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30 Cents, Two Transfers, Love - Richard Brautigan (Taken with Instagram)

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PEOPLE VS PLACES

Photographers Timothy Burkhart and Stephanie Bassos are working on this collaborative double exposure project. I love that they used this as a technique to explore something that is traditionally accidental and give it focus, depth and purpose. 

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I'm a sucker for stuff like this. Maybe it'll help you pull brilliance from your brain. Hopefully it won't end up in a pile of dusty, unused, multicolored moleskin journals and leather bound notebooks that were purchased for the same purpose. This might be cute enough to work.

... http://shop.smithery.co ...

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Spare me the humiliation ... (Taken with Instagram)

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KAZ + KEL online store!

You can now purchase KAZ + KEL photos as iPhone cases, iPad/Laptop skins, t-shirts, hoodies, and of course, fine art prints! We will be offering many, many more photos soon!

SHOP KAZ + KEL NOW!

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On-Camera Flash Trickz

Lighting is critical, people. But while most of us don't have our own personal lighting kits (or the $$$ to rent one every time we want to shoot), there are some simple tricks to using your on-camera flash!

Of course there is the Forced Flash (marked by a lighting bolt) and will fire every time you take a photo. Using this regular flash setting is also useful as a fill light when shooting outdoors, brightening shadows even in daylight. Bouncing your light is also a great technique for softening your flash. Aiming your light at the ceiling or wall to be redirected to your subject enables the light to be diffused, and if you don't have an external flash, you can simply use a small white card to redirect the light.

But the one technique we really want to share today is the 2nd Curtain Flash. It is a more advanced setting but can be used very creatively. There are two ways to use this, the Front Curtain Sync or the Rear Curtain Sync. It basically tells your camera to fire the flash at the beginning or end of a longer exposure. (This is typically used for exposures longer than 1/30sec or longer.) Using this method will enable you to capture motion blur while adding the flash either at the beginning of the movement or after to freeze part of the action. You get something like this:

Pretty awesome, right? We got this photo from www.nikonusa.com, but what we really want is to see/hear about your 2nd curtain flash!

**On a side note, we just ordered a bunch of that 110mm film from Lomography, we will be posting our photos and review of the film soon!**

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Lomography Love!

A little piece of my analog soul has been saved by Lomo's first generation of 110 mm film. No more shall I troll Ebay and the trenches of an analog wasteland buying expensive/expired 110 cartridges. 

"The 110 format was introduced in the 1970s and ...." Lomography .

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World Photography Day - Sunday, August 19th 2012

Ok, we're a day late, but that's only because we were busy yesterday trying out the new 110 mm film from Lomography. But, it's not too late to enter into the World Photography Day Competition, it goes until the 22nd. It only takes a few seconds. Anyways, I did ... vote for my photo. Come on, make my day.

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BOKEH DIY!

One of the things that we LOVE are do it yourself projects with photography! We came across this awesome and easy technique for experimenting with Bokeh.

Bokeh is an adaptation from a Japanese word meaning blur. In photography this term is used to describe the quality of the areas in the picture which are not in focus.

You will need :

One large aperture lens, here a 50mm F1.8 is used.

One sheet of black paperboard

1. Cut and shape the sheet to make a fake lens hood. The Diameter is made so that it snugly fits on the lens.

2. In the middle of the filter the wanted bokeh shape is cut out - in out example a heart is used. I’m not sure how big a hole the shape can be. But you can check it right away by just looking through the viewfinder. On the 50mm lens @ F1.8 a 15mm heart gives a metering value equal to F3.2, so it can probably be a little bigger (you can use a puncher or cut it by hand).  3. Set your camera to its lowest aperture value (completely open).

Its a lot of fun and easy to do, lets ditch the played out starbursts and get really creative results!

*For more information on this particular DIY, check this website out!

***Let us know about your own Bokeh and how they turned out!***

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This is where we say, "You haven't heard of them, yet?!"  Here's Kaz+Kel's latest of the band, Maus Haus -  love these guys! 

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I'm always in awe when a photographer takes a photograph and makes it physical, tangible, sculptural - Scott Hazard's "Photo Constructs" are beautifully simple and simply beautiful.

“Photo Constucts” by Scott Hazard.

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WE'RE DESPERATE BY JIM JOCOY 

Found this little picture book at the infamous Green Apple bookstore here in San Francisco. A straightforward, stripped down, glaring, visual commentary, displaying the fashion of a developing punk scene here in SF and LA from '78-80. It's not Jim Jocoy's talent as a photographer that makes this book special - it's that attitude, the day-glo nuclear colors, unapologetic stares, exposed by his flash in the dark hallways of club basements. Foreword by MARC JACOBS, interview with THURSTON MOORE of Sonic Youth, and beautiful prose by EXENE CERVENKA, singer of X.

"I was seduced by punk. Not at first by the sound, but by the visual noise that came from it, from the scene ... I was attracted by a look, stayed for the music and left having fallen in love with the fantastic absurdity of it all." - Marc Jacobs

"We didn't like poseurs, but we liked to pose for pictures, because we knew that there was something about that night that would be remembered even if we couldn't remember it. We were young and naive in a way that seems to be a lost art. We were snotty and compassionate and deliberate and reckless, but we knew exactly what we were doing. We were ghosts then and we are ghosts now."  - Exene Cervenka

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Yay! One of Kaz + Kel's photos made it into Inspirato Magazine featuring chef, Kayne Raymond. Awesome.

Check out his interview on the Inspirato blog here!

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More of Anisha Narayan <3

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Rockaway Beach, Pacifica.  June 2012.

Model: Anisha Narayan

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Portrait session with Chef Kayne Raymond. Keep an eye out for him on the reality cooking show No Kitchen Required ... well, just keep an eye on him anyways!

Ocean Beach, SF 2010

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Family portraits with Camila Fernandez and Andrew Johnstone.

Assisted by Tom Patella

Baker Beach, SF 2010