Once Youth Promo Shoot

(photo property of ONCE YOUTH)

Exciting stuff happening in the upcoming week.  My friend Asia Hall and her brother Evan Hawke will be launching their clothing line ONCE YOUTH.  It's crazy cuz I have the honor of helping with their promo shoot that will be held on March 25th on Westmont campus.  The shoot is open to Westmont students who would be interesting in modeling the ONCE YOUTH line of shirts.  Location is first floor of the Adams Center.  For more information email ashall@westmont.edu

Self-Portrait

So i'm not much in the habit of taking self-portraits, in fact for being a photographer I really am quite camera shy.  But I've always been conceited.  I just try not to broadcast that fact to often.  That's a joke by the way.  The real reason for my obsession with my own face is because I just got a hold of some new lighting gear that I was eager to test out and oddly enough there are very few people up at 1am who want to model. (both images lit with a 430exii flash through a 24"x24" softbox)

One Light Setup

I tend to ask unusual things of my friends.  Like walking into their rooms and saying "hey are you guys busy? anyone want to model for me?"  So we all went out into the hallway and shot some awesome pics. (430exii to the upper right)

Out of the Darkroom into the Light

I've been fortunate this semester to be taking a darkroom class whilst studying hard at Westmont College.  It has been such a great experience thus far and it truly is a dying art as we are becoming more and more modernized and digital has basically taken over all aspects of photography.  I think future photographers will be missing out on something quite special when film finally does eat the dust.  You learn so much and feel so more in tune with the process of image making when it is you who is doing the processing of the film and printing the images yourself.  When you dirty your hands with the numerous chemicals and watch with anticipation as your image begins to show under the red light of the darkroom, you feel it, that this image was more the just a quick shutter click.  It's art (despite what photography haters try to tell me).  This is a feeling you don't often get with the digital camera, which is something that increasingly frustrates me.  I like the dirtiness of the photographic process and to me, digital is a little too clean.  So i'll be posting some of my favorites from the darkrooom this semster so stay tuned.  Hope you enjoy these two images of some good friends that turned out quite nicely.  (Film Ilford Delta 400 and Kodak TMAX 400).

Photo of the Day

Helped Marie with her modern and contemporary art class.  The goal was to imitate a contemporary work of art,...and that's exactly what we did.  That's right think about the deep meaning. Soak it in.