Thursday, February 21, 2008

javelins + nouns

greetings. early february brought me to ronny's in chicago to photograph my good buddies: javelins and nouns. you can see the results of that here: http://jonshaft.com/javelinouns

Thursday, January 17, 2008

new 365


Here is day seventeen of three hundred sixty six photographs. I'm quite fond of it.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

three six five

I've started a new photo project called 365, where i take one self portrait per day for a year. I will be posting them on my flickr page: http://flickr.com/photos/thehopeful. I began on 1.1.08, and I will finish on 12.31.2008. Here is day two:

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

personal project


so, i normally don't post wedding related photographs here, but since this is a personal project, and this photograph is by far the best from the series [ bride + dress ]. The series is an attempt to mix my fine art photography nature with my wedding photographs, while using a 4x5 camera to capture it all. I am completely stepping out of my normal way of making photographs. The end result, I hope, is a series of photographs that can function as portraits, wedding photographs, and works of art all at the same time. These photographs should be able to be hung in a gallery, or be printed in a wedding album, or magazine. The photograph above is just a polaroid from the shoot, so I will be sure to post the real version when I have it available.

Monday, December 3, 2007

jacob tyler wolfgang



the other day, while doing a shoot for a current project [ brides + dresses ], i had jacob stand in as a test subject for this shot while his wife, sarah, sat in the warm car. here's the polaroid.

Monday, October 8, 2007

johnshaft.com

I am now the proud owner of johnshaft.com - i recently acquired the domain name, and can't wait to put it to good use. The previous owner used the site as a fan site for the Shaft films, but with a rather poor and outdated design. It's possible that I will update the look of that site and offer it as a link so that john shaft fans can find that information if they're interested.

so i hope you'll join me in celebrating my newest addition to the family. I'm working on acquiring shaft.com, but we'll see what happens.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

updates

Recently, I decided to try to update my equipment, so I began to sell some of my older items on eBay. I sold my nikon D1x body, and paired with the sale [ and for much more than expected ] of my broken sb-800, I purchased a new D200 body. In addition to that, I purchased new 1TB hard drive, which now brings me up to exactly 2TB of storage space, of which 1TB is completely full...when will it end? Also, since I've been receiving so many print orders, I decided to purchase an inkjet printer. I chose the epson r2400 - it's a great printer that will give me up to 13" wide prints. I've made two prints, and so far, everything looks great. And finally, after getting iphone fever [ i've got a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell ] I decided that I could do without the old 12" powerbook that I bought when i was still working at adray in michigan. *proceeds of powerbook purchase will go towards the purchase of 2 new iphones - one for my wife, who is in desperate need of a new phone, and one for myself. We're destined to be the coolest kids on the block.

When I was in michigan, I met up with the band "Which Way is Home" for some photographs - I could not for the life of me think of any great locations to photograph them. They had an idea to shoot at the old Daisy air rifle factory in downtownn plymouth - which consists of one large wall, which is supported by some large beams. Then we moved down the street to an old historic house to finish off the shoot - i'm very pleased with the outcome of the photographs.



That seems to be all of the updates that I have for now - keep yourself updated by looking at this blog often. I am going to be working with a 4x5 view camera very often for the next 10 weeks, so keep your eyes peeled [ "keep your eyes peeled" - that doesn't even make sense... ] for some of those photographs.