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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: November 2008

Portrait session with Karen

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.)I just finished editing shots from a photo shoot I did with Karen-current UC Berkeley student and grad...

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November 27, 2008 - 9:24 am Everton - I really like your work clean and nice.

November 30, 2008 - 8:58 am Josh - These are cool! The ring flash really helps give them that Vanity Fair fashion look. Nice job.

November 30, 2008 - 6:43 pm robin - She is beautiful. Love the fourth one (second horizontal one). Have fun with the ringflash!

December 1, 2008 - 7:58 pm Tristan - Thanks for the comments so far!

January 15, 2009 - 5:24 pm delane - Hey...great images. What image "treatment" did you use on the last 2 images? Looks like a cross processing effect. I really like your work. Delane

January 15, 2009 - 6:26 pm Tristan - @delane- Indeed, those have some cross-processing treatment going on. I'm glad you like it :)

Heidi in black and white

I did a photo shoot with Heidi over the weekend and this is one of my favorite shots from the shoot. Thanks Heidi for choosing me to photograph your project! The complete portfolio of pictures will be ready for pickup this week.

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Adventure game on the iPhone

Adventure brings me right back to my childhood and it’s currently available free on the iPhone/iPod Touch in the iTunes App Store! Anyone who used to play the Atari 2600 and owns an iPhone or iPod Touch will need no further explanation.
“Adventure basically pioneered the action-adventure genre of games, and that though its art is...

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My Nephew

This is a shot of my Nephew. He always wants to steal my iPhone

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November 14, 2008 - 4:54 pm robin - He's a cute kid--I love his hair! You have to admit, the iPhone does kind of look like a schwanky version of the little portable video game thing that so many kids have. :)

November 14, 2008 - 4:57 pm Tristan - @robin - Definitely. And the fact that I do have some games on my iPhone doesn't help things either ;)

CNN – stop calling it a hologram

You may have seen CNN’s election night coverage where they beamed in some ‘holograms’ (clip above). Well, it wasn’t really a hologram, but you probably knew that. For it to have really been a hologram, the 3D image would have had to have been projected into space, right there in front of Wolf Biltzer. Instead,...

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Welcome to Annexia

“Welcome to Annexia” – William Burroughs.

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