Skateboarding, pizza, friends, point and shoot cameras and cheap film.

Salt Lake City, UT. November, 2011.

I am a big fan of natty light (as in natural light, not the beverage) so I rarely use flash. However, I am also a big fan of Bruce Gilden who uses flash almost exclusively. I watched this and thought it would be fun to try at Dirk's art show on Saturday. Bruce is impossible to emulate but I did have a lot of fun holding a flash in one hand and shooting with the other (contrary to popular belief, shooting is the fun part of photography, as opposed to "post-processing" {yuck}).

Just a technical side note, Tri-X pushed to 1600 probably wasn't the best choice for experiment with flash...I'm not an F16 kind of guy.

For the last little while, I've been into this type of picture. A lot of people think a "good" portrait dictates you can see the person's face. However, phototgraphers give little thought to what happens to the moments in between "decisive". I think the world has enough of the same photos and "good" is someone else's definition when it comes to photographs. Like Araki, I feel photographs often have the purpose of a visual diary. This moment happened in my life, even if I pushed the shutter at the "wrong" time. It feels good to be wrong sometimes.