Carl Sison http://www.carlsison.com/blog Lifestyle and Wedding Photographer Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:02:59 +0000 en hourly 1 The elevator scene http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/03/the-elevator-scen/ http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/03/the-elevator-scen/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:02:49 +0000 Carl Francis http://www.carlsison.com/blog/?p=222 The other day we helped out Morgan with one of his Mason Gross video projects. While we wait for his first Michael Bay like production it looks like we’re going to be doing the poor college student budget style thing for quite some time. Meaning I chauffeured and pressed the record button on the mic. Wasn’t the worst job and getting out of the house to play with cameras is always a good thing. It was some good fun, and I was delightfully surprised when security just shrugged us off. He didn’t seem at all in the mood to deal with us. In the filming of the short production I’ve learned two things, gas exerted in an elevator will remain there and my roommate Byron is still a creep. Maybe we’ll get to share the short in some time!

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]]> http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/03/vanessa/feed/ 0 Oh, to be an alligator. I promise I’ll stop with the abstract pictures soon! http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/03/oh-to-be-an-alligator-i-promise-ill-stop-with-the-abstract-pictures-soon/ http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/03/oh-to-be-an-alligator-i-promise-ill-stop-with-the-abstract-pictures-soon/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:16:16 +0000 Carl Francis http://www.carlsison.com/blog/?p=204

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]]> http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/02/allison/feed/ 1 To be in College. http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/02/to-be-in-college/ http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/02/to-be-in-college/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:40:29 +0000 Carl Francis http://www.carlsison.com/blog/?p=182

]]> http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/02/to-be-in-college/feed/ 1 Fresh from the scanner! http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/02/fresh-from-the-scanner/ http://www.carlsison.com/blog/2010/02/fresh-from-the-scanner/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:28:40 +0000 Carl Francis http://www.carlsison.com/blog/?p=176 Processing black and white film happens to be the easy part of the battle. It seems the bulge of the effort is getting in from the drying rack to the photo enlarger without amassing vicious particles of of dust and micro hair. Like seriously, was that a pubic hair? How did that even get there. Becomes incredibly irritating when I’m trying to produce a print for submission and a less than 1mm thick shirt fluff looks like its an inch long when blown up to 6×9! Yeah straight from a scanner I have that nifty clone and stamp tool, but once its been hit  with light and dunked into that first tub it’s done. Making the matter so much more pensive, I don’t have an unlimited supply of enlarging paper. Thank goodness I purchased in bulk instead of picking some up from the local stores, making bank on students in dire need of classroom essentials. Shooting and developing was the fun exciting part. Enlarging is where I start sweating and hoping everything is in line before I press the run button. I find myself taking my can of air and microfiber cloth into the enlarging room, probably the wrong way to do it. Any tips from the film savvy?

First image was done to display shallow depth of field, second for high shutter speed and the third for kicks. I had better pictures for high shutter speed usage, but I liked that one.

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