Photography - Lamp Posts

dusk but the lights don't change

I am fascinated with lamp posts.

Their design & shape, but in particular the moment of transition

When they suddenly click on.  

The moments of overlap, when they glow despite the fact that the sun has not yet set.

Or else, when they stand silent and opaque well into the night, like this one.

Then they're just artifacts, totems, obelisks.

(ps i have an instagram now: https://www.instagram.com/blue_stigma/)

Nature Photography - Orchard

Cell Phone Photos

Last Christmas I got a smartphone
&
ever since
Have been entertaining myself snapping photos
when waiting for a train
or whatever

Surprisingly vivid colors & hi-res, considering it's a goddamn phone.

some of my favorites:

commute

rooftop

orange, green and blue

Vilmos Zsigmond + Yuri Neyman - Candids

Recently at San Francisco State,

cinematographers

Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC

(Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Deliverance, etc.)

& 

Yuri Neyman, ASC

(Liquid Sky)

Vilmos Zsigmond, A.S.C.

Yuri Neyman, A.S.C.

Across 2 days, they taught a workshop & did a public talk about cinematography.

I took some 

behind the scenes photos 

which might show up on 

SFSU's Cinema FaceBook 

or something.

City + Plastic Camera -- (more pigeons...)

because everybody takes pictures of pigeons...

"a pigeon walking"

i took these last fall actually

but didn't upload any until now

 "birds"

i have a whole bunch more

not all of them are pigeons...

"Skechers, The Mission"

Am I putting these up because I'm trying to just post something?

Hey, maybe.

"blue haze"

That blue one was one of those flukes of the toy camera I've been using.

Everybody is always clamoring for those light leaks and fuzzy images

(hence instagram)

The auto-wind on my particular camera doesn't always work, 

so I sometimes wind up with unexpected double exposures or split images

here's another of those...

"Things to Come"

Although the unexpected flairs are fun, what I like about this camera is the absolute lack of any functions... it's widest aperture is 6.3.

I can't even focus the damn thing!

So it really puts all the emphasis on getting clean shapes & compositions, or catching the most dynamic light in the frame.

[ other lomography shots ]

Osamu Tezuka -- Japanese Mangas

recently found a lot of Japanese Tezuka Mangas.

I'll do some page-scans of some interiors

whenever I get a scanner hooked up.

there's about 30 in total

(29 to be exact)

a bunch of hard-cover editions,

some paperbacks

many of which have never been released in English...

like this one up above: "Rainbow Parakeet"

(read about it at Tezuka in English.com)
[i think this is my favorite of the photos i took]

other titles in here:

- Buddha

- Three-Eyed One

- Zero Man

- Black Jack

- Astro Boy

- Princess Knight

- I.L

- Jungle Emperor Leo

- Hitorino (Phoenix)

- Ikki Mandara...

...

I'm missing some I know...

some of them are from this collection called:
"The Best Collections of Osamu Tezuka"
aside from being a nice, Hardbacked treatment of his work,
they also feature some of his great self-portraits on the back...

Osamu Tezuka

(via wikipedia)

...photographing 

books 

is 

weird...

"dust & plastic" -- an ode to lost toys -- photography

Light was nice coming through my window this morning,

so set up a quick still life of my toy camera.

an LED with an orange/tungsten gel on for the fill.

"Dust and Plastic"

yup...

 another photograph of an old camera...

...that's what this blog is turning into...

[ see photos from this camera ]

night + day

I've been very busy with class & life.

But that's no excuse for such a long delay in doing anything on her.

so here's a quickie.

 view from my back-porch at sundown:

"backdoor neighbors"

(digital)

not a documentary,

since i edited it much more than just color correcting

I removed a porch light from one of the houses.

which i'm not sure improved it

will try another when the porch lights 

are a bit more aesthetically placed

maybe more digital artifacting in the colors would help it too.

hm.

here's another, this one's from last fall:

"bench"

Lagoon...

sans water

"Lagoon"

stilled life & et cetera

been busy, 

but here's a few things

which i'll pass off as 'content'

"the bather"

"windmill"

hill

sun.setting

2 candids of Hiro Narita - Cinematography Workshop, SFSU

2 candids I snapped of Hiro Narita during his cinematography demo / workshop at SFSU.

Hiro Narita imdb

Hiro Narita 

@ SFSU Cinematography Workshop

photos by russ kiel

...could use some color balancing

"The Rocketeer"
dir.  Joe Johnston
d.p. Hiro Narita

in the city with a plastic camera

has it really been a week since my last update?

i'll post something to keep from going dry.

The other day I came across one of those plastic cameras.

The shot of the man at the crosswalk is my favorite.

urban decay 01

some stuff i shot recently

my roommate...

What happened to Santa?