Members Geoff Grace Posted September 26, 2007 Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Great photos, Ken. I wish I could have been there. Best, Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ara Ajizian Posted September 26, 2007 Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Looks like my kind of afternoon! Hopefully I can make it down next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted September 26, 2007 Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Great photos ken... what camera do you have? Are you into pro photography? you have some nice chots there, speacially the one with the sunset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris Groegler Posted September 26, 2007 Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Looks like a great time was had. I've only been to Phil's once and he was a generous host. Glad you are still doing the Bar BQ. Hopefully I'll be out visiting my fam when the next one comes around. I enjoy me some carne asada! -Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 26, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Great photos ken... what camera do you have?Are you into pro photography? you have some nice chots there, speacially the one with the sunset Thanks! Although not my main gig, I do get paid for some of my photography, and have had my travel photos appear in numerous magazines and books and encyclopedias. I've also done a few advertisement gigs. The camera is a Nikon D50 with an 18-70mm lens. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 No Ken - thank YOU for taking the pics and hosting them on your site. You do excellent work! :phil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 26, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Thanks, Phil! Here's a photo of our very generous host. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Thanks, Phil! Here's a photo of our very generous host. HEY!!! There it is that homeless guy again ... he appeared up first at Winter NAMM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 26, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted September 26, 2007 Members Share Posted September 26, 2007 Thats great ken, did you take photography courses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 27, 2007 Thats great ken, did you take photography courses? No, I've never taken one. I love looking at photographs and wondering why - or how - they took it. And if something looks really beautiful or strikes me as interesting, I'll go ahead and take a photo of it if I can. And sometimes it doesn't translate, no matter how hard I try. But in taking all these photos for many years, I've learned some things that work and some that don't. I personally love really candid shots, or at least, shots where people are relaxed. And also, one of the things I like about photography is that it often puts me in this mindset where I'm even more receptive to beautiful or visually interesting things, which I really like. Here's one example from PhilPhest: Now, if I didn't have a camera, I may have not noticed Rumspringa and Foxtick enjoying each other's company. It's intimate, happy moment, and Phil's comfortable backyard frames them beautifully. And just thinking about looking for beautiful things made me more receptive to this moment. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here's another "moment" that I photographed that is perhaps more obvious (and no, this is not in Phil's back yard!! ): This is a Hindu temple in Calabasas, near Malibu, in California. For this one, the temple was, I thought, quite beautiful, so this is perhaps more obvious. But of course, the thing that struck me was how beautiful the clouds looked, with the sun peaking through the clouds and over the top of the temple. And even though most photographers don't aim their cameras right at the sun, and convention told me to move to the other side of the parking lot so that the sun wasn't glaring into the lens, I nevertheless thought it was really gorgeous looking this way and wanted to capture that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 27, 2007 Dang, that was such a mushy quasi-existential post.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphajerk Posted September 27, 2007 Members Share Posted September 27, 2007 can i have some of what your smoking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 27, 2007 Um, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mobobog Posted September 27, 2007 Members Share Posted September 27, 2007 jejejeje.... That is beautiful ken... i like to take pictures too. I dont have a decent camera, but as you say capturing the moment is what makes a shot meaningful. I travel a lot working with some musicians that are 4 hours from my home. When i am driving to that place ill usually stop and take pictures of flowers, animals, houses... what ever. They always ask me... where did you go??? they dont realize that these are the same places they usually visit, just that they are looking them the way i look at them... [bad joke] What i am trying to say is... ken shares with me that greenish thing he is smoking [bad joke] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphajerk Posted September 27, 2007 Members Share Posted September 27, 2007 Um, no. ouch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 27, 2007 Don't worry, Alphajerk, I'll share some of these brownies with you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted September 27, 2007 I had always said that I would not buy a digital SLR camera until it did everything that my film camera did. I wanted it to focus quickly and efficiently, be able to take up to three shots per second, have no delay when photographing, look great, take hundreds of shots with one battery charge, and cost about the same as my film camera did when I first purchased it. I got that with the Nikon D50. I think I paid about $700 or $750 for that, the 18-70mm lens, two batteries, card reader, case, and a bunch of other stuff. Then I purchased a couple of fast flashcards. The camera works well, and doesn't fight me for the shot. And like I say, at least for me, in an interesting way, it makes me more aware and appreciative of my surroundings, even if I'm just driving or walking around my neighborhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Don't worry, Alphajerk, I'll share some of these brownies with you! Speaking of brownies, someone left a whole tray full of them over here... :snax: :snax: It's one of the fringe benefits of throwing a party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphajerk Posted September 28, 2007 Members Share Posted September 28, 2007 careful phil... never know whats in them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 They're clean - I checked them out carefully before consuming mass quantities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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