As I’m getting back into film photography from a long stint doing digital only, I’m testing a couple varieties of film. Click the image below for the gallery. The first few images are Fujifilm Reala Superia 100, the rest are Fujifilm Superia 100. I couldn’t see a difference between them (at least on the scans) — anyone notice any differences in their work?  I should have set up several similar shots, but didn’t get a chance to.

Robin Ferrier suggested that I write about what to buy to photograph one’s own quilts. The problems you need to solve are pretty simple:

• Hang the quilt in a flat manner — you probably already have this if you have a design wall.
• Light the quilt reasonably evenly and maybe show some texture.
• Photograph the quilt so it looks as square as the quilt is, and maybe as sharp and detailed as possible.

I’m going to present a few options, none of them particularly cheap.

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Scott Shafer from The California Report was covering Charles Jennings, who is a professional Santa. I was there doing the photo booth thing previously blogged about.

Here’s his report. (Scroll down to Santa For Hire)

On a jobsite yesterday, using my nifty clamp-tripod thing, got a two-shot pano of the room. Still well under construction, but a nice little high school auditorium.

So I really didn’t mean to, but I apparently made Katy Kelsey’s yarn look a little suggestive. I guess it’s just what happens when you have pairs of things and you drape them across each other.

Anyway, she is selling this yarn, I’ll link to that when she lets me know, but for now just drop me a line if you’re interested in any of it (click the image for the gallery).

The setup for this is pretty easy — the backdrop is the tail end of a 36″ roll of plotter paper from work, top light is an AlienBee bounced into an umbrella.  Left key is another AB direct with no reflector.  Shot with a tripod just so the framing would be similar shot to shot.

I did a photo booth setup for St. Stephens school in the Sunset.  The requirements were simple, they wanted a photographer photographing kids with Santa, and prints immediately available as folks exited Santa’s snow cave.  They also had a pretty small budget to accomplish this.  Details follow.

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KPFA Crafts Fair This weekend!

(Photo from 2006)

I’m shooting the KPFA Fair again this year — I’ll be there most of Saturday morning… Smile!