Dominga

This weekend I once again had the pleasure of shooting with Lucy Dominga, a model from the Columbus area. This is a concept that I've had in mind for a while, and have been searching for a collar to pull it off... a little more difficult than I imagined. Luckily, Sarah found this fantastic collar at a little boutique in Lakewood and let me shoot with it. Lucy is a great model, and pulled this off like very few could. I'm really happy with how this and the rest of the photos from the day turned out.

A special thank to Sarah, for the collar and for doing the fabulous make up work, and to Herb Ascherman for the use of his studio space over on the east side of Cleveland.

Photograph Info:
Location: Cleveland Ohio
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm

Another view

Another photo of Cleveland from last weekend when the weather was warm (which is not so now).

This was Sunday night, when I took a long walk across the Lorain bridge to fine a good view of the city at night. The photo is okay, but definitely not up to print quality when viewed full size. I think the bridge itself has enough vibration to ruin any good long exposure. So, when the weather warms up again, I'll be making a few more attempts at shooting Cleveland's skyline at night from different locations.

Also, I'll be driving to Virginia in a couple days, so there should be plenty of photos to post in the near future...

Photograph Info:
Location: Cleveland Ohio, Lorain Bridge
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm

Yashica

One of my newer old cameras, and one that I actually still shoot with. This is a Yashica D TLR (Twin Lens Reflex). It's a medium format film camera (120 film) with a waist level view finder. I picked this up in an antique mall somewhere in NY on my way to the Finger lakes region because I wanted to start shooting more medium format film after being rather pleased with the results of a simple little plastic medium format camera, the Holga. Unfortunately, I still haven't developed anything from this camera, it's a little difficult to find a good lab in the Cleveland area, but hopefully soon I'll have something from this camera to share.

I shot this, well... because I was bored. This is in my hallway shot with a long lens and (very weak) natural light.

Photograph Info:
Location: Apartment
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 100-400 mm

Friday was one of the nicer days that we've had leading up to spring, so when I got off work Sarah and I went for a walk around the neighborhood. Grabbed a cup of coffee from Loop, then just headed around with the camera to take a few shots here and there. This is a two shot panoramic of the city from University street right near West 11th.

Photograph Info:
Location: Tremont
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm

Wine Country

A photo from last falls trip to the NY Fingerlakes area.

Photograph Info:
Location: NY Fingerlakes
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm

Baseline

Once in a while, I get to do something completely different for work. Last night was one of those occasions.

The ad agency recently worked with KeyBank and the Cavs to organize 'Cavs's Snuggie Night,' at the Q. During the first quarter, the entire sold out arena wore limited edition Cav's Snuggies, and ultimately ended up setting the Guinness World Record for most people wearing fleece blankets.

After months of preperation, last night was the pay off, and being part of the studio I got to go along and film the event in order to get footage out to local and national TV outlets, as well as capture footage for a documentary that details the entire process of the promotion. All in all, a very successful event.

Of course, being that we were given media passes to capture as much as possible, I also took the time to get some photos throughout the second half of the game from a vantage point that I'll likely never get to see again, the baseline.

Rinaldo's

Sometime this past summer we drove throughout western Pennsylvania to film a commercial for First National Bank. Looking to shoot scenes that had a natural small town feel, we ended up filming some footage at Rinaldo's Barber Shop in the little downtown area of State College. The place had a great Americana feel to it, with everything in the seven chair shop being original to the day it opened back in 1925. Here's just a few of the photos I had the chance to take during filming.