The F STOP Mag

It's made its rounds around the internet already but it's still an online mag worth talking about. The F STOP, created & produced by photographer Zack Seckler, is a fantastic way to get into the heads of some of todays top commercial advertising photographers.

There's a couple interviews with some photographers who shoot cars as well: Jan Steinhilber, Kai-Uwe Gundlach & Garry Simpson. Definitely worth checking out. It's nice to see 4x5 film still being used in the car advertising photography world.

Last but not least, a favorite of mine and someone who lives in the city I call home: Erik Almas. Not a car shooter & a bit heavy on the post side but the results are both beautiful and inspiring.

Photographers personal sites:

Jan Steinhilber
Kai-Uwe Gundlach
Garry Simpson
Erik Almas (Caution, resizes your browser. I hate that...)

I'm Ken. I drive a G20.

Possibly the best spoof of a car commercial yet:



And this one really made me want a Pentax (sorry, no embedding):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qs9svuf8g88

Was this youtube day, perhaps?

New Work!

Some new photos I'll be uploading soon.

The first is an Infiniti in a nearby BART station parking garage. I really like the lines leading out and the fact that they get lost in the blown out sky.



Post wasn't too bad. Cleaned up the garage a bit, desaturated it and touched up the car a tad. I got all cute and added an Infiniti logo on the pillar in front of the car as well. Shot with a Canon G9. Who says p&s aren't worthy?

This second one was a personal shoot I did about 6 months ago of a friends Mercedes. I didn't have the time to retouch it till recently, though.



This last one is really just a personal favorite. And another one taken with a Canon G9. I think I had the white balance set to fluorescent for this one and it was shot a little after the sun went down.



Both Ivan Makarov and Andreas Reinhold take some amazing landscape photographs that always have incredible colors in the sky. Their images sort of kicked me in gear to shoot more landscapes, experiment and have fun with photography; something that is sometimes difficult to do when it's your day job.