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i agree completely.

excuse me, whether.

weather or not they are good or not is a matter of opinion. but you said it your self, its been forever...

^^^ what a toy.

is that last nesta in portland? looks like a kwc tag creeping in the corner there...

the smith bybee sign gives it away anyway...

maybe that person has been to more than one city? crazy idea, i know....

i've shot that lens and noticed the same thing. pretty sure its the lens. either the super wideness of it of quality?

i also really like the trash talk photo quite a bit.

i like the tub in the abandoned building the best. and the train car and inside building ones. one thing i will suggest, because it has helped me a lot with events, is to get an off shoe flash cord, even if at first you just hold it a foot to the side of your camera at first, it will make a huge improvement. also i agree 100% about getting other things at shows other than whats on stage...

the film shots dont really have much post, nothing more that 5 or 5% of any adjustments, and only levels and maybe whote balance or tone. i dont rememebr specifically but thats the case with most of my film shots, if anything at all was done. as far as the digital ones, the first three didnt have anything done, which you can kinda tell, they arent quite as nice looking. the fire fighters and some of my newer shots, i run through lightroom, and adjust levels and tone, hue, warmness, etc..sometimes a little contrast. i dont know a lot about post so i tend to only do basic things and usually not more than abotu 5 percent = /- .

and mayor, thank you.

Definitely a good point. i thought about it after the fact and it kinda bugged me. i knew that point. dont know what i was thinking. i was a few days late on getting this done, and was trying to just make it happen.

yeah, i'd like to be able to carry my DSLR with room for one additon lens for it and also my film body with a few lenses and a speedlite... i guess i should hit the store and jstu check em out hands on. from what i've see i want a lopro sling style backback with the side opening for quick access to at least one camera, btu even at that it seems like there are quite a few options...

got a question for y'all... anyone got anything to say about the backpack style camera bags? pros/ cons, points to consider? I'm looking to get one and it seems like there are a lot of different stles and features...

Good Point. Most of mine were taken with my Canon Xti with either a 17-85mm f4-5.6 or 50mm f1.4, with the exception of the Painted sign and Hippo float taken with my Canon A-1 w/ 50mm f1.4 s.s.c. using Kodak Portra 160NC film. I wasnt able to get any shots of the actual fire. at that point the fire had been going a while and the flames werent any higher than the structure. It was more internal at that point.

OK, so here goes. I have had a pretty busy life the past few weeks and haven't had much time to think of what I wanted to show as my Portfolio work in this thread, but time is up, its my turn to go. One of the things I like to show through photography is how our society is so temporary. Old technology no longer in use, belongings left to waste, signage covered with new disposable forms of advertisement etc. So I am going to start with a few shots along the lines of that and finish off with some more photojournalistic approached shots, which is more the direction I have been working on more recently. I think that many of these have already been shown in the photography thread. But let me know what you all think. I've got a thing for drive-in theaters. Last summer on a two week road trip with my girlfriend, we made it a point to track down a few along the way. Unfortunately all but one had been completely leveled and removed. In most cases replaced with housing developments. The photo of the drive in marque was the only sign of any drive-in we found. the development was still being built. The hippo is an old parade float, found hidden away between two buildings in Portland's NW Industrial district. The "Forlorn Luggage Cart" "Writer at Impasse" Fuel distribution station, and Oil refinery pipes were part of a series for a show I took part in at Compound Gallery called After Hours, with the idea of showing what our city is like when the majority of people are home asleep. And last, the fire fighters are fighting a fire that completely destroyed a century old church that had been converted to a book depository. I was told the owner was a life long collector and was well known for the amount of one of a kind and extremely rare books.

always up for a challenge / reason to shoot, down for the word of the week idea.

i realize a lot of buildings look like that all over the world, but are those shots from portland? that building looks very familiar...

by the way, the first two, the lady jump roping, the man in the suit, the girl lighting the cigarette, and the second to last one, are my favorites.

Mayor- Amazing images. I agree with the others that the black and white brings cohesiveness and also allows you to see more of the subject /composition in a way by not distracting with the bright colors. However, I really like them in color as well. I really learned a lot just now by your answer about how you ask peoples permission. I can relate about worrying if they care and thinking about it too much. I also have experienced losing what you were going for by them being to aware of you and posing too much. The idea of multiple pictures never really occurred to me for some reason. But that is a major tip.