Iwamoto's Photos
Painting with light.
Brandon Iwamoto is a staff photojournalist at The Daily Times in Farmington, New Mexico.
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Henry David Thoreau (American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, Transcendentalist; 1817-62)
(Source: nativewanderer, via moonfae)
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Had a great studio shoot with Mandy, a friend of my buddy Grant (who was also shooting), last night, playing around with lighting, background concepts and some other stuff. She had never modeled before and did a fantastic job, and unfortunately some of my favorite shots can’t be posted to this blog, however I did find one I particularly liked that I COULD post, so I thought I would share. Hopefully we’ll be shooting again in the near future.
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New in the Photojojo Shop → The ioShutter Camera Remote
It’s an app/cord combo that actually *adds* modes to your camera!
It turns your iPhone/iPad/iPod into an intelligent remote to set motion and sound triggers along with time-lapse, timer, and bulb modes.
Huh, nifty…
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Happy Mother’s Day (albeit a bit delayed) to my own mom, thanks for all you’ve been and done for me!
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Low light is simply outstanding with the Fuji, as myself and my friend Andrew were playing around with our respective cameras. The color reproduction in the first and third are stunning and the black and white gives the high ISO noise an almost film grain effect.
It was nice though, the photos turned out great and after chatting with the new owners for a minute may have landed myself a commercial job shooting advertising for them. Score.
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I took my new Fuji X-Pro1 out to the mall to shoot today while hanging out with a couple of friends, so I thought I’d post a couple of shots from that little walk around here. Played around with the black and white mode (seems appropriate being the rangefinder-esque camera it is).
It’s nice to finally be posting back to this blog again.
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Just a couple of sample images from my brand new Fujifilm X Pro-1 camera (a birthday present to myself) after playing around with it after receiving it from UPS today. I gotta say, I’m every bit as impressed as I hoped I would be and it has completely and utterly exceeded my expectations.
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Submitted this pair of photographs for consideration to be included in a national photography exhibition called “What Does It Mean to be Asian in America?”
Description:
“The first image is of National Park Ranger Kirk Peterson thumbing through photographs of Japanese-Americans lined up outside of a mess hall at the Manzanar War Relocation Camp during World War II that were used as reference material to build a replica mess hall, which Peterson is standing inside of. The second photograph is of a memorial obelisk erected by Japanese-American stonemason Ryozo Kado in the Manzanar cemetery. Both photographs are modern day reminders of a dark time in the history of Asians in America and how far we have come as a community in a relatively short period of time, from prisoners to prosperity.”
The photo exhibit will be at the Time & Life Building and the Reuters offices in New York City as part of Asian Heritage Month in May if I happen to be selected for the exhibit. I’ll keep you all informed!
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It’s been a long time since I’ve picked up the camera and shot something real. This is a sampling of stuff from a restaurant shoot for Asian Avenue Magazine, and you can tell I’m a bit rusty already.
A little update is in order, I suppose. After leaving my newspaper in New Mexico, I found employment almost immediately at a portrait studio. Nothing terribly creative, nor does it utilize my skills as a photographer anywhere near an appropriate level. But I can’t say I haven’t learned anything… about sales, about posing, about working with all different ages and peoples. It’s challenging in a whole new way and, while not permanent, offers me both money and a more well-rounded business experience than working at any newspaper could.
In the meantime I’m recovering from a situation that scarred my passion and drive for photography and this is food shoot the first step on the road to recovering what I once felt toward images.
Cheers my friends, and thanks for your patience and support while my photo blog fell into a temporary state of neglect. It may take a few months, it may take a couple of years, but I want desperately to find the passion that somewhere in New Mexico I lost.
-B.I.
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Tim Mantoani: Famous Photographers Pose With Their Most Iconic Images
In Order: Steve McCurry, Bill Epperidge, Neil Leifer, Douglas Kirkland, Jeff Widener, Lyle Owerko.
(via ilyssabeth)
