Dan Finnen

What I’ve been up to: Old Town

March 20, 2015 By Dan Finnen

If you’ve been watching Polmyth Productions/DistractChicago.com over the past few years, you may remember Liars, the webisode series we produced. Well, at long last, we’ve reunited with Brett Elam and Josh Logan (of Michael Pizza fame) to create the tv pilot for Old Town. I had a blast co-directing the guys with Derek Cox over […]

New Article Alert: An Introduction to Working with Models

February 21, 2015 By Dan Finnen

I have a new article up that’s all about the basics of working with models for portrait photography. I don’t delve into the artistic side of posing and portrait photography, rather, I focus on the practical realities of finding and communicating with models, as well as the essentials of professionalism on set. It’s the article […]

New Screenplay: One Pot Coffee Shop

February 16, 2015 By Dan Finnen

It’s been a while since I’ve added anything new to the ol’ Dungheap, so I just uploaded a new screenplay for a short film called One Pot Coffee Shop. I wrote this about a year ago with the intent of producing it, but I quickly realized that the scope of the project was a bit […]

Featured on Flickr Explore!

February 10, 2015 By Dan Finnen

It only came to my attention a few days after the fact, but the above picture of the recent Chicago blizzard landed on the Flickr Explore page on February 7th! Thanks Yahoo! As always, you can see all of my most recent work on my Flickr page. I’ve been updating it for years now, and […]

The Year in Words I Didn’t Know

January 3, 2015 By Dan Finnen

My Kindle has a funky little new feature that I’ve grown increasingly fond of over the past year. Traditionally, every time one holds their finger down on a word, it comes up with the definition. It’s an incredibly useful feature, and one that I now find myself sorely missing in physical books. (Looking up words […]

I survived NaNoWriMo 2014

December 3, 2014 By Dan Finnen

Whew. I did it. Another 50,000 words in a month, and this time I did it along with thousands of people across the globe instead of by myself. NaNoWriMo (aka National Novel Writing Month) couldn’t have happened at a worse time for me. The first half of November was filled with 16+ hour workdays, then […]

NaNoWriMo Begins!

November 1, 2014 By Dan Finnen

If you’re wondering why there may be more people hunched over laptops at Starbucks than usual today, it’s officially National Novel Writing Month season! Last February I participated in my own personal NaNoWriMo to write a practice novel of sorts, but now the official month and event has arrived and I’m giving it another go. […]

Celebrating one year of the new DanFinnen.com

October 10, 2014 By Dan Finnen

Well, I guess I can’t call it the ‘new’ danfinnen.com anymore. It’s hard to believe, but the current WordPress-powered version of my site is now one year old today. I officially started writing articles about photography on my site in 2011, and back then I never would’ve thought that it would become anything more than […]

New Review Alert: Fuji Instax 90 Mini Instant Film Camera

September 13, 2014 By Dan Finnen

I’ve finally gotten my hands on a Fuji Instax 90 Neo Classic Mini instant film camera for a review! As a brand new $150 instant film camera, I was intrigued to see how it would perform. To my surprise, the camera has grown on me quite a bit, and takes the crown for the best […]

Where do I get my film developed?

September 6, 2014 By Dan Finnen

In this fancy modern digital world we live it, it can be hard to believe that there are places out there that actually develop 35mm film. But exist they do, and if you don’t want to develop your film on your own, you’re going to have to seek one out. If price doesn’t matter, you’ll […]