Two men strike up a conversation while standing in line for the bus on 79th street and East End: First guy: Man, it’s too cold to be standing waiting for the bus. Second guy: Yeah man. It’s the humidity that makes it colder. First guy: Huh? Second guy: Yeah, see the humidity makes it seem [...]
I was able to squeeze an hour of still life shooting in this evening and spent some time trying to improve on the salt still life that I started last night, move on to the next in the series, pepper, and even had some time to mess around with some fortune cookies that have been [...]
As I mentioned last week, I hopped a plane to Dallas last week to shoot a portrait of an employee for a career magazine for people with disabilities. It is the first editorial type shoot that I’ve done and I was a bit nervous about the whole thing. As I mentioned, I was worried that [...]
Top Gear is an English car show, which is hysterical and interesting even if you don’t like cars. Most of the show is spent reviewing cars as fetish items, both the affordable, the exotic, and the insanely expensive test cars etc. They also spend a lot of time doing amusing contest among the hosts, for [...]
One of the things that I’ll need eventually as a photographer is an online portfolio. And since much of my work thus far has been work related and very similar, I have been thinking it would be a good idea to start a series of projects to begin filling out a mostly empty portfolio. And [...]
The one thing I have to say for my silence here at Exhibit 5a is that I’ve been busy. I wish I could say that I’ve been busy taking tons of great photos, but unfortunately it’s been much more banal work that I’ve been attending to. I did spend some time yesterday on some self [...]
Jonathan Gayman is a St. Louis photographer who specializes in corporate, commercial and food photography. Exhibit5a was Jonathan's first blogging adventure but is largely dormant at this stage. For more recent postings check out Jonathan's new St. Louis food blog called Shoot To Cook