Saturday night

Over the weekend, as soon as it gets dark, mild mannered Roosevelt Street gets 'revitalized' when thousands of young people, dress up and attend the coffee shops, jazz clubs and galleries all through downtown Phoenix.

This is a really fun place to shoot. If you have a camera, everyone will pose for you. These girls probably just watch too much TV:

D100 with 85mm f/1.8 @ f/1.8, 1/125sec., iso3200, spot metered @ +0.33, aperture priority and no flash

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Thank you Maria and Greg! These 'people out struttin' grab shots are so fun to do! And faces, for me, are the main thing.

The woman doing her makeup is a TV news reporter. She gave ma a little bow after doing a 10-15 second "Oh my, who is watching me" bit for me. That's the cool thing about having a big camera is that your subjects are aware you are photographing them, and they can respond to being photographed.

 

Hey - Thanks John!

I never go to the clubs (well almost never) either. These shots are all taken on the street or in some of the art galleries.

I may be going to Santa Fe this summeer for a workshop. What's fun to shoot there?

 

It's a chemistry instrumentation workshop. I suspect it'll be boring unless you like little plasticy experiments. I don't, but the day job, you know...  

But I'll sure give you plenty of warning if I'm heading there. The beer, uh, photoshoot I mean sounds great!

By the way, I lived and worked in Farmington for a short while.

 

Thanks Bryan! I'm glad you enjoyed it. How's your 'vacation' going? I hope everything's on track.

Sometimes I love iso noise Christian. It adds to the non-reality of the photograph. I've even made up an art movement called Digitalism that emphasizes the digital nature of our work by exploiting it's points of breakdown like iso grain.

[img=right:af803eae36]http://radio.weblogs.com/0101365/images/photos/iodinecloseup.jpg[/img:af803eae36]Harrie, thanks for recognizing my style. I've been working hard on it and hope it'll come together into a consistent statement soon. Well, no, it's really about the trip. I heard the term 'washed out look' the other day, it made me think of Goethe's theory that the eye was more sensitive, less acute and more easily fooled upon first awakening, than later in the day. I like the way things look first thing in the morning and I think my photography reflects that.

Or not. Crimeny! What am I talking about?

John, I won't be going to the trade show after all. I just bought an instrument from a competitor - a Cary 100, pulsed solid state source, scanning spectrophotometer. It's brand new technology but I'm a bit trepidatious about it's 2nm band pass. I'd prefer more resolution, but I'm hoping for good detail in the atomic orbital transitions of iodine. I can't wait to compare the Cary to this spectrophotograph of iodine I made a couple years ago using a Coolpix 950:

I think my style is evolving rapidly, and I still want to go to Santa Fe.