OK, so I’ll admit – but not to sound creepy. It’s my inner artist who is writing here. What I’m about to post makes me almost giddy. God, I’m so blessed to have great models like that. Like the previous batch… More good stuff to come. Enjoy!
The cream of what I took in March. Working title is “Anime Meets 1880″. 
This is my son’s. I’m proud to say he has a keen eye and a great way of seeing people.
There are of course more, but how many of these pictures can you seriously fit on one blog page?
A quick word about fixed-length lenses. I used to underestimate my fixed f/1.8 50mm lens, which I had gotten basically on a whim. It wasn’t terribly expensive, so why not, right?
I have to admit I didn’t take this lens seriously until I saw what it could do on a recent photo shoot. Even in natural and low light, which are the conditions I am mostly shooting in because I have yet to be able to afford those fancy lights I’ve been drooling over for months. More or less all of the portraits that turned out the best were shot with this lens. It takes AMAZING pictures.
Granted, you have to put a little more work into it, because you cannot vary the length. You have to physically move in and out. But it was WELL worth it! In fact, so much so that I’m thinking about a few more fixed-length lenses.
An example here:
Came back from Germany yesterday (hence the lack of posts… barely got around to tweeting) with several gigabytes worth of photographs. Currently busy editing these and backlogged pictures from before.
In the meantime, check out http://www.tacheles.de (the site is sort of bilingual). This is the craziest place I’ve seen. According to what I read, it used to be a department store built in 1909 that was very heavily damaged in the war. Scheduled to be knocked down – OK: blown up – in 1990, it was saved by a group of squatting artists, who continue to work there. It literally consists only of the first row of rooms on each floor that were closed off towards the back, a vast and vacant lot behind it with tons of open-air sculptures and it’s covered with graffiti wherever there was room.
Of course, the City of Berlin is not supporting the group financially (anymore), and so they’ve apparently been sailing on the brink of bankruptcy for a while. Anyway, not your typical sight, and some of the art was downright awesome.
And it sure was a photographer’s paradise!
