Jef Harris's Photos

In my ongoing series in taking apart and photographing interesting objects, ($5000 VCRs, Film Cameras), I know take apart some 1970s 8mm video cameras. A Eumig 860 PMA and Chinon 60 SM XL (With Direct Sound!). And as usual I take love and care to take these apart, no breaking, no smashing. Like reverse engineering. Once again I've discovered some amazing beautiful components hidden with.

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In my ongoing series in taking apart and photographing interesting objects, ($5000 VCRs, Film Cameras), I know take apart some 1970s 8mm video cameras. A Eumig 860 PMA and Chinon 60 SM XL (With Direct Sound!). And as usual I take love and care to take these apart, no breaking, no smashing. Like reverse engineering. Once again I've discovered some amazing beautiful components hidden with.

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While on a photo walk I discovered these amazing natural ice sculptures near a set of thawing out docks. The way the light was coming in from the setting sun was just inspiring. I spent a long time relaxing and talking hundreds of pictures. The chaotic beauty here reminds me once again that nature is indeed a great artist. Full View a Must Photo by Jef Harris. www.jefharris.net

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This is an extremely large series, even by my standards. So I think an explanation is needed here to really appreciate what you’re looking at. As a kid I used to love taking apart electronics. Clocks, TVs, Tape recorders, anything I could get my hands on. But my favorite thing to take apart was a VCRs. 30 years later and I'm still taking apart VRCrs. Only now instead of VCRs that costs hundreds of dollars, I've graduated to this High End Panasonic Editing Deck that was worth $5000 new. The heads where out of alignment. The cost involved in fixing it was out of the question. So the original owner, who knew of the macro work, happily handed it over to me. Except for the electronic boards, no piece is bigger than a golf ball. The smallest piece, (#011), is about an 8th of an inch. I took about a month taking apart this ProVCR. Taking my sweet time. Great loving care went into taking this apart, only using a screw driver and a set of needle nose pliers. There was only one piece I had to break (shot #017). I had to use industrial strength bolt cutters to get that one out. After I was done taking it apart I took over a thousand shots. So what you see here are the best of the best! Photoshop was used but only in cleaning dust particles and building the presentation frames. The lighting you see was done in the studio. An interesting thing about how this VCR was put together was that there was no actual case holding it together. It was a series of metal plates interlocking and held by screws. One of the main components of any piece of electronic equipment is the wiring. Well in this thing, all the wiring was held together as one single bundle. So I was able to take it apart with that bundle of wires intact.

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Going all the way back to 2001 for this series. I would have to say this could be one of the most influential and important series for me. It was working with Cheryl on these shots that really opened my mind to what I wanted to do for a living, (photography). So every two weeks Cheryl and I did a different body painting shoot. (This set, CS1, was the first shoot). Using a combination of tempera paint and grease paint.All shot on film with a Nikon F series camera. Each shoot took an average of 10 hours because of the body painting. The goal was to make her look as different as possible each time. This series really drained me, but it was worth it.

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There are sooooo many layers in the making of each and every one of these, it’s unbelievable. Countless hours over many weeks were spent on these. I’d say I’m pretty happy with the results. Model: Alexandra Rodionova www.alexandrarodionova.net Photos by: Jef Harris. www.jefharris.net

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In my ongoing series in taking apart and photographing interesting objects, ($5000 VCRs, Film Cameras), I know take apart some 1970s 8mm video cameras. A Eumig 860 PMA and Chinon 60 SM XL (With Direct Sound!). And as usual I take love and care to take these apart, no breaking, no smashing. Like reverse engineering. Once again I've discovered some amazing beautiful components hidden with.

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I walk, you walk, we walk past driveways. We look down them, up them, and in them. The safe voyeurs. For this series there is something down each one of these driveways that caught my eye. One city down many more to go.

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The concept for this shoot was this: Over three days shoot three very different models in three different locations. Each model was put in a place defined by my impression of their personality. Each model was given a prop for them to use or to be shot against, and yes the prop is also chosen based on the model’s personality. So over three days, Fri, Sat, Sun, each model is shot during sunset. While on set I was struck with very specific names for each shoot. Deep, Down, and High. (The series later became known as DDH). The “Deep” shoot is the third shoot. This was shot in a hotel swimming pool, so there where hotel guest all over the place, which was fun to shoot around. This was the first time for me shooting a model, (Michea), actually IN water. So I really wanted to play with light, how it was used, how it reflected of the water, etc. For this specific picture, well, when Michea was there ‘lounging’ on the ledge of the deep end I just HAD to grab this shot. Model: Michea Crawford Photo by Jef Harris. www.jefharris.net By a print of this HERE.

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In my ongoing series in taking apart and photographing interesting objects, ($5000 VCRs, Film Cameras), I know take apart some 1970s 8mm video cameras. A Eumig 860 PMA and Chinon 60 SM XL (With Direct Sound!). And as usual I take love and care to take these apart, no breaking, no smashing. Like reverse engineering. Once again I've discovered some amazing beautiful components hidden with.

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This shoot is another fine addition to my never ending testament of my love and passion. For photography, style, and amazing women. Photos by: Jef Harris www.jefharris.net

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As all my shoots have concepts, or themes, and all my photo shoots end up having very unique names derived from the personality of the shoot, I thought I’d take the idea a little further than I’d ever done before. The concept for this shoot was this: Over three days shoot three very different models in three different locations. Each model was put in a place defined by my impression of their personality. Each model was given a prop for them to use or to be shot against, and yes the prop is also chosen based on the model’s personality. So over three days, Fri, Sat, Sun, each model is shot during sunset. While on set I was struck with very specific names for each shoot. Deep, Down, and High. (The series later became known as DDH). The “High” shoot is the first shoot, the shoot that set the mood and style for the rest of them. So when we set out to shoot, it had been raining all day. Thunder and lighting was our curse. Regardless, we decided to shoot. And amazingly, I kid you not, the moment we showed on at the location the rain stopped and the sun broke through the clouds. Then, when we finished and started packing up, the sun when back behind the clouds and the rain started as if on cue. Photo by Jef Harris. www.jefharris.net Model: Sabrina Kohli By a print of this HERE. http://www.imagekind.com/GalleryProfile.aspx?gid=8aed19d4-463c-4f81-af17-0b512a4dda94

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Metal and goo collide! Photo by Jef Harris. Model: Raquel Nevado

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Here I am with Raquel sitting in a completely black room. Leaving the shutter open on my camera for 30sec while I 'paint' her with a laser pointer. Great fun, always love doing these. Hard part was convincing Raquel to say totally still for 30sec! Heh Photo by Jef Harris. Model: Raquel Nevado

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I played with these while on the phone for hours while talking to a friend, then I realized they look pretty cool when the groves are lined up.

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During the L3G3ND shoot, I took the chance to indulge in a secret passion of mine. Macro Photography. So stepping aside from using a white glossy card board as my background, I thought it might be interesting to use a body as my canvas. All of the textures you see here are natural with effects done by on set lighting. Photo by Jef Harris.

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