MIA at the Fox Theater in Oakland

More Matt and Kim Photos

These are the two photos that came out well using my DSLR. The pictures in the previous post were taken using my iphone. I need to get a camera lens that will allow me to shoot in low light without having to slow down the shutter speed too much and therefore not end up with a lot of blurry pictures.

Matt and Kim at the Fillmore in SF

Photos of Dunlin NYC

For Bare Magazine, I wrote a blog post about Dunlin, a leather purse designer and manufacturer based in NYC. I'm really proud of this post because of how amazingly the photos came out! I was worried about the low light environment inside the store and not capturing the ambiance correctly because I would need to use flash. However, I was able to photograph the products while using flash without lighting up the shot too much! I was honestly surprised at how I really was able to get the dark, mysterious, late 1800s in London during the crime reign of Jack the Ripper feel! (I know, that sounds absolutely terrible, but it really does describe the way that store felt! Almost as if it's a store where Sweeney Todd characters would shop for purses and handbags.)






Anyway, here is the link: http://blog.baremagazine.org/2010/07/nyc-boutique-review-dunlin.html

I didn't mean to toot my own horn. I am just so happy at how much I've been improving and growing as a photographer of various styles! I can't wait to see where I am next year, five years from now, and even ten years down the line! Actually SEEING my improvement really encourages me to keep practicing and experimenting! I'm so excited for what the future has in store!

Tonight's Shots

This is a throwback to my iphone picture post days. (More out of necessity because I did not have my camera on me at the time.)




I accidentally piggybacked on another photographer's flash when I took this picture.

More NYC Street Style Fashion Photography

Here is a link to another Bare Magazine blog posts that contain photos from the New York City Street Style project I created:
http://blog.baremagazine.org/2010/06/nyc-street-style-spring-street-soho.html

Clayton Clayton

I have been getting into music photography, specifically photos of concerts.

Here are some photographs of Clayton Clayton during his set at L.A.'s Unknown Theater.







This is my favorite picture from the set.

You can find his music at claytonclayton.com

NYC Street Style Photography

I went to NY for a little over a week. It was just a trip to hang out with some friends. However, I decided to ask the Bare editors if I could send them Street Style pictures of fashionable people from NYC (particularly the Manhattan and Brooklyn areas to take initiative and make my trip really productive! The Creative Director, Jordan Silver, and the Blog Editor, Brittany Curran, okay-ed my idea!

Here's the first of the series: http://blog.baremagazine.org/2010/06/street-style-rainy-day-in-nyc.html

What have I been up to lately?

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY!



I've been working as a contributing photographer for Bare Magazine, UC Berkeley's first and only fashion publication (baremagazine.org).

Last night was the Issue 7 Launch Party at Hotel Durant!

March 4 Protest and March to Oakland

San Juan Capistrano and a beach near Dana Point

I didn't take a lot of pictures today. To add to that, I didn't particularly like the ones I did take. Here are the ones that I really did like:





I think my finger slightly covered the lens on this picture.

On Location: (500) Days of Summer

I have decided to create a new feature that I have entitled "On Location" to my photoblog. This was inspired by a conversation I had with Johanna about (500) Days of Summer, how watching the movie was basically reliving the Urbanscape Junior Year project I did in high school, and the bench scene. I told her that I love the places depicted in (500) Days of Summer but that for some reason they look a lot more stylized, dreamy, hipster-y, and just plain clean than in real life. I'm not trying to badmouth L.A. I LOVE L.A. My favorite Rilo Kiley song is "I Love L.A./Let Me Back In." I daydream of L.A. when I'm in Berkeley. I spend a lot of my vacation time back home exploring, photographing, and just wandering L.A.

Anyway, when I saw (500) Days of Summer, I recognized various locations in the movie. More specifically, this entry is about the bench scene in (500) Days of Summer.

"The bench scene" that I mention is the one in which Tom discusses architecture and draws the skyline on Summer's arm. I believe it is also part of the opening montage. You can see glimpses here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD0NpFSADM at 0:51 and 2:01-2:02.

Those scenes take place at Angel's Flight and the park adjacent to it in Downtown L.A. just across the street from one end of the Pershing Square Metro Station and about a block away from the actual Pershing Square. It is also located near the Financial District.

Here are some pictures that I took today (They are also technically part of the Gloomy Downtown L.A. (01/01/10) series.):








VERY (500) Days of Summer



I'm not sure why the pictures are squared off on this post. To see them in full size, just click them or go to my flickr page for them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/berniesamson/sets/72157622994311077/

:)