I am a photographer in San Francisco. I shoot people.Tumblr (3.0; @bradwennerphoto)http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksrc2gpYjq1qzrfiho1_r1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I love going to <a href="http://www.boneroom.com/">natural history stores</a>, they have so much cool stuff.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/236275412http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/236275412Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:08:00 -0500<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksk0oqyMXd1qzrfiho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/232217110http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/232217110Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:19:38 -0500<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqjvyp6Mud1qzrfiho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I have a confession to make - I don’t really like cameras.</p> <p>I was talking about this with a friend the other day. I think there are two kinds of photographers - <a href="http://www.fredmiranda.com">people</a> who are really interested in <a href="http://www.dpreview.com">cameras</a> in and of themselves, and people who are really interested in images. I shoot with Canons most of the time, but one light tight box is as good as the next. It seems weird to have an allegiance to one brand or to have strong feelings about them. Not that I don’t love using them, because I obviously do. I like looking through the viewfinder and finding that composition that works, and I have to admit that the sound a Hasselblad makes when you press the shutter is pretty exciting. I’ve heard many people say that photographers are just people without the dedication to become painters, and I think there is a lot of truth in that. For me cameras are just a means to an end. To be interested in cameras would be like a carpenter who cared about hammers more than building houses.</p> <p>When I first read the blog of <a href="http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/">Chase Jarvis</a> I thought his “the best camera is the one you have with you” mantra summed up pretty perfectly how I felt about cameras. And I have to agree with him that one of the most exciting photo technology things to come in the last few years isn’t that the 5Dmk2 has a self-cleaning sensor or that Leica finally made a digital rangefinder - but the iPhone. Finally there is a camera that is always with me, however imperfect it may be technically. Chase’s new “Best Camera” iPhone app has been talked about endlessly elsewhere on the internet so I’m not going to go on about that, other than to say that I’ve had a lot of fun playing with it lately (I took the above image with it on the way to job the other day). I like having something in my pocket that allows me at all times to work out a composition or capture something interesting.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/196960372http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/196960372Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:30:24 -0400<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqe33aXkSK1qzrfiho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’ve been working on some product shots for San Francisco based <a href="http://www.photojojo.com">Photojojo</a> this past week. Initially I had a hard time coming up with an idea for this photo frame - I wanted to emphasize the ‘magnetic’ part without just sticking some magnets on it. I ended up with this solution and am pretty happy with how it turned out.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/194387562http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/194387562Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:18:46 -0400<a href="http://ffffound.com/home/bradw/found/">My FFFFound Stream</a>: <p>A few months ago I got an invite to image bookmarking service ffffound.com and have been using it to save interesting images I come across. Click to look at things I’m looking at.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/182244572http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/182244572Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:57:00 -0400<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpky8hb3VK1qzrfiho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My friend has like a dozen of these so I borrowed one. I thought it would be a nice change of pace from the dead animals.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/181622506http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/181622506Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:43:00 -0400<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp4o6kVELd1qzrfiho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/174561289http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/174561289Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:44:44 -0400<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp0ufyKiWI1qzrfiho1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’ve recently become interested in still images. This is kind of a departure for me, because besides for some assignments I did in school I have always shot people. I love portraiture and I like that interaction with the subject, but lately I have been thinking that what <i>really</i> excites me about making images is the staging part of it, lighting the scene, and putting everything together.</p> <p>I realize that this image and the deer one both have strong people-like subjects and are basically just portraits using inanimate animal objects, but I am having fun exploring new territory and am going to continue with it and see what happens.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/172760313http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/172760313Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:09:00 -0400<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/cjoPpUeUgpyd9j3iA2tIcZ8Lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I found a few rolls of film I shot on my road trip out to California last year that I never got developed. This is from a small town in New Mexico where my car broke down. I spent a lot of time wandering around the abandoned buildings with my dog and Hasselblad.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/142473691http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/142473691Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:48:00 -0400<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/cjoPpUeUgpsaxfr8lgWae40co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Added a half dozen images to my website yesterday, will be putting up some more soon.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/139772425http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/139772425Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:56:07 -0400<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/cjoPpUeUgpjxkql9IcAGR605o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My good friends Keith & Laura are getting married at the end of this month. We spent the 4th hanging out on the beach with my dog and taking some photos.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/136062173http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/136062173Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:20:10 -0400<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/cjoPpUeUgopm0shfomi1Ker1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I have some recent tearsheets I need to scan, here’s one I did a few months ago for American Motorcyclist.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/123496870http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/123496870Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:03:38 -0400<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/cjoPpUeUgnub5maoFCdMBMo9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Website update coming soon.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/112018359http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/112018359Sat, 23 May 2009 16:18:36 -0400<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/cjoPpUeUglmggterpFIzVxIoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Had the chance to do some personal work this past week. Many thanks to my friend Leigh Poindexter for lending her styling skills and her shop <a href="http://http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7019240">Very Happy Everything</a> for the clothes, props, and sweet taxidermy animals.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/90760051http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/90760051Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:05:43 -0400<p><img src="http://sodiumthiosulfate.org/dump/skysingle.jpg"/><img src="http://sodiumthiosulfate.org/dump/startrails1.jpg"/></p> <p>I have been kind of neglecting this blog, but for good reason - I have been busy working with a stylist friend of mine on a personal project that I am really excited about. This past weekend I used it as a convenient excuse to take a little vacation to go down to Big Sur for some camping right along the river among the redwoods. I have had such tunnel vision since moving west that I kind of forgot that there is more to California than the Bay Area. Driving down Highway 1 for the first time was a great experience, and I could not believe how beautiful the forest was. Perfect weather, and I got what I needed photo wise - the above two images are of the sky near the campground. The first is a single 30 second exposure, and the second is a combination of 80 of those showing the rotation of the earth on it’s axis.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/85322882http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/85322882Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:45:22 -0400<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/cjoPpUeUgjbi96tdyKoEpcSCo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Another image from the “sleepwalker” shoot I did last month.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/74137988http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/74137988Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:50:00 -0500<p>I sent out my first email newsletter yesterday. If you didn’t get it you can <a href="http://www.bradwenner.com/contact.html">sign up</a> on my website to get futures ones or <a href="http://campaign-archive.com/?u=c8af4b94e2a6e5f4027e06134&id=383864f3b0">click here</a> to see the current one.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/72448031http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/72448031Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:58:52 -0500“Where there is much light there is also much shadow.”<br/><br/> - <em>Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, inventor of the x-ray</em>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/71250361http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/71250361Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:16:51 -0500<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/cjoPpUeUgin5s1f5lYPntBqHo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>When I was a kid I was pretty obsessed with Legos, my brother and our friends would build castles and spaceships for hours. Setting up for this shot reminded me of that. Many thanks to my multi-talented friend Teresa Lee for modeling and prop styling.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/70036832http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/70036832Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:55:10 -0500<p>Last night was quite a shock, a protest over the shooting of Oscar Grant by a transit police officer on New Year’s Eve turned my normally quiet neighborhood into a war zone full of riot cops, tear gas, and burning cars. Grant - who was unarmed and cooperating when he was detained - was shot in the back while face down on the train station floor. I managed to get a few photos before things got too dangerous. Some of my less adventurous neighbors asked if I would share them online so I put a few on Flickr - one of them is being featured over on the <a href="http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/01/08/oakland-last-night/">Flickr Blog</a>.</p> <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/3180260282_1138ce96dc_o.jpg"/><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3532/3179421563_18ec42c247_o.jpg"/><br/> Riot cops near 14th & Jackson</p> <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/3180254330_21f4c25949_o.jpg"/><br/> Looking down 14th St towards the city center after the mob passed</p> <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3497/3180254412_a118a4c587_o.jpg"/></p> <p>It’s unfortunate that this is what it took for the city to pay attention. There have been police and helicopters all over downtown today, I hope the violence doesn’t continue.</p>http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/69260913http://bradwennerphoto.tumblr.com/post/69260913Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:42:00 -0500