Neon Blogarita

2 days ago from bookmarklet

A Brief History of John Baldessari (by gosupermarche) - Awesome and Narrated by Tom Waits !

6 days ago

Friday from the Photo Archives - Memorial Day weekend edition. Looking forward to a weekend just like this.

1 week ago from bookmarklet

Fstoppers Original: Will Video Kill The Photographer? Hasselblad vs Red Epic.mp4 (by FStoppers) - interesting look at a still photographer experiencing shooting with RED for first time.

1 week ago

Wheels from Rock Around the Block show #1, WCET 1980.

1 week ago

Friday from the Photo Archives - Trombone Shorty from the 2008 Doheny Blues Festival which happens this weekend. Shorty is playing again along with a great lineup. If you are in LA it’s a great festival down near Dana Point but they have already announced no on site ticket sales.

2 weeks ago from bookmarklet

Troll high-fiving people in Pisa (by JegStuffoInfo)

3 weeks ago

A couple of photos from a Wild Things store that used to be in San Francisco’s Metreon.

3 weeks ago

2012_05_Disneyland, a set on Flickr.Some more photos from Disneyland this weekend.

2012_05_Disneyland, a set on Flickr.

Some more photos from Disneyland this weekend.

3 weeks ago

Another from the Haunted Mansion.

Notes: 1 / 3 weeks ago

Beware, Hitchhiking Ghosts

3 weeks ago

"You gotta fight for your right to party"

Notes: 1 / 3 weeks ago

I mentioned a comparison this morning in my post about working with Raw images. This shows the unprocessed image, what I liked in 2008, and what I was able to do in Lightroom with more advanced raw processing, better tools and more experience. I like the detail I am getting in the 2012 one in shadows like in the curtains and hands. I did warm the image up a bit in this latest one too. Friends don’t let friends shoot jpegs.

3 weeks ago

Shooting Raw

I was revisiting some Jazz Fest photos from 2008 that I shot raw on my Nikon. After the fest I processed them in Aperture and did what I thought was a good job. This morning I opened in Lightroom and had the raw files and the processed jpegs but I decided to restart with the raw files. Found that the new color science in Lightroom gave me a lot more control over getting better images and I have learned a lot since 2008 about processing. Night and day improvement (I’ll try to post an example later). So… If you are deciding between jpegs and locking in those decisions or shooting raw, keep this in mind: technology will change and you will get better so keep that digital negative raw.

4 weeks ago

Friday from the Photo Archives - Buckwheat Zydeco from Jazz Fest 2008. YouTube has a Jazz Fest channel this year at www.youtube.com/jazzfest with many performances live (see schedule at bottom of linked page).

1 month ago

Gloves on Flickr.

Hands, Touching hands, Reaching out, Touching me, Touching you