✏️ Designer • 📷 Photographer • 🇲🇽 Token Mexican | 📍 Visalia, CA | 💻 🖱 📷: Middlestate Design, Pita Kabob & Grill, Grizzly Fest, Sound N Vision Foundation (For which I also have the privilege of serving on the Board of Directors of) and its yearly fundraiser show Tastemakers Festival. My print and design division is PixelPush.Media. Steak before cake. Quod sumus, hoc eritis. 💀
Hello, troops! Sorry I haven’t been around lately. I’ve been helping out my friends over at Redwood HEART for a week and, while I was here, we decided to have an end-of-the-year field trip for our photography classes from all three high schools. For those of you who attended the lighting workshop earlier in the…
I’m sorry I won’t be there tomorrow, guys. I’m very sick and will be likely be joining the ranks at Kaweah Delta Hospital. I’m hoping to be okay and be around so we can print again on Wednesday. P.S.: If you left film with me, it’s all developed in the cabinet. We’ll set up again…
We have officially consumed 180 rolls of film about a year and a half. In honor of this, we are officially having a potluck party on FRIDAY! THIS FRIDAY. DO NOT FLAKE. Sign up to bring an item by responding via email or commenting in the comments below! So far we have the following people…
Since we now buy most of our chemicals in bulk powder form, this post is a general reminder for everyone (mostly myself) on how much powder to mix into how much water to make our paper developer. Please note that we have a small digital scale in the darkroom now which will make it easy…
Well… That’s just what the New York Times wants to find out. This is a photo contest open to high school students all across the country and is held every year by the New York Times in which you all take pictures of your neighborhoods, your schools, your friends, your family—basically, your lives—and I would…
This past Wednesday was a no-show day for our class and, because of this, no one got a permission slip for a field trip we had planned with Redwood on Friday. While I realize that this trip was very short notice, it still would’ve been nice to go to on a nice little nature walk…
As of last week, we have brand new photo processing chemicals in the lab. I have taken the liberty of mixing the fist batch of paper chemicals so you can come in and make prints. Please remember that the paper chemical needs to be diluted at a ratio of 1:1 in order to make it…
Don’t forget that this Friday is our field trip to Photo Menage Studio downtown for our studio lighting workshop with the photography class from Redwood. If you don’t have a permission slip to me by Thursday, you won’t be going. We’ll see you all then! If you gave me film to develop, it’s hanging up…
Just a quick reminder. We’ll be making contact sheets today so we can select an exposure for the upcoming art show at Cafe 210. If you have any undeveloped rolls, bring them in to develop and we’ll make more prints on Wednesday and Friday. Our deadline for submitting artwork is November 9th.
For the next few weeks, I want to focus on image composition and proper framing. I’ll skip the long post and just leave you with the handout we’re using in class. Focus on practicing on each technique in the handout for a few frames per roll. To help us keep track of our settings, I’m…