Tristan Tom is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
My name is Tristan Tom and I'm a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer. After obtaining a dual B.A. degree in Filmmaking and Media Communications at California State University, Sacramento, I worked in theatre production and property management for a time and then for Hollywood visual effects production companies including Lucasfilm Industrial Light and Magic, Cinesite Digital Studios (A Kodak Company) and in multimedia for Disney Interactive. I now make a living photographing commercial and stock, portraits, and lifestyle, and I’m also a Support Hero at SmugMug, INC.
A while back, AAA commissioned my Golden Gate Bridge in Fog picture for a large corporate conference with a ‘Building Bridges’ theme. Here are a few pictures of one of the finished products, an announcement card; front, back and the envelope. It may be a bit difficult to see in the picture, but the image…
The best camera is the one that’s with you. I always have my iPhone with me because it’s not practical to have a DSLR with you constantly. I enjoy the limitations of the iPhone camera in perpetuating a ‘snapshot ethic’ much in the same way Polaroids did in the past. This is a gallery of…
I stumbled across this great sequence of pictures by someone on by the name of Jill Johnson on Flickr. This really shows how even a short sequence of photographs can sure tell a compelling story! (click on the thumbnail to the right to view.)
The Business Card Observer website is a nice source of inspiration for business card design. [via Mike's blog @ Mike Industries]. I’m having fun paging through all the card images (be sure to click on the ‘Older Cards’ as well) and thinking about some of the design elements that work well, and ones that don’t.