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Hi! I'm Tristan Tom, a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer shooting mostly portraits, lifestyle, stock and commercial. This blog follows both my personal and professional life. Like most, I’ve got opinions and musings on a diverse range of subjects, some of which will be featured throughout the blog along with my photographic endeavors. I encourage you to leave comments on anything you see or read here. And, tell a friend about it too! Also, here's a short bio.

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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Video how to – viewing EXIF information in images

Welcome and thanks for visiting! If you like what you see, you can subscribe to my full RSS feed. Also be sure to check out my Portrait and Dreams galleries. (This message will disappear on subsequent visits.)This is a short video ‘how to’ on viewing the embedded EXIF information in images using either Photoshop...

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Optical illusions

These aren’t *really* moving:

Cool optical illusions eh?

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August 4, 2008 - 10:03 am Adnan - Hi Tristan, Its me, from Youtube, you have wonderful training videos on youtube and brilliant illusion post here. Loved it!! :) - Nice photographs. Please contact me on my email and I would love to chat with you.

A random walk around

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It’s hot in California this weekend

If you think it’s hot in California this weekend, check out:

That’s the Phoenix Arizona 5-day forecast. Feel better?

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Helvetica the movie

Last night I watched the Blu-Ray of the movie HELVETICA which is available on DVD and Blu-Ray via Netflix and Amazon etc. This is a must see for anyone with an interest in design in general or certainly if you’re the least bit interested in typography.
It’s amazing how Helvetica is literally everywhere! I had no...

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June 27, 2008 - 5:41 pm christina LeMarr - I'll have to check that out. My design professor practically beat it into our brains to use Helvetica!! I try to be more funky, but still like the ol bit helvetica. Hmm. Definitely will have to check it out.

Food Photography – Desserts!

One type of photography I would really like to do more of is food photography (especially desserts!).
A baker from Napa Valley recently commissioned me to photograph some desserts for a catering company website and brochure. Here are a few of my favorite images from that photo shoot:

 
This one is from a different shoot, a wedding:

 
 

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June 27, 2008 - 5:43 pm christina LeMarr - I looove love loooooove that cake!! Ok these pictures rock...and I'm officially starving!

June 30, 2008 - 10:41 am Tristan - Thanks Christina-glad you like it!

Say Goodbye to WWW

I’ve just re-programmed my site to no longer include any “www” in any of the URLs. I believe “www” is now completely extraneous and not at all necessary. We’ve evolved beyond that and I’m pretty sure I’m like way ahead of my time on this. Well actually, there’s a small but growing movement in the...

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Three Trees And A Power Line

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The Golden Gate Bridge & San Francisco Scenes

Here are a few of my favorite images that I’ve photographed from around San Francisco.
The Golden Gate Bridge in Fog – taken from the Marin Headlands turnoff at about 9:00AM, just as a heavy fog layer was burning off in the morning sun:

Golden Gate Bridge with Bicycle. This was taken from Fort Point, pre 9/11/2001....

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June 27, 2008 - 5:50 pm christina LeMarr - OMG these are AMAZING!!! Breath taking!! (is that supposed to be one word?...) Mostly film?? I love these!! Wonderful!!

June 27, 2008 - 7:22 pm Tristan - @christina LeMarr: Thanks. Yes, these were all shot on film except the last one.

June 4, 2009 - 12:24 am niamh - curious about the last photo of the painted ladies.

June 4, 2009 - 3:54 pm Tristan - If you are interested in a print or have any questions, feel free to use the 'get in touch!' link at the top of the page.

June 4, 2009 - 5:54 pm Tristan - If you are interested in a print, feel free to use the 'get in touch!' link at the top of the page.

Features Added

I’m really liking the WordPress platform so far. I’ve already added several features that were surprisingly easy to add via plug-ins.
One that I just added last night is my contact form (at the top navbar above) complete with captcha (the anti-spam 4 digit code that you have to type before submitting to prove you are...

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