New York CityJuly 2005
Huh. Some of the photos I'm uploading (like this one) have a weird soft-focus look after I upload them. Wonder what's going on.
Website update in the works.
31 December 2005
New York CityJuly 2005
Huh. Some of the photos I'm uploading (like this one) have a weird soft-focus look after I upload them. Wonder what's going on.
Website update in the works.
30 December 2005
Short Eyes TourVince at the swimming hole
Outside Lawerence, KS
June 2004
UPDATE: Got my computer back after it was back in for repair, again (thus the lact of posting lately). I went to NYC for a few days around Christmas. Expect some new NYC street photos. And I picked up an XPan camera. Once I get a rig set up for scanning the negs (and some decent shots), I'll start posting those as well.
Thanks to Mimi for drawing a few extra people here.
05 December 2005
28 November 2005
Nottinghill Gate Station, LondonSeptember 2004
¶My computer is back. It's been a long month. Sure, I spent more time in the darkroom than I would have otherwise, but not having a computer was incredibly crippling. I've found myself stuck in a rut that's proving hard to shake, getting new work, pinning down projects and pushing forward my work on touring punk bands. It's all a big mess.
¶A few quick notes: the photos I shot as part of the Brian Urlacher campaign for Nike Gridiron are on the site. Also, the new cover of Maximum Rocknroll features one of my pics, and there's a little four-page spread inside, of some of my band photos, from my new photozine, ACTION! #8.
25 October 2005
19 October 2005
11 September 2005
The next six weeks:
On tour with Battleship :: Sept. 14 - Oct. 6
Eddie Adams Workshop :: Oct. 7 - Oct. 10
VII Seminar :: Oct. 15 -16
See you later.
29 August 2005
The SneazeEmily's Basement a.k.a. the Rugburn House
December 2003
I'm putting together a printed photozine of my band photos to take along on tour with Battleship. It'll be a limited-run zine, just 50 of 'em. I don't want to worry about distributing them too much and, well, I don't have much money for printing. It's a drag that I'm going to have to photocopy them. I was going to try and print them all on my printer at home, but just two copies uses up an entire ink cartridge. So off to the copy store I go.
I mention this mostly to explain why, in the next week or so you'll probably see a fair number of band photos on here. Also, I won't be updating much (if at all) from Sept. 11 - Oct. 17. I'll be on tour, then at Eddie Adams, then the VII seminars. It's gonna be a great, busy few months.
I mention this mostly to explain why, in the next week or so you'll probably see a fair number of band photos on here. Also, I won't be updating much (if at all) from Sept. 11 - Oct. 17. I'll be on tour, then at Eddie Adams, then the VII seminars. It's gonna be a great, busy few months.
24 August 2005
Near Fairmont, IN (home of James Dean)21 August 2005
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In preparation for this year's Eddie Adams workshop, I'm trying to get together a new portfolio. Part of why I created this photoblog was to help get my head around a new way of seeing my own photos.
In the past, putting together a portfolio was always about making sure I got in all the good shots, focusing too much on individual images. Now I'm taking a step back, looking at the portfolio as a whole. What do I want it to do? Hell, what do I want to do? What kind of feeling do I want to the portfolio to convey? What does the portfolio as a whole say about my work, me? Right now I think it says that I'm unfocused, reaching, chasing down good images rather than having more control, knowing what I want to do and how to do it. But it's all part of the learning process, right?
To that end, I cut out all the color images, no matter how good or how much I like them. I like shooting black and white and think I'm better at it. The next step is trying to create some kind of narrative, build a cohesive portfolio out of a set of seemingly random images. Street shots, single images from news events/stories, parts of project. I'm trying to tie those photos together so I can incorporate them into a larger portfolio that also includes pictures from my work on prison tourism and from the Orange Revolution in Kiev. It's all in the editing, and in something as seemingly simple as how you title and explain a group of photos. I think I can make it work. There's a good portfolio there in my images, I just have to piece it together. And I'm pretty confident that showing up to Eddie Adams with a strong, printed portfolio of black & white images like mine will help me stand out from all the over-saturated, fill-flash color portfolios editors will be viewing that weekend.
I know I have a long way to go to get to where I want to be, but I think I'm on the right track. Of course, comments and criticisms on this long edit of my portfolio are very much welcome and appreciated.
In the past, putting together a portfolio was always about making sure I got in all the good shots, focusing too much on individual images. Now I'm taking a step back, looking at the portfolio as a whole. What do I want it to do? Hell, what do I want to do? What kind of feeling do I want to the portfolio to convey? What does the portfolio as a whole say about my work, me? Right now I think it says that I'm unfocused, reaching, chasing down good images rather than having more control, knowing what I want to do and how to do it. But it's all part of the learning process, right?
To that end, I cut out all the color images, no matter how good or how much I like them. I like shooting black and white and think I'm better at it. The next step is trying to create some kind of narrative, build a cohesive portfolio out of a set of seemingly random images. Street shots, single images from news events/stories, parts of project. I'm trying to tie those photos together so I can incorporate them into a larger portfolio that also includes pictures from my work on prison tourism and from the Orange Revolution in Kiev. It's all in the editing, and in something as seemingly simple as how you title and explain a group of photos. I think I can make it work. There's a good portfolio there in my images, I just have to piece it together. And I'm pretty confident that showing up to Eddie Adams with a strong, printed portfolio of black & white images like mine will help me stand out from all the over-saturated, fill-flash color portfolios editors will be viewing that weekend.
I know I have a long way to go to get to where I want to be, but I think I'm on the right track. Of course, comments and criticisms on this long edit of my portfolio are very much welcome and appreciated.
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