I'm rather honored ONE Magazine gave me a profile page on their newly designed site. Definitely one of the highlights of this year! Now to put out a few photo journals right?
Jeremy Soderburg Blade Stuff Interview/Edit by Lonnie Gallegos
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 /
LA blader and filmer Lonnie Gallegos just put out a video of my friend and collaborator on "Take Your Time", Jeremy Soderburg. A bit about our video in there, and some insights into this USD and Undercover team rider. Example, burgers only need be bare, maybe ketchup and mustard. If I knew I'd blade better that way, I'd do it. ha. Anyway, enjoy the video and expect to see more like this when his section drops in about a month. (Filming done by Lonnie, Gregory Preston and myself.)
Source: Blade Stuff on Tumblr
Update! 3/15/2012 Just got word, Jeremy was just promoted to USD Amateur rider, up from his position of Flow rider for the last 2 years. Congrats man!
15 minutes with Exposure 4
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Friday, March 9, 2012 /
It's an odd thing being a digital photographer who hardly spent more than a semester in the darkroom, yet visualizes photos in black and white. When I edit photos, I oftentimes switch to editing in black and white to get contrast just right. So when I came across Alien Skin's Exposure, I was enthralled by the possibilities made available to me. I enjoy the film look, just not the part about tripping out on developer in the darkroom. Exposure made getting certain looks a snap, relative to puttering around in photoshop for a fair while.
With Exposure 4 now out, I thought I'd give it a go. I was not disappointed. The new borders and finer controls have made working in black and white closer to what I see when I'm shooting. It's unfettered fun seeing what works and what doesn't. Ideas bubbling, thinking "I wonder if I took the settings from this and transpose it over that?" The result makes editing a pleasure for once.
Although my one complaint is lacking the dust and scratch controls from the previous version. In one of Alien Skin's blogs, they say it ended to look somewhat fake, but having the ability to kill those effects in a preset was a plus. I can live with it's current incarnation, but I can see myself cloning things out in photoshop just because of a few speckles of dust. I'd also like to see split toning control, though I might not know how to turn it on.
The above photos are some I had laying about I wanted to test Exposure 4 on. The left photo is of rollerblader Tyler Hester, who I went out to shoot in Burbank last year for an ad in Be-Mag which ended up not being used. The right photo was a snapshot I took in downtown LA a few years ago and have wanted to play with a while now. With a few tweaks, I'm pleased with the results. I highly recommend you give Exposure 4 a go and if you're a film buff, you'll be giddy with what you can achieve.
A quick side note, Exposure integrates with Lightroom, which is what the right hand photo was edited in. It's nice not to have to open photoshop just to work on a photo sometimes!
A look back
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Saturday, March 3, 2012 /
It's strange looking back at one of my first self portraits. It was 2006 and I had enrolled in my first photo class right after graduating college. This was what I wanted to shoot then. Interesting, character driven portraits. I suppose I still look for that while I look for the true character of a person while shooting them candidly. But I rarely shoot anything like the above photo. I would love to get back to my roots and shoot a new series. Any takers?
2 Hours with Mike Obedoza and ONE Magazine
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 /
A Day with Obedoza from ONE magazine on Vimeo.
Fellow blader and friend Mike Obedoza down in San Diego, kicking it with JE and just having some fun on skates.
As a side note, just found out 10 out of 11 profiles for "Take Your Time" are done. One more person and a few montages to go. Our editors have been busy the last few weeks. Look out for Mike's section when it drops and hit me up if you want a dvd!
"Uncovered" Hus Gallery Event in West Hollywood
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012 /
Photos from the event went live the other week on followingdiana.com.
"Segura Viudas collaborated with Oscar Generale Productions and HUS Gallery for the UNCOVERED event, yesterday in Los Angeles. A production by frundraisers The Charity Angels. Attendants included double Oscar winner Paul Haggis and artist Mark Evans, whom Segura Viudas has participated with before for his PRIMAL opening. This was the start of an Oscar week full of events here in Los Angeles"
Here are few other photos from the night..
Take Your Time Trailer
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Sunday, February 26, 2012 /
Been about a month since the trailer for "Take Your Time" came out and it's surprising how much support we've gotten for this video. It's an LA/Long Beach video featuring some spectacular locals that surprise me every time we skate. We're aiming for a March/April release and if all goes well, will be posting it online and providing select shops with free dvds to give out.
(It took two weeks to get those portraits though! What a pain! But so worth it!)
Boys Will Be Boys
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Just a bit of mucking with the gang about after taking photos for something Jeremy Soderburg was working on. The lights were up already, so they went to town, taking some ridiculous photos. Fun times with the BDC.
Schmap Using Photo of Vista Theater
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 /
A little surprised Schmap used a photo I shot ages ago of the Vista Theater. I had never heard of Schmap, but it is very yelp like. Looks like they use flickr photos for their site.
What can I say, I couldn't help but snap a photo of that gorgeous art deco interior!
