This week i watched a documentary about the life of Eddie Adams. A war and (in his later years) portrait photographer who literally changed the world with his work. His haunting photograph of a Vietcong being executed in the streets of Saigon changed not only public opinion but the tide of the Vietnam war. A “photographers photographer” Eddie always fought for his picture and didn’t mind pointing those who were “green” in the right direction.

Eddie later worked on a growing portfolio of… well any one who was important at the time. In politics, movies, music, and all around pop culture. The amazing portraits of his subjects came from Eddie’s ability to make them feel like an old friend. When you are most comfortable is when you really express who you really are. Eddie did that and captured it with honor.

If you have a Netflix account be sure to check “An Unlikely Weapon” out. It will open your eyes to the pure power of photography and the man who showed us all how it’s done.

My buddies The English Softhearts played  a local show at The Burlington this past friday. Great band and super fun to shoot! It was my first time taking pictures at The Burlington. Slightly challenging with the low light conditions. I shot the whole show with my 50mm F/1.4 Nikon lens wide open. I shot all RAW .NEF images and tweaked them in the Adobe Camera Raw editor. At the end of the gallery is a couple portraits of my friend Jen who was also at the show! The portraits were shot right outside The Burlington with the same 50mm F/1.4 lens i used to shoot the band. Digg’n the street light bokeh action!

Recently I was contacted by the metal band Unwriten Truth to do some promotional pictures. We shot outside their practice space at night. At first i as a little worried about light since the only major source was a large fluorescent lamp. But through test shots and a hot shoe mounted flash i reached the final exposure and look of the group shots. Shot at f/3.5 with a sigma 10-20mm and only adjustments to the RAW files. Correcting the color for skin tones left a slightly eerie green cast to the ambient light behind them, Which I’m totally into!

For the single portraits of each member of the band I grabbed my 50mm f/1.4 . Shot wide open at f/1.4 using only the ambient light from the fluorescent lamp overhead. The original pictures had a very heavy green cast to them but i was able to totally correct for it in photoshop’s RAW editor.

The band was happy with the results and began to use the pictures for their promotional items on social networks and in print. It was a lot of fun shooting and i look forward to working with them again!

I’ve been shooting more and more with just my iPhone 4. It’s the camera i always have with me. I used the Hipstamatic app to take all these pictures. I guess saying that I’m “late to the party” with Hipstamatic would be an understatement. I downloaded it about 2 weeks ago and have been using it exclusively since then.  Most of these pictures are of interesting people/things i see on my way to work. A slice of my daily commute.

This is another one of those “I’m not lazy I’ve just been busy working on projects to actually update the blog with something interesting!” posts. Which is true, I have been working on projects and i’m pretty excited about them. Be on the look out for them soon!

Also there will be a contest/giveaway that will be run through the blog. If you follow us on twitter or Like us on facebook then you will be the first to hear about it!

Some iOS app reviews will be posted. I’ve been using one non stop and its grown to be one of my favorites yet. Along with a portfolio update that will add a new category.

Thanks for all the support!

Jon