It's the economy smarty, or something like that. Soaring (although not as much at the moment) gas prices and politicians debating about the economy, no this is not October 1992 its October 2008. Everything old is new again, and hopefully like 1992 we can vote in the young guy to change things around and get this economy in the United States strong again. Please vote for Barack Obama on November 4th, if you happen to be a American of the legal age. He is our best hope for Peace and Greatness once again, our image has been so greatly tarnished in the past 8 years that I don't feel good calling myself a American anymore.
That out of the way, in the United States some months are associated with colors of holidays or environmental changes during that month. I have always thought of October as the Orange month, November as Brown and December as Green and Red. This October model gallery has a range of colors, and a range of Grayscale which I find appropriate as the sun dips down and the night colors are not quite at their peak.
This gallery was shot with the Nikon D700 in Malibu, Chinatown and Mid-Wilshire in Los Angeles. Shauna is a confident and exciting model to work with and this is the second time I have worked with her. My first time was last summer in my Shau Na Na gallery.
This gallery name partially comes from The Hunt For Red October, as I have said in the past I will always try to pair my model gallery names with names of movies. In the coming months I will have some exciting galleries, a few more famous models, I will be extensive shooting in Tokyo in late December and January and even illustrations of my work by Serge Fiedos.
Once upon a time, maybe back in 1998 I came up with the stupid name for what I like to do and called in "Dearingfilm". Over the years the name has stuck with me that there is no turning back but at times when people ask me if I am in the film business I want to cringe. Given that, its been about 10 years since I came up with the naming for this site and I put the first version of the current site as a blog/link site in 2002 and started to add very basic photography in 2003. I shot Mollie previously in the Mollie with the Golden Smile gallery.
Mollie is one of those models that can't stop smiling. I think next time I am going to make sure that I don't have one photo of her smiling, that’s quite a challenge. I like to capture the essence of a person weather it makes a good photograph for me I would rather have a good photograph for them. I shot this gallery with Nikon's D700, which is a nice camera but does not quite have the ergonomic bliss that the D3 possesses but produces the same type of image. Some of the clothing she wore on this shoot was provided by RTGWear, which from time to time will provide my models with clothing when needed.
The fact that Mollie was shot at night and that I liked the latest Batman move "A Dark Knight," made this a easy gallery to name. If Heath Ledger does not get a academy award for that movie I will be completely surprised, it was the most impressive acting I have seen, the subtlety in the Joker is amazing.
Boba Nai cha, what a drink! The first time I tried it was in 1999 at a place in Little Osaka which some people know as Sawtell and Olympic called Relaxsation. I loved it from the get go and probably because I don’t drink coffee. Well many years have passed and that place closed down, Volcano tea is now the popular boba place in that neighborhood and is more popular than relaxstaion ever was. My favorite Boba place at the moment is Guppy Teahouse in Cerritos where my friend Debbie is from. It is almost the perfect boba, which means to me the teas should be cold while the tapioca (the Boba) is warm; it’s quite a nice sensation to drink.
I know you’re thinking, well Joshua just featured Debbie a few months ago, and here she is again? Well I think we just can't help ourselves, we were just going to hang out and be normal people but we decided to turn it into a quick photo shoot hangout. She had just got back from China (she is Taiwanese) and had got a hand made Chinese dress and I had always wanted to shoot the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters building downtown at night so it worked perfectly. Shot with the normal trio of the Nikon D3, 14-24 and 24-70 which always gives me what I want and need for low light no flash work.
This gallery name is a direct copy of Akira Kurosawa's 2nd to last film Rhapsody in August, which departs from his normal films by featuring Richard Gere in it. The film deal with the bomb dropped in Hiroshima, which I visited last year and had a wonderful time. Kurosawa made many of my favorite films and I hope to include many of their names into my gallery titles in the future. The seven other galleries I have featuring Debbie King are Kingdom of the Grayscale, Six Degrees of Debbie, Debbie King are The Return of the King, Debbie Does Downtown, Debbie King Queen of LA, Debbie King Downtown Los Angeles and Debbie King Fall 2004.
Never a sun bunny, or at least not in total fatuation with it, but always aware of what it does for us (read; everything). I have had my share of sunburns that have made me try to hide from direct contact with it as much as possible. You could say I am one of those people that loves a nice cloudy muggy day. If you look at my galleries and model works you can probably tell I prefer to shoot between dusk and dawn. In differance to what I just said, some models should be shown in the light of day. Betcee May is one of those models that look great with mighty Sol shining down on her. She has a look that could at times make you think it shines a little more fairly on her. Which reminds me of a old nights of the round table saying that goes that all the knights were equal in the round table but King Arthur himself was more equal :)
I shot this gallery with the Nikon's best zoom lenses the 24-70 and 14-24 and really could not ask for more in terms of daylight photography. Nikon really does have the normal range covered perfectly for daylight stuff. The D700 will make my kit even lighter and maintain the D3's nearly perfect image quality. I hope within the next few months to add a few Holgaroid, Lomo LC-A+ and Fujifilm Instax photos to my galleries. I am still working on ways to get great images with these cams, there is a lot of trial and even more error involved with them. You have to love film and instant print cameras like Polaroid, they offer a different approach to photography and a different result.
This gallery partially takes its name from last year’s movie Sunshine that I enjoyed for its visuals and pretty decent story; that is until the final act. Hiroyuki Sanada was in this film, I really enjoyed him in Twilight Samurai, which felt so much like an Akira Kurosawa piece similar to stuff Kurosawa did in the 1950’s like Ikiru or Yojimbo. Hiroyuki Sanada's character was a tribute to the average samurai like a Salaryman as seen in everyday Tokyo, struggling for every day acceptance and existence.
There are some suggestive photos in the series I did with Betcee, so I have a password protected area for the photos that are 18 years old plus viewers. Simply email me and state you are above 18 years old and I will send you the username and password. I don't like having to do this but the ads I run do not permit this type of content.
“It was not a dream, I used to read Nintendo Power Magazine, Legend of Zelda and Super Mario 3 was up in the TV screen, hangin’ level maps up on my wall.” When you look at my galleries think of Nintendo, cause your looking at a NES raised kid doing photography :) I think someday ill do an entire shoot with the look and feel of those games, they made the transition to computers easy for me. As much as I loved going to the Arcade, hot summer days were great in my cool basement room rocking the NES or Super Nintendo. Some of the biggest shock endings of games for me were Super Mario Bros. 2 Dream ending and Metroid the main character was a woman that was cool as heck.
This gallery of the wonderful Debbie King features quite a few Grayscale or Greyscale or as the old timers like to call in Black and White images. It’s nice to shoot everything in color and decide later, which images look better without color. Some people fell there is rarely a need for color, but I feel a lot of emotion is delivered in color, but its on a picture by picture basis.
Some of the shots in this gallery used a couple of the AlienBees B800 studio flash units. They actually work quite well. The wireless flash sync is decently reliable but I hear they have a newer one that runs on the 2.4ghz spectrum and is quite a bit better. I really like the Nikon system with flashes, the D3 is great with flash units compared to my old Canon 5D, Nikon just does it right somehow. Rumor is that a new FX (Nikon D700 or Nikon D3x?) is about to be introduced; I am excited because with most new camera introductions means new lenses and hopefully some low light primes with modern features and introduced.
The gallery name takes a cue for the recently released Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I really like Debbie's name because King can be played with in many different ways. I proudly have six other galleries of Debbie King Six Degrees of Debbie Debbie King are The Return of the King, Debbie Does Downtown, Debbie King Queen of LA, Debbie King Downtown Los Angeles and Debbie King Fall 2004.
You no longer have to lie that you come to dEaringfilm for the articles, you can come here and enjoy real bad writing and never lie! I really don't know what will become of this section, but I think it will allow me to do non standard photo collaborations. So I hope the new Articles section will be a important stop here at dEaringfilm. My qualifications for writing are that I used to go to the Young Writers' Conference while in grade school. That meant that I went above and beyond the call of duty to try to get out of a full day of school no matter if I had the ability to write or not.
The photos in this article are from the little Nikon marvel the D60. Its one of those cameras that I try to have on me at all times, even when I think there is no possibility that I will be taking photos and even if I am unmotivated because once you get somewhere you may have something go off in your head and will miss that opportunity to capture a photo that will never have the ability to be reproduced. The kit lens for this combo is terrific the AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR even works well on my Nikon D3 and it produces hard highly detailed images as seen in the photos provided within the article. I have also included some old family photo scans from prints for further understanding of the story.
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