Category: Photography

  • Haptics Open House

    I’ve been trying to master the art of lighting using flash for quite a while now. Flash is great not just to provide more oomph for situations with low light but even in situations with enough light you can use it to add more depth to the image. A common technique is to light for…

  • Wedding photography

    I went to Lisboa last week for a beautiful wedding of my good friends Emilie and Gabriel. The wedding was at Pousada de Palmela, a 14th century convent built inside a castle. Pretty pimp. Since they had a professional photographer taking care of the usual wedding shots I tried to shoot pictures that were different.…

  • XPLR Art Jump!

    The XPLR art jump is set to happen tomorrow! I’ve found out we’ve been featured on Allison’s art jumping blog as well as on Uwishunu! Sign up here. Sunday, January 18th, 2009 2PM Philadelphia Museum of Art Get your friends together. Find a painting you like. Become so excited by what you see that you…

  • 222 Gallery Group Show Opening

    The ODG gallery was packed at the opening of GROUP SHOW. I just wanted to thank all my friends for stopping by. I deeply appreciate you coming out and hope you had fun. If you were unable to stop by, but still would like to check out the art, the show will be up until…

  • 222 Gallery Tonight!

    I’m displaying one of my photographs at 222 gallery! Opening reception is tonight at 6PM. I did a quick google search and found the show to be featured in several blog/news outlets such as Philebrity, High Snobiety and Uwishunu. Woohoo! [autoviewer id = “2” width = “900” height = “675”]

  • Rooftop Movie Night

    This post is long overdue as we did Rooftop Movie Night almost a whole month ago, but nevertheless, here it is finally! Rooftop Movie Night involves taking a video projector and speakers, climbing onto my neighbour’s rooftop and then projecting Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”  onto my other neighbor’s wall. The white canvas screen we…

  • XPLR website revamped

    The website for XPLR has had a much needed make-over. I hope you like the new design. Check it out for yourself at http://www.xplr-club.com.  Next item on the agenda is putting together our portfolio. Putting all the bits in one document should be a good way to celebrate our one year anniversary! I get a little nostalgic going…

  • DJ Excel

    Sosena and I went for our last shoot in the sneaker culture series and captured DJ Excel at his house in North Philly two weeks ago. Since I just bought two speedlite flashes I was eager to experiment with my new equipment. I have long been a fan of David Hobby, whose philosophy is to…

  • Sole: the underground world of sneaker culture

    I’ve been helping my friend Sosena with her documentary on underground sneaker culture in Philadelphia by doing the photography for her. You can find more about her work here. I haven’t gotten to see the whole movie yet but I heard it’s awesome. See trailer on the right. My photos here. She’s had a couple…