Ever since I was young I’ve always had a curious mind. And since photography is an art of seeing and interpreting the world around us photographically, I’ve always tried to see life through the lens in a unique and inventive way. Sometimes we don’t have the luxury of having fancy equipment at our disposal...
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Tags: abstract, black, black-and-white, Can, Canon G9, city, color, creative, creative process, Exp, experimental, Graphic, high contrast, Light, lightroom, long exposures, Nighttime, photoshop, play, RAW, San Diego, southern california, spontaneous acts of creativity
The other day I was experimenting with a series of portraits using my Canon EOS 5D, a 50mm f/1.4 lens, and two 580EX II speedlights (one on camera and one off-camera), triggered with PocketWizard II plus transceivers. In order to be able to focus in the dark I attached a 580EX speedlite on my camera...
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Tags: 50mm f/1.4, 580exII, action, children, dragging the shutter, experimental, experimentation, Light Painting, long exposures, motion, off camera flash, play, pocket wizards, Portrait, portraiture, San Diego, southern california, spontaneous acts of creativity
A few years back, a fellow photographer friend inquired if I was interested in doing a camera trade. A homemade Kodak Dualflex I, through the viewfinder (TTV) contraption for a Altoids mint tin pinhole camera (CK MintyCam). It sounded like a good trade to me to, so I got to work. Once we made the...
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Have you ever planned and look forward to something, then had it slowly broken down by a series of unfortunately events or circumstances? Well that’s what happened to me recently. I had a trip planned to one of my favorite camping spots in the Mexican high desert. Well, we all have been reading the newspapers...
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Tags: 16-35mm, anza borrego, camping, Canyon Sin Nombre, desert, experimental, Light Painting, slot canyons, SoCal, southern california, state park, Travel, vacation
Being a photographer who has lived and worked in San Diego all my life, I have come to accumulate quite the collection of images. It has always amazed me, that within an hour you could be sitting on the beach, sliding down a snow covered mountain or exploring the quiet corners of the desert. In...
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I recently invented a simple and low cost do-it-yourself (DIY) snoot made from a 3 x 24″ mailing tube, tennis ball can caps/lids and black matte spray paint. Before this I had been experimenting with a soda/beer can koozie (pictured below) and realized that the mailing tubes I was using for another project fit...
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Tags: 580exII, 5D, beer koozie snoot, canon, Chris Keeney Photography, colored-gels, create, diffuser, DIY, do-it-yourself, experiment, explore, flash, green, Homemade, hot shoe flash, inexpensive, invention, red, snoot, strobe, strobes
A couple months ago, I was experimenting with attaching small random lenses to a body cap I had previously used for digital pinhole. I came across one certain lens/focal length that worked great. Of course you have to focus by moving closer and farther away from your subject matter. I found that the effect was...
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