This Gent!





This guy I haven't seen around lately. I took this picture well over a year ago at Balboa Park in the street on the way to the big fountain.

He was playing a classic rock tune and he wasn't just strumming all the strings with his left foot...he was actually picking stings. I'd be lucky if I can even pick up a pen off the floor with my feet.

I took a couple of shots and then looked away from the viewfinder to see everyone looking at me in some sort of expectation or something. I didn't have ANY cash on me and neither did Charlotte (who was with me, obviously). I felt like such an ass taking advantage of him for a shot and not paying the customary couple of dollars for giving me that moment.

Needless to say, I carry a bunch of singles with me when I shoot these days.

Shot with a Canon T70 and I *think* my old 70-210mm f3.5 on Kodak BW400 CN.

-joe

Like I was saying...

BW Chris0099, originally uploaded by humanparallax.

Here's a sample if you're too lazy to head over to my flickr to see those indoor shots.

The only lighting I had to work with were three lights over the kitchen island. I don't ever use flash because it don't like the effect it has on skin and other subject matter. The only thing that saved me was cranking my ISO up to 800 and shooting wide open on the 50mm f1.4 lens.

Luckily they turned out. All good photographers know that there is only one thing they can rely on during a shoot...luck.

-joe

My First Wedding!

BW Chris0049, originally uploaded by humanparallax.

I shot my first wedding a few weeks ago. It was a neat experience to say the least. I learned a lot of the challenges and hurdles a wedding photographer has to go through.

Being a "film burner" that I am, I had two cameras strapped to my chest the whole time with my camera bag at my side. It was a nice nostalgic moment to feel the rush of trying to capture all the right moments on one camera with B&W and then the other with color film.

I'm pretty sure I burned about 5 or 6 rolls that day. It felt good to do some work that wasn't just for me.

Shot with a Canon A-1 and AE-1 using a 50mm f1.4 and a 28mm f2.8 FD. The B&W are Tri-X 400 and the color (not scanned yet) was Kodak Portra (can't remember the speed or saturation rating). The indoor shots were shot on Tri-X 400 at ISO800 but accidentally developed for ISO400. Thank God for that deep latitude otherwise I would have lost a whole roll.

-joe

This shot was from my first walk out to the falls with R. The drive to get there was about 15 minutes heading southwest from Julian. From the trailhead it was about 2 miles downhill to get there.

Once you got there it was a beautiful thing to see. Although it was late spring there still was some water flowing. I guess it really gets going late winter. The pool is supposedly 20 feet deep and it is FULL of fish.

The water at this point was pretty stagnant and murky. Once you swam out to the bottom ridge of the falls, you could maneuver over to the tree and grab onto a rope swing that may or may not slam you against a rock wall. R decided not to. I was relieved. I had brought a small medkit and I could only manage one fracture with it. Forget about c-spine.

The hike out is always the harder part of the journey. It's all uphill at about a 25 degree incline for those 2 miles. An excellent workout for those of us not in stellar shape (me).

I'll probably head over there in late winter or after a heavy rainfall to reshoot it.

Shot with a Canon A-1, 28mm f2.8 FD on Kodak Porta 400

-joe