Highly Subjective

Location: San Francisco, CA - Market Street

Location: San Francisco, CA - Mission Street

Location: San Francisco, CA - Market Street

After a quick look at the previous image, I'm realizing I haven't posted any new work in 4 months. That's downright depressing.

I have gone out shooting a few times recently, so I do have some images to process. I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things and start posting regularly again.

I saw this young woman walking down Market Street the other day while I was shooting the Pride Parade. I only had a second to raise the camera to my eye. I think it came out pretty well.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Here's another one from Brides of March.

Location: Berkeley Marina, CA

I shot this on Sunday. I hadn't intended on going out to shoot flowers, but it was interesting looking and I had my camera with me. Although this isn't my typical subject matter, I like how it came out.

Location: San Francisco, CA

I finally got out and shot a few new images. I spent a little time with the Brides of March on Saturday. This one is best viewed big (click the image).

Location: San Francisco, CA
Model: Ashlé Nouveau

Location: San Francisco, CA - 111 Minna

Location: Fort Funston, CA

Wow, it's been about 6 weeks since I posted anything here. I knew it had been a while, but I didn't realize it had been that long.

I still don't really have anything new to show, except I did shoot this one while walking with Maggie at Fort Funston today.

I desperately need to make the time to get out an shoot.

Location: Fort Funston, CA

It was overcast and slightly gloomy for most of this visit to Fort Funston, but for just a little bit the clouds parted and revealed some really vivid light. It made everything kind of glow.

I wanted to capture the essence of this light, without photographing the beach or the waves specifically. I decided the best way to do this would be to purposely shoot the scene out of focus.

You may be asking why I didn't just take the picture (in focus), and then blur it in Photoshop later. While I have nothing against post-processing (I do it on most of my images), I do think there are times when you need to commit to your vision of the image... in camera. It's a little too easy these days to be sloppy when you're shooting, and then create the image later at a computer. There's nothing wrong with doing that, but making more (irreversible) decisions at the time you shoot will make you a better photographer. It forces you to really look at (and think about) what you're shooting.