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I did Open Studios in Mill Valley over the weekend with two other photographers and photographed as many of the 150 people who visited us as I could.

Here's the whole gallery. Enjoy the mix of expressions and clothes. It's very Marin. (Shot at The Image Flow in Mill Valley).

Thanks for looking.

-- Tim
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Strobist info: A Profoto head out of a 7B pack into a 3-foot octabox on a boom camera left. ISO 400, f250, 5.6 or 6.3

I had the opportunity this year to again photograph the winner of Marin Magazine’s annual cover contest. The winner, chosen from among more than 400 entries, was painter Greg Martin. I photographed Greg in his studio, a basement space in his San Anselmo home.

See the story behind this shot.

Thanks for looking.

-- Tim

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Strobist info: One SB800 into a shoot-through umbrella camera right, set about 1/32. ISO 400, 1/125, f4.

When I got a job to photograph the “perfect” margarita and the owners of the Sausalito new restaurant that will serve it, I went half-Strobist with it. See the story behind these two shots.

Strobist info: SB800 with Honl grid hung from boom over glass. ISO 400, 1/6, f6.3. Camera on a tripod.

Thanks for looking.

-- Tim
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Wet (at last)
March 25, 2012 by Tim Porter | Leave a comment | Edit

Marin Cascade on Dawn Falls Trail

Winter didn’t come to Marin until Spring had already arrived. Barely a week into the new season, the rain is playing catchup, greening the pastures of the west county, soaking the marshland along the Bay, and dowsing the slopes of Mt. Tam with more than enough fresh water to fill the gullies with gushing streams, babbling brooks and carousing cascades of white water.

it’s good weather for a walk, a good time to carry a tripod into the hills, and just the right moment to straddle a stream — carefully now — and point that big, black camera down at the froth below.

This little rivulet is one of hundreds available for instant view right now on Mt. Tam. You can find this one, if you choose, on the Dawn Falls Trail above Ross. Enjoy.

Thanks for looking.

-- Tim

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Put 10 or 12 people in a dark coffee shop, add in a freelance writer, a magazine editor, a roomful of customers and a couple of homeless people in the back, and you’ve got a scene.

The result was this photo for story about the twitterati of Marin County. Here’s the story behind the photo.

Thanks for looking.

-- Tim
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Strobist info: One Profoto 7b head into a beauty dish above camera. ISO 200, 1 second, f11.