Landscape Photography: Playing with Lensbaby

This image was captured last summer during a scout on Madeline Island, south shore of Lake Superior.  Hope you enjoy.

Lensbaby Composer: Nathan’s Portrait

In this last (probably) image from Venice Beach, I finished my time with Nathan, shooting his portrait.  I’ve produced a companion video on the blog you can watch in which I cover the concept of Value Systems in photography and how I arrived at this point with Nathan.  This talk was given last night to [...]

Lensbaby Composer: Nathan on Venice

This is Nathan Pino.  Nathan is a piano player on Venice Beach.  He drags a piano on a cart behind his bike every day.  He plays classical, mostly written by himself, and he’ll play for 20 minutes or longer without taking a break.  His expression almost never varies, he almost never looks up.  He is [...]

Lensbaby Composer: Treeman Venice Beach

I’m nearing the end of the journey on Venice Beach.  I have a few images left to share, but this week’s series is fairly profound.  Today you’ll meet Treeman, and I’ll say more about him in a moment.  Then I’ll move on to Nathan and my personal all-time favorite portrait.  At the end of the [...]

Lensbaby Composer Portrait Photography

The next series of images this week are portraits I shot of quintessential Venice Beach characters. The first few are of Harry Perry, a street musician who has played Venice for over 20 years. I connected with him late in the day and he allowed me 20 minutes of shooting (if I purchased a T-shirt/CD [...]

Lensbaby Composer: Surfer

From the Venice Beach pier I shot a lot of images. Bright harsh sunlight, tough conditions, but I had two things in my favor. First, in those conditions I’m always thinking and seeing “black and white.” Second, I was using the new Lens Baby Composer, a super fun lens. A brief description for those [...]

MANY APOLOGIES

Hi Gang,
Welcome to 2009. I’m so excited about where this site is headed I can hardly stand it. I hope you find it a super great place to learn about and discuss photography. Also, my sincere apologies. We’re in the midst of migration to the new blog, its nearly done, but [...]

Lensbaby Composer: Mo

I wandered down on Hennepin Ave last night, hoping to shoot some architecture for my portfolio. As is often the case, once I started looking at shots through the camera I didn’t like what I saw, so I shifted into some street photography.
This is George, and his hand puppet Mo. George is from [...]

Lensbaby Composer: Pow Wow Dancer

Lensbaby Composer: We’ve all had days…

…when we felt like this…no? This is from a workshop I took back in June. A little change of pace from the architecture, these two were shot in a square in Savannah using the Lens Baby. Have a great weekend!

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