tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493138704523110342024-03-13T09:36:57.221-05:00LightbenderTyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.comBlogger544125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-89201359367819860152022-11-06T09:03:00.004-06:002022-11-06T09:04:37.861-06:00It's a Transition: Faculty Exhibition<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlgjJrIuZh4Cl9caJ2hozhWUYoO85653LVfr2I9ZYjw-7O7UDSWrnHzwBWnb7D2xR9BHo7rMLDJWUwdQA6g07LajNpkSJFMyc6pV4O8NSNGLA7FbWK-oJQYs5bcPovvV41KOOnEcWQs5fZxqk0_AAbFbBZmR0grJszrykvvBxWwQGDbuaSn3YN1rAsA/s1820/Mail_-_Hewitt__Tyler_-_Outlook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1820" data-original-width="1470" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlgjJrIuZh4Cl9caJ2hozhWUYoO85653LVfr2I9ZYjw-7O7UDSWrnHzwBWnb7D2xR9BHo7rMLDJWUwdQA6g07LajNpkSJFMyc6pV4O8NSNGLA7FbWK-oJQYs5bcPovvV41KOOnEcWQs5fZxqk0_AAbFbBZmR0grJszrykvvBxWwQGDbuaSn3YN1rAsA/w517-h640/Mail_-_Hewitt__Tyler_-_Outlook.jpg" width="517" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Come see my work along with work made by my colleagues! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The annual faculty exhibition at Moraine Valley Community College's Fine and Performing arts center.</div><br /> <p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-85846643974157654612022-07-20T11:04:00.004-05:002022-07-20T11:06:18.722-05:00Two Years<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEV6Z0_WKQ_BSNq2B8ikmUPKsRsk-COBkFtVQ9sjbWpopqdutGkrZb7rpMDyI2tcVPLxWIZdYPzLUU7QJtPU3OaVkXhciu2RCrtE83AHemPKwYh-67ixmms-SB8_7945aOWjaJer1Xde0_ePMg8JecoU42-gMfL5zwWnvFAETjOjMAKwUGLNwJpTc_HA/s1285/P1120859b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1285" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEV6Z0_WKQ_BSNq2B8ikmUPKsRsk-COBkFtVQ9sjbWpopqdutGkrZb7rpMDyI2tcVPLxWIZdYPzLUU7QJtPU3OaVkXhciu2RCrtE83AHemPKwYh-67ixmms-SB8_7945aOWjaJer1Xde0_ePMg8JecoU42-gMfL5zwWnvFAETjOjMAKwUGLNwJpTc_HA/w640-h498/P1120859b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Little Village, Chicago</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">6/17/20</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKGMV9auhABAbzDhwjm1rBLCW2at_QKzmKYol-2sWNUvM3QhloBoUO_BjiszIHdw2RqZJb0u4ZHE1hsMJhZ7dlgoWtxjoCIrVDRo5ayIu8xpjtks1SkuuYNlX8ZxT2MSd7OfTdwRfL0oskahbL9zH25gjAmZY2Y4v4kKw3d6d_cMWFTRHd8ah8Cujq_w/s1000/P1230282.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1000" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKGMV9auhABAbzDhwjm1rBLCW2at_QKzmKYol-2sWNUvM3QhloBoUO_BjiszIHdw2RqZJb0u4ZHE1hsMJhZ7dlgoWtxjoCIrVDRo5ayIu8xpjtks1SkuuYNlX8ZxT2MSd7OfTdwRfL0oskahbL9zH25gjAmZY2Y4v4kKw3d6d_cMWFTRHd8ah8Cujq_w/w640-h486/P1230282.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Little Village, Chicago</div><div style="text-align: center;">7/14/22</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here are two photos I shot in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, just over 2 years apart. The first one was made during one of the <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/search/label/Weekly%20photo%20shoot" target="_blank">weekly photo shoots</a> I started during the pandemic, which were basically a way to keep me sane during the lockdowns and get me out of the house safely. The second was shot last week, when I returned to Little Village for another shoot.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">June, 2020, when the first photo was made, in addition to being the height of the pandemic, was during the period of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations and incidents of looting. Little Village experienced some looting, and I saw several boarded up storefronts. In July, 2022, I only saw a couple boarded up storefronts, and those appeared to be due to building renovations. It also looked like some new businesses had opened, some streetwear stores with a youthful presence, a nice addition to the busy street full of markets, taquerias, dollar stores, and stores selling quinceañera dresses. 26th st., the main commercial strip in Little Village, has long been one of the busiest and highest grossing shopping areas in Chicago, and it was nice to see that it's still a vibrant area.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This summer, I find myself doing some much needed processing, as I sort out everything that's occurred over the past two years, and how that's changed my work life, personal life, and my creative work. I'll save the navel-gazing for my personal journal, and leave these photos as a visual example of change in a hopefully positive direction.</div><p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0Little Village, Chicago, IL, USA41.8445273 -87.705044613.534293463821157 -122.8612946 70.154761136178848 -52.548794599999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-82128005797850771452021-06-23T11:33:00.002-05:002021-06-23T11:33:52.203-05:00Three Pieces, One Source<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WsutAvn63J4/YNNhXJ8x2sI/AAAAAAAAHyM/Ry8kzbDhNts-DwntBZ3V8qZYM9AFdeYKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/IMG_0151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WsutAvn63J4/YNNhXJ8x2sI/AAAAAAAAHyM/Ry8kzbDhNts-DwntBZ3V8qZYM9AFdeYKQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_0151.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VmIXO_iz1C8/YNNhXGfKDXI/AAAAAAAAHyI/YqOz0NE8yyguTOCNCQgqwF3rf6xrfvvnwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/IMG_9838.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VmIXO_iz1C8/YNNhXGfKDXI/AAAAAAAAHyI/YqOz0NE8yyguTOCNCQgqwF3rf6xrfvvnwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_9838.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZZYP2aTtWkE/YNNhXPXLqZI/AAAAAAAAHyQ/11AU3Ta39hoj4Hsl9iPaOue4NLSGn__xQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/IMG_9964.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZZYP2aTtWkE/YNNhXPXLqZI/AAAAAAAAHyQ/11AU3Ta39hoj4Hsl9iPaOue4NLSGn__xQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_9964.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Here are three pieces made with various apps on my iPad which start from the same image. In this case, it's a photo shot from a girl's exercise book published in 1964.<p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-75889253784552413212021-06-02T10:28:00.004-05:002021-06-02T10:29:25.517-05:00Two Pieces, One Source<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tq4QgmlP-vg/YLeilzfjZSI/AAAAAAAAHwI/ys3a-zL0WFsk5BaQdNTGRjDLPsM4XS48QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/IMG_9971.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tq4QgmlP-vg/YLeilzfjZSI/AAAAAAAAHwI/ys3a-zL0WFsk5BaQdNTGRjDLPsM4XS48QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_9971.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8lzuNdWVeoI/YLeil6UPb8I/AAAAAAAAHwM/zAr7grcBa4sCkkiNVoUsJqKgh0KGeSi_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/IMG_9972.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8lzuNdWVeoI/YLeil6UPb8I/AAAAAAAAHwM/zAr7grcBa4sCkkiNVoUsJqKgh0KGeSi_wCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_9972.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /> Here are some pieces made on my iPad a couple months ago. Recently I've been playing with shooting images from old magazines, textbooks, etc. and making at least two different pieces from the same image. These are some of what I've made.<p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-68125554216074037902021-05-25T19:59:00.006-05:002021-05-25T19:59:38.429-05:002 Versions<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lFWfb-KRpDY/YK2ct1-zIII/AAAAAAAAHv4/nERp0fOae_AA4ygjwCEtAAGOEczxoZDZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/IMG_9505.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lFWfb-KRpDY/YK2ct1-zIII/AAAAAAAAHv4/nERp0fOae_AA4ygjwCEtAAGOEczxoZDZwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_9505.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ycMEJuUtLY/YK2ct8KeKMI/AAAAAAAAHv8/m7V0I60p2TcrJJpVrndh_BeFVzI3hRaWACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/IMG_9508.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ycMEJuUtLY/YK2ct8KeKMI/AAAAAAAAHv8/m7V0I60p2TcrJJpVrndh_BeFVzI3hRaWACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/IMG_9508.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Here are two different versions of a piece I made on my iPad a few months ago. Haven't posted them anywhere because I haven't titled them, and I thought they needed a title. Suggestions happily accepted.<p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-75580980571554862322021-03-06T18:25:00.000-06:002021-03-06T18:25:21.512-06:00Weekly Shooting Excursion XVII: Blue Island (Again)<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">For my seventeenth ‘keep me sane during the pandemic’ photo shoot, I returned to Blue Island, a suburb just south of Chicago I had already shot twice on these outings. My first of these weekly shoots was to the <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/06/weekly-shooting-excursion-i-olde-western.html" target="_blank">Olde Western area of Blue Island</a>,</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">and I returned a few days later to <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/07/weekly-shooting-excursion-ii-rainy-blue.html" target="_blank">shoot on a rainy night</a>. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">I shoot in Blue Island often because it’s close to home and easy to get to, and I find it kind of photogenic. It’s also good when time is short but I still want to get out and shoot, which was the case this time. With the Fall semester in full swing, I had to focus my attention on teaching, and any shooting trip would have to be a quick one. Also, I had hurt my knee, was painfully hobbling around wearing a brace, and didn’t want a longer outing with lots of walking (although I ended up walking for about 1.5 miles, until the knee hurt too much to continue). I chose the north end of Blue Island, which looks less like a small town than the areas I shot in earlier, and more like an aging suburban area, which, if I’m being honest, is exactly what it is. I love mid-century architecture, especially the low rise commercial buildings found on the edges of cities, and there’s a few of them in this area, so that made the shooting fun.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;">In case you’re wondering, I still don’t know what was up with my knee. I ended up braving a visit to a medical facility during the pandemic to see a doctor about it, but they didn’t think there was anything serious. X-rays revealed a completely normal knee. Wearing a brace for a while and icing it a couple times a day eventually took care of the issue. Guess I’m just getting old!<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here are my favorites from this shoot.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fHn5ff3btTM/YEQbvXOfa4I/AAAAAAAAHtw/ajok_0fgFKk7j59ypTMDR-moJWTkeF-ZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1150211Tyler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="734" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fHn5ff3btTM/YEQbvXOfa4I/AAAAAAAAHtw/ajok_0fgFKk7j59ypTMDR-moJWTkeF-ZgCLcBGAsYHQ/w470-h640/P1150211Tyler.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0Blue Island, IL, USA41.6572562 -87.68004859999999213.347020315197579 -122.836301282209 69.967492084802416 -52.523795917790977tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-74388437441907657492021-02-10T12:04:00.003-06:002021-02-10T12:04:59.621-06:00Weekly Shooting Excursion XVI: Bridgeport<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My sixteenth ‘keep me sane during the pandemic’ photo shoot can’t really be called a summer shoot. It occurred in early September, still summer by the calendar, but fall was starting to make its presence known. This was also after the school year and full-time teaching duties resumed for me, and keeping myself busy was no longer an issue (after a summer filled with stress wondering if my classes would actually run, it was kind of a relief to be busy with work). After two weeks in front of the computer, countless emails, lesson planning and videoconferences, however, it felt really good to step away from all that and enjoy a few hours shooting on a sunny, quite warm but not too hot summer/fall cusp day.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I chose Bridgeport, a neighborhood on Chicago’s near south side. I had shot in<a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/10/weekly-shooting-excursion-xi-archer.html" target="_blank"> a different area of Bridgeport</a> a few weeks earlier, and have shot there a couple times in the past, and knew it would be an interesting area for me to shoot in.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The central area of Bridgeport, where I shot on this outing, is a pleasant area with an almost, but not quite hipsterish/artsy feeling. Many artists live in the neighborhood, and there has been a strong artist’s presence in the area for decades. There are a couple prominent art centers in big old warehouse buildings in the area, and a sprinkling of galleries in storefronts. Even with all the artists in the neighborhood, however, it has never quite shaken its working class roots, or its unfortunate race issues. Chicago’s history is fraught with unpleasant race issues, and Bridgeport is an area which comes up often when discussing them. The location of the I-94 expressway, for example, along the east edge of Bridgeport is largely believed to be a purposeful attempt at creating a barrier between the neighborhood and Bronzeville, a historic area long known as a center of African-American culture in the city, which lies just to the east of the expressway.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">While maybe lessened in recent years, and while it now is considered one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the city, <a href="https://southsideweekly.com/bridgeport-past-present-live-side-side-vigilantes/" target="_blank">unpleasant race issues remain in Bridgeport.</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">None of that was evident while I was shooting there, however. There were people in the cafes and restaurants that dot 31st. St., kids playing in playgrounds, and it felt relaxing wandering through the neighborhood shooting photos. Here’s my favorites from this shoot.</span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SL27DUb2Q5k/YCQe7cXG0KI/AAAAAAAAHrc/61zDAhWHQGIzQIe8chtJYXdJ7dXk6TkUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1140990Tyler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="747" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SL27DUb2Q5k/YCQe7cXG0KI/AAAAAAAAHrc/61zDAhWHQGIzQIe8chtJYXdJ7dXk6TkUwCLcBGAsYHQ/w478-h640/P1140990Tyler.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3uAFOg2gguE/YCQe7fckdTI/AAAAAAAAHrk/J6EQuVdQk4kGn9WLMj_SfUc8KyGeDOq9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1140997Tyler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="758" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3uAFOg2gguE/YCQe7fckdTI/AAAAAAAAHrk/J6EQuVdQk4kGn9WLMj_SfUc8KyGeDOq9gCLcBGAsYHQ/w486-h640/P1140997Tyler.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My fifteenth summer ‘keep me sane’ outing was a really interesting and enjoyable photo shoot. I decided to shoot along Cermak Rd. (22nd St) west of Western Avenue, in what I assumed was Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. I had really enjoyed shooting along <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/07/weekly-shooting-excursion-iii-little.html" target="_blank">26th St. in Little Village</a> earlier in the summer, </span>and was expecting something similar shooting a few blocks to the northeast. While there were some similarities, there were also some big differences. The first difference was the actual neighborhood where I was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>shooting. I thought I was in the northeast corner of Little Village, just west of Pilsen. Looking on Google maps, it showed the area as being part of Little Village. Looking in Wikipedia, however, I read that Cermak west of Western was actually in North Lawndale, the neighborhood directly north of Little Village. North Lawndale is more a struggling neighborhood than Little Village, and doesn’t have the buzzy street vibe that Little Village has. To further complicate things, when uploading photos from this shoot to <a href=" https://www.flickr.com/photos/tahewitt/" target="_blank">my Flickr account</a>, it labeled most of them as being in ‘Bohemian California’. Flickr comes up with a lot of odd neighborhood names (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html" target="_blank">so does</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-neighborhood-names.html" target="_blank">Google Maps</a>), <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>but I Googled ‘Bohemian California’ and found that the area was informally called that in the past, as it was once an area with many Czech immigrants (that also explains why nearby Pilsen, now a largely Mexican neighborhood, also has a Czech name).</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The other big difference was in the feel of the area. While 26th St. just a few blocks south and west of where I was shooting is a busy street full of small businesses and shops mainly catering to the large Mexican population in the neighborhood, Cermak Rd. in this area is much quieter. There were quite a few businesses, but also a lot of closed storefronts, and there was considerably less pedestrian and vehicle traffic. It’s more run down than 26th St., and the farther west I walked, the grubbier the neighborhood felt. The street eventually became a couple block stretch of auto repair shops and weed filled lots before ducking under railroad tracks and continuing as a residential area.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Regardless of the name and the feel of the neighborhood, I found the area very photogenic, and shot a lot of photos. Urban areas always attract me when shooting, and the somewhat gritty feel of the area was easy and fun to shoot. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">This shoot was also the last time I used my <a href="https://fstoppers.com/film/worst-camera-ive-ever-loved-nishika-n8000-173235" target="_blank">Nishika</a> camera, </span>a cheap plastic 4-lens camera made in the late ’80's to produce <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing" target="_blank">lenticular photos</a>. I had my Nishika loaded with old, expired film, and was shooting photos, when it jammed while trying to advance the film. I tried again, and the entire film advance mechanism broke. I was a little disappointed. While it’s a cheap crappy camera I bought at a garage sale, I had rediscovered it this summer after not using it much for ten years or so, and was particularly enjoying shooting panoramic or mosaic scenes with it and joining those images in Photoshop. I may try taking the camera apart to see if I can get it to work again, but as it’s a cheap plastic camera, I’m doubtful that will be successful. Replacing it isn’t going to happen either, as crappy camera enthusiasts have discovered the Nishika. The camera I paid $2.00 for now sells for over $100 on Ebay, and it definitely isn’t worth nearly that much! Along with my favorites shot with my real camera, I’ve added a couple of the final photos made with the Nishika to the end of this post.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N8E2NzAcUGw/YAync83d9JI/AAAAAAAAHpw/SSM5LlVEJeI3q_PftX2tbTNGpdetO_KbACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P114081b8.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N8E2NzAcUGw/YAync83d9JI/AAAAAAAAHpw/SSM5LlVEJeI3q_PftX2tbTNGpdetO_KbACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/P114081b8.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OCQzrHiIPQA/YAynadP7AiI/AAAAAAAAHpQ/R--sdhWlnAUMgtKYc6E3B9rkAcvCaOGbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1140720.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="1000" height="478" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OCQzrHiIPQA/YAynadP7AiI/AAAAAAAAHpQ/R--sdhWlnAUMgtKYc6E3B9rkAcvCaOGbgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h478/P1140720.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Made with my now broken Nishika camera.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KSO2OOS_fLI/YAyn5Io6OCI/AAAAAAAAHrA/cXZNPayyIgIgX7LeP77PqfNAaLqvDvvEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/img479.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="1200" height="196" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KSO2OOS_fLI/YAyn5Io6OCI/AAAAAAAAHrA/cXZNPayyIgIgX7LeP77PqfNAaLqvDvvEQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h196/img479.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The last photo shot with my crappy old 4-lens Nishika camera. The double exposure is from the camera jamming and exposing twice on the same piece of film.</div><br />Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-21613468646959226502021-01-04T13:34:00.002-06:002021-01-04T13:34:19.577-06:00Weekly Shooting Excursion XIV: Oak Forest<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I’m quite a ways behind in writing about my weekly summer shooting excursions. The photos in this post were actually shot in mid-August. These things happen when you work full time. I’m just grateful that I have a job right now. </span>These photos were shot in Oak Forest, a suburb south of Chicago. This was one of those ‘<a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/08/weekly-shooting-excursion-vii-oak-lawn.html">combine a photo shoot with an errand</a>’ outings that also comprised a couple of <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/10/weekly-shooting-excursion-xi-tinley-park.html" target="_blank">earlier shoots</a>. My car was due for a biennial emissions check, and the closest facility to where I live is out in the middle of nowhere. I took a look on Google Maps, looking for anything that might be a little photogenic, and found that Oak Forest, a suburb just a few minute’s drive from the emissions testing facility, has a small, kind of downtownish looking area. So, I headed there.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">As is often the case when I find myself shooting in the suburbs, I didn’t seem to engage as fully with the landscape as I do when shooting in the city. There was a bit of an interesting twist to this shoot, however. A few days before I shot these photos, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho" target="_blank">derecho</a>, which is a very severe and long-lasting storm, blew through the Chicago area. It was very severe-about half a block from my house, a huge tree blew over in a neighbor’s yard, and came to rest on electrical wires. Cleanup crews were so overworked that it was several days before it was removed-I’m surprised we never lost power. Oak Forest was in the middle of cleanup when I was there. Electrical and tree removal crews were working in several locations, and I saw a few storefronts that had sustained damage. I was actually asked three times if I was “the guy from the insurance company” when I was shooting photos of buildings. With all the cleanup, there were people out, but not enough to worry about social distancing.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My car passed the emissions test, by the way.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here are my favorites from this shoot.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4EahxPlh2yQ/X-9ZmYRu9PI/AAAAAAAAHnY/U6Sr8QGT_rEOYWSEA6SSt0URFSK66T2_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/Hewitt2020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1000" height="474" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4EahxPlh2yQ/X-9ZmYRu9PI/AAAAAAAAHnY/U6Sr8QGT_rEOYWSEA6SSt0URFSK66T2_wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h474/Hewitt2020.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Miss You More</i></div></i><div style="text-align: center;">Digital Photo, 2020</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Every New Year's Day, Lenscratch, one of the best photo blogs I've seen, publishes reader submissions of <a href="http://lenscratch.com/2021/01/favorite-7/" target="_blank">their favorite photos</a> taken over the previous year. This year's post is huge, eleven pages full of reader submissions of all types of photos from all types of photographers. They are loosely arranged thematically across the eleven pages.</div><div style="text-align: left;">The photo I submitted is the one above. It's one of those photos that I knew was probably a winner when I posted it. It was shot on Memorial Day weekend, <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/06/weekly-shooting-excursion-i-olde-western.html" target="_blank">on the first</a> of the weekly shooting excursions I made this summer. You'll find it on page 7 on the Lenscratch favorite photos post.</div><p></p><p> </p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-14459052323980722532020-11-14T18:15:00.000-06:002020-11-14T18:15:42.645-06:00Weekly Shooting Excursion XIII: Uptown/Argyle St.<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">This is the latest in a series of posts documenting a series of weekly photo shoots I made this past summer, to keep me sane while living under a pandemic. This was my thirteenth summer shooting outing, and I chose Uptown, a neighborhood on the far north side of Chicago. I spent a few hours on a humid Sunday afternoon shooting and shopping in the numerous southeast Asian groceries in the neighborhood, narrowly avoiding the strong rainstorms that blew through when I was on my way back home.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Uptown is one of those neighborhoods that has gone through many changes. Historically, it was a big nightlife area, with numerous ornate theaters and jazz clubs. Many live music clubs still exist there; the area is still known as one of the big entertainment districts in Chicago. It has also seen some not so great times. Before I moved to Chicago, back in the 90’s, I had a guidebook to the city, and I remember it referring to Uptown as a 'classic skid row' neighborhood. Like much of Chicago, however, there has been gentrification in recent years. There are still some gritty areas, and the area as a whole hasn’t gentrified nearly as much as other Chicago neighborhoods, but it’s no longer a ‘classic skid row’ either.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Uptown is also home to a small southeast Asian commercial area that most locals just refer to as Argyle St., although it is sometimes called Little Saigon. About four blocks of Argyle St., along with a couple blocks of Broadway St. either side of Argyle is home to many Vietnamese restaurants, southeast Asian groceries, bakeries, etc. I always enjoy shopping in these groceries, while I know nothing about cooking any southeast Asian cuisine, there is produce and other items I find in these stores that I can’t find anywhere else.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I shot along Argyle St., wandered along Broadway a few blocks as well, and explored a few side streets. There were more people around than I encountered on most of my other summer photo shoots, probably because I was shooting on a weekend. Some restaurants in the Argyle St. area were doing outdoor seating, and it looked like social distancing was a little iffy, so I avoided the busier spots for the most part. Still, more people appear in the photos I shot this day than in most of the photos from my other summer shoots.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here are my favorites:</span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EglgwU8d9fA/X7BxY-3vzwI/AAAAAAAAHls/x_zwQAikaNMutEOQeXCaN6rzs56W-qRGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1140403.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1000" height="492" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EglgwU8d9fA/X7BxY-3vzwI/AAAAAAAAHls/x_zwQAikaNMutEOQeXCaN6rzs56W-qRGwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h492/P1140403.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">My 12th summer shooting excursion was out in the suburbs. I had a couple errands to run in the southwest suburbs, and decided to combine that with a shooting trip. I chose Tinley Park, a suburb in the southwest corner of the Chicago metro area. Tinley Park has a small downtown-like area, and while I’ve driven through and shopped in the more typical strip mall parts of the town many times, had never set foot in the downtown area. I don’t shoot in the suburbs often, and the differences between the suburbs and the city made for a nice change of pace, even if I find it a bit more challenging to creatively engage with the landscape.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It was an enjoyable shoot, overall. While a downtown area, there weren’t a lot of people around. Most of the people I saw were congregated close to a couple of restaurants, and easy to avoid to maintain social distancing. This was late July, and it was hot, but not so hot as to be overly uncomfortable. Large, fluffy clouds in the sky made for nice backgrounds in the photos I shot. I wandered around for a little over an hour shooting various things. Here are my favorites from this shoot:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4pr1mGKwTz4/X5ib0S8RYNI/AAAAAAAAHlg/ypj2ddh9M3kXX8qTmLa155KLHadNLGnKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1140307.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4pr1mGKwTz4/X5ib0S8RYNI/AAAAAAAAHlg/ypj2ddh9M3kXX8qTmLa155KLHadNLGnKgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/P1140307.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">For my 11th summer shooting excursion, I shot on and around Archer Ave. in the south side Chicago Bridgeport neighborhood. Bridgeport is an interesting neighborhood with an interesting (although not always nice) history. I’ll save that for a later post; I returned to the central area of Bridgeport for a shoot in early September (the one I’m posting today was in late July), and will touch on history when I get around to posting about that shoot. The Archer Ave. area feels different from the rest of the neighborhood anyway, so I’ll focus on the Archer area now.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Bridgeport these days is one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the city. Nearly 40% of the population in Bridgeport is Asian, and Chinatown sits immediately to the northeast of where I was shooting. Archer Ave. is one of the <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-12-18-9712180088-story.html" target="_blank">infamous diagonal streets</a> in Chicago, and for much of it’s length, is paralleled by the I-55 expressway as it runs out to the southwest suburbs from the city center. It’s an arterial street, and I’d bet that most Chicagoans’ only experience with Archer comes from using it as an alternate route when I-55 is a gridlocked nightmare.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Where it runs through Bridgeport, Archer is pretty grubby and run down looking in places, but the area doesn’t feel grubby. Bridgeport for years has had a kind of simmering under the surface, almost gentrifying, almost hipsterish feeling, but not quite. The people who were out in the streets when I was shooting were mainly a mixture of young adults and middle aged Asians, and the area felt, if not quite vibrant, stable and calm (traffic aside). I walked along Archer for maybe a mile and a half, popping down side streets when things looked interesting. The cloud cover was steadily increasing while I was shooting, and on my way back home, some strong storms blew through. Here are my favorite shots.</span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8ll17687HzM/X4eq3lRZ3II/AAAAAAAAHjE/2pbyqxi8OfYWnZofBrEppGBf9HJ1mtshgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="1000" height="470" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8ll17687HzM/X4eq3lRZ3II/AAAAAAAAHjE/2pbyqxi8OfYWnZofBrEppGBf9HJ1mtshgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h470/P1130943.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9-ncnp9CApQ/X4eq3jrNKlI/AAAAAAAAHjA/C98DEE1NvacferRkBIiSmbXq5yQk2pTfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130951.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1000" height="490" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9-ncnp9CApQ/X4eq3jrNKlI/AAAAAAAAHjA/C98DEE1NvacferRkBIiSmbXq5yQk2pTfwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h490/P1130951.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-orGz9_88gNU/X4erBCHrfEI/AAAAAAAAHj8/ly9zdliUGi8flFa761wUPMzylh8JkVS0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/50216847577_29ff0e4fc7_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="1000" height="304" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-orGz9_88gNU/X4erBCHrfEI/AAAAAAAAHj8/ly9zdliUGi8flFa761wUPMzylh8JkVS0wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h304/50216847577_29ff0e4fc7_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Mosaic made from three separate shots with a 4-lens Nishika camera.<br /> <p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-3906193176861508682020-09-27T00:57:00.006-05:002020-09-27T01:03:54.943-05:00Weekly Shooting Excursion X: West Loop<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">This is my tenth ‘get out of the house and go shoot something’ excursion.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was on a roll with these shoots by now, and usually slipped into ‘photographer mode’ pretty easily when out on these day trips. This shoot was in mid-July, and while it was definitely hot, it wasn’t excruciatingly hot and humid as it was for the previous few shots. On the edge of unpleasant, but manageable.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I chose the West Loop for this shoot. This is the area directly west of Chicago’s downtown core (the Loop to locals). The West Loop is an interesting neighborhood, and one that feels completely different than it did when I moved to Chicago 22 years ago. Back in the late 90’s, it was at the beginning stages of gentrification, and still more grubby than polished. It’s an old meatpacking district, and the aging warehouse buildings made good, inexpensive studio space for artists. Artists moving in led to galleries opening, and for several years the area was the home for the newer, more daring gallery scene in town (there are still galleries left, but the new, hot gallery scene is shifting again to an area northwest of the West Loop known as West Town). Condo conversions were next, then the establishment of restaurant row, a stretch of Randolph St. that’s home to several of the best known and highest rated fine dining establishments in the city. Oprah Winfrey’s studios were in the area when her tv show was in production (the lot where her studios were is now McDonald’s world headquarters). The latest addition to the area is several new high rise residential towers, replacing low rise warehouse buildings. It’s now considered one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city. A few meatpacking places and warehouses still exist there, but the vibe is more upscale urban than grungy light industrial these days.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Given how much it’s changed, it’s a surprisingly pleasant neighborhood. The side streets are pretty quiet, and while the new condo buildings aren’t as attractive as the old warehouses, it’s still a nice place to wander. It feels a lot like Chelsea in New York, although less self consciously trendy. I don’t get to this area often anymore, I used to hit the galleries every month when the exhibits changed, but haven’t done that in several years. I also have a good friend whose painting studio was in this area, on the third floor of a crumbling building that housed an industrial machine repair service on the first floor (that building is now gone, replaced by one of the newest residential skyscrapers in the neighborhood). Walking around and shooting was enjoyable, and because I hadn’t spent much time there in quite a while, with all it’s changes it felt like a brand new place.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I must have found the area photogenic, as this was my longest shoot so far, and also the one where I shot the most photos. Going through them all took much longer than expected.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here are my favorites:</span></p></div></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y_PeZwgORZw/X3ArEzTip7I/AAAAAAAAHik/tE5ONcGepL8QCuKGUX9N4lGp4lEEAU0awCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2G5BtJw60nA/X3AoHjkbk4I/AAAAAAAAHiE/ZodsVkJGb80nFKJ6yurJOOuXGBDqJS0pwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/P1130913.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-67696610059487695432020-09-13T23:44:00.000-05:002020-09-13T23:45:03.849-05:00Weekly Shooting Excursion IX: Beverly, Western Ave.<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The next installment in my weekly escape the house photo shoots wasn’t as lengthy or involved as most of the others I’d done, mainly because it was way too hot and humid to spend several hours out shooting. The entire week had temperatures in the mid to upper 90’s with 80% or higher humidity. Really uncomfortable weather, and so hot that even doing something pretty low key like walking around shooting photos could risk heat exhaustion. I kept putting off going out, and while I got a lot of work done for the upcoming Fall semester, really wanted to to shoot. I finally went out on Friday, but cut things short by limiting my shoot to walking for a mile up Western Ave, in the Beverly neighborhood on the far southwest side of Chicago.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s close to home, and the mile I walked along Western was a shorter distance than I’d covered on most of my earlier walks. It was still nasty hot and uncomfortable, but I carried water, wore lots of sunscreen, and wasn’t out for a long time.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Beverly is kind of an interesting neighborhood. There’s a lot of big, old, well maintained homes along tree lined streets there, and it has just a bit of a suburban feel while retaining an urban neighborhood vibe. It’s also known for being one of the more integrated neighborhoods in Chicago, and for having one of the lowest crime rates in the city. It’s maybe not the most exciting neighborhood, but it’s pleasant, safe, and comfortable.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Western Ave. is one of the big north/south arterial streets in Chicago, running the entire length of the city and into the suburbs. It cuts right through Beverly, where it’s mostly the same sort of business district you find in neighborhoods anywhere near the edge of a city, with lots of medical and insurance offices, service businesses, fast food, etc. Some of the buildings have a cool mid-century vibe, not too different from the types of buildings I found <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/08/weekly-shooting-excursion-vii-oak-lawn.html" target="_blank">when shooting in suburban Oak Lawn</a> a couple weeks earlier.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here’s my favorite shots from this hot, sticky photo shoot.</span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2LT2WK9LaM/X17zHDUl6PI/AAAAAAAAHgc/VeyaxCNxgJosEzXo4g_n3a5vAPMmEE9SwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130714.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2LT2WK9LaM/X17zHDUl6PI/AAAAAAAAHgc/VeyaxCNxgJosEzXo4g_n3a5vAPMmEE9SwCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130714.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wApfQaDuTp8/X17zHN_6yNI/AAAAAAAAHgk/RFcnSyeBMpYYAgHej9zkcob5AbWUiAdbQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130727.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wApfQaDuTp8/X17zHN_6yNI/AAAAAAAAHgk/RFcnSyeBMpYYAgHej9zkcob5AbWUiAdbQCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130727.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PbSLsGUSCqQ/X17zHOZ-gHI/AAAAAAAAHgg/CdwT8uxrQto88O25zzN4JKFJwctFpm84wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130737b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PbSLsGUSCqQ/X17zHOZ-gHI/AAAAAAAAHgg/CdwT8uxrQto88O25zzN4JKFJwctFpm84wCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130737b.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c7uNdfvNe9c/X17zHzhnELI/AAAAAAAAHgo/h9flJrBeOuwhpMVohoRWV7dzpWD1LQqcACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130739.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="745" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c7uNdfvNe9c/X17zHzhnELI/AAAAAAAAHgo/h9flJrBeOuwhpMVohoRWV7dzpWD1LQqcACLcBGAsYHQ/w373-h500/P1130739.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VywefjbdTIA/X17zIa6rN7I/AAAAAAAAHgs/vjYSTeSCMCcdTUIajJJmxVXZKlAGNkaogCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130746.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="1000" height="388" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VywefjbdTIA/X17zIa6rN7I/AAAAAAAAHgs/vjYSTeSCMCcdTUIajJJmxVXZKlAGNkaogCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h388/P1130746.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w7IqTWbIYGo/X17zIrbRoMI/AAAAAAAAHgw/6b6stI2wjo4ikdgrNnF0jaqHQ3y50K9-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130751.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w7IqTWbIYGo/X17zIrbRoMI/AAAAAAAAHgw/6b6stI2wjo4ikdgrNnF0jaqHQ3y50K9-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130751.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VUCieTOqqrM/X17zJILu44I/AAAAAAAAHg0/LQGMUzuaa5sUGVMdyZri-K2xx-Bl2T4ZACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130753.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1000" height="394" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VUCieTOqqrM/X17zJILu44I/AAAAAAAAHg0/LQGMUzuaa5sUGVMdyZri-K2xx-Bl2T4ZACLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h394/P1130753.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-apbfMNVKsNM/X17zJjfgvlI/AAAAAAAAHg4/XLzcFJpp4LUntjmVUo5RYJJQx4ylZU1cgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/zN50-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="1000" height="154" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-apbfMNVKsNM/X17zJjfgvlI/AAAAAAAAHg4/XLzcFJpp4LUntjmVUo5RYJJQx4ylZU1cgCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h154/zN50-10.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shot with a Nishika N800 4-lens film camera</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NQhZhxw2aNw/X17zKNyVoyI/AAAAAAAAHg8/CkVboDDdFGwpXVwiedjzBly2sHZT0jCVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/zN50-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="310" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NQhZhxw2aNw/X17zKNyVoyI/AAAAAAAAHg8/CkVboDDdFGwpXVwiedjzBly2sHZT0jCVwCLcBGAsYHQ/w155-h500/zN50-11.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shot with a Nishika N800 4-lens film camera<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-8905679581367768792020-09-03T16:48:00.013-05:002020-09-03T16:50:59.323-05:00Weekly Shooting Excursion VIII: Small Town Mid-Michigan<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My eighth weekly photo shoot was quite different from the others I’ve done this summer. I visited my sister, who lives outside of the small Michigan village I grew up in, over July 4th weekend. She was at the tail end of a five week long furlough from her job, and I had been socially isolating as well, so we discussed it and realized we both felt safe having me visit.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The town I grew up near is in the middle of mid-Michigan farm country, miles away from anything. There’s really nothing much at all to do, which makes for a relaxing change of pace, as I’ve lived in Chicago for over twenty years now. It also means that I can’t shoot the things I usually do, but I always bring a camera when I visit, and spend some time just wandering in and around her large yard shooting the foliage and rural scenes. It was baking hot and humid the entire weekend, so I didn’t even do a lot of that, but did manage some decent shots. Most of them are variations on a bit of foliage isolated against a blurred out background, and I don’t shoot that type of photo often, so it’s fun to revisit that shooting technique.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I also accompanied my sister for a quick trip into town, just a couple miles away, and shot some photos while she was running a quick errand. The town is so small I was able to cover the entire main street business district (such as it is) in less than ten minutes!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here’s the best of what I shot.</span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T2Zo5gT4Z3k/X1FjfA7KVLI/AAAAAAAAHfE/7zjnQ-ahgCM_LVFWfLrH-_gT49Y6-n13wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130606.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T2Zo5gT4Z3k/X1FjfA7KVLI/AAAAAAAAHfE/7zjnQ-ahgCM_LVFWfLrH-_gT49Y6-n13wCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130606.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0dMQCiq3vKg/X1FjferDlLI/AAAAAAAAHfM/PzBI0KwJkdkJPwIw2nB6mfbCF5UisJaiACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130609.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="745" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0dMQCiq3vKg/X1FjferDlLI/AAAAAAAAHfM/PzBI0KwJkdkJPwIw2nB6mfbCF5UisJaiACLcBGAsYHQ/w373-h500/P1130609.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nUlJNrDexqM/X1FjfYUgxGI/AAAAAAAAHfI/9hPTCy_ps5g-hBo3jOlwnJYhM1GVzNhFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130619.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nUlJNrDexqM/X1FjfYUgxGI/AAAAAAAAHfI/9hPTCy_ps5g-hBo3jOlwnJYhM1GVzNhFQCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130619.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3qJ_kvJfoec/X1Fjf1-zVxI/AAAAAAAAHfQ/E5Sq6A6ARfIVQFS63BIe_QL2NP0vhWAsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130629.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3qJ_kvJfoec/X1Fjf1-zVxI/AAAAAAAAHfQ/E5Sq6A6ARfIVQFS63BIe_QL2NP0vhWAsQCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130629.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y0M9evVjiWY/X1FjgDgDQ6I/AAAAAAAAHfU/-8ARoYdJsPMgR0mGNh0O99_RERtOwhp5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130664.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y0M9evVjiWY/X1FjgDgDQ6I/AAAAAAAAHfU/-8ARoYdJsPMgR0mGNh0O99_RERtOwhp5QCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130664.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nIc5sl5dJqU/X1FjgWa63yI/AAAAAAAAHfY/rcgBmjeR45Q-ngZGBJwwd9brCoh7yQQoACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130665.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="727" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nIc5sl5dJqU/X1FjgWa63yI/AAAAAAAAHfY/rcgBmjeR45Q-ngZGBJwwd9brCoh7yQQoACLcBGAsYHQ/w364-h500/P1130665.jpg" width="364" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KGrrTl38LEw/X1Fjg-ufPrI/AAAAAAAAHfc/4emWb8NgKecA1Zg82xWXF2bueKGe-hJSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130674.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1000" height="380" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KGrrTl38LEw/X1Fjg-ufPrI/AAAAAAAAHfc/4emWb8NgKecA1Zg82xWXF2bueKGe-hJSQCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h380/P1130674.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WfN0kvVkTHI/X1FjhYXO1JI/AAAAAAAAHfg/0_LszGa1lw4MxEjJDFCC36-UV8Nuuvu8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130688.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="1000" height="373" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WfN0kvVkTHI/X1FjhYXO1JI/AAAAAAAAHfg/0_LszGa1lw4MxEjJDFCC36-UV8Nuuvu8QCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h373/P1130688.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Fc2CdwDTEE/X1Fjh_8WfxI/AAAAAAAAHfk/rQg8NBbKy-0Uoc7kzivPvwWpX3QfxDj6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130691.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Fc2CdwDTEE/X1Fjh_8WfxI/AAAAAAAAHfk/rQg8NBbKy-0Uoc7kzivPvwWpX3QfxDj6gCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130691.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hfg50oNeQ_c/X1FjiSGxUfI/AAAAAAAAHfo/acbpnzLxpZ8EzB8MP7-8gC9gqo2uALIagCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130697.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hfg50oNeQ_c/X1FjiSGxUfI/AAAAAAAAHfo/acbpnzLxpZ8EzB8MP7-8gC9gqo2uALIagCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h500/P1130697.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VHRuFfvRhNo/X1Fjix1sKII/AAAAAAAAHfs/rC4cMzpDojACmRVlL_TDkDsi2FbJCgDJgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/zN50-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="1200" height="154" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VHRuFfvRhNo/X1Fjix1sKII/AAAAAAAAHfs/rC4cMzpDojACmRVlL_TDkDsi2FbJCgDJgCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h154/zN50-5.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Shot with a 4-lens Nishika N8000 film camera.</div><p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com1New Lothrop, MI 48460, USA43.1166949 -83.96996714.806459015197579 -119.12621968220901 71.426930784802423 -48.813714317790982tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-12707683494555576532020-08-22T17:26:00.010-05:002020-09-13T23:45:39.790-05:00Weekly Shooting Excursion VII: Oak Lawn<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My seventh weekly photo shoot was kind of a mini shoot, for a couple of reasons. First, I was pretty busy getting things ready for my Fall semester classes, which are being taught entirely online. There is a staggering amount of prep work involved in designing an online class, I’d even say that the prep work is more difficult and time consuming than actually teaching online. Second, the beautiful weather I had for <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/08/weekly-shooting-excursion-vi-west-lawn.html" target="_blank">last week’s shoot </a>had been replaced with sweltering heat and high humidity, which we seem to have had more than our fair share of in Chicago this summer. I hate hot, humid weather, and I tend to get dehydrated pretty easily, so while I really wanted to go shooting someplace, I was procrastinating it.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My solution to this mini-dilemma was leaving an hour early for my annual eye exam. My eye doctor is in Oak Lawn, a southwest Chicago suburb. I don’t often shoot in the suburbs, and generally find the urban environment closer to my personal aesthetic, but I also love mid-century architecture, and knew there was a bit of that a few blocks from the eye doctor’s office. So, I combined shooting with the appointment, and spent an hour shooting along busy, 6-lane Cicero Avenue.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It worked out nicely. While I didn’t shoot as much as I have been on these weekly excursions, I did enjoy the dated, 60’s vibe to the buildings. Shooting also distracted me from the bit of nagging worry in the back of my head. A quick haircut aside, this was my first real one on one interaction I’d had with someone outside of immediate family since the pandemic lockdown over three months earlier. It was fine, by the way. The eye doctor’s office handled things very professionally and had a distancing plan in effect.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">One additional difference, in addition to my digital camera, I also shot with a junk camera. I was doing quite a bit of shooting with cheap, vintage and modified film cameras about ten years ago, but hadn’t used any of them for a few years. I had recently uncovered a box of expired 35mm film buried in my studio closet, and decided to start using them again. For this shoot, I brought a <a href="https://fstoppers.com/film/worst-camera-ive-ever-loved-nishika-n8000-173235" target="_blank">Nishika N8000</a>, a really crappy camera with four lenses designed to shoot <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing" target="_blank">lenticular photos</a>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here’s the best of this mini shoot.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="752" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rix1OkAelgA/X0GY69PuCRI/AAAAAAAAHeE/9eN01Z0LmCoNg3yu9O2PQjcmIstzNjjlACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1130562.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l0kIPDFQ1t8/X0GY7W2EbkI/AAAAAAAAHeI/K228s30ufuYHKYDWhbsu1enl-l33N2q2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130565.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l0kIPDFQ1t8/X0GY7W2EbkI/AAAAAAAAHeI/K228s30ufuYHKYDWhbsu1enl-l33N2q2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1130565.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DPxA__qDwjU/X0GY75l3suI/AAAAAAAAHeM/O9m1awH7QuEHICzU9f6nnDbAOgyeuuUVACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130567.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="741" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DPxA__qDwjU/X0GY75l3suI/AAAAAAAAHeM/O9m1awH7QuEHICzU9f6nnDbAOgyeuuUVACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1130567.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MFAEuZfP2gE/X0GY8NXGyEI/AAAAAAAAHeQ/htvuRuWt5LwgRAlOEdVK-uQsvKaEfB8YwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/zN48-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MFAEuZfP2gE/X0GY8NXGyEI/AAAAAAAAHeQ/htvuRuWt5LwgRAlOEdVK-uQsvKaEfB8YwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/zN48-10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shot with a Nishika N8000 4-lens camera.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dn46iz5cl08/X0GY8eIEFvI/AAAAAAAAHeU/K3Mq7YsRhb8Pm9G5QZZ8qpJp-Fk0ovICQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/zN49-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dn46iz5cl08/X0GY8eIEFvI/AAAAAAAAHeU/K3Mq7YsRhb8Pm9G5QZZ8qpJp-Fk0ovICQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/zN49-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shot with a Nishika N8000 4-lens camera.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ls6as7pFvYI/X0GY8SXL1cI/AAAAAAAAHeY/RCL2ugbZigs9oHHK_dPtfExC42KMRMHHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/zN49-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ls6as7pFvYI/X0GY8SXL1cI/AAAAAAAAHeY/RCL2ugbZigs9oHHK_dPtfExC42KMRMHHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/zN49-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shot with a Nishika N8000 4-lens camera.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c0P0rHp19N0/X0GY8YtV_aI/AAAAAAAAHec/ClrZ8XaykrENF7iS2JmTvkEe17JigFPgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s285/zN49-41.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="229" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c0P0rHp19N0/X0GY8YtV_aI/AAAAAAAAHec/ClrZ8XaykrENF7iS2JmTvkEe17JigFPgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/zN49-41.gif" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Gif of the above image, showing the 3D effect the 4 lenses give.</div><p></p>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-32086818722396608722020-08-15T13:21:00.001-05:002020-08-16T11:40:42.988-05:00Weekly Shooting Excursion VI: West Lawn<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">This was my sixth week of finding a day to go out shooting, and so far it’s been my favorite of these staycation shooting excursions. I went to West Lawn, which is the neighborhood that sits immediately to the east of Midway Airport. Specifically, I walked along both sides of 63rd Street, </span>the main commercial district in the area, on the mile long stretch between Pulaski and Cicero (which are both multi-lane, very busy streets). I walked a couple blocks along Pulaski on either side of 63rd as well.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">While I had driven down this stretch of 63rd Street a few times (it’s an alternate route to Midway when Cicero is a traffic nightmare, which is often), I had never spent any time there, and didn’t even know the name of the neighborhood (I had to look it up). It was on my list of places to shoot, I’d seen from driving along 63rd Street that it looked like it could be photogenic (at least my kind of photogenic).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">As I wrote above, this has been my favorite of these weekly shooting excursions, and I’ve done several (I’m writing this several weeks after June 24, the day I actually shot these photos). It’s probably due to a couple of reasons. First, the weather was perfect. Temperature in the low 70’s (low 20’s Celsius), low humidity, mostly sunny, but with huge, fluffy clouds that look great in the photos I was shooting. I really dislike hot, sticky weather, and it was pleasurable to walk around on a day where it felt nice to be out. Second, it’s always fun to explore a new area, even if that area is a typical non-destination neighborhood on the edge of the city. Third, the neighborhood was quite pleasant. It was mostly a mix of smaller retail spaces and mid-century apartment buildings. I love mid-century architecture, and while they often don’t seem to get a lot of love, the apartments along this stretch were mostly well maintained. A couple of empty buildings aside, everything on this street was tidy and well cared for.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here are my favorite photos from this shoot.</span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AcJrtAj4f30/XzgkKqB0iYI/AAAAAAAAHcY/Gkl-C5lTvTQHekfA4O6P6OMON82Pi2YwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130320.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-udchcLWpWsE/XzgkO250qzI/AAAAAAAAHdI/lhsBjL1XUqUVasBMUrOmQ1OfJQrLt5CYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1130484.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a73Uc7wCTGM/XzgnTz4gCfI/AAAAAAAAHdo/BAJN8oyWYb4UhIOXao4bNT0CBFVyunSTACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/P1130322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a73Uc7wCTGM/XzgnTz4gCfI/AAAAAAAAHdo/BAJN8oyWYb4UhIOXao4bNT0CBFVyunSTACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1130322.jpg" /></a></div>Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-362773952238271272020-08-03T20:42:00.002-05:002020-08-16T11:40:58.861-05:00Weekly Shooting Excursion V: Rainy Chinatown Night<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Another weekly shooting excursion, this time, more rainy night shooting.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I love shooting in the city on rainy nights, and it’s pretty easy to figure out why. It’s a great way to get gorgeous shots full of color and reflected lights. Of course, it’s also easy to get wet and cold, and to get blurry photos from raindrops on the camera lens and shooting with long shutter speeds, but it’s worth the inconvenience. I’ve been fortunate to shoot on rainy nights in a few places-Boston (that was a fun one, it was my first time in the city, and wandering alone on an overly chilly mid-summer night in the rain in an unfamiliar place with no rainwear was oddly enjoyable), Madison, WI on a stormy night last Thanksgiving weekend, dodging hailstones while shooting, <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/07/weekly-shooting-excursion-ii-rainy-blue.html" target="_blank">twice in Blue Island</a>, a Chicago suburb close to where I live. I don’t get to do it often-it’s not always raining at night, of course, and when it does, I don’t have my camera with me, or am ready for bed, or just don’t feel like doing it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I was happy, then, to check the weather report and find that storms were forecast to move into the Chicago area right as night was falling. I chose Chinatown to shoot. I’ve shot so many times in that neighborhood over the years that I’ve kind of used it up photographically speaking, but a lot of the businesses have bright LED lights, and I knew it would be a good, easy shoot. I arrived in Chinatown right before sunset, and my first shots have a twilight-gray feel I quite like. It was really pouring for much of the time I was shooting-the waterproof jacket I was wearing turned out to be not as waterproof as advertised, and I was soaked to the skin by the time I was finished. I didn’t mind, I’ve always enjoyed walking in the rain, and it was a warm night, so it actually felt really good.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here’s the best of what I shot.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Next up in my weekly shooting excursions was Hyde Park. This was my fourth weekly shooting trip, and by now, I was settling into the routine of weekly shooting, and was more comfortable with being out in public with people around. I’m very diligent with my mask wearing, being outside makes it easier to maintain social distancing, and being around others felt mostly fine. Maybe my comfort level was to blame, but for some reason, the photography gods did not bestow their blessings this day, and I not only was not finding much of interest to shoot, but I didn’t like most of what I actually did shoot. When reviewing my photos at home, I threw out probably 80% of them as not being worth working on. While maybe not the most productive trip photographically, I enjoyed walking through the neighborhood. Hyde Park is always a nice place to visit.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I don’t blame the area. I’ve always loved Hyde Park, it’s probably my favorite Chicago neighborhood. It may be the urban college town vibe. I lived in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan most of my adult life before relocating to Chicago, and have always liked the feel of a college town. When I moved to the city in the late 90’s, I looked at several apartments in Hyde Park before settling on one in a different neighborhood, but have visited the area many, many times over the years I’ve lived in Chicago.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Part of the reason I didn’t get a lot of good shots may have been the area where I shot. I avoided the <a href="https://architecture.uchicago.edu/photos/" target="_blank">University of Chicago</a> campus, which is full of beautiful gray neo-Gothic architecture and also some great contemporary buildings, as I had shot there many times before. I also avoided the lakefront, even though <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory_Point_(Chicago)" target="_blank">there’s a park</a> there that offers great views of downtown Chicago. I focused instead on the northern edge of the neighborhood, from roughly 51st St. (the official border with Kenwood, the neighborhood to the north) to 55th St. I ventured a couple blocks north into Kenwood as well.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">When reviewing and post processing my photos later, I found that I didn’t like anything I was doing in color, and ended up processing all my Hyde Park photos as B&W.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<br />Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0Hyde Park, Chicago, IL, USA41.7947665 -87.59167529999999141.77109 -87.632015799999991 41.818443 -87.551334799999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-1090812260724490862020-07-13T17:37:00.000-05:002020-07-13T17:37:12.810-05:00Recent iPhoneography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I haven't just been going on weekly shooting excursions this summer, I've also been making a lot of work with my iPad and various apps. Here are some examples of recent work. All of these started with photos shot from various old magazines, textbooks, etc. using my iPad's camera, and were worked with various apps. I mainly use Procreate for the overall design and construction, but often other apps are involved as well. I use Snapseed to clean up the photos and do basic post production, for example. My love of both mid-century design and contemporary Japanese graphic design are evident in these. I do not consider myself a graphic designer, but I am influenced by design. I don't consider these collage, although there is a collage aspect to some of them. They don't look like or share much of an aesthetic with most iPhonography I've seen either. Not sure what that makes them!</div>
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<br />Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-49706993506896955382020-07-12T18:18:00.000-05:002020-08-16T11:41:47.367-05:00Weekly Shooting Excursion III: Little Village<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My third get out of the house shooting excursion was a fun one. I went to Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago’s southwest side. Like the nearby Pilsen neighborhood, Little Village is a largely Mexican area, with over 80% of the residents of Mexican descent. Unlike Pilsen, it’s not gentrifying, and the growing hipster presence in Pilsen is replaced here with a sturdy working class vibe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It has a vibrant street scene, with lots of street vendors along the main commercial area on 26th St. Unlike my first two recent photo excursions, which were pretty quiet, there were a decent number of people out when I was there. This was the first time in months that I’d been someplace and seen people out in the street, and while it felt a little odd at first, I got used to it pretty quickly.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I chose Little Village because I like the area, and while I hadn’t shot there before, I knew it would be photogenic. I was also hoping that 26th St. would be closed. Chicago had been formulating a plan to close certain streets to traffic, in order to allow restaurants to safely sit people outdoors during the pandemic. Several blocks of 26th St. were on the closure list, and I figured being able to safely wander into the street to shoot would make it easier to compose good shots. However, when I got there, I found the street open, even though right before I left I had read online that it would be closed. This was probably due to the recent demonstrations and looting. Several storefronts along 26th St. were boarded up, and I later read online that there was some looting in the area. Chicago being close to moving to stage 4 in it’s pandemic plan, which would allow limited indoor seating in restaurants, may also have been a contributing factor. At any rate, the non stop traffic along 26th St. made shooting a little challenging at times, but I still got some good shots.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Side streets were much quieter, I was able to get some shots without trying to time them between cars.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here are my favorites from this shoot.</span></div>
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<br />Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0Little Village, Chicago, IL, USA41.8445273 -87.705044641.7972118 -87.785725599999992 41.891842800000006 -87.6243636tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-48656015001095192942020-07-02T00:01:00.000-05:002020-08-16T11:42:07.402-05:00Weekly Shooting Excursion II: Rainy Blue Island Night<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A few days after I pushed myself out the door to shoot along <a href="http://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2020/06/weekly-shooting-excursion-i-olde-western.html" target="_blank">Olde Western Ave. in Blue Island,</a> I went on my second 'make myself go out shooting to stay sane during the pandemic' shoot. This one was spontaneous-rain storms moved in to the area right as it was getting dark, and I love shooting in a city on a rainy night, so I grabbed my camera and returned to Blue Island. This time, I stuck to the downtown area, a stretch of Western Ave. a few blocks long. I’d done this same thing-shooting in Blue Island on a rainy night-almost exactly two years previously, and while I didn’t want to repeat myself, I knew I’d get good shots there, and it’s close to home. Comparing these to <a href="https://lastlightbender.blogspot.com/2017/10/blue-island-rainy-night.html" target="_blank">the photos I shot two years ago</a>, I’m pretty happy. There was more rain during this shoot, leading to wetter streets and more light reflecting around. I think I’m also better at post processing now, especially minimizing the annoying orange-yellow hue produced by the street lights in many cities (Chicago is in the middle of a multi-year plan to replace all it’s street lights with LED lights, which are more energy efficient and more neutral in color, so that might not be an issue much longer).</span></div>
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<br />Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0Blue Island, IL, USA41.6572562 -87.68004859999999241.6098007 -87.760729599999991 41.7047117 -87.5993676tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-7372816665480141242020-06-28T14:49:00.000-05:002020-08-16T11:42:29.509-05:00Weekly Shooting Excursion I: Olde Western<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">With the world on various stages of lockdown due to the Covid-19 virus, getting out of the house for any reason has been difficult and often stressful.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Like much of the world’s population, I’ve been home since mid March, often leaving the house just for groceries once a week.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>This has hit hard for me as an artist and photographer. Getting out of the house and being in a different space, be it a neighborhood walk or more extensive travel, has always been important for me. It recharges my batteries and invigorates my studio work. In addition, my work has become more photo based and less collage/mixed media over the past few years, and my photography has become more street-based (although its emphasis on the built environment is not what many, including myself, would consider street photography).</div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">With travel not being possible, vacation plans cancelled, and with teaching duties finishing for the summer, I knew I had to figure something out, and decided to push myself out of the house at least once a week to shoot. This wasn’t a new idea, for years I’ve visited various parts of the city for the sole purpose of shooting. I live in Chicago, which is a fairly photogenic city with a variety of shooting experiences available, from downtown skyscrapers to commercial districts away from the city center, and affluent, well kept areas to rundown, boarded up areas well into their decline. Lots of photographic potential which I’ve explored often.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">What was new was making it a weekly occurrence, and having to push myself out the door. Weeks of seclusion and lack of knowledge about the virus had me questioning how safe it was to be out in public, and I had concerns about how others would react to seeing someone wandering around with cameras when we’re supposed to be isolating. Luckily, those concerns have lessened significantly (if not completely ended) as I’ve gone out on a few photo shoots. I wear a mask, avoid others (a natural inclination as a slightly introverted person), and try to appreciate and fully experience the area I’m in while shooting. Stay at home orders were lifted for Chicago in early June, and as long as I’m being careful, I’ve felt mostly comfortable going out.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My first summer shoot was on a scorching hot Memorial Day weekend. As a test, I picked an area I figured would be pretty quiet. I went to Olde Western Ave. in Blue Island, a suburb directly south of Chicago. I’ve shot in Blue Island many, many times. It’s close to home, and has a lot of older buildings in its commercial district, which I generally favor when shooting. On all these shooting trips, however, I’d never made it to Olde Western Ave. It’s a small street, maybe three blocks in length, isolated from Blue Island’s main commercial area by the Cal-Sag shipping canal and a large bridge built in the early 1960’s which rerouted traffic.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s a cute, quiet street with a small town feel, and these days is largely comprised of bars and restaurants (all closed when I visited). I shot along this street and some of the side streets, then walked a few blocks south, where Olde Western rejoins Western Avenue and becomes more of an industrial corridor.</span></div>
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<br />Tyler Hewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09326657173814004230noreply@blogger.com0Old Western Ave, Blue Island, IL 60406, USA41.6510093 -87.681342617.571443799999997 -128.9899391 65.7305748 -46.372746099999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449313870452311034.post-49791915218223696412020-05-22T11:29:00.000-05:002020-05-22T11:29:45.489-05:00ハイキュー<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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iPhoneography, 2020</div>
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I think I was channeling <a href="https://www.alvinlustig.com/" target="_blank">Alvin Lustig</a> when I made this. I love mid century graphic design, and every once in a while I make something that shows that influence pretty strongly.</div>
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This started as a column of grainy B&W photos in an old sports instruction textbook. I shot that page with my iPad, and used iColorama and Procreate to make the piece.</div>
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I was thinking of titling it ハイキュー (Haikyuu), after the popular volleyball themed sports anime, but that seemed a little too cheesy, so I left it untitled. Cheesiness in a post title is fine!</div>
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