This is a view of Washington street in Providence at night. I decided today’s 365 would be taken in a confined area. I choose to take a photo wherever I parked for the evening in Downtown Providence. I took a few shots, but this one was my favorite. I waited for this bus to come by where I was set up so I could get some interesting light trails. You can see how the sign on the bus made for a really cool LED light trail in yellow and green that leads right in to the heart of the city.
Local 121 in Providence, RI is by far one of my most favorite places to DJ. The architecture, the employees, the overall vibe…. it’s just all around perfect for Funky House Music. Tonight I was asked by a friend Bryan to fill in for another DJ for the evening, so I gathered up the funkiest of the funky house tunes I had and invited all my awesome friends. Today’s 365 was taken while DJing for these amazing people, I wouldn’t have today’s 365 ay other way.
Today’s sunset was awesome, but my attempt at capturing was less than great. I came home to edit the sunset photos, I realized something was very off and I had to go back out and find another shot for my 365. I hopped on Google Maps before I left my house and found this little hidden area I never even knew existed. It could be some type of boat dock or fishing area, I am not really sure. It was SUPER dark down there and I am definitely going back to do some light painting soon. I aimed the camera towards the other side of the water and set the exposure time to 30 seconds. The results where ok, but the foreground was almost black and it needed to be re-framed. I then decided to re-frame the shot and use a flashlight to manually light up the foreground in the areas I wanted. I did it about 15 times and this was the end result, it is a little bland, but I am starting to get a hang of the light painting thing. I am also pretty happy I found a new spot for projects!
Notice the fancy boat someone left behind there? Yay Fall River!
I noticed a few people walking on the side of the new Veterans Memorial bridge that connects Fall River and Somerset, MA and wanted to check it out. I intended on going during the day and walking most of the path but I was stuck inside editing photos from a photography job this weekend. I found a path entrance at the bottom of Essex Street in Fall River. I only walked about half way up the bridge before I decided to walk back to the car, main reason being there was a lot of light on the bridge and it was a bit foggy out there. I plan on going back during better weather and walking the whole thing soon.
This was a longer exposure shot, but I re-colored most of the photo in sections in photoshop. Originally everything was a shitty shade of orange because of the color of lighting used on the pathway and bridge. I really like playing with this selective color adjustment thing, it makes for some interesting results.
I took a trip to New Hampshire with some friends to hike Mt Monadnock today which also meant some new scenery for my 365 project. This is a panorama from the stop we made on our way up to the top. The peak to the right of the photo is the summit of the trail. It was overall a pretty awesome experience and I will definitely be hiking there again.
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I spent most of my day running around doing spring cleaning and enjoying the beautiful day. I did not get a chance to shoot my 365 until well after the day light was gone, so I had to get creative with what was around me inside. I have been meaning to give this type of photo a go for a while now, the glass and light reflections make for a very difficult lighting situation. I tried to focus on the sails of the boat, but the reflections and texture of the glass made it close to impossible for me. The whole room was reflected on to the glass in this photo which was not my intent, next time I need to shoot it in its own little black box with more diffused lighting to get the look I am after.
Today I had a photography gig at The Colosseum in Providence for Nexthype Providence’s DGAF (Dubstep and Heavy Bass night). A good chunk of you people following this project already know I am a regular photographer there, I made sure to snap a shot before midnight that could be used for a 365 shot. In case you do not know, “glovers” are people who wear gloves with LED lit finger tips and perform light shows for their friends to enjoy with the music. It’s a pretty cool concept and makes for really interesting photos. The person in the photo is Bobby Mello. He is one of the more popular glovers at this event, rightfully so, he is pretty darn good with those fingers! I wouldn’t be surprised if another glover photo ends up in this 365 set.
I had an idea to do a self portrait in front of a wall of my photos. This was way easier said than done, in the end it did not turn out as planned. I also need a haircut, a shave, and a beard trim pretty badly. Instead of getting all dolled up I opted to hop in front of the camera as is.
I had planned a photo shoot of my friend Colby’s motorcycle during sunset today, but the results where not what I was hoping for. We are going to try again within the next few days. We hung out for a little while and I was drawn to the beauty of his Piano. I took a few different shots from different angles, but this one was my favorite. I felt that since this was an analogue instrument, I had to shoot it in black and white. I also took a few shots with my film camera, I look forward to finishing the roll and getting my first film shots developed.
It finally stopped raining for a bit today and the sky was all sorts of crazy colors. I had a very busy day helping out the family and had some dinner plans so I did not have much time to dedicate to today’s 365. This was taken down on Atlantic Ave in Fall, River, MA overlooking Mt. Hope Bay.
It was only a matter of time before I ran out of ideas and tried to get a photo of the Braga Bridge. This is not so much a photo of the bridge, but it’s in there. I want to get ON the bridge to take a cool night time shot, but I could get arrested in the process. It seems when I run out of ideas, night time long exposures are always something to fall back on.
I spent pretty much my whole day in the dungeon / studio editing photos and organizing music. It was a very crappy day outside, rainy, foggy, gloomy, and just not very motivating. My work area is really dark, with no windows, which is great for editing, but not so great to take a photos in. I set up the camera in front of my desk and took a few photos at different exposures. I then took some more long exposure shots with an added white LED light. I brought all the images in to Photoshop and fooled around with erasing potions of the images to create something like a HDR look. Not a great picture, but at least I took a photo and played with some new editing techniques.
The weather in New England today was just perfect. I took a few shots during the day, but this night time shot was my favorite. The colors in the sky where unreal so I did my best to catch them. Unfortunately I missed a large chunk of the sunset as I forgot my camera battery at home charging. When I got back down to my spot (Regatta parking lot) this is what I was left with. I really liked the stars in the sky, I am not sure if the streak is a plane or shooting star, either way it looks pretty neat. This is not an HDR, just a long exposure.
ISO 400, f9.0, 15s
I was shooting at DGAF on Saturday and decided I would get my 365 in the club before the event began. This is what the club looks like when the lights are on and people are preparing for the evening ahead.
On Friday I DJed at Rise in Boston at Wonderland. I figured it would be a good idea to take my 365 photo for the day there. It was hard to focus on getting a shot while djing by myself for 4 hours, this was the best I could do. This is more for the memory of an amazing evening than anything.
I was walking around Kennedy park looking for something pretty to photograph, but since I was in Fall River, I only came across grime. I am ok with grime as it makes for interesting photos. This was taken down by the public pool. Apparently it’s party time once you get past that fence – the manager says so.
Yet another crappy, rainy day here in Massachusetts. These rainy days sure are making me think to hard about this project! Here is a close up of a sun flower. The center of these things looks like it’s some natural black hole that is going to open up at any moment and suck me in. Hopefully tomorrow we will have some better weather and I will have some better ideas.
Today I had to capture a 365 image, and an image for the www.aday.org project. I am still not sure if this image is going to get used as the ADay project as well as today’s 365, but I thought it was interesting either way. I was at a loss as to what to photograph that would represent the place I am living, or just something that reflects our current era. I wanted something real and grimey, so I went to the first place that came to mind – a Walmart parking lot. Here I saw this person walking their dog while driving their car. If this don’t say “lazy America”, I am not sure what does.
I had to spend all Sunday night and Monday morning working on photos for a client so I did not have much time to think through my 365 submission for today. I went to Providence, RI for some Thai food at Aspara Palace and stopped over by India Point Bridge to take a photo of the new bridge on 195. It was a cloudy night so the light reflected off the haze rather nicely, although the sky was unbelievably colorless. I took some HDR shots and was going to get a little fancy in photoshop and add a more dramatic sky, but opted to keep this 20 second long exposure shot instead.
Info: ISO 100, f11, 20s.
Today was mothers day, so I felt it would be appropriate to take a photograph of my mother and my wonderful sister who is also a mommy. Unfortunately, the wind did not want to cooperate with us and the photos did not come out so good. However, my nephew William was very photogenic today, and had it not been for both my mother and my sister, this little dude wouldn’t be here right now. While he was running around on the grass enjoying ice cream with the family, I snapped a few photos. William has some hilarious animated faces. I am not so sure what caused the “oh face”, but it sure is funny. Chances are William will make it in to another 365 photo or two.
