Lights! Camera!

Failure!

Alright, for the record. Winter officially sucks. Any of you who disagree, I'm about to make my point so hold onto your horse! Snow.

That's right, snow is the killer of all hopes and dreams. The reason I say this is of course not simply because I was bred to love sunshine and birds, but because when taking a night photograph in the snow... everything turns yellow! I went out last night in an attempt to get a decent shot of the storage facility where we keep our things because well... that's strangely urban. But what do I get? 800 pictures of everything shining freaking YELLOW! It is the king of distortion. If you don't believe, go out there and see for yourself.

On top of that, the weather of winter has destroyed tonight's photo shoot with the glamorous and fantastical Aimee Korby. Far too much snow to be romping around 30 miles to the next city, especially after yesterday's baja incident. Oh well. All I have good to tell you from last night's attempt at a night shoot is that I forgot one very important detail to night photography.

FLASH SUCKS!

It is a killer of perception and must be smote! I mean that's not to say that flash isn't great for other things, but night time snow pictures... holy crap you want to stay far away from that train wreck. Oh well, of those shoots last night, I did manage a single decent shot, but nothing compared to the previous day's successes, but you know, they can't all be good. ^.^



Oh well.  This leaves room for improvement, but its the only one that isn't completely saturated in yellow.  On to today's research.


Popular Urban Photographers!

I mean if we are to at all understand the photography itself, shouldn't we understand those who are praised for it? Or at least the most popular of those people to understand better what it really looks like in action? Alright then, for this I chose our good friend Google to aid us in the search and typed in the above as a search request.  What we got was... Patricia Hogan, an urban landscape photographer, and I'm telling you now people, if you are interested in that sort of thing, she is the one to search because the colors she captured on those landscapes... magical. Next on the list, one Jodi Collins, a person who does wonderful things with urban portraiture. There is a lot of children and baby pictures in her studies, but if you like portraits within the urban jungle she's a good choice. Next, my particular favorite, James Wakefield. Now here's a fellow who knows how to make a message. He published a book called zero with the most delicious pictures of sky scrapper action I have ever seen. And most of it is so simple that its hard not to understand or even over read his messages. If you are going to look this fellow up I earnestly request you go look at his piece called 'Silence.' Positively amazing. And my final suggestion when it comes to the greats of Internet urbanites, visit the site of the Roxor. This place will rock your world with its near distorted reality even though all pictures went untouched after being taken. I mean a truly surprising piece of art that it reminds you that we are all very small in our urban jungles. The ferris wheel shot is captivating!

I suggest we all go out and examine what we can of these great artists. You can never be too shocked by these urban masterpieces.