Another walk with my camera. I added a lot of new photos to my ongoing series on flickr here.

I’m not sure why walking around LA with a camera intrigues me so much. I guess part of it is I think people here- and everywhere, really- tend to blow on through without taking a moment to look around at things. And that’s a shame.

Besides, walking is good for you.

Just some routine camera tests from my neighborhood.

Here’s draft 1 of my directing reel. It consists of 3 minutes of clips from shows I’ve directed- no commercials on here, this is theatrical stuff:



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Um. Yeah. I’m probably taking too many pictures lately. But it’s fun for me. Here’s the latest, a few pix of clouds from my roof:

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Just a few snaps from walking around my neighborhood on a winter afternoon. Typical urban life in Los Angeles, really. I used 2 lenses- both primes- a 105mm and a 200mm.

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I’ve wanted a digital SLR for a long time. Years, actually. And since I’d been acquiring a small number of manual focus Nikon lenses for my “Frankencamera” movie camera system, I figured it was finally time to take the plunge.

This was taken with natural light and no reflectors or diffusers or anything. Just me and this refurbished Nikon D80 and a manual 50mm lens from the 1970s. Everything’s set to manual… which means it is a bit harder to take good pix, but the good pix tend to look way better than anything shot on “auto”.

I’m using this camera to learn more about composition, framing, light- all that useful cinematography stuff I was supposed to learn at UCLA. But I am also using it to help myself get a new perspective on Los Angeles. Sometimes a new perspective is a damn fine thing.

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Hopefully you can see this window above. It now plays all the Deliverance videos. Just click play.