January 9th, 2012 by Kris
On January 1st of 2012, I made the first major website update in the last 18 months. If you’ve not seen it head on over to krisdamico.com and let me know what you think! As some of you may know, I spent close to 6 weeks going through images from the last 5-6 years. There were about 600,000 files on 8 hard drive with about of those 235,000 being images. So, needless to say that was a lot of looking at old work.
I used Zack Arias‘ process to get the ball rolling, here’s the post with an excerpt from his blog and link to his article. Then I met with Amanda Sosa Stone and she’s helping me sort out the details. Now, the hard part for me, as I’m sure it is for all creatives is cutting our work down into a meaningful creation of images. Given my own devices, I’d have a loose conflagration (is that a word?) of image that might or might not make any sense together. Which is why an outside edit is super helpful.
Here are few images that didn’t quite make the cut for the homepage, but are still some of my favorite images! Hope you enjoy them.
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December 20th, 2011 by Kris
I’m working with sharp objects today.
October 11th, 2011 by Kris
Recently, I read a quote from a photographer that I don’t know that said something to the extent of “I stopped making formal images, and just started shooting what’s infront of me.” This has been in the back of mind for the last 2 weeks and I’m still not sure what to do with it. What did he mean by formal? For me, someone who came up thru the “studio” track, it means white cards, seamless sheets of paper, big softboxes, you know what I’m talking about, the “studio” thing. What would it look like if I stopped worrying about incident angles, perfectly exposed mid-tone with a 95% white point? I shot something the other day and got some pretty cool stuff, but I’m not convinced that it’s “better” or “worse.” It’s different. I’ve got a few more shoots coming up where I think I’m just going to try to not be so formal, still not sure what that means for me, but I hope it will come to me as I shoot.
October 10th, 2011 by Kris
I’m in the middle of a few big projects so I thought I’d just post up some food photos from a job last year with Columbus Salami out of San Francisco. Enjoy!!
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September 28th, 2011 by Kris
So, this past shoot we shot on a RED Mysterium X. I’ve got some thoughts and feelings about this “new” media but overall it was a positive experience. Like many of the reviews I have read, there are just some things that are a little janky about it. For example, our DIT told me that if we changed the ISO lower or higher than the chipset’s ISO800 default that we’d get noise. Furthermore, if we really wanted to change the ISO, we could do it in REDCINE post program… Really guys? That makes me think you don’t know what ISO means. But, other than a few of those things, the picture is beautiful and huge. And shooting video in RAW puts me back in a very comfortable place where I can play with color and curves before I leave the set, much like Lightroom. Anyway, I’ll post up a few clips from the shoot as we get into editing and exporting, but I will leave you with this little beauty from the first day of test shooting, thanks Chad.
September 19th, 2011 by Kris
Not so fresh from the garden.
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August 29th, 2011 by Kris
Quick post today about exclusivity.
What do you do well? Where are your weak spots?
I believe strongly that we should all play to our strengths, not our weaknesses. In your brain, you are literally “hard wired” to do somethings better than others. The more that we push into our areas of strength, the more that area of our brain grows. Guess what? When we work on our weak spots, there is still growth, but not the exponential growth that happens with strengths.
Now, I’m not saying abandon your weaknesses. I still need to work on my timeliness, I still need to work on fiscal fastidiousness. But, where I excel, now that’s where I can expect real growth. Keep this in mind this week as you run into your daily challenges!
With this in mind, think about that one thing that you shoot, that one thing that you design, that one thing that’s not work, it just flows out of you. Is your business built on this? Can it be? It probably should be. It might be something completely esoteric.
Meditate on the things that bring you joy and the things you look forward to and your gifts will shine thru. Try working on something where you are already a rock star and see what happens! Good luck! We’re all looking forward to the results.
KD
August 24th, 2011 by Kris
A few snaps from a trip out to the bay area last year. Finally had a chance to mess with them, anyway these were the three strongest. Let me know what you think! Enjoy. -KD
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August 19th, 2011 by Kris
