Just Another Day in the Park…With a Light!
Today was the annual Hip-Hop in the Park in Berkeley. What is Hip-Hop in the Park? A free mini festival where you’ll find performers (emcees/dj), b-boys/girls and graffiti artists. This year I thought I would do things a little different. Normally I would sit near the stage and photograph performances. Today, I just wanted to relax in the crowd (minus shooting photos and handing out cards). I brought a strobe (White Lightning X1600) with me and decided to have myself an outdoor photo booth. I just bought a new beauty dish and today was the perfect day to test it out. I think I’ll be using this thing quite a lot. Hanging out with friends is always great! Making new acquaintances is great! Shooting photos is great! It was indeed a great day. Anyways, here’s some shots from the day.
BERISH 3.0: Voice of Malaysians by Robin Wong
Photo by Robin Wong
If you are a lover of street photography, I urge you to check out Robin Wong’s work. His recent posting of the BERISH 3.0 rally in Malaysia is excellent photo documentation of the people gathering. To view it, click HERE.
As always, I am happy to see his new photographs. I was surprised and honored to find that this was inspired by my photos of the November 2nd, 2011 Occupy Oakland strike.
Cheers and keep shooting!
2012 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge
Hey folks. I’ve been working on an audio project for a competition recently. It’s a short doc on a neighborhood in East Oakland. I worked on the project with Mwende Hahesy (combined we are Dash Hay), who first told me about the competition, brought me on board for music and captured the different audio. The music used is an edited version of a track I produced for Do D.A.T. called “Color Scheme” from his album, Oakland in Blue.
To sum the project up: East Oakland neighbors wax poetic about their neighborhood with rhymes from Oakland hip-hop artist DO D.A.T.’s album “Oakland in Blue” laid in for good measure.
http://thirdcoast.herokuapp.com/tracks/62
Click the link and check it out!
Enjoy!
Photo Friday 03/30/2012
Up top? Just using my cell phone camera and the Streamzoo app. It has some pretty cool filters on it, but I wouldn’t trade my dslr system for it. If only Instagram would finally come to the Android marketplace!
Sorry for the lack of updates. Things will be slowing down as I work on jobs and handle various projects. A lot of bookings hit me all at once so just know that I’m still taking photos! You might see some of the results from these jobs soon enough!
Adventure Time
Went on an adventure yesterday out towards Monterey. Did my fair amount of sight seeing and looked for interesting things to photograph. My main focus was to capture a sunset, but unfortunately the clouds came instead. Grey clouds. Not-so beautiful clouds. But they did look pretty cool, so I shot them. Enjoy!
See ya next time.
Photo Friday 03/09/2012
Don’t mind me, just taking some self portraits at a wide-angle. I love wide-angle photos of people. Anyways, planning to pack up the camera and go on a mini adventure tomorrow. Where will I go? Not 100% sure. Hopefully there will be something interesting to photograph.
Hey, You!
Don’t forget to have fun with this camera stuff.
