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Random shot from the EFF Pioneer Awards.

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Sep 212013

I shot the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Awards (EFF) Pioneer Awards yesterday. It was amazing. Lawrence Lessig spoke. Aaron Swartz was awarded posthumously. Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras were awarded and were there remotely. (Sad that they fear to travel to their own country because of government overreach)

I got a lot of amazing shots, event photography is one of my things. I’m going to turn most of them over to the EFF to use as they wish. I’m just going to share this one shot that I took for fun. The event was at The Lodge at the Regency Center, which is AMAZING. Passed by this place on Van Ness hundreds of times, never knew it was so cool. Big and old and classy and wood. Cage elevator with an elevator operator.

Around sunset the light started streaming in and I had a photographer fit. I was shooting just for the light. I caught this silhouette of the bartender and I like it a lot.

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Alex Schoenfeldt Photography. San Francisco Event Photography

Happy New Year from Alex Schoenfeldt Photography

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Dec 302012

2012 was an amazing year, thanks to all of you. With the weddings already on the books, the new Street View thing, some corporate events I’ve got lined up, 2013 is looking like it’s going to be awesome.

I’m not sure what you celebrate, but whatever it is I hope your celebrations have been fantastic.

I’m going to leave you with a holiday photo, the tree in San Francisco City Hall. A giant evergreen covered in origami paper cranes (they symbolize peace) made by local children.

San Francisco City Hall Holiday Tree covered in origami paper cranes.

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Kelly Clarkson live in concert in Corte Madera, CA

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Nov 282012

Microsoft is opening a series of retail stores. I got hired to do three days of photography around the opening of their new store in Corte Madera. It all culminated in a free concert by pop star Kelly Clarkson.

I am not in the target audience for her music, but I will tell you that Kelly Clarkson is an incredibly nice person. Warm and kind and genuine and generous.

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Alex Schoenfeldt Photography, San Francisco Bay Area Event 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.

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 8) 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.

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