CINEMATICA SAN FRANCISCO HOW TO
It won’t be until later that night when look through my photos and think about the place some more that I come up with some creative ideas for how to shoot it, and by that time, I may no longer have the opportunity to shoot it. When I visit new places, I face the opposite challenge: I’ll experience a place for the first time and be overwhelmed by the novelty and discovery, and the photos I take will usually be pretty generic. My photographic ambitions have brought me to many beautiful places including Norway, New Mexico, New York, the Washington and Oregon Coast, and Hong Kong. Looking beyond my home environment, I enjoy traveling whenever I have the opportunity. I feel the most fulfilled when people who see a photo I post comment with how it made them feel, or the story that it told them just by being. Especially with portraits, conveying and eliciting emotion is so much more natural.Įven if the location is commonplace or bland, what you as a photographer add to it is what makes the photo memorable. Sometimes a sequence or frame will make a deep impression on me but I can’t place my finger on why, and it’s this magic quality that I strive to imbue my photos with. I love watching good movies, and I’m always impressed by thoughtful directing and cinematography. The word that always comes to mind when I think about the mood I want to convey is “cinematic”. I call this approach “finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, and creating fantasy from reality”.įor me, portraiture is not simply taking pictures of people. As a result, I have been forced to shift the emphasis of my photos from locations to light conditions, color matching, and mood, which is much more challenging (in a good way). I’m still very grateful to have grown up here and still live here, but finding inspiration in my physical environment has become more difficult now. Places that used to feel exciting and fresh now feel cliche and dull. You could say that my honeymoon period with the city has ended. I experienced so many new places and things here, which naturally evolved into a love for photography.įast forward five years to now: having explored every neighborhood and discovered all of the photogenic spots, my outlook on San Francisco has changed. This was tremendously rewarding for me, because it felt as if I was discovering the city that I grew up in for the first time. I found myself enjoying going outside and exploring San Francisco on foot, which is incredibly easy because the city is relatively small and walkable (other than the hills). It wasn’t until I started college and majored in Urban Planning that I developed more awareness and interest in my hometown, which happened to be one of the most fascinating cities in the country. Growing up, I had little interest in really knowing the city, despite its rich cultural heritage and photogenic neighborhoods. Living in San Francisco for so long has brought a unique set of opportunities and constraints.
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