Taubman Photography

Mission San Miguel

2010-02-12T16:58:00.001-08:00

Going North on California Hwy 101 between Paso Robles and King City is a bit of a forgotten town limited to about 10 businesses and a handful of houses, this little piece of historic real estate known as San Miguel, its name sake being the slayer of Satan. The heart of San Miguel is the Spanish mission with the same name, during the 2003 earth quake damaged the mission so for the past 6-7 years it's been in retro-fit repair so parishioners could once again attend mass without worry of the roof collapsing.

I was on a road trip to Northern California for a photo shoot didn't have time to stop on the way there so on the way back no better place to use the restrooms than the mission. So during my pit stop I took the opportunity to snap a few pics and finally got into the chapel since the retro fit construction.

Napa Trip

2010-02-12T16:37:00.000-08:00

This past weekend I packed my bags and gear jumped in the car with my friend and headed North. We were victim to rain, traffic and bad directions but none the less it was a great trip and very successful for our mission. I photographed a reunion and it was way fun, met some very interesting people and despite the rain Napa, CA is beautiful and smells good.

Senior Portraits

2008-11-13T19:48:00.001-08:00

It is senior portraits time, and this is my first photo shoot for year book publication. I did the portraits for my good friend's son to get the exposure to how these things go about. So two hours and 200 images later these are some of the ones I came up with. I utilized some alleys that I found very artistically pleasing and it has been a while since I felt good leaving a photo shoot. So big score for Taubman Photography...hey lovin' it. So I am just busting waiting to hear everyone's opinions of the product. It is really hard not to get caught up in Photo Shop so I stuck with things that can be done in a traditional darkroom so remember that little shutter bugs. The above image [the horizontal] well all of the stuff I shot on my D200 in color I masked my subject muted color and for the background I did a desaturate and I am a fan of CONTRAST...totally DIG IT!!! So it worked for this image (I think) like I said I want to hear from my viewers.

This image I played with the contrast and muted some of the color and used a down loadable filter for photo shop that is called dog town...kind of gives that Polaroid look. For those that do not know Polaroid is an "instant" photo in which a lot of photographers used when they shoot conventional large format film well the camera would have a Polaroid back so the image can be viewed instantly. Well the Polaroid print look is pretty trendy/artsy kind of thingy and i have been busting wanting to try it I love it as long as you have the right image to put in it; it can look sexy (nice) if there is a great image to go in it and if the image is shot with a artsy angle.

So SPECIAL THANKS to the beautiful city of San Luis Obispo, CA [a sexy city with great eye catching places to photograph my favorite part of California and the people are wonderful there] and most importantly my subject Julian and his mom Roylan...

Some of My Latest Work

2008-09-26T18:48:00.001-07:00

This image was taken on my Nikon D200 the day was over cast (as usual on the central coast) but that helps soften the light and makes nice pictures. This was a pre-wedding photo that was eventually matted and framed so people could sign the mat like a guest book at the reception. The whole concept worked out great as not many people have seen this type thing, it brings something new to weddings.

I have been doing portraits, weddings or whatever other events people want photographed. That being said I photographed the wedding as well I will post a bit of those as well.