New work - Flora
Technology does not make the image, but sometimes it can open up a window of possibilities. Within our digital world, “technology” usually has the connotation of state of the art, or advanced digital technologies. My day-to-day life as a cybersecurity professional at a hospital, specialized in medical imaging technologies, certainly leans heavily on the bleeding edge of applied technologies.
As this work has emerged recently, bleeding edge takes on a different context; as does applied technologies. By adapting several manual focus lens from the 1960’s or so to my Sony A7R3, the bleeding edge of the bokeh wraps the and ensnares the flora creating a window between the heart of the flora and world surround it.
More to come…
Jazz Band Performance Portraits.
When I shoot concerts, especially Jazz concerts, I love to do performance portraits. Performance portraits are not just pictures of someone playing an instrument or singing. Every shot is that. The moments I search for are the ones in between the notes when the artist’s personality really shines through their instrument. When the artist is fully in the moment of the music . When Jazz becomes the air that carries the breathe of those experience the performance: from the stage. from the audience. Or through the camera.
Outtakes: Production ad shoot
I recently did some shots in a recording studio for an ad and website. During several fo the shots, I had to drag the shutter to 1/4 second or so to get the lights of the recording board to show up. I have been shooting many of my street images with movement and have come to seek it out for my personal work.
Fortunately, I had a great cast and crew to work with and we also got the “solid” shots we needed….
St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh