Weekly Photoset, November 19, 2018

If there’s a theme to this photoset, it’s traversing the Bay on BART. I made a couple trips between Oakland and SF last week, and captured these images along the way.

I’ve been working on photographing people more lately. It’s not something I’m super comfortable with, and like most of my photography, regardless of subject, I’m opportunistic with it.

One of these pictures was made with the Lightroom Mobile camera on an iPhone 8, the other three with the FujiFilm x100f. (Can you tell the difference?)

Weekly Photoset: November 12, 2018

Last week was a rough one. It’s been difficult to escape the fires that have effected the whole state — we’ve gotten shitty air quality in Oakland, but compared to what folks in Butte and Ventura Counties have been going through, rotten air quality is, in the immediate term anyway, not much more than an annoyance. I mean, I’m wearing a filter mask outdoors (which feels pretty dystopian), but still have a roof over my head. I have friends in Paradise and Calabasas, near Malibu, who can’t say that at this point.

Please give what you can to help the victims of the Camp (Nor Cal) and Woolsey (So Cal) fires. The NYT put together a pretty good list of places to start. If you live nearby, please consider donating your time by volunteering. If you live away from the affected areas, please throw some money at the problem. People can use all the help they can get right now.

With regards to this week’s photos, I shot more with the Lightroom Mobile camera on my phone this week than I did with the x100f — or rather, I was happier with the results on the phone — but both are represented here…

Electric Wizard

This is English stoner doom band Electric Wizard, live at The Warfield in San Francisco (April 30, 2018), complete with crushingly high volume and seizure inducing video accompaniment comprised of flashing, brightly colored psychedelic artwork superimposed over biker movies and Satan worshiping smut films from the 1960s. It all worked really well together.

These three photos were taken with Lightroom Mobile on an iPhone 8 from the back of the lower floor of the theater. They were edited in Lightroom Mobile and then finished in VSCO. They're super grainy, and shot from to far away, but I think they still deliver.

And just because I was interested in how wel the Squaresapce mobile app worked, I wrote and published this post on my phone as well. Nifty. (Update: I had to go back in via the computer and make some tweaks to the post. The mobile editor's not that hot.)