Construction sites

The engineering building, Benedum, is under construction. It's brilliantly bland building that's very 80's in a bad way. But most of it is being renovated now, and at night the sub basement turns into a goldmine for photographers. It's haunting and the light is not agreeable but if you want to do some longer exposures, im sure there possibilities are endless. Shots from the DSLR are above with shots from the film camera(s) below.

After shooting these I found this article about the world's first nuclear power plant. There are some fantastic pictures in it. Some pictures I shot on film came out really blurry, or I would've loved to do some still life type stuff just on all the machines like the article.

Jon and Laura have more stuff on this I think.

Canon AE-1




Yashica ME-1

Portrait of the week

I rarely shoot portraits, or not as often as other stuff. It's not that I dont like to take pictures of people, its mainly because I'm not completely comfortable in asking people to pose for photographs. My favorite portraits are of people who are comfortable smiling into a camera, and candid shots. Candid photos are ideal but it's very hard to get a good candid shot, especially with a big SLR.
An important part of taking a good portrait is the photographer being forward/friendly enough to make the subject comfortable in front of the camera. So i plan to post a portrait once every week here.
I mean that's the point of this whole blog really, to find a reason/purpose to shoot more and motivate myself to go out.

This first portrait was too easy; both Jon and Laura are very cool kids and are wonderfully easy to shoot at/with. This was taken in the basement of a school building which is being renovated. More from that coming soon.