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I felt lucky.

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:52:12 -0500

Not very long ago Heather Champ started the I'm Feeling Lucky group, wherein she distributed 100 rolls of expired Chinese film for free. I felt really sad to miss the boat on the first 100 but when a second batch of 50 made it I signed up instantly.

I got the film last week and used it this past weekend during my shoot of Erika & Karl. The results? Surprisingly good! The only real issues were photographer error (fuzzy shots, there were a few) and random pink spots on many of the photos. But overall, not bad.

This also gave me a chance to borrow Jeani's SLR (a real, honest-to-gosh SLR) and it was kind of cool to work with film. Interestingly I also had to borrow her PowerShot A80 - my old camera - for the shoot as... my camera is broken. (welp) It went back to Panasonic for warranty repair today.

In the meantime, though, I'm really happy with these Lucky shots. Thanks again Heather!

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Alive

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:02:22 -0500

Allie No. 2

I've read more than once that one of the finer criteria of a good photograph is, "Is the photo alive?"

Well, when shooting my pals Allie & Jonathan this past weekend there was one photo that was incredibly, wonderfully alive. Here it is!

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Noisy Pictures of Shaving Cream

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:19:48 -0500

Brittany No. 2

On my last post about doing photos with my friends, my lovely and smart wife said:

I think pictures of people can go two ways -- capturing their personalities vs. doing artistic shots with the person more as a prop.

When I thought of working with Brittany, I instantly had a series of photos in mind: her smoking and shaving her legs in the bathtub. I envisioned them as black and whites but, they worked both ways pretty nicely so I chose color for this first group.

Brittany was great to work with and helped me realize the ideas in my head to great success. I have a good number more photos of her I'll upload to flickr but, instead of one big batch, I'll be spreading them out over the next week.

Portraiture is fun.

Other things I've realized: yes, my camera is noisy; and yes, Lightroom is awesome.

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