Author Archives: Boon.Vong
Miss Viet =)
MUA and Hair: Nhi Model: Christina, Miss Vietnam Georgia 2010 Location: My front yard 🙂 Technical Notes: All primes on this one, that is, lenses with a fixed focal length. 50mm, 85mm, and 105mm. Have a hard time deciding which one is my favorite for portraiture, so I just use them all.
Continue readingAtlanta Dragon Boat Festival 2010 Photos
View all posts tagged: Atlanta Dragon Boat Festival Notes: Thanks to everyone for coming out to participate in this year’s Dragon Boat Race! I think the best times were when we just sat around and talked and when we threw the football and frisbee. Oddly enough, I didn’t take a single picture of a boat or heat this year. I did […]
Continue readingDragon Con 2010 in Infrared Photos
Notes: Didn’t get to shoot much of the parade in IR due to me forgetting to charge the battery…but what I did get sure was creepy looking… 😈
Continue readingDragon Con 2010 Photos and Portraits
Dragon Con 2010 Photos Notes: Photos and images from the annual Dragon Con parade / event in Atlanta. Depending on where you stood, the light was really nice for photos that morning. It makes sense to wait for the right passages of light and color, and combined with large aperture lenses to do justice to […]
Continue readingYou Can’t Go Home Again
I’m sure most of us have mixed emotions when it comes to thinking about the places where we grew up. In movies and tv, you see it a lot, famous people and athletes returning to their humble homes with a lit match or a bulldozer in tow. For regular followers of my work, I’m sure […]
Continue readingSame as it ever was…
A Photo Essay about the change in the technology that we use to create and share, but not a change in how we view the things most important to us.
Continue readingSummertime Dragon Boat Practice ’10
Notes: Dragon Boat practice at the lake, it’s not too late to join our team! Come out for papaya salad! 🙂
Continue readingGear
Notes: Just some random gear talk. Nowadays people enjoy talking about photography and photography related gear just as much as taking the pictures–or perhaps even more so…hopefully most of the shutter bugs out there drive their machines once in awhile. The iPhone 4 camera seems to have something like a ~35mm equivalent f/22 lens. Which in visual […]
Continue readingFigure Drawing – 8-4-2010 – Atlanta Artists Center
Charcoal on Canson Ingres | Sketchbook Pro for iPad + Pogo Sketch 🙂
Continue readingToday Was A Fairytale
Notes: …inbetween snaps I think about it, I sing the songs in my head, the ones that in any other situation, sitting in traffic or sitting on the couch, get drowned out by other concerns, but at the right time, it works, it tugs, it pulls, it makes you aware of the moment, the ones […]
Continue readingArt in Progress: Victoria
Notes: Messing around with Sketchbook Pro on the iPad…perhaps this will get me back into the groove…
Continue readingSummer Camp
H.A.G.S! (Have a Great Summer!) Thanks to LAS for again organizing the Kid’s mini summer camp. Also thanks to Wat Lao Buddhakhanti for allowing us the space to teach and play.
Continue readingPhotoVoice
The best way to learn, is to teach. Thanks for listening to my ramblings on photography! Notes: Great job everyone!! It’s never the camera, it’s always the person behind it. I also learned a lot, and nice to be around people with an awareness of the issues in our community. Any workshop out there can teach […]
Continue readingFigure Drawing – 6-30-2010 – Atlanta Artists Center
30 min pose, Charcoal on Canson Bisque 15 min pose, warmup drawing, Charcoal on Newsprint
Continue reading