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I made a Zine called This is Portrait.

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ƒ/5.6 | 1/60 | ISO500

How do I take a photograph of art and retain my own style in the photograph?

1. Photograph good art.

2. Be a mirror of that art as best as possible.

   1. Don’t attempt to outshine the art.

   2. Keep the art as the centre of attention above all else.

3. Step back and find the frame that illustrates mirrors my view of the art.

   1. My photographs use a lot of geometry, so I used a lot of rectangles and squares above.

   2. The leaves hanging across the top are one of my new favourite ways to frame subjects after spending a lot of time in the forest this summer.

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ƒ/5.6 | 1/60 | ISO200

There was a period about three years ago when everyone was obsessing about camera bokeh. I think a good photographer understands that it is not about how shallow a photograph can get, but how well you can layer that depth of field in the photograph. In the above photograph I wanted to focus the viewer’s attention on the drops of rain on the leaves and highlight the red of the plant. In order to achieve this, I opened the lens up a little bit more than was en vogue a few years ago so that the viewer would be disoriented by the blurriness of everything outside of the plant. As you can see, this still allows for the bokeh to shine at the top of the photograph, but still give you, as the viewer, a path for the eye to follow.

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ƒ/1.7 | 1/125 | ISO100

Double Rainbow

A little home experimentation while the rain pours here in Iceland. I was trying to create texture and a piece of art similar to what you would see from the later abstract expressionists.

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ƒ/5.6 | 1/20 | ISO400

Ellý

The band from the show Ellý posing on the stage just before they were to go on. The thing I’m trying to wrap my head around two years later is how I got away with such a slow shutter speed while still maintaining the crispness I want with when I’m shooting with my flash. Somehow someway. And I guess now I’ll have to experiment and see if I can’t recreate that.