Crossroads photo contest

Congratulations! You have won Honorable Mention in Crossroads Trading Co.’s 18th Annual Fashion Photo Contest™. This year we received over 1500 entries and your photograph was judged by our panel to be one of the best fashion photographs of the entries submitted. Given the large number of excellent photos we received, you are to be commended on your superior work.

That's about all I need to say no?

Fete de la Musique

Last week was the Fete de la Musique which is a festival that takes place once a year in the streets of Paris. Local artists play in the streets all day long. This year I decided to go out and take pictures. We found a band that was playing that attracted many young children dancing around them. I think that I got some good photos of it. We'll see how they come out.

Paris in the Rain!

Lately it has been raining a lot and often here in Paris and after watching the movie “Midnight in Paris” I thought it might be wise to try to photograph it. I ran home and grabbed my cameras and went out to take some photos of Paris under a sheet of rain. However by the time that I got to my destination (Concorde) the rain had already stopped. I took a few photos but not as many as I had hoped. I then went out and picked up some Ilford film for the next time that it will rain

Role of 400vc with Kendal in the park

For the past few weeks I have been playing with a role of Kodak 400vc while taking photos with Kendal for Stella's project as well as with the photos that we did in park Saint Cloud. I have not really looked at many of the photos yet, but I do like the ones that I have looked at so far. One of the things that I love about the vc is that when used in natural light it makes all of the colors alot brighter and sharper.

Crossroads photo contest 2

We took some more photos for the crossroads photo contest the other day. This time we went back to Javel to take some more "upscale" photos. Once again we mostly just used Kendal's Cannon Rebel, but I did also finish off my role of Kodak 400vc.

Using these photos and the photos from Parc St. Cloud we selected 5 photos to have photo shopped. After we get those back we will then pick 3 to enter into the contest.

Crossroads photo contest

Yesterday Kendal and I went out to take photos for a contest that Crossroads Trading Co. is having. I decided to take her over to Parc Sainte Cloude to take some photos in the grass and in the woods. We mostly used her Cannon Rebel Ti but I brought my MEsuper with some Kodak 400vc loaded. I only took a few photos with the 400vc and enjoyed how many of the digital photos came out.
The weather was not best, it was pretty cloudy and we didn’t get the sun that I wanted. Over all I think that most of the photos worked. We experimented with different moves and different wardrobes and different settings on the camera.
The majority of the photos that we took were in a field of grass; there were others in a drainage ditch and others by a lake.

Shoot for Stella with Kendal

Yesterday I helped out my friend Stella by doing a photo shoot with her and Kendal. Stella needed to do some fashion photos for school and I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to do some actually fashion shoots. She ended up not being about to get a model for the shoot so I asked Kendal if she could step in and do it for us, she kindly said yes.
We did the shoot at the same place that we did the photos of Marylou and will most likely be doing many more shoots there. Stella had about six different changes that she wanted to use. We started shooting and shot fast because of the short amount of time that we had to work with the sun. It ended up being very cold and Kendal was surely suffering.
I'm still not sure how to fully use a digital camera but I believe that we got some good shots and that Stella will be able to use some of them. I did bring my camera with Kodak 400vc loaded in it, but only took a few photos.
We well see how those turn out later on when I finish the role and have time to get them developed.