Halloween school dance.

This dance was on Friday, over the weekend I printed 90 4x6s of my favorite photos and will sell them for $1 each to the kids at my school. It work last year with the Winter Formal, so I figure I'd try to make a little extra cash ;)

Canon 5d mark II
Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
Canon 580 ex II
1/15th at f/2.8 ISO 400 flash fired.

Very Last First Time

This week has a number of firsts for me. To start with I had my first photo session. Which was epically awesome! I got to shoot a house down in Georgia which was interesting.

I also entered into my first photo competition! So I had some 8 x 12's made and, mounted them to foam core. And as a added plus there's going to be a photo gallery in about 2 weeks featuring the winner(s) and all entries. So yeah even if I don't win a thing at least some other person will see my photos.

A @ School

5d mark II w/ 85mm

85mm f/2.0, 1/160th at ISO 500

Shot on a stage inside the gym at my school.

Computer courses are to the left

Nashville Public Library
Main Branch





ISO 100 | 18mm | f/4.5 | 1/125sec | 2:19:41 P.M. | 9/9/09

Eastbound and traveling.

Hey

Sorry for not posting lately. I starting redesigning my website and found myself knee deep in actionscript coding and not doing too much else. So suffice to say I had no pictures to post. And I forgot. But do visit. I also decided to start posting to a blog of my own (I suppose I am growing up)

Moving on to greener pastures:

There was an event at a homeless shelter in Tallahassee, and the FSU football team stopped by for a spell.

f3.5 | 1/160 | ISO 1250 | 18mm (wide angle lens distortion, yo!)

They were big.

Larsen

Sorry for not posting last week guys! I was in Seattle all week long with no internet access.

Nikon D80 w/ Sigma 50mm f1.4
F/1.4
1/125 sec
ISO 250

Processing: Curves

BBQ on National Blow it up Day (the 4th)

Rebel XTi, with Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and canon 580 ex II

1/160th at f/2.8 ISO 100, 32mm edited in lightroom

1/125 at f/2.8 ISO 200

Happy belated 4th :)

Brithday Cake

50mm - f/1.8 - 1/50sec

Sorry not much to say (I'm leaving to go fishing in like 5mins ago) other than that, this is indeed my birthday cake.
Yeah I know, but honestly this was the only edited photo I have from this past week.



And yes I am missing the watermark so...don't steal it until I get it on there.
Yeah you know who I'm talking about.

Warehouse Row

Taken from the third story of the downtown library.

little ballerinas

these were all approx. taken at 28mm
f/4.2,
1/25 sec
ISO-200

Desaturated, sharpened and adjusted curves in gimp
The lighting in there was horrible, but they came out okay
I dont know why they look pixely though, >.> they didnt look like that while i was editing them =/

NY, NY

50mm | f1.8 | ISO 500 | 1/250

Gee

Hello there lads (and lasses)

So my computer has been giving me trouble lately (keyboard and trackpad have been freezing) so I had to take it to the Apple store to get it serviced, but the Apple store is 2 1/2 hours away from me, so I drove 5 hours one day to drop it off and 5 hours two days later to pick it up.  This span fell over my day, hence the reason for the lack of a post, but here I am to save the day!

Moving right along, I shot a wedding with a photographer I know on Saturday, and here are some of what came out.

Nikon d50 18-70mm

18mm | ISO 1600 | f3.5 | 1/40

Nikon d50 18-70mm

38mm | ISO 1600 | f4.2 | 1/100

Nikon d300 70-210 f2.8

210mm | ISO 1250 | f2.8 | 1/100

Added Gaussian Blur to background (which is giving them that glow...still haven't decided if I like that or not) and boosted contrast

hear me roar

I got this little guy when my school went to DC last April. We stopped at the National Cathedral, which was amazing, and I bought my own gargoyle :] I think its supposed to be a chimera, then i realized it doesnt have the goat head or the snake tail so I'll have to find the tag and check xD

darkened/contrasted in gimp with curves, and used the unsharp mask

I did Brian's tag and posted it on my blog if you didn't see it,

Self Portrait

See my amazing one handed self portrait skillz? :)

OK, so I waited 40 minutes to take my portrait.  I wanted to get a cool(er) background.  In this case, a bus.

My favorite photographer in the field I intend to enter: Nate Kaiser of the Image is Found.

Wedding and portraits.

Favorite film photographer:

Julius Metoyer III

Hello? Anybody there?

I miss you guys...

Nikon D80

Sigma 50mm 1.4

f/1.4

1/125

ISO 250

Photoshop:

Curves

crumpled

66mm
f/4.2
1/60 sec.
ISO 400

sharpened and unsharp masked in gimp, boosted the contrast for the solid black background and cropped of course

Death Ship

Nikon D80 

Sigma 50mm 1.4

f/1.4

ISO 200

1/80 sec

Photoshop secretz:  I downloaded a test trial of Topaz Adjust, a photoshop plug-in designed to make things look...special.  This is the result of the plug-in.  

Silver Maple

Canon 350, 50mm f1.8
focal: 50mm
aperture: f4.5
shutter: 1/125 sec
ISO: 100
Genesis 200 w/umbrella
edit: 8 varying different layers.
another fun fact: I shot this in b/w

Happy May Day!


(*edit I swapped the pictures out. For reasons I shall keep to myself)

Stage Light

This is at my church, believe it or not.  We rented some moving intelligent heads (lights) for one service, just to keep it real like that.  I volunteer for the church, so I spent most of my weekend setting these puppies up, then programming them to move around, flash, and change color in time with the song.

It was intense.  Like camping.  Sorry for the bad pun that only really works when spoken :p 

Oh Snap!

Canon 350, 50mm f1.8
focal: 50mm
aperture: f4.5
shutter: 1/125 sec
ISO: 100
Genesis 200 camera left

Just thought I'd show the setup.
I stuck two pillows and a sheet on the dining room table as a background.