Bottle caps from high grade glass bottled Mexican Coke
There’s more of that posed versus candid again. I shot these outside of Tere’s on Melrose at this semi-hole-in-the-wall Mexican place called Tere’s. It doesn’t look like much from the outside, but the food is delicious. Egg fried, queso fresco stuffed chile relleno burrito with rice, beans, sour cream and guac? Yes please. And check out the size of those cokes. This isn’t the American HFCS containing coke either. This is the lovely sugar-rich south of the border cousin, the Mexican Coke. Sure, you can pick them up at Costco in So Cal, but this one is like twice the size!
As for the photos themselves, they were shot in the shade. Harsh light is rarely photograph friendly, and this goes double for black and white. You want to get nice tonality and gradations to capture the spectrum of greys between black and white. This can be done if you find a good shady spot. You’ll get much softer lighting, and a much more pleasing result to look at. With a strobe you can try to fill in detail in harsh light by firing a low powered flash, but natural light is such a great thing.
Late afternoon, down on Melrose. I love the dynamic here. It’s just a mannequin in the window, but with Cherise chilling below it, it gains sudden life. They look like a couple of hoodlums too cool for where they are, but holding onto the spot anyway, a pair you don’t want to fuck with, casually looking off in different directions like they own the place. This is why I like shooting people. Alone, the mannequin might have been a kind of interesting if rather stiff shot, but get the right person in there and you gain a whole new energy.
That made in U.S.A. sign is pretty sweet too.
I’m finding myself shooting a lot of verticals with the 50mm. It lends itself so well to portraits that it kind of comes naturally with that lens. I’ve got to work on including more horizontals in the mix though.
Beguiling boots
The horizontals also enlarge way better on this site.
Acros on Melrose
This be good stuff.
Bottle caps from high grade glass bottled Mexican Coke
There’s more of that posed versus candid again. I shot these outside of Tere’s on Melrose at this semi-hole-in-the-wall Mexican place called Tere’s. It doesn’t look like much from the outside, but the food is delicious. Egg fried, queso fresco stuffed chile relleno burrito with rice, beans, sour cream and guac? Yes please. And check out the size of those cokes. This isn’t the American HFCS containing coke either. This is the lovely sugar-rich south of the border cousin, the Mexican Coke. Sure, you can pick them up at Costco in So Cal, but this one is like twice the size!
As for the photos themselves, they were shot in the shade. Harsh light is rarely photograph friendly, and this goes double for black and white. You want to get nice tonality and gradations to capture the spectrum of greys between black and white. This can be done if you find a good shady spot. You’ll get much softer lighting, and a much more pleasing result to look at. With a strobe you can try to fill in detail in harsh light by firing a low powered flash, but natural light is such a great thing.
Late afternoon, down on Melrose. I love the dynamic here. It’s just a mannequin in the window, but with Cherise chilling below it, it gains sudden life. They look like a couple of hoodlums too cool for where they are, but holding onto the spot anyway, a pair you don’t want to fuck with, casually looking off in different directions like they own the place. This is why I like shooting people. Alone, the mannequin might have been a kind of interesting if rather stiff shot, but get the right person in there and you gain a whole new energy.
That made in U.S.A. sign is pretty sweet too.
I’m finding myself shooting a lot of verticals with the 50mm. It lends itself so well to portraits that it kind of comes naturally with that lens. I’ve got to work on including more horizontals in the mix though.
Beguiling boots
The horizontals also enlarge way better on this site.