Jeffree

Jeffree, a photo by davidkellerphotos on Flickr.

It’s been a while, but here’s some b&w film for ya

Over the last 3 months, my life has changed drastically. I went from strictly shooting photos, to small business consulting, to a brief stint working at Starbucks, and back to creative work. Currently I’m working part time with a company called Ioda Media doing art direction. The other half of the time, I’m doing some marketing gigs.

Anyway, here are some pictures from the last 3 months taken randomly on my Voigtländer Bessamatic.

And a few random portraits from the same roll…

the Oregon coast

the Oregon coast, a photo by davidkellerphotos on Flickr.

Sarah — a fun portrait in the street

The other day I had to shoot 6 photographs to finish a roll of film that I had loaded months earlier. Unfortunately this happens all to often when I start using a new camera. So I called up a friend of mine and walked around her neighborhood. It was a cloudy day, so the Kodak Portra 160 produced a pretty flat image, but the grain is so smooth. I need to use this camera more. The quality always impresses me. Here’s a fun picture from the 6.

Shot on a Mamiya 645E.

Ryan at Sunset — The Brenizer Method

A few days ago I read a blog post about the Brenizer Method. It’s a strange portrait technique where you take multiple pictures of your subject and stich them together. The camera settings and focus remain the same. Then simply do a photomerge in Photoshop, as if you were going to make a panorama. The results generally turn out as a wide-angle shot with extremely shallow depth of field.

This is my first attempt, and it doesn’t really do the effect justice. I’ll keep trying and get one up soon.

The Impossible Project in Black and White

Over the last year, I’ve been experimenting with The Impossible Project Polaroid film. Although it’s one of the hardest films to create with, the results are always interesting. I recently picked up a few packs of silver shade film with the black matte frame. Here are a few of my first shots!

Peter

Peter Lee handcrafts original bow ties in Portland, Oregon.

Ogle over his work at www.hardingandwilson.com

“Anew Sight” — Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Official Selection – now public

In the spring/summer of 2011, I started a documentary project with a good friend. This was my first dive into documentary filmmaking, guided by the great Paulius Kontijevas. He showed me the ropes, and together we created “ANEW SIGHT”. After initially submitting the film to festivals, we gained Official Selection at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. The video remained private for festival purposes, and was only released into the wild about a week ago.

The film follows Portland barber, Eric Caviso, who explains the metaphysical benefits of one getting their eyebrows waxed. Specifically men. Sounds crazy, right? See for yourself.

Be sure to check out Brick’s Barber. And if you live in Portland… you should stop by for a visit. It might just change your life.

Stare down — medium format color film

Here is my favorite portrait of Jeffree Newman from the shoot for Koyote. I shot this on a Mamiya 645E medium format camera loaded with film that expired 12 years ago. I had the film cross processed and then scanned the negatives. No editing has been done.

Just look at those eyes…

Behind the Scenes of “Koyote” — 35mm b&w film

Last weekend I was honored to join Jameson Posey and his film crew in the middle of nowhere. Jameson was filming his senior thesis film, titled “Koyote”, in the Alvord Desert, OR. The desert is an old dried up lakebed, with ground that closely resembles what we know of the moon’s surface. From Portland, this is a 9 hour drive, on the complete opposite side of the state. My role was to document the experience on B&W film (my favorite!). While most BTS (behind the scenes) photos are taken in digital, Jameson was awesome enough (I mean it) to let me shoot in film. With the perfect combination of wide open space and unique costumes/props, here are some of my favorite shots from the trip. Please, enjoy!

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The multi-talented, Jeffree Newman: