Your 1950s Sci Fi Movie Fantasy Is Not Reality

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Find a Space

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2020 Photoshoots: Eighteen

California #Sacramneto @esca.modelofficial #2020 #photoshoot #november #wendy #withanattitude #returnfromneverland #shadow #bw_photo #wings #naturallight #overpass #underpass

What does it mean to be a natural light photographer? It means that the brick wall of the underpass near the parking garage of the historic city center you are supposed to be shooting in ends up being one of your best locations of the day. Whoot!

2020 Photoshoots: Four

California #Stockton @ciarraparra #2020 #photoshoot #countdown #four #march #universityofthepacific #foundlight #ambientlight #naturallight #portrait #bw_portait #bw_photography

This was a fun shoot with ciarraparra (IG)— it went from downtown Stockton (rough even by my Fresno-raised standards) to the University of the Pacific (fancy!). I think this photo demonstrates one of my strengths as a photographer— utilizing “found light.” Found light is unmodified natural or ambient light, no reflector, no flash, no white piece of paper- just the light as it exists in and is modified by its immediate surroundings. It doesn’t always (okay, rarely) works. But when it does, I love the intimate feeling it provides.