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Michael Montesa Photo Blog
Durango and Silveton Railroad Museum Train
010 months ago
Classic Steam Engine train ride from Durango to Silverton, Colorado – July 3rd, 2011
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HDR PHOTOS
01 year ago
by Michael
in Photography
Red Rock Crossing/Crescent Moon Ranch in Sedona, Arizona using the Grunge HDR Technique
Red Rock Crossing/Crescent Moon Ranch in Sedona, Arizona using the Normal HDR Technique
Trocadero in Paris using the Grunge HDR Technique
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IPAD PAINTING
01 year ago
Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.
We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.
Read more at the Dentsu London blog:
http://www.dentsulondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/light-painting/
and at the BERG blog:
http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/magic-ipad-light-painting/
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EDWARD AND HAZEL WEDDING ALBUM
0Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary Hazel and Edward. I wish you happiness and a blessed marriage from God.
EXPIRED POLAROIDS
01 year ago
A few years back, I had a photoshoot and the day before my photoshoot I went to a Photo store to buy my Polaroids for test shots. Unfortunately, the store run out of stock but the clerk told me that he had a box of expired Polaroid Polapan ISO 80 and he would sell it to me for just $8. The polaroids were about 4 years old, unopened and stored properly in the fridge. He told me to try it out and see what happens. I was kinda hesitant but tried it anyway. You will never know what you will going to get from expired Polaroids because the chemicals changes overtime but at the same time it was kinda exciting. The photos below are results. I fell in love with the color. It looks more like the ’60s and looks very vintage. From then on, I was on the hunt for expired Polaroids and the older the better. Little did I know that the expired polaroids is like a commodity. Sometimes it will sell for $40-$50 on eBay and you can’t even find it locally. Luckily this time, found some cheaper polaroids on eBay but the prices are still above $20. So if you know where to get some, send me a note. I will be delightfully grateful.
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CAMERA FROM THE PAST
01 year ago
by Michael
in Photography
Many years ago, I fell in love with the art of Photography but it was only a decade ago when I acquired my very own proper equipment. Before I owned my SLR, I was already playing with my very first “Digital Camera.” My first Digital camera was a Ricoh RDC-2 and it was a nice toy. Having that camera at that time was like glimpsing on the near future (fast forward to now). This camera has a removable LCD Screen, built-in flash, ISO 70, 3x 50mm to 150mm zoom with f/2 lens, uses flash memory card, captures still image with sound, records sound only, captures documents and does continuous shooting mode (until the battery runs out and that means after 5 minutes). The sad thing about this camera was it only captures less than a megapixel (410,000 CCD) and at that time it was kinda good enough for me (from a digital camera). I even found a Ricoh printer that was compatible with the camera. The printer didn’t required any ink, just a UV activated paper which kinda acts like a modern polaroid. I still have this camera and it still works.
| TEM | DESCRIPTIONS |
| CCD | 410,000pixel CCD with complementary color checkers, Progressive |
| CCD size | 1/4″ |
| Built-in Flash | Effective distance 0.25-5m Auto/On/Off |
| LCD monitor | 1.8″ TFT LCD (Optionally available) |
| Finder | Optical |
| Recording media | Internal 2MB PCMCIA card |
| Resolution | 768 x 576 |
| Image quality mode | F/N/E |
| Recording capacity (Image recording mode) | Internal: F 10/N 20/E 41 5MB ATA: F 25/N 51/E 103 |
| File size | F: 192KB N: 96KB E: 48KB |
| File format | DSC(J6I)/Sound(J6S) |
| Recording Mode | Still Image/Audio/ Still Image+Audio/Document/Continuous |
| Sound recording |  |
| Remote Control Unit | |
PHOTOS FROM THE ARCHIVE
01 year ago
by Michael
in Photography
THE GETTY CENTER
I believed I shot this 10 years ago during my Photography School years. I was so drawn with architectures and designs and my interest at the time was shooting the lines and spaces of modern buildings. The Getty Center was my favorite subject and still is on this day. I can never get sick of shooting that building. That Center was very relaxing and inspiring not just the its architecture alone but what it represents and showcase to the masses. This place is on top the mountain and can only be reach by tram. The view from the Center is breathtaking and from up there, you can see the downtown Los Angeles, the Pacific Ocean and the surrounding mountains.
The photos were taken with Nikon 8008s Film SLR and with Kodak Tri-X film.
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THE NEW BLOG
01 year ago
A blog by Michael Montesa Photography
Finally, my blog is done. I’m done fixing all the kinks and added some more features. I really loved lightboxes and found the one I really liked. I played with lots of codes (Jquerry, lightbox2, lightbox, lightbox plus, etc) and so far lightview plus impressed me the most. Very simple, quick and has a minimalistic design (my kinda thing). Of course, the code is not free but its not expensive either. Hopefully, this site will inspire me to write often and encourage me to go out more to find more interesting subjects to shoot or to focus on. As you know, it’s summer time here in the Arizona and going outside during daytime is not really an option if you want to stay outside to shoot. Not in the 100 degrees weather anyway. I really don’t see myself baking in the sun and the heat and I doesn’t go well at all. I’m just saying. Check out my new site and let me know what you think. Feel free to give me some suggestions or comments.
My next project will be my Portfolio so stay tune for that. I’m just waiting for the HTML5 code to finalize and it should be up and running shortly.
