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Greetings & Welcome
posted on March 17th, 2008 by park in Uncategorized

Welcome to my blog. My name really is Park Street and I have been a professional photographer for nearly twenty years based in Austin Texas. Before that I managed a band called Electromagnets, whose greatest claim to fame was guitarist Eric Johnson. So this blog will contain information on photography, Eric, music in general, and other things to various to name.

For the last two years I have been doing photography for a new startup in Austin, HelioVolt - http://www.heliovolt.net/. They are a solar thin-film manufacturer. Imagine a decal you could put on your roof, windows, and other building materials on your home or business and then wire into your power grid. Their process was named one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2006″. They are presently building their first factory in south Austin and I am doing weekly progress photography.
Construction photography is by its very nature a situation where you are taking documentary photography of often messy situations. This is the polar opposite of architectural work where everything is ideally manicured and arranged. How to do this in a more creative way that also pleased the company was the challenge. I decided to use the light that we use in both of our companies and to use a more illustrative style.

Here are a couple early images that are fairly straight.

Where there was not light to really work with I used the illustrative look.

Both of the images used - for the photo geeks - a Canon 1Ds Mark III with either a 24 or 45 Canon tilt/shift lens. The tilt shifts have let most architectural photographers out from under a dark cloth staring into the back of a 4X5. I love these lenses and use them for much of the photography I do, even some of the people shots.

Well enough photography for the moment - For the Eric Johnson fans, I have a gem in the cd player in my car right now, a recording of a collaboration between Eric and Sonny Landreth on a tune written by Sonny and to appear on his next cd. The song is titled The Milky Way Home and has some fabulous guitar interplay between two of the best guitarists of our time. I have no doubt that fans of both are going to be extremely happy.

Well gotta run and process photos. See you soon.