Recently a client and friend asked me what filters should he buy for his new camera. He and I started working together when I custom made my own filters to create special effects. I had what I called the “star filter” which were, neutral density, gel filters, hand cut into stars and stacked together to …
I started my career in the late 90s as a photo assistant, working with a 3 megapixel, $40k, digital back we used on a medium format camera. To shoot an image, that would appear full page on a magazine, we had to take several shots and stitch them together into one shot to have enough …
A couple of years back I was hired to do a shoot for Outside Magazine of Mexican free diving champion Estrella Navarro in La Paz (Baja California). I was wintering in my house in Todos Santos (also Baja California). I had flown to Todos Santos and decided to leave my handy Scrim Jims in Montana since …