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Professional portrait photography, Dr. Karen Peters of East Bay Naturopathic Clinic
I’ve been shooting a lot of portrait photography recently. I shoot for business people, actors, students, people who are doing online dating. Here is a shot from last week of Dr. Karen Peters of East Bay Naturopathic Clinic. As you can see, she’s really beautiful. However, she was terminally camera shy. She hates having her [...]
Art photography, Long exposure of the Arroyo Seco river
Every year around Easter my daughter and a group of my closest friends go camping at the Indians campground in the Los Padres National Forest. It is one of the best parts of my year. I often do some photography while I’m there. This time, the fun stuff was putting a strong IR filter on [...]
15 second exposures of a night wedding at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park
Kate got married outside at night in the middle of winter (barefoot too, and sh was really hoping for snow!) at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. I had two cameras. One of them on me with a flash to capture the wedding as it happened with good lighting. But I knew that this [...]
Two more candid portraits in my experiment with selective focus.
Yesterday I posted a candid street portrait taken with a bellows lens by Lensbaby in the mission district in San Francisco. Here are two more photos from my experimenting that I think hold up. They are a lot more dramatic in their effect, as they were taken at a wide open aperture. (yesterdays shot was [...]
San Francisco Street Photography, Guardian Angles 16th and Mission, taken with a bellows lens.
Today I was walking around the Mission in San Francisco getting some random street shots with a trick lens on my camera. The lens is made by a company called Lensbaby. It has bellows on it and it rotates in strange ways, creating interesting effects with focus. I had lots of fun with the lens, [...]
Five year old girl in facepaint.
This photo was taken at a child’s birthday party. There was a tea party (back when that meant a party where you drink tea and not a political movement) and a treasure hunt and face painting. The girl in the photo is obviously of Asian descent. I think her heritage is Korean, but I am [...]
Bar Mitzvah photos from an Orthodox Temple in Oakland, and a nearby rose garden
There are a few of my favorite shots from a recent Bar Mitzvah. The Bar Mitzvah ceremony itself happens on the Sabbath, so I am not allowed to photograph the ceremony at this Temple. During the rehearsal I had free reign, and after the rehearsal we got some shots in the temple and we wend [...]
The eye’s have it (phone photo)
At the park on a nice sunny day with my daughter and some friends. Zaria is laying down on her mom’s la, and the sun is hitting her pretty blue eye just so. This was one of those grab the camera you have with you moments, which was my phone. The iPhone does pretty well [...]
Product Photography
In my theme this week about some of the other types of photography I do. I also do product photography. In this case, “Art Photography” might be a better description, but not in the usual sense of the photo is a piece of art (it may be, but not the point) but in the sense [...]
Architectural interior photography
Most of my photography has people in it. I do weddings, events, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, family portraits, group portraits, headshots, and whatever else I am forgetting, but usually there is a person in the picture. That does not mean that photos with people is all I do. In a few hours I am shooting [...]

Professional portrait photography, Dr. Karen Peters of East Bay Naturopathic Clinic

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May 092012

I’ve been shooting a lot of portrait photography recently. I shoot for business people, actors, students, people who are doing online dating.

Here is a shot from last week of Dr. Karen Peters of East Bay Naturopathic Clinic. As you can see, she’s really beautiful. However, she was terminally camera shy. She hates having her photo taken. No problem! I’m generally a relaxed person. We chat, we shoot, we keep shooting we keep talking. Eventually people will either relax, or I catch them in-between moments. You can’t be stressed all the time, and I’m fast.

Photo © Alex Schoenfeldt 2012. All rights reserved.
Alex Schoenfeldt Photography

Art photography, Long exposure of the Arroyo Seco river

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Apr 182012

Every year around Easter my daughter and a group of my closest friends go camping at the Indians campground in the Los Padres National Forest. It is one of the best parts of my year. I often do some photography while I’m there. This time, the fun stuff was putting a strong IR filter on my lens and getting some long exposure shots of the Arroyo Seco river.

This photo is a 25 second exposure (I know, my previous post is a long exposure shot too, must be the flavor of the month.

It was just after a storm, so I got some shots of clouds as well.

All photos @ Alex Schoenfeldt 2012
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San Francisco Photographer

15 second exposures of a night wedding at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park

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Apr 022012

Kate got married outside at night in the middle of winter (barefoot too, and sh was really hoping for snow!) at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.

I had two cameras. One of them on me with a flash to capture the wedding as it happened with good lighting. But I knew that this alone would not convey the full impact of being outside at night, so I had a second camera on a tripod. I used 15 second exposures to capture both the light and the feeling of the wedding. In some of the images, you can see me and the flash my camera produced more than once in the same frame.

I’ve included not only 15 second exposure images, but also a few of the “regular” shots from the wedding, for context, and because I like them.

All photos © Alex Schoenfeldt 2006. All rights reserved.
Yosemite National Park Wedding Photography

Two more candid portraits in my experiment with selective focus.

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Mar 292012

Yesterday I posted a candid street portrait taken with a bellows lens by Lensbaby in the mission district in San Francisco.

Here are two more photos from my experimenting that I think hold up. They are a lot more dramatic in their effect, as they were taken at a wide open aperture. (yesterdays shot was f With a bellows lens and a wide open aperture, the amount of detail in the photo that is truly in focus is paper thin. If you like that effect of not is another story, but I think it works in these two.

San Francisco Street Photography, Guardian Angles 16th and Mission, taken with a bellows lens.

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Mar 292012

Today I was walking around the Mission in San Francisco getting some random street shots with a trick lens on my camera. The lens is made by a company called Lensbaby. It has bellows on it and it rotates in strange ways, creating interesting effects with focus.

I had lots of fun with the lens, and I got some weird shots, but this was the one that I think holds up the most on it’s photographic merits, and not just because it has trick effects.

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