Things Mr. Nish Would Love

Nov 142011
 

So who is Mr. Nish? He’s a pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher teach­ing at San Fran­cisco City Col­lege, who also hap­pens to be my dad. Basi­cally if he’d like it, most pho­tog­ra­phy buffs would too. Enjoy “mon­i­tor shop­ping” as I like to call it (win­dow shop­ping is like, so 1990’s!).  If any of my dad’s stu­dents out there need an A, need I say more?

If you’d like to know how much the items are and where to get them just click on the images.

How cool is this cam­era lens cof­fee cup? I think Mr. Nish might end up get­ting a few after his stu­dents see my post today!

 


Just when I thought the cof­fee mug was the coolest idea ever, I found this cam­era shaped 8 gb USB flash drive.

If you want to send Mr. Nish down mem­ory lane, you’ve got the Polaroid One 600 Instant Cam­era. I feel so old! It seems like yes­ter­day when my grandpa would take pic­ture after pic­ture of my sis­ter and I. We loved watch­ing the film develop before our eyes! Times sure have changed.

 

You might want to sit down before I tell you how much these dream machines will set you back…$8,995.00-$9,995.00! How cool would it be to have a life size photo booth in your game room? Bet­ter yet, your liv­ing room. This is the ulti­mate gift! (for­get Mr. Nish, I want one)

This is the clos­est to the jun­gle Mr. Nish will get…the Goril­la­pod. This is the best cam­era acces­sory I’ve ever bought. I don’t leave home with­out it!

 

A lit­tle choco­late in case you want to sweet talk Mr. Nish.

 

 

 

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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words…

Aug 022011
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…but who has time to write a thou­sand words? I think it’s safe to say most of us are short on time. I have an idea how we can keep jour­nals that won’t require any writ­ing at all and will take very lit­tle time.

My “thou­sand words” jour­nal:

Grat­i­tude jour­nals are noth­ing new. I am a true believer in keep­ing a jour­nal. My dad always kept one when we were grow­ing up. It was cool because it wasn’t a pri­vate jour­nal, we could all read it. I do think some­times you need to change things up a lit­tle though. So start­ing today, I am switch­ing from writ­ing my “three things I’m grate­ful for this day” jour­nal to my new jour­nal I’ve named, “a thou­sand words”. The main dif­fer­ence being I will use pho­tographs instead of words to express my dif­fer­ent feel­ings of gratitude.

How to start your own:

  1. Have a cam­era read­ily avail­able if pos­si­ble. Most peo­ple have smart­phones these days which would be ideal to use due to it’s ease and convenience.
  2. Take pic­tures of things you love or appre­ci­ate, a beau­ti­ful blue sky, your adorable dog, Star­bucks latte, and your home. It can be some­thing tan­gi­ble or a scene that per­haps evokes a cer­tain mood.
  3. Choose only one photo daily and orga­nize it in a photo folder on your phone or com­puter. (Be sure the set­ting on album/folder will auto­mat­i­cally record the date for you.)
  4. At the end of 6 months, a year, or how­ever long you choose, you can make a slide show, an album, a cal­en­der for the next year, a photo col­lage to hang on your wall to remind you of the good things in your life, etc…

 

First entry to my “thou­sand words” journal.

I know you were expect­ing a photo of my son with a cheesy smile or my won­der­ful hubby doing dishes (believe me, you’ll even­tu­ally see those, haha) but the real­ity is I’m try­ing to keep this real. Although I am grate­ful for so much, I just felt like my one glass of red wine was what I wanted to pho­to­graph today.

 

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Start Taking Better Photographs Today!

Jun 082011
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let me intro­duce you to Mr. Nish, a.k.a. my dad. He is going to become a con­trib­u­tor for Style­bag­gage! (whether he wants to or not is com­pletely irrel­e­vant) He is a full time pho­tog­ra­phy teacher at City Col­lege San Fran­cisco. Before his career change and move to SF in 1999, Nishi­hira was a com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­pher in south­ern Cal­i­for­nia for 18 years. He won a num­ber of awards includ­ing Awards of Excel­lence from CA Mag­a­zine and Print Mag­a­zine. His pho­tog­ra­phy appeared in ads, cat­a­logs, bill­boards, and annual reports. Bob’s clients include Call­away Golf, Encad, Fujitsu, IBM, Jack-in-the-Box, Kyocera, and Qual­comm. His work has appeared in Archi­tec­tural Record, Town & Coun­try, Vogue, and Sports Illus­trated.
Nish grad­u­ated from UCLA with a degree in Fine Arts. He is an avid base­ball fan and played ball at Pierce College.

To get things off to an easy start, here is some basic advice from Mr. Nish:

4 quotes that will dra­mat­i­cally improve your pho­tographs.

“Please do not shoot any por­traits unless you look at the back­ground first, and make sure noth­ing there will dis­tract from your main sub­ject.” –Joyce Tenneson

“The more you pho­to­graph, the more you real­ize what can be pho­tographed and what can’t be pho­tographed. You just have to keep doing it.”  Eliot Porter

“If your pic­tures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”  Robert Capa

“Less is more.”  Mies Van Der Rohe

 

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