Paula in the Snow

I was trying to practice using flash and shutter speed to make fun images. My lovely friend Paula (and little baby Gideon in her belly) were kind enough to pose for me in the snow. I liked how this image showed the snow and made everything around her dark. Pretty Pregnant Paula!

Capture: Canon 20D, Speedlight 380EX on light stand to the right, f25 at 1/320s (I'm surprised the flash synced) ISO 400

Photo Booth

Last Saturday, my friends and I had a going away party for two of our friends. I decided to set up a photo booth. These are a few of the fun images that came out of the "booth." It is nice to be back home around my friends.

Capture: Canon 20D, 1/60 at f20

Strawberry Milkshakes

I photographed these milkshakes for our first studio school assignment of the new year. We were to show a sense of time and place while making the food look appetizing. After interning with the amazing food photographer, Dasha Wright, I tried to utilize what I observed to make this photograph.

Capture: Hasselblad, Phase One H10, f22 at 1/60s

Raspberry Delight

Along with the crayons and sunflower that I photographed, I attempted to photograph a dessert in Dasha's studio. There was a cute bakery down the street in NYC where I picked up this sweet raspberry hamburger (I can't remember what it actually was called.) Dasha taught me that a little pinch of salt put into a glass of champaign will make the bubbles come back.

Capture: Sinar large format camera with a Phase One H20 back.

Crayons

Along with photographing sunflowers, I decided to photograph crayons when my internship employer Dasha Wright allowed me use of her studio. I tried to use design to make something simple into a fun image. The colorful crayons worked well for this approach.

Capture: Sinar large format camera with a Phase One H20 digital back.

Thompkins Park in the Fall

A few weeks ago, the fall leaves were at their peak. On this particular morning, the clear blue sky caused me to not rush to the subway. I photographed the trees in the perfect morning sunlight. Since I was already late and I got off at a wrong stop, I ended up being thirty minutes late to work. I'm glad though that I took time to take these pictures or I might have suffocated in the concrete walls that surround me.

Capture: Canon D30, 28-105mm lens, ISO 400

Sunset from the D line

I had to add one more picture from my Coney Island trip. This is from the train ride home. Pretty days like this are a rare sight in New York, at least in the winter.

Capture: Canon D30, 28-105mm lens, ISO 100, f8 at 1/125

Sunflower

The photographer I am interning under, Dasha Wright, allowed me to use her studio to take photographs. I bought some sunflowers at a corner market and played around with them. I got several shots I liked, this is one of them.

Capture: Sinar large format with a Phase One H20 digital back.

One Hot Penguin

They NYC marathon ran right through my neighborhood in Brooklyn. This was such an amazing event. First came the super fast, super but muscled runners... then about twenty minutes later came these guys. This is my favorite picture from the marathon because is shows how much fun the marathon is. Now I want to run it (but not as a penguin).

More Coney Island

I went to Coney Island with a fellow photographer from Germany named Katharina. I was sad that Katharina couldn't stay longer with me in Loftstel. Oh well, the good ones keep moving. We both couldn't figure out what the big red structure was, but it looks interesting. There were fishermen on the pier that let us take photos of their fish, very friendly folks. The seagulls weren't as friendly, all they wanted was our good Russian bread that we got down the street.

Capture: Canon D30

Coney Island

Well well well, what have we here. A lazy blogger returns to her pier. Mr. Speedo man was working out on a windy, cold day. He smiled for the camera, now on the web he stays.



Capture: Canon D30, who cares about the rest?

Brooklyn (my new neighborhood)

Currently I am on internship up in the great NYC. Of course I can't afford to live in Manhattan where I work, so I live in Brooklyn. My neighborhood is called Bed-Sty by the locals. It seems to be a very community oriented place. On warm days everyone is out on the street spending time with their neighbors. There are community gardens, walls covered in graffiti, coffee shops, corner grocery stores, parks, schools, and churches in my neighborhood. It is very different from my North Carolina home, but I am enjoying my stay. The lower picture is of my house. I live in the room to the left of Elizabeth (who is sitting in the doorway). I live with about 50 internationals students, or so it seems. The rest of the pictures show typical scenes of my neighborhood.

Capture: Sony Cybershot (the point and shoot wonder)