Woodside Twilight in Black and White

I really enjoy doing black and white photos, but I don't have many opportunities to do black white for commercial jobs. I shot this for a real estate listing by Scott Dancer, Coldwell Banker, Woodside, CA, and I delivered it to the client in color.

Many architects and architectural photographers feel that black and white can help to emphasize the design of the structure. One of my favorite architectural photographers, Ezra Stoller, shot mostly in black and white. And the mostly widely known architectural photo, by Julius Shulman, of Richard Neutra's Kaufmann house, is in black and white.

Recent Eichler Home Listing

Here is a rear exterior shot of a nicely updated Eichler Home in the Greenmeadow area of Palo Alto, which was on the market recently.

Fujifilm Introduces a New Compact Digital Camera

Fujifilm has recently added the Finepix X100 to its line, and I am very interested in this camera: http://www.finepix-x100.com/ All the reviews I have seen indicate that it is a very well made and high-performing camera, primarily oriented toward professionals and advanced amateurs who want a camera that is very compact and flexible and who do not need interchangeable lenses.  The camera has a 35mm equivalent (full frame) focal-length lens, which serves very well as a normal-to-slightly-wideangle focal length. This camera seems ideally suited for candid "street" photography. The only cons I have read about are that the user interface and some of the ergonomics could be a bit better, but the user interface could potentially be dealt with in a firmware update.  Here is a review of the camera on the Luminous Landscape website: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/fujifilm_x100_test_report.shtml

I plan to get one of these cameras within the next year, unless something even better comes out by then.

Recent Work

Here are photos from a recent real estate listing shoot for 700 Benvenue Avenue, Los Altos, CA, for Ken DeLeon, Keller Williams, Palo Alto, who, by the way, is on track to be the number one real estate agent in the US this year, in terms of dollar volume.

This was a fun one because it was very well staged and I got to do some nice twilight shots. Have I mentioned how much I like to do twilights?

And here is a double page ad for the listing in the Palo Alto Weekly.