The Pixels in Pete's World

    I go by this wall 5 days a week. Usually it’s around the same time too. It’s the way the afternoon sun catches the imperfections on the surface that grabs my attention. Naturally this wall looks very different in the morning. I’m a big fan of “observing” and then challenging myself to come [...]

Artists in their own rights—Marvin and Maria were among my students who took part in a class show at the local coffeehouse Back to the Grind in downtown Riverside. Every 1st Thursday of the month, galleries downtown feature local artists’s work. See my other students who participated after the jump. You’ve spent lots of money [...]

Multiple exposure–Prior to layers in Photoshop, multiple exposures in camera required some doing. In this particular picture. I exposed the same frame of film 3 times by cocking the shutter and not advancing that frame between each exposures. I also adjusted the exposure this way. If the scene metered 1/125 sec @ f2.8. I first [...]

New Vrindaban–Black and white images on film have a grainy look unlike that of digital. It’s only a matter of time when old becomes new again. Video-editing software these days have effects that let you add grain to give it the film look. Film shooters who disliked the appearance of grain from high ISO, don’t [...]