Ahhh…the Doo Dah Parade.  A bunch of crazy people walking the streets of Pasadena!  Interesting people, interesting costumes, interesing day.  See for yourself:

3 essentials that I keep in mind when I go out and do some photowalking.  This time, headed over to LACMA as they are having a Vanity Fair Photo Exhibit (being displayed until March).   Exhibit consisted of portraits from their magazine from 1913 to 2008…very interesting collection.  Do check it out if you have a chance.

Went and shot around outside afterwards…and of course, interesting architecture around the museum:

Another picture from the last studio shoot.  I scanned in the negative and edited last night…it’s a daunting task keeping your negatives clean and dust free.  I probably spent an hour last night just cleaning up the dust in photoshop.

Here’s a couple of pics from my black and white, medium format film, studio shoot…whew!  That’s a mouthful.  These were shot for my Black and White Portrait/Fashion class.  They were shot with film and scanned with my Epson V500 (nice scanner).  It took me a while to edit them as they were covered with dust…I need to keep my negatives cleaner!  If I remember correctly, I received an “A” on these…yay!

Did some photowalking yesterday in Old Town Pasadena and got a couple of shots off.  The telephoto lens I was using wasn’t all so great…think I need to get a better one.  It wasn’t all that dark yesterday and the biggest f-stop I could get was 4.5…even with that I had to go below 1/60th for these shots…hence the blur.  I’ll live with it for now…my next purchase is going to be a wide-angle lens.