Dome

Dome

Stopped by the new Westfield Mall in San Francisco. Quite a place with loads of trendy shops. I liked the gigantic dome the best, though.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/160sec

Reflection

Reflection

I am considering doing these kind of reflections as a final project for one of my classes. This one was an initial test, there might be more of them coming.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/20sec

Flower

Flower

I loved the wacky looking composition. Initially I was focusing on the flower in front of the shadow, then I noticed the reflection of the tree in the background. Neat! Three more photos from today: #1, #2, and #3.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/16, 1/60sec

Coit Tower

Coit Tower

You must be bored of my Coit Tower photos by now, but I just don't seem to be able to get enough of it. I love how it sticks out on the hill poking right into the endless sky. Taken at 6pm.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/180sec

Stairs

Stairs

I liked the shape of the stairs and the texture of it.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/1.8, 1/45sec

At the Beach

At the Beach

Had a portable strobe kit with me and took it to the beach to experiement a little. Oh, it's so sweet. But it got cold fast so I only snapped a few shots and left again.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/6.7, 15sec, external strobe

Street Portrait #3

Street Portrait #3

Took a series of street portraits for my portraiture class near Union Square at around 3pm. The other three portraits can be found here: #1, #2, and #3. In addition one tunnel shot: #1.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/13, 1/180sec, gold reflector

Expression

Expression

Was trying to see how much of an expression can be understood without seeing most of the face. I think this one turned out pretty clear.
d70, 50mm, iso400, f/1.8, 1/125sec

Self-Portrait 2

Self-Portrait 2

The photos for this composite were actually shot last weekend in Death Valley. But as part of the self-portraits it was due today, so I thought it was appropriate to post it. The actual photos shot today are here: #1 and #2.

Coit Tower

Coit Tower

As part of a class project I had to shoot the same location at different times of the day. I shot it all in slide film, but here's a digital image I took at the same time.
d70, 55mm, iso200, f/4.8, 1/30sec

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

Had to shoot a self-portrait for class. Here's the result.

Simple Shape

Simple Shape

Taken on Sansome on my way to work. I liked the simple shape. I also shot a few photos of birds, but only one made me somewhat happy: #1.
d70, 70mm, iso200, f/8, 1/90sec

Yosemite at Sunset

Yosemite at Sunset

Today we drove through Death Valley and Yosemite. Loads of shots from the Painter's Palette (colorful rocks) and Yosemite at sunset can be found on my gallery site. Both places were just amazing. It's unbelievable these two extremely different places are so close to each other.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/1.8, 1/125sec

Outside Las Vegas

Outside Las Vegas

Did a weekend road trip. This was shot late at night outside Las Vegas. Gotta love the dessert. I also have a b/w version and another angle: #1 and #2.
d70, 18mm, iso200, f/6.7, 30sec

Red Coat

Red Coat

Shot on Sansome. I liked the red coat.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/1.8, 1/125sec

Rain

Rain

First sign of the coming raining season. Shot this photo on Grant. Other photos from today: #1 and #2.
d70, 70mm, iso400, f/4.5, 1/350sec

Lightbox

Lightbox

Photo of slide images on a lightbox. Those were shot with a Hasselblad 501c. I love the way colors come out on slide film.

Holding the Sky

Holding the Sky

Finally catching up with all the photos to be processed for the last two weeks. This one was shot on Tuesday night on the way to Newark airport. I was flying back to San Francisco. Here's another one from the flight back: #1.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/250sec

At the Beach

At the Beach

Our second day in Montauk, Long Island, NY. Unlike yesterday today was absolutely beautiful: blue sky right by the ocean. Doesn't get much better than this. Here are two more photos from Montauk and the Beach: #1 and #2.
d70, 70mm, iso200, f/8, 1/750sec

Storm Moving In

Storm Moving In

Taken at the Montauk Lighthouse, Long Island, NY. As we visited the place the storm started moving in and on the way back to the car we got completely soaked. But it's a beautiful place. More photos from this wet day trip: #1, #2, and #3.
d70, 18mm, iso200, f/8, 1/1000sec

Colors in NYC

Colors in NYC

Not your typical NYC shot. I was all ready to shoot gritty b/w images in New York when this bill board took me by surprise. The color variety just got me excited. I have a few more photos from this day in NYC: #1, #2, and #3.
d70, 50mm, iso400, f/3.3, 1/250sec

New York at Sunrise

New York at Sunrise

Took a red eye to New York for the weekend. This is the sight as we were flying into Newark. Here's another photo from the flight in: #1.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/750sec

The Wings of Dogman Joe

The Wings of Dogman Joe

Isul Kim had her big birthday show at the Hotel Utah today. Since I posted quite a few photos of her recently, today's photo features Dogman Joe, the first act of the night - also rocking the house. And you gotta love those wings.
d70, 50mm, iso1600, f/1.8, 1/20sec

Invitations

Invitations

Spent some of the summer traveling to various weddings. This board has been a helpful friend keeping all the invitations in one place.
d70, 70mm, iso1600, f/4.5, 1/45sec

Hollywood

Hollywood

Part of a studio assignment, topic: Hollywood style images. Unfortunatelly you cannot see the catch light in her eye in this one. It comes out nicely on the larger prints. So just put some white-out on your monitor where that catchlight would be.
I also have another one from this session.
d70, 70mm, iso200, f/5.6, 1/20sec, hot lights

Urban Sunset

Urban Sunset

Shot at 6pm on 2nd street. I noticed the shadow of the trunk joining with the flowers to create a new kind of tree and spent about 15min waiting for people to pass by. I have one similar shot and one from a little further down the road: #1 and #2.
d70, 46mm, iso200, f/5.6, 1/750sec

Redwoods

Redwoods

Shooting Redwoods in sunlight is tricky because of the extremely high contrast. I didn't get any decent shots until I realized I could try doing some photoshop HDR magic. So here it is, my first ever HDR photo. Other photos from today include this spider: #1 and #2. More to come.
d70, 60mm, iso400, f/5.6, 1/30sec and 1/8sec

California

California

Took a weekend trip to Humboldt Redwoods State Park with some friends and shot this while driving through beautiful North California. I can't get enough of the golden hills, the Californian Oak and the bright blue sky. More photos from the trip to come.
d70, 50mm, iso800, f/22, 1/250sec

In Motion

In Motion

Isul Kim sure has been busy. Here she is giving another awesome performance in the Bay Area.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/22, 30sec

Shade

Shade

Taken on Pine (I think) at 3:30pm. Took this photo and another great color one on my way to work.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/500sec

Dinner

Dinner

Put my creative effort into cooking and with Jen's help got even a decent dinner on the table. Note to self: build-in flash does not make food look flattering.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/4.8, 1/60sec

Evolution

Evolution

Another home studio macro shot. And of course I forgot to check my camera settings and shot this (again) at ISO800. Fortunatelly monochrome is more forgiving to noise than color images.
I also have a few color street photos, this time taken from an unusual perspective: the 20th floor of my office building: #1, #2, and #3.
d70, 110mm, iso800, f/8, 1/500sec, ext. flash

Red Town

Red Town

Taken at 6:30pm on 2nd street. Part of a color project I've been meaning to work on. Depending on how it goes I'll post more like it.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/1.8, 1/180sec

Lab

Lab

Taken in one of UCSF's biology labs. Check out all the colorful bottles! I wish I knew what they were there for... I would also like to add that I've been shooting a lot more chrome film for my classes these days, so the daily (digital) photo is suffering a little due to lack of time. But I am hoping to be able to scan in a few photos here and there and will post them here when I do.
d70, 50mm, iso400, f/2.8, 1/250sec

Escape

Escape

Finally had some studio time again. Spent about 4 hours there, playing with all sorts of lights, a wind machine, and other goodies. Here's another photo from the studio.
I also, finally, posted photos shot throughout the last 8 days, so make sure to go back in this blog as well.
d70, 31mm, iso800 (ooops), f/22, 1/250sec

Gig

Gig

Taken at Red Vic at 8pm. Isul Kim had a show and of course I went and took a bunch of photos. It was a great show!
d70, 50mm, iso800, f/1.8, 1/125sec

Waiting

Waiting

Taken on Sansome at 4pm. I just keep coming back to this place, also because it's very close to my day job. I love the big white columns and the light in the late afternoon. And there are always people there waiting for the bus. So I apologize if you see photos like this one again and again and again. But I like them!
d70, 300mm, iso200, f/5.6, 1/750sec

N+

N+

Macroshot taken at home in available light. This was a belated birthday present I've been pretty excited about. And it comes, of course, in the beautiful apple design.
d70, 300mm, iso200, f/5.6, 1/60sec

In Circles

In Circles

Shot from a higher level at the Embarcadero Center at 3pm. Was taking a coffee break and took my camera with me.
d70, 70mm, iso200, f/8, 1/250sec

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

Taken while waiting for a friend. Another photo from today shows Market Street.
d70, 70mm, iso800, f/22, 1/10sec

Evening Fog

Evening Fog

I don't actually remember where this was taken from. I was out and about the city quite a bit that day. In any case, it looks westwards towards the Pacific at around 5:30pm and it shows the typical fog rolling in.
d70, 70mm, iso200, f/8, 1/750sec

Bay Bridge at Night

Bay Bridge at Night

Taken from the roof of the Clocktower Building.
d70, 300mm, iso200, f/6.7, 1/2sec

Sleepy

Sleepy

Taken on Kearny at 3pm. Was walking back to work and saw this guy taking a nap. Couldn't help but shot a photo.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/250sec

Sunset

Sunset

Taken at 7pm from UCSF campus on 3rd and 16th. I liked how the sun illuminated the fog on the other end of the city.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/500sec

Columns of Light

Columns of Light

Taken in London at 4pm. I was exploring the city for an hour or so. Did not get too many photos (didn't try to hard either), but here's another one: #1. I also got to post-process other photos from the previous day in Frankfurt: #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, and #11.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/125sec

Missing Wall

Missing Wall

Taken at 3pm. Was walking around Frankfurt, Germany, taking photos. There are many more to come, this is just to give you a first taste. To encourage some comments, maybe you can let me know what you think this photo is ;)
(PS: photo is as shot, no manipulation done)
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/750sec

Here's Looking at You

Here's Looking at You

Spent most of the day on a plane and the airport, so decided to be a little creative for my daily photo when I finally did arrive.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/3.3, 1/30sec

The Happy Couple

The Happy Couple

My main reason to travel to Europe was to attend a wedding of a good friend of mine in Norway. Here's the happy couple after the ceremony.
d70, 50mm, iso400, f/8, 1/125sec

Reading on the Bus

Reading on the Bus

Taken on the bus between London Heathrow and London Stansted airport. This photo sort of covers two days: I traveled to Europe and spent 29 hours to get from SF to Oslo, Norway. My camera was in my checked baggage, so this is the only photo I got from the time in transit.
d70, 50mm, iso200, f/8, 1/45sec