Twilight at Montmartre
Miami Sunrise
I rose at 5 in the morning and made my way down to the beach in the twilight preceding sunrise. I watched the calmness and stillness of the sea, and contemplated my 3 weeks in Miami, and taking the plane home later that afternoon. It didn't last too long though, as shortly after, construction on the building next to me (which hopefully I'll be photographing when it's finished :) commenced and the stillness faded into the yelling of workers and roaring of machines. That's when I decided to walk.
In all my years of going to Miami, and all the time I've spent there, I don't think I've ever watched the sunrise. It was spectacular. Inch by inch I watched this glowing ball in the sky grow, and as it grew I watched it spear the clouds with it's mighty rays. The sea grew agitated, commencing to churn and waves starting to crash. It was like somebody flipped the "on" switch and the world was starting up from it's dormancy, for a bright new day.
I think I prefer sunrises over sunsets now. Though they're still a bit too early for me.
Downtown Miami
Alas, we meet again!
It’s been a while, well about a month to be exact, as I sort of unconsciously took a month off from posting and sharing some of my favorite new images, especially of my recent trip to Miami!
Though now my library is exploding and I keep looking at my images and saying “Why haven’t I posted this yet?”. So here I am coming out of my brief hiatus as I settle back into the winter living lifestyle of New England as the carefree living of Miami wears away...kind of.
So today I share with you one of my images of the Downtown Miami Skyline!
This is one of my favorite views of Miami from Key Biscayne and always one of my favorite places to visit while down there.
The downtown Miami Skyline as seen from Key Biscayne.
Sunny Isles on the Water
Hey guys! My first check-in from Miami!
I've been down here for two days so far and the weather has been great luckily, I got here at the right time it seems!
It's also a great feeling to be back where all of this really started when I shot the images for the 15th anniversary book for the city of Sunny Isles Beach. It's an amazingly cool feeling to walk by all these amazing million dollar hotel and condo buildings and thinking "I photographed that!".
But enough reminiscing.
I've only had 2 days here so far, but I already got out to create some very cool photos of Sunny Isles! The first I want to share with you is one I'm calling "Sunny Isles on the Water", that shows most of the city's skyline from an ocean vantage point, at night!
It was a beautifully clear night, so I was able to get a fair amount of stars in my image as well, which is always cool!
I'm going to cut this post a bit shorter than I'd like as there's quite a few things going on at the moment, that hopefully I'll be able to share soon as well, but for now, I hope you enjoy this image and look forward to sharing the rest of the amazing things I'm able to capture down here!
Till next time,
Sean Gold
The beautiful city of Sunny Isles Beach seen from the water, on a clear moonless night filled with stars.
Motorcycle Shoot + BTS Video
Hey there!
Today I wanted to share with you one of my first attempts at video production, though this is in no way to be considered an attempt at a "professional video" but more of my first considerable success that I deem worthy of sharing, not to mention, that it has a photo to go along with it :)
So a few years back when I was playing with different ideas and still feeling things out, especially with lighting, one culmination of such was an outdoor, night time photoshoot of Samantha and her kick-ass bike!
The idea was to run a super long extension cord from the studio to the parking lot and put as many sandbags as we had on the giant lights so that they wouldn't blow away on a cold wintery night, sounds pretty ideal, no?
So once we weighed down the gear for even hurricane like winds and got the technical stuff out of the way, I gave a friend my small camera and he filmed some of the shoot, more for fun than for professional or any type of use really.
That footage sat on my computer for about 2 years or so, as I have little to no experience in video shooting or editing, until now.
I managed to teach myself some of the basics of video editing, and I mean very basic, and this was the only footage I had that could actually produce something somewhat meaningful.
So with that, I hunkered down at my computer and began my trials and errors in the hope of getting at least a showable clip out of it.
At the end, considering the quality of the footage, my inexperience and the manner of which it was filmed in, I was rather pleased with the result!
So here's one of the final images from that shoot with Samantha (and her bike), followed by the video below it! And with that being said, thanks for checking out this weeks post, hope you enjoyed it!
