Homebrew: Ring Flash

I built myself a ring flash for my still camera.  It was a crafty little experience and went through a revision.  I used a disposable pie pan and some diffusion paper.  fitted it with a sealed hole to shoot through, and an unmounted flash. Lots of just, measuring and cutting but it was pretty simple, [...]

Sugar-Junkie

I’ve come forward to help get a baking site/blog going by doing some food photography for a Miss Sarah Mae and her new site www.sugar-junkie.com. You should check it out.

Food photography is great. It is usually small and controlled. Deals a lot of with color and texture. You are trying to get the eyes interested [...]

The Rainbow Boy

I had the opportunity to work on the Navajo Film titled Rainbow Boy.  Navajo director, all Navajo cast with most of it even spoken in ancient Navajo. It’s about an Native Indian that TIME TRAVELS to the FUTURE.  How flipping crazy awesome is that?

We shot in some cool areas in Gallup, New Mexico and Monument [...]

Swish Pan

Timelapse Time Again!
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting the Film a Strip exhibition. Paul DeNigris and Mark Vinci were commissioned to create a focal point piece for the entrance.
I was lucky enough to contribute some timelapse material for the project. I saw the video coming together, and it’s something excitingly different.
If [...]

Panoramas

I added a link to a panorama page on the left. They are pretty fun to make. Some more epic than others. One has two suns. Yes!

The Phoenix Smoke Monster

Sometime on Wednesday a brushfire started out in the west valley, at the base of south mountain. In the 83 ave and Dobbins area. I’ts been pretty much burning for three days straight. The smoke drifted east, and blocked out the sunset each day. It was really quite stunning, and horrible, but [...]

Timelapse

If you remember the time lapse projects I wrote about previously, mainly the architecture ones. You may be excited that I’ve posted another demo of some of the ones I’ve done so far this year. I’m also trying this new site, vimeo to host this video. They allow you to submit HD [...]

Border Hike

This past weekend was filled with great weather, family, hiking, and a few long hours on the road. It was just about perfect.The hike was along the Arizona | Mexico border, it was full of small rolling mountains, riverbeds, and cottonwood trees.
 
 
 

 
When laying in tall grass. Beware of Ticks
 
 

 
Villian
 
 
 

 
Dad [...]

Time Lapse

So, as part of a larger video installment at the ASU College of Design, I’ve been commissioned to do some time lapse photography of three buildings. They are structures from local DeBartolo Architects. The concept behind it will be studying how shadows and light pass across them over the course of the [...]

Panoramic Vacation

Recipe for a vacation
 
1 Girlfriend
1 Rental Car
2 Cameras
2 Bathing Suits
1 Bottle of Tequila
 
Stir 4 to 5 days
Mix in Border Patrol
 
Serves 2
 
So the trip started okay, the rental place didn’t have any dodge chargers that we were hoping for, and the full sized ones they did have, were for lack of a better word: Ugly. Or [...]