Eric Cheng Photography

Burning Man August 23-31, 2014. Black Rock City, Nevada. The pictures in the album were primarily shot with a Sony A7R w/Zeiss Biogon 35mm f/2 lens, with a few pictures from an iPhone 5s and GoPro HERO 3+ Black (aerial, on DJI Phantom 2). At the last minute, while packing, I removed all other cameras and lenses from my bags. I had originally planned to bring the Sony as well as an Olympus OM-D E-M1 with a bunch of lenses, and an Edgertronic high-speed camera. But when I packed it all up, it was a huge amount of gear in addition to normal Burning Man survival gear. Also, I had to bring 3 x DJI Phantom 2 quadcopters and 2 x DJI Lightbridge sets in order to ensure success in aerial live-streaming, which took up a lot of room: 2 hard cases, a backpack, and a bike cargo trailer. I was feeling really overwhelmed with gear and decided to limit my photography possibilities in order to enjoy the event more (since I was a playa virgin). In hindsight, I think I would have brought at least one more lens—a super-wide. I felt really limited during the week of amazing visual stimuli. Given the opportunity to do it again, I might have brought along a second body with a super-wide lens on it (maybe the Voigtlander 21/1.8). I felt really constrained with only a 35mm lens; a lot of the art is really big, and you can go into a lot of spaces and shoot inside, so a wide lens would have been great. A longer lens would also have been good to compress big structures on the playa. The art is big, but there is also a lot of space between it all; a long lens would make things look closer together. I'm not really a portraits guy, but a longer lens would also have helped for capturing shots of people. Of course, changing a lens means dust on the sensor, and a lot of people are super paranoid about removing lenses while at Burning Man. I don't think it is a big deal. Change the lens and shoot. You can always get a sensor cleaned, later!

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016 in Las Vegas.

People pictures from the DEMA Show 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. November 19-22, 2014. Photos by Eric Cheng, Adam Hanlon and Mark Goyen.

People shots at the DEMA Show in Las Vegas. Half a day on the show floor + hanging out at the Wetpixel / DivePhotoGuide annual DEMA party.

Pictures from e.g. 2014

Ask Eric for the password if you would like to download hi-res versions. Aerial group video: https://vimeo.com/128079383 eg9 program scan: https://www.evernote.com/l/AAJPoRqRzl1OxJrUbfOng15fuB8X14NqJco eg9 conference badge: https://www.evernote.com/l/AAJjfuOZYPdJz40X_VYO2Gg6MYdbgJkvIME

Light L16 Launch Party, Oct 14, 2015, at Terra Gallery in San Francisco

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Red Rock Canyon hike with Howard Hall and Michele Hall on November 22, 2014. Hike location is 36.165314, -115.415006.

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition. Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. August, 2016

A visit to the Star Wars exhibit at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. January 22, 2014. To download hi-res files, use the password, "echeng". Enjoy!

Tested.com Live Show 2015 at the Castro Theater on October 23, 2015

Trey Ratcliff Facebook Photo Walk, Dec 20, 2016

Who knows what's next? Consistently, TTI/Vanguard members who attend [next] do. In 2012 we heard about gigapixel television; the Lytro camera; and Kinect's impact on the next generation of user interfaces. In 2013, we heard from Nest and Basis Science, mere months before they were acquired; about an energy-efficient version of floating point arithmetic, and a new system for sharing application windows. In 2014, it was digital fingerprints; new developments in quantum computer architectures; and finding causality in big data.

WildAid Gala 2014 at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco