Poison Ivy Standing on a Street at Twilight
From a recent studio shoot I did, I made this image of Poison Ivy standing on an urban street at twilight.
Poison Ivy and Madame Butterfly photo shoot
Some images from last week. A couple of themed shoots: Madame Butterfly and Poison Ivy. For information on prints or licensing of these images, click here.
Drops 2
A continuation of my previous post where I attempted to collide water droplets and freeze them in time by use of a very fast burst of light. This time I added a digital component to help get the timing more accurate and controllable. Click on the images to view them larger. One of the things [...]
Water Drops
I’ve always been drawn to water. I’m a Pisces so I guess I should say “naturally”. But this is the first time I’ve attempted to photograph it so deliberately. (click on the images to see them larger) Creating these images required a contraption, timing and patience. Only one of those things, the contraption, do I [...]
Shuttle Mission #26
The Space Shuttle Endeavour made it’s way from LAX toward the California Science Center this morning. I meant to go out and catch it as it left the airport this morning but 2:30 am was a little too early after spending most of yesterday shooting at the beach. So I caught up with it as [...]
Space Shuttle Endeavour Over Los Angeles
Space Shuttle Endeavour took it’s final flight today and I was fortunate enough to be both at Santa Monica Beach and LAX airport for her final landing.
Free Music Thursdays in Santa Monica
I really like riding my bike down to the Santa Monica Pier for free music on Thursdays during the summer months. Last week was the final one for this year and one of my new favorite bands, Best Coast was playing. I brought my camera along for fun and made these images. I know it’s [...]
The Most Talented People In The World
I am honored to have been interviewed recently for the blog, The Most Talented People In The World. The blog, which is run by Jennifer Stoots, dares to ask, in a fast-paced, digitally dependent world, is there still a need for classic, analog ideas and education? Few professions are dependent on a single concept or tool; [...]
Remembering John Pedone
is self proclamation “I’m kind of famous at Burning Man”, I’ve learned was accurate as news of his untimely death spread like wildfire through that community. I knew John Pedone as a colleague and fellow technician in the film lighting industry, and for a short time a decade ago, as a room mate. I [...]
Super Moon
I, like so many other people, have a fascination with the moon, some kind of inexplicable, odd attraction. Not that it inspires crazy actions or odd hair-growth spurts, rather it’s a majesty thing. The moon is a celestial body we can see differently from all the rest of the planets and stars and moons in [...]
The Road Kings
ith clear blue skies and perfect temperatures we lit out of Los Angeles like a couple of rogues after a bender which left a heap of twisted metal and broken hearts in our wake. Well, maybe it wasn’t quite so dramatic, but every once in awhile it’s really nice to just get out of LA [...]
Will Power Wins 2012 Grand Prix of Long Beach
This year’s Long Beach Grand Prix has been one of the most exciting I’ve witnessed: there were new cars, the Dallara DW12, a controversial 10-position penalty for every team powered by Chevy, lot’s of passing, nail-biting fuel consumption strategies, and a pile-up on the hair pin turn 11, on the last lap, after Will Power [...]
Balancing Sunset with a Foreground Subject, part 1
A technique I have been wanting to try for a long time now has been balancing a beautiful sunset with a good exposure on a person in the foreground. It’s not entirely simple as the subject should not be lit flat like from an on-camera flash, and the proper balance has to be found. This [...]
The Flying Luchadores
The Flying Luchadores from Jeff Gatesman on Vimeo. Nicky dives from atop a stack of speakers onto the head of Cassandro. This, of course, riles Cassandro and his teammate, who consequently takes it out on Nicky and her teammate, which covers up the fact that Cassandro has climbed up to the balcony. If it [...]
360 degrees of Slash
I recently had the opportunity to work on a project with one of the top Rock guitarists in the music industry, and it was both very exciting to be working with Slash from Guns ‘N Roses and Velvet Revolver fame, as well as to be working on a project that was paving a new road [...]
Two Pontiacs entered into the Spider Awards
The Black and White Spider Awards is the leading international award honoring black and white photography. This year I submitted two of my car images, both classic Pontiacs. Click on the thumbnails to get the full view. Photographing cars has always been one of my favorite things to do outside of actually driving them, and [...]
Manhattan from Brooklyn
Here is a new image I just finished, though I took the photo almost 2 years ago. Click on the image to blow it up.
Culver City Car Show
The car show that takes over the main street in Culver City every year is one of my favorites. There are usually a selection of George Barris creations, some cool music and of course, some great cars. Here are a couple of images I made this weekend.
DSLR.Bot and Venice HDR Images
n the on-going battle between Nikon and Canon owners as to which camera is better, one feature that I, a devoted Canon owner, have lamented is Nikon’s ability to bracket to 5 images as opposed to Canon’s 3, which becomes a real drawback when making High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. But now there is a [...]
Found Images from Chicago
I recently came across these images from Chicago that I hadn’t previously published. I made these when I was screening one of my films at the Chicago Reelz Short Film Fest in September ’09 As always you can click on the image to see the full size.
Hong Kong apartment building
I almost got arrested taking this photo of an apartment complex in Hong Kong. Apparently the security police there don’t quite understand long exposure photography. This is part of series of images I have been making designed to be hung on ceilings.
Steven Spielberg Portraits
I had a job last year shooting some images of Steven Spielberg for the opening of Universal Singapore. Here are a couple of those images. Click on them to see a larger version. He was quite nice and very easy to work with. We had a great conversation about the next film he is going [...]
Welcoming in a New Year
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. from In Memorium by Lord Alfred Tennyson It seems to be becoming a ritual for me to go out just before the New Year and make [...]
Friday Night Lights, Guangzhou, China
Guangzhou is a big city in southern China just a few hours drive north of Hong Kong. Because I had to wait for my Chinese visa to be issued in HK I had a very limited amount of time in Guangzhou, but the thing that is really striking about the city is the way it [...]
