Category Archives: Tom Paiva Photography

Last month, I got access to a fuel dock for a major oil company, where ships offload into storage tanks (tank farm) here in the LA area.  I’ve wanted to shoot here for a couple of years, and finally got … Continue reading →

I was gone over the holidays for a couple of weeks, one week working in San Francisco and then with family.  Afterwards, we drove into Nevada and south down highway 395 back to LA.  As with most of the country, … Continue reading →

This particular post is going to be directed to the film-shooting readers.  The digital shooters have the chimp-screen and histogram graphs to check on the fly.  There are a few tricks for twilight shooting for digital shooters, and will address … Continue reading →

Last week, while driving to San Francisco from LA, I decided to scout some of the Valley farm towns heading north.  I also wanted to try out a new camera in the field that I just bought. The towns are … Continue reading →

One question that comes up regularly is what I mean by “hiding lamps”.  This expression simply means positioning the camera in such a way to block the bright lights in a scene behind some object, such as a pole or … Continue reading →