LINHBERGH — International Commercial Photographer

I finally had time to take around the rolleicord for some snaps. Went to the beach with Grady and Peter for a little KINOD photo session. As you can see, I’ve updated the header image to the blog with a photo that Peter shot of me at the beach. Anyways, here are two developed shots out of the TLR camera, more to come soon:

I have to admit it. I am completely infatuated with any and all sorts of film cameras, and film types. I also have to admit that, lately, I’ve been neglecting my digital camera because of my absolute infatuation with the film medium. Shortly after picking up the 5D MarkII, I picked up a 35mm Canon EOS A2, and that’s when the love started. Shortly after picking up the 35mm, I picked up my first medium format camera, a Holga 120FN. And finally, as I previously posted, I acquired a Rolleicord III. My film infatuation is in full swing now. Here are two recent shots from the Rolleicord. I am absolutely astounded with the level of bokeh at F3.5! The second shot on the right is one of my favorite shots from the past couple of months, both in the film and digital formats. I absolutely love the softness, color and feeling from that shot!

Expect more film escapades coming soon. I’ll be taking the Rollei around more than the 5D.

I just picked up an early birthday present for myself. It’s a Rolleicord medium format camera. According to this website, and the camera’s corresponding serial number, this sucker was made from 1950-1953! Just imagine the history this camera has been apart of and seen…

I’m heading to New Jersey this weekend, and I will definitely take this sucker with me to snap some photos of the so-called Garden State!

I had a fantastic graduation session with Teresa on the UCLA campus. We were blessed with an absolutely gorgeous, and warm, late afternoon sun. It seemed like the afternoon teased us with what summer will be like in the coming weeks. And if the summer is anything like yesterday afternoon, then I am quite looking forward to the next few weeks!

The late afternoon sun could not have been any better. Thien was done up beautifully by Thuy (of theThuyProject) with a fantastic fingerweave hair style complimented with a vintage inspired swimsuit and summer hat. We had a fantastic magic hour shoot and the end result came out pretty well. I did not have the chance to break out the 35mm this time around, but I did manage to squeeze some shots in with another camera… So we’ll see how those turn out

Thanks to Thien for being such a fantastic model, and Thuy for dolling up the girl so well!

Model: Thien Phan
Hair & Make up: Thuy Ho

I’m currently looking for models for potential shoots in the future. So, if you’re interested, you can send me an e-mail: linhbergh@kinod.net

There’s no need for any words right now… This photographer from the UK depresses me greatly. This is some absolutely spell binding epic work! I pretty much stared at this photo for 15 minutes straight. Be sure to listen to the song as you stare at such greatness:

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Prepare to be greatly depressed after clicking this link:
www.parabolique.co.uk

Here’s a very impromptu shoot of the Paul’s Miata that is making ricing history (which I blogged about previously here). Earlier today, I was looking at old shots of his car back when it had 15×8 +0 Work Equip 01s. The wheel size that made ricing history a few years ago, now looks completely weak in comparison to these epic 15x10s!  It was only a few years ago that Miata owners across the world cried for blaspheming their beloved two seat roadsters with 8 inch wide wheels and offets lower than 30mm! Just imagine what those Miata owners will say about this now. Ten inch wheels under stock fenders, who would’ve thought!?

For those of you that are not ricers and just read that above paragraph, I’m sure all those words meant absolutely nothing to you. And for that, I apologize.

But for those ricers that do appreciate such epic riceness as this, this, and this, then I’m sure you will appreciate epic rice like this:

Personally, I don’t think this is my best car shoot or even be considered a good shoot. But this ricing history had to be documented! But those of you that have the eyes of a hawk might notice that there’s a slight different feel to the photos. I was trying a different editing style with these photos. Let me know what you think, and also, if you don’t like them please tell me why! : )

Here’s the second and final part of this digital vs. film series. Here we have the shoot from the previous post, but this time in digital with a bit of post-processing.

Instantly, you can tell the difference. Maybe because of the post-processing. Or maybe because there’s no actual intangible something (pixey dust? lolol) that is transferred when you take the shot. You take the shot, and the shutter instantly opens, letting in light, then the light is translated by the camera’s computer, which is then translated to a image file and transferred to the camera’s storage medium. And all this happens faster than you can even think it. There’s a feeling of manufactured or even a feeling of being mass produced with these digital shots… But, don’t get me wrong, I actually do like these shots. But for the shear raw and magical feeling that you get with the film shots, these almost don’t even compare.

Maybe, just maybe, there actually is some sort of pixey dust magic that happens from the moment you snap a film camera: the shutter instantly opens, letting in light, then that light is burned onto a piece of film.

We all know how cameras basically work, but it really makes you think… With the advent of globalization and insanely easy accessibility to pretty much anything, are the meanings of a lot of the Arts (poetry, literature, fine art, etc…) being lost in this digital translation?