m impressed with the clarity of the negative at full resolution and would love to get into a darkroom to actually print it.

Since I’ve been buried in work I’ve spent a lot of time reading photography related websites/blogs. One of my most recent favorites, www.polaroidforever.com shut down. Guess the owner wasn’t really feeling the blogging thing but I assure you, it was such a GREAT website and his images are fantastic. I’d love to find out where I can see more of his work.

I’ve been working on more portrait work.. recently did a shoot with my man Sammy Bananas. It was fun, simple and turned out pretty well for essentially guessing my way through most of the technical aspects of the shoot and also having to still work on breaking myself from the “oh shit I can’t see the end result right away! what if I screwed up??”. Here’s one of the shots.. Taken with a Mamiya RZ67, Velvia 100, 1/400 @ f/8.

I have a bunch more things to add over vacation, so stay tuned for shorter posts and more pictures.