Preview of a show I shot tonight: Balmorhea. Danny Malone, The Eastern Sea and Balmorhea at Mohawk for Red River Noise.
Tina Phan
A blog. Mainly on photography, videography, journalism, food and neat things I find
Posted in February 2011 …
Lockhart adventure
About a week ago, Katie and I had a Lockhart adventure together. It was my first time going to Lockhart; pretty much my reasoning to go was because my parents had watched The Daytripper, a documentary travel show on PBS, that happened to showcase “the BBQ capital of Texas.” After that, they became obsessed with me bringing them back Lockhart BBQ the next time I went home. I ordered a plethora of brisket, ribs and sausage for my parents to bring as a Lunar New Years gift before driving to Houston.
We decided to have a barbecue/cobbler lunch at Black’s after I’d unintentionally started many “what’s the best Lockhart BBQ” wars on Facebook (it seems people hold very strong opinions on their barbecue).
Katie is a foodtographer.
Black’s Barbecue, established in 1932. Apparently Texas’ oldest barbecue.
In line where you scoop up your own side dishes and pick your meat.
Since I’m a vegetarian, all I got was some peach cobbler, potato salad and apple-cobbler-pie-stuff. Noms!
A cowboy serenaded us with country songs while we ate. I felt like I was living in Abilene all over again.
Apple-pie-cobbler-thingy close up.
Sausage (teehee!) and brisket close up.
Photo by Katie McGaha
I really wanted to try the barbecue sauce but didn’t exactly have anything to eat it with since all I got was cobbler and potato salad. The vegetarian way to eat BBQ sauce, when there’s no Boca Burger patty around.
Photo by Katie McGaha
I’d like to dip some French Fries into this sauce.
A taxidermy-ful choice of wall decor.
Afterwards, we browsed Main Street Gallery, an antique shop in Lockhart at the corner of Walnut and Main.
I like the colors of this chair.
Civil War-era photos.
Vintage books.
Sometimes, objects found in antique stores can be a little creepy. Katie’s expression says it all.
Typewriter from the early 1900s.
Vintage Texan belt buckles. I honestly considered buying the one with the cowboy being bucked off. A giant Texas belt buckle and a cowboy hat are what I forgot to buy while living in Abilene.
The owner was trying to get this player piano to play for us. Unfortunately it didn’t work : (
Circa 1800′s. That time I held a daguerreotype in my hands. The daguerreotype (pronounced /dəˈɡɛrətaɪp/; original French: daguerréotype) was the first publicly announced photographic process.
The owner of Main Street Gallery noticed that we were taking pictures while browsing and showed us some old old photographs created through near-extinct processes.
He gave us free tin-type photos. Katie got the child, I got the couple. Kinda cool, kinda weird, kinda creepy.
045: Lockhart, TX
Katie McGaha photographs her sausage and brisket plate at Black’s Barbecue in Lockhart, TX on Sunday afternoon.
February 6, 2011
Katie and I had a Lockhart adventure. It involved BBQ at Black’s and antique store browsing. Sadly none of the other University Star-crew could make it cause I’m dumb and scheduled it on Super Bowl Sunday.
Canon T2i
Sigma 10-20
044: My sister, the cake popper
February 5, 2011
Kathyphantastic and Objects of Confection had a Valentine’s cake pop workshop class. I got to shoot it. Such adorable cake pops!
Love bird cake pop
Teddy bear cake pop
*Top two shot with a Lensbaby Composer, bottom photo shot with a Sigma 10-20mm.
043: Snow day!
February 4, 2011
SNOW! In South Austin! This is probably the most snow I’ve ever seen in Texas!
Snow animals made by Kathy and I. Snow rabbit (Chinese zodiac) and snow cat (Vietnamese zodiac) for Lunar New Year. More photos later.
Canon T2i
Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8
042: Chúc Mừng Năm Mới!
February 3, 2011
Happy Lunar New Year! It’s year of the cat, meow.
Lunar New Year feast with my sister and Chris at Get Sum Dim Sum. Bok choy with vegetarian oyster saucr, spinach dumplings, banh bao (steamed buns), fried spicy tofu wrapped in seaweed, banh cuon, spring rolls, sesame balls, coconut bread…. omnomonom!
Canon T2i
Sigma 10-20mm
041: Brrrr!
February 2, 2011
Texas is definitely experiencing winter. Freezing temperatures and rolling blackouts led Texas State to cancel classes for half the day.
Since my grad class wasn’t meeting, I momentarily thought I could go see Tokyo Police Club, but then I got called to edit some video. Oh well.
This is a shot of bushes next to my bank. It seems someone forgot to turn off the sprinklers.
HTC Nexus One
And as of February 1, 2011 I hit 60,000+ page views on my Flickr since joining in mid-2007, woohoo!
040: Andrew x Goodwin
Staff members of The University Star gather around the newsroom to watch Andrew Goodwin’s (far right, glasses) newest segment air on Spurs Insider on Tuesday night.
February 1, 2011
Allen Reed, the Editor-in-Chief at The University Star, runs a pretty tight ship. I mean, dude even works/edits stories when he’s dying of swine flu. Hardcore.
So when Allen lets everyone stop what they’re doing during a production night to watch TV (that’s isn’t election night coverage), you know it’s a big deal.
After the videographer assignment meeting, Andrew Goodwin, Multimedia Editor at The Star, turned on the newsroom TV to see his most recent segment air on Spurs Insider. We all gathered around to watch his feature story on one of the Spurs’ camera operators.
In addition to being the Multimedia Editor, Andrew is also a videographer for Spurs Insider and an award winning director/producer. Oh, and he got nominated for a regional Emmy for a piece he produced for The Star last spring. And he’s 23. Really.
During his reign as my Assistant Multimedia Editor last semester, he made probably one of the most beautifully shot videos produced by The University Star: coverage of the 2010 Fun Fun Fun Fest.
Myself, Andrew and Sara Strick were all reporting on Fun Fun Fun for The Star. Here are a couple shots of Andrew at work.
Setting up an audio recorder during Deakin. Note: when you point a wide angle lens towards the sun, expect some intense lens flare.
During French band Yelle’s set. He’s the black cap in the bottom right corner holding the 7D and fancy Glidecam, obstructing my view of the stage hah.
When I hired him as a videographer last February, all I knew was that I was hiring some guy who’d shot a ton of really neat-looking skateboarding videos. All of the things I just listed were accomplished in the past year. Dude is going places!
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I forgot my wide angle Sigma at home, so I took two shots of the newsroom using a Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 at 28mm, then “stitched” them together with a panorama style action in Photoshop CS3. Here’s the quick tutorial for making a panorama, in Photoshop:
File > Automate > Photomerge
and select which files you want to use.
The original photos:
Canon T2i
Tamron 28-75 f/2.8
