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| Untitled by Jesse Acosta Tri-X | D76 | Yashica Mat 124G | San Antonio, TX | 2014 |
Showing posts with label black and white. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black and white. Show all posts
Monday, July 7, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Afternoon Run
Before taking this photo, I took several others at the same spot. I must have spent about 50 min total time by combining all the times that I stood there waiting for a subject. Patience and determination pays off. Personally I'm happy with this photo.
Location: Riverwalk next to the Tower Life Building in San Antonio, TX
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| Afternoon Run by Jesse Acosta, San Antonio, 2014 |
Monday, May 12, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
A Father's Reflection
"A Father's Reflection"
Film | Ektar | AE-1 Program | San Antonio | 2013
Film | Ektar | AE-1 Program | San Antonio | 2013
A Father's Reflection, a photo by Jesse Acosta on Flickr.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Inspired by a Toy Camera
If you have been reading my posts, you already know that I bought a Diana F+ toy camera. I've been mostly shooting with the instant photograph back so I've been using Fujifilm instax film. On a recent trip to visit family in Mexico for a birthday celebration I was using the Diana F+ to play with. I also took an old Nikon flash (SB-26) and an Olympus E-M5. I was having so much fun with the Diana F+ but then it soon got dark. The party was in full swing and I ran to my bag and pulled my flash. When I bought the camera I decided not to get the flash attachment so the question was, how to use the flash. I decided that shooting in bulb mode, which is one of the modes on the Diana F+, and triggering the flash manually with my other hand would probably work. It took me one photo to get the flash power where I wanted it. And I shot the rest of the instax pack that way and got great results. Soon I was out of film, so I pulled my Olympus E-M5, but I was having a lot of fun with the Diana F+ that I decided to mimic as much as possible the feel of the toy camera. I set the Olympus EM-5 to bulb mode with an aperture of F/11 and ISO 800 because I get really good "grain-like" noise at that ISO from that camera. Surprisingly enough, those settings gave me the exact same exposure as the Diana F+ with the instax film. I prefocused to about 4 feet, but at F/11 on a MFT camera is enough to have much of everything in focus. I kept shooting, and I was having a blast. Before using the flash on the Diana F+ I tried some double exposure shots, so I was like "let's try some in-camera double exposure." I came up to F/8 and started shooting; exposing two subjects with my flash. As you can see on the photo below, it's a very cool technique, and not that hard to do. I didn't even have a flash sync cord, it was all manual. This could easily be incorporated into street photography when the light goes dim for the day. And I plan on carrying that same flash with me on my street photography outings from now on.
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| "Double Exposure" by Jesse Acosta | Olympus E-M5 | Mexico | 2013 |
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
The New Blog
Welcome. In between Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube pages, I decided to start a blog to house relevant content from all these outlets into one central repository. Any stories behind the photos will be published here along with useful information. Although keeping with all these sites might pose an impossible task, I will try my best to keep the information on this blog up to date. I encourage you, the reader, to comment on my posts. Questions, comments, and encouragement is always appreciated.
I'll start by posting the most recent photo on Flickr. Thanks.
I'll start by posting the most recent photo on Flickr. Thanks.
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| "Night Parkour" by Jesse Acosta | San Antonio | 2013 |
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