Thursday, August 21, 2008
I liked the fractal-like patterns in these leaves.
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I raced around as the light faded at the Getty Center and got a few interesting shots.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
One of the thousands of lovely flowers in the Getty Center gardens.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
The Getty Center has a lovely new sculpture garden. We got there at the perfect time in terms of light.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
I snapped this one after the sun was just out of the gardens, which allowed all the subtleties in the white petals to show through.
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
I went to the Getty Center yesterday with a pal, and we shot some lovely stuff. I’ll post one a day over the next week or so.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
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I have been trying some new things with flash use during the day, to make the background fall off a bit and give some depth of field. This was taken in broad daylight in my garden, to try to gave a night for day feel.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
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I found this amazing iridescent green beetle in my garden today. I couldn’t get any shots that captured how brilliant the shell was. It looked like a flying jewel.
Update: Regular reader Michael correctly identified it as a Figeater Beetle. I never saw one on the fig tree at my old place, so I didn’t know about these little guys!
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Over capacity. Technically wrong.
Worthless.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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The hummingbirds have been very shy lately, flying away if they see me come out the door. The girl decided she was over all that flying away and kept eating, which is unusual mid-day.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Another picture of my little cat, checking out the scene in the garden.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Same rose as yesterday, but misted and completely backlit.
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Saturday, August 09, 2008
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I have been playing around with extreme closeups of backlit flowers. This one was dry. Wet to come.
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Friday, August 08, 2008
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
When I first started in advertising, I had the pleasure of shooting a live-action commercial with director Mike Patterson. The series was for a very mundane household product but was very successful. Mike is best known as an animator, and he was at visual effects house Rhythm & Hues at the time. The spots had a lot of in-camera effects that turned out great.
At the time Mike was already legendary for creating the famous a-ha video for “Take On Me,” one of the greatest music videos of all time. That work was based on an animation project he did while at Cal Arts titled “Commuter.” I had seen “Commuter” before, and I was looking for it the other day. I was delighted to find it online with a treasure trove of other great projects from 20 years of experimental animation at Cal Arts.
If you want to see some amazing experimental animation from pre-computer days, before motion-capture, before digital rotoscoping, check out the curated collection on the Cal Arts site:
CalArts: 20 Years of Experimental Animation, 1970 - 1990
Besides Commuters, I recommend (in no order) Luma Nocturna, Travellers Palm, Phases, Pink Triangle, Te Utu, and The Trap.
They also have showcases of recent work.
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