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Happy Holidays,
Steve
Steve D Photography

the b&w holiday project/dec 2008. caroline tran

When I think of the holidays, I immediately think of twinkle lights and bokeh. A client originally wanted to decorate her house with holiday decor for her baby's shoot, but didn't have the time. I suggested her to just bring a strand of twinkle lights and some ornaments. My husband held up the twinkle lights in the background and I pulled them all the way into the foreground. I didn't anticipate the yawn, but the yawn was totally an added bonus as I do equate the holidays with sleeping in. Nothing like curling up in a warm bed.

- caroline tran

the holiday project/Dec 2008 . Steve Davis

I saw this scene late one night on my way home from Orange County. I thought it was just what I'd been looking to shoot for my holiday project. From the beginning I'd envisioned a nostalgic black and white treatment for the image. After playing with various lengths of exposure, I settled on the 14 seconds you see here.

Happy Holidays!
Steve

www.stevedphotography.com

the holiday project/Dec 2008 . andreanna arambula

Here comes Sandy Claws....

Andreanna - milk & honey studio

the purple project/Oct 2008. andreanna arambula

Honestly, I was completely stumped by this project. Finally I decided to just shoot the first thing I saw that was purple. I really loved the texture of it, almost like a powdery marshmallow creme....

Andreanna :) milk & honey studio

the purple project/oct 2008. caroline tran

This was a difficult project for me. I'm not a purple person, so i had no idea what to photograph. I couldn't think of anything purple, so I decided to do a silhouette photo during sunset and add a purple tint in photoshop. The bottom picture was my original intention. The top image came about after playing in photoshop.
- caroline tran

For my Purple Project I did something that is slightly more abstract but showed some form of action and motion as well.  I have always loved watching food coloring swirl around as it's being added to what ever mixture it intends to manipulate. But finding purple food coloring was actually a bit difficult. So I did what any color-aware-person would do and mixed blue and red together and got a REALLY dark purple. In order for the purple to come out, I shot a light through the back of a clear glass with some paper covering the back part of the glass. I love the movement in the image. I get lost looking at all the curves and different shades of purple. 

Benjamin James

www.emptyspacestudio.com 

the purple project/Oct 2008 . Vanie Poyey

The first thing that came to mind when I thought of purple, was purple ice. Don't ask why. I tend to stick to my first instinct, or gut image so to speak, when doing these projects. Now making my initial vision a reality was something else. I had to place my ice in a glass bowl to make it transparent, then I had to place a soft box underneath the ice. Since placing the bowl of ice, even on a glass table, obstructed the light, I used my assistant's arms to help hold the bowl over the softbox. Oh and the most crucial part...I placed a couple of purple gels over the soft box.

the purple project/Oct 2008 . Steve Davis

For my purple project image, I wanted to play with creating something more abstract then I usually do. I ended up using my wife's purple Sari blowing in a breeze hanging from a line of white twinkle lights that decorate our backyard.

Enjoy!
Steve
www.stevedphotography.com

the purple project/Oct 2008 . danielle biel

 

i wanted to use a Contax camera with the Poloroid back since it's something i've never used... so, i borrowed lovely shannon and an eclectic purple amethyst necklace for the series...

-Danielle 

skye blu photography

ambient LA . the beginning

Hello...

We are a small group of photographers in the LA area, all specializing in different areas and styles of photography: wedding, boudoir, headshot, fashion, commercial, portrait... 

We began this networking group  in September of 2008 as a way to chat, learn and hang out with one another once per month. 

Each month, we assign a themed project to showcase at the following meeting. It'll be exciting to see our creative growth, and each photographers' interpretation of the assignment. We hope these projects encourage us to create art on a regular basis; giving us the joy of photographing personal visions (in addition to work related pieces!)

Thank you for taking a peek and enjoy our art!

Ambient LA photographers