San Diego Shots

So what do you do when a client calls up and they need specific pictures shot in a specific way in a very short time and for way less than your usual rate?

Well if you are a poor photographer who is trying to buy a house, you frickin' take the gig, that's what you do!

I have a long history with this particular client and I would like to continue to do business with them for much more time so sometimes you just gotta bend the rules. Even if it hurts ... alot.

One of the hardest parts about the whole thing was scouting the locations for each of the shots. Talk about the pain at the pump! Driving back and forth trying to find the best view really took a toll on the old odometer. On a positive note, I now have a mental file cabinet of some great places to shoot from! Mine ... ALL MINE!

The other hard part was that some of the shots required were to be of the same thing both daytime and nightime, and that required me not to move the camera, sometimes for hours at a time. That if course meant that I had to stay with the equipment.

This had to be the hardest landmark to shoot. I just could not find the right angle. Pretty much everywhere you shot this from either looked to small or too far away or too wide. Believe me when I tell you that planning this shot kept me up at night.

I would like to thank the undisclosed location from which I took this photograph from for not having me arrested for shooting from this spot at 4:30 in the morning until sunrise. And if anybody gives me any flak for taking this shot, please refer to the title of this frickin' blog!

Shooting the Del was fun, lugging my heavy equipment including tripod and spotlight across the sand and up to a lifeguard tower. This was made even more fun by the fact that it was windy and a little chilly and I had left a nice warm jacket in my car which was close enough to see and yet far enough away to be inaccessible.

Big shout out to Todd the lifeguard in Coronado for letting me shoot from his tower. Keep an eye out for the Green Flash bro!

By the way, the nerve of these people actually getting married on the beach! Can't they see I got a picture to take!

Frick!

Qualcomm was a shot that was added into the shoot list kinda last minute. Visually its vanilla, or I guess a better term would be pizza: Its plain, but its still good.

I remembered the jacked on this one. What I forgot was that when a tourist sees a guy with a camera and a tripod they have to take the picture from the same exact spot you are. Never mind that they have the rest of the entire beack in La Jolla to take the same picture.

I played with this one a little bit and used my spotlight to paint the rocks with light a little bit to give them texture.

If you ever want to be worried about scummy looking teenagers who curse entirely too much and dread haired skaters and meth heads missing a few teeth but strangely with enough money to get massive tattoos skulking about you while you take a picture, then i'll see you here at the OB Pier!

Alas, one of the few shots that was actually sans tourists. The Old Point Loma Lighthouse at any other time of day would be covered in that lovely marine layer. This is one of those places I think that looks way better in the fall.

Well after quite a few sleepless nights huddled next to my gear like a homeless photographer off of Imperial Ave downtown, I think I am going to get a good nights sleep tonight. Hope you enjoyed the shots and I look forward to your feedback!