David Mejias: Photographer

After Irene in Lambertville, NJ

David — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:54:13 +0000

Photo of my friend’s band, Story and Clark

David — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:36:37 +0000

This was a fun little shoot on a Denver rooftop apartment building. The band is Story and Clark.

I found Nemo!

David — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:55:50 +0000

I’m visiting Colorado this week to camp and to visit some friends. After a shower today at my friend Jared’s place, Nemo appeared!

Partly cloudly with a chance of pretty

David — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:00:10 +0000

PBI > EWR

Portrait of Amin in New Hope, PA

David — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:36:28 +0000

Japanese Polaroid voodoo

David — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:03:24 +0000

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Gotta love Polaroid voodoo.

Oh the horror: What you get when you give a photographer a paintbrush

David — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:03:21 +0000

Caution: Wet paint

After about a year of putting it off, I finally upgraded to Photoshop CS5. One of the fancy new tools in PS5 is the mixer brush. This tool allows you to use your pen tablet to creatively paintbrush underlying colors in a photograph.I made the above image in about 20 minutes using my Wacom Intuos4 tablet.

Here’s a YouTube video from Wacom that explains how to use your tablet with the new mixer brush.

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Verdict? Pretty cool!

A design conference and an urban tale

David — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:59:55 +0000

Chip Kidd’s new motto: Bitch, I don’t know your life!!

Yesterday I attended Reach, Princeton University’s forth-annual graphic design conference. The event had a great line up of interesting speakers and I left Princeton thinking about how I might apply current design trends and concepts to my own work.

The most entertaining speaker of the day was designer Chip Kidd. The guy kills it on stage and I loved his story about a fast food chicken order gone funny. In his story, a customer and a cashier quip back and forth until the cashier ends up yelling: “Bitch, I don’t know your life!” Today, as I was editing a few photos from the conference, I decided to google the funny line to see if any background details came up. I found these two clips which leads me to conclude the line is just part of an urban tale. The first clip below was uploaded in 2006 and the second clip is from the movie Baby Mama (2008).

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Finally, here are a few more conference photos from my very (obviously) stationary seat:

Speaker: Stephen Doyle of Doyle Partners

Speaker: David Reinfurt of Princeton

Speaker: Paula Scher of Pentagram

Speaker: Bethany Johns of RISD

Speaker: Debbie Millman of Sterling Brands and AIGA

Speaker: Willy Wong of NYC & Company

Pug in New York City

David — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:42:11 +0000

Murphy Brown in New York

My friend Kevin was pug-sitting for his traveling friend this weekend. I shot this photo with my trusty little Canon G9 point-and-shoot camera. There was strong midday sun coming in from the window, the reflected starburst is from the built-in flash. Also, if you’re curious: ISO200, 1/400 at F5.

Directional contrast

David — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:01:03 +0000

I made this photograph on Sunday at a fundraiser in Princeton, NJ. While I think there are some challenges with this image, I can’t help but be drawn to the contrast between the direction of the subjects in the art pieces on the wall and the direction of the people in the room. It’s curious to me that the people in the room are now directioned subjects in a new work.

What do you think?

Also, If you’re curious, that center photograph on the wall is supposedly number one in a series by photographer Alex Prager. The homeowner from Princeton noted that MoMA owns number two.