Click here to see the Postcard From NYC video on the main website or here to see it on Vimeo. I’ve spent the past two years or so, on and off, trying to learn something about shooting video. Because I wanted to. Because I am … Read More →
Author Archives: DPC
Kilometer Zero
Struggling to sort, file, backup stuff that I regularly resolve to sort, file and backup, I came upon this, which maybe my first photograph. The family house (at least it was then). Scanned from a Kodak Instamatic negative, I think. That film border looks great! … Read More →
From the archives: Steven Soderbergh
From the archives, a portrait of Steven Soderbergh taken on assignment for Rolling Stone France at the American Film Festival in Deauville, 2002. Why dig this one up ? To say a little about the – often frustrating – logistics of even a simple portrait … Read More →
Leonard Cohen in Paris
I didn’t intend to take any pictures when I went to Leonard Cohen’s concert at the Olympia in Paris. I never thought he would do another tour and that I might (at last) have the opportunity to see him live and I really was going … Read More →
NYC TV
Still editing my video footage from New York. Another frame grab which looks pretty painterly to me… I’m going to have to make a (very) large print of this one…
Snow in Paris
A photograph taken the last time it was cold enough to snow in Paris. If someone asked me about the usefulness of compact digital cameras, I would be quick to point out their short-comings: noisy sensors, poor results in low light, unacceptable shutter lag. But … Read More →
Back from NYC…
…and starting to edit the sound and video I had recorded there for a short experimental film. The logging and capturing to Final Cut out of the way, I decided to work on my skills exporting stills from the video footage. The camera used was … Read More →
It starts here…
I intended to delete the first two posts once this site had “gone live”. The pictures were simply culled from a folder I had open on my desktop at the time I was setting it up. But I think I will leave them up for … Read More →
Latent Images
In the “old days” – that’s to say before some time around 2001 when I bought my first scanner – I was quite a good black and white printer. I had to be because my negatives were so bad. Developing in makeshift darkrooms – bathrooms, … Read More →