Chris Keeney, a San Diego California based professional photographer, creates images with the highest of integrity and originality. Specializing in portraits (babies, children, families, couples, graduates), weddings (bridals and engagement), lifestyle, events (parties, corporate meetings, etc.) - as well as personal and fine art projects.
Primarily shooting digital, Chris Keeney constantly is refining his passion for traditional film and alternative film processes. Well known for his pinhole cameras and hand-made prints, distinguishes him as a one of the most unique photographers of his time and area. Bringing an unparalleled eclectic eye to the [viewfinder] of his camera (a marriage between his literal and intuitive eyes), he channels his style to reflect that of his clients’ vision and essence. Chris’ love for his family, children and friends has taught him the importance of time/timing; flaming his desire to preserve each moment as it unfolds. For him, knowing photographs he takes will touch lives, or simply bring a smile to someone’s face by visually recording a memorable moment that will be passed down through generations, fills him with gratitude and humility.
Pinhole self portrait pinhole Mark Tweedie
Coventry, United Kingdom (UK)
www.marktweedie.co.uk
There seems to be a curious empathy between the homemade nature of our own lives and the representations we make of them using pinhole cameras: the results are very individual; the clarity or otherwise of the result is very much down to the methods of manufacture and...
Portrait of Wayne by Ken Merfeld, 2008
“The tools I create and work with are pinhole cameras. With pinhole photography, the same air that touches my subject can pass through the pinhole and touch the photo emulsion on the film. There’s no barrier between the two. There are no lenses changing and manipulating light. There are no...
As a photojournalist I spend my time looking for fractions of seconds that when combined with the right light and the correct framing tell a story and capture the essence of a moment in someone’s life. Everything is digital. Everything is quick. Photography has become computerized and negatives have been replaced by pixels. The darkroom...
Since 2005 CK Design has used these handcraft 4 color process business cards. The cards are modeled after a continuous ticket, where each ticket, or this case card, is separated by a perfect. Each card also is customized by a small photo sticker that is adhered to each card.
Each month I could print out different...
I was fortunate enough to have a fellow photographer and friend give me a new Boda Lens bag for my 40th birthday this year. With the ongoing issue of what bag(s) to take to a shoot/event, I was pleased to try this slimmed down and stylish designed bag on my next shoot.
In the past I...
“The first time I saw pinhole imagery was in an alternative photography class. I was amazed that you could use the long exposure times to ‘ghost’ figures in and out of the final picture. There is a wonderful series by Julie Schachter in The Visionary Pinhole by Lauren Smith. These photos were so inspirational, so...
“I began shooting with a pinhole cameras because I wanted to simplify my photography approach as much as possible. I wanted to go back to the simple source, to the basis of the photographic image creation. A box, a hole and a piece of photosensible material.
This statement created needs of experimentation, of technical improvements and...
“I started taking pinhole photographs in the early 1990s, after having seen some image (don’t remember which one any longer) with an extremely tempting expression. Yep, that was how I saw the world as well! I discovered the wonderful magazine “Pinhole Journal” (R.I.P.) and started taking my first steps into this mysterious and oh so...
