Off The Grid - Food Truck Central

So last Thursday Brianna, Mahkayla and I went to Off The Grid for the first time after getting my new 85mm 1.8 lens, which my next post will be about. Anyways this was beyond amazing, I had Fuji apples and Huey had a day of fun before he got his balls removed. I had a sandwhich with rice as the bread. It was amazing, my current level of intoxication won't allow me to go into much other detail beyond sounding like a kid with downs since I am sleepy as well and my judgement might be impaired but it was DAMN GOOD. I really want to go again this Thursday to try out the curry truck, get a steamed bun and then have some southern comfort food.
Long Live The Food Trucks!

Oh yeah and the images are from the sx230, I should have tested the toy camera mode for it. Or at least shot these in black and white but these are conversions with the black and white filter and the hue and saturation layer for the different tones.

Visualization Assignment 4

 So this is the shoe/chair concepting assignment. The idea behind these images is to have a concept behind the photos. The two concepts I have are a shoe's landscape and the back of the back.

The shoescape turned out pretty cool and I was extremely satisfied with the result of the whole thing. The back of the back didn't turn out as well as I hoped. The image is visually interesting, but I feel like either more could be done to make it more visually interesting, or I will probably scrap the entire thing. The original thought process of it was kind of a what your back feels and how it looks after you have spent the day in a wooden chair. So more of an implied chair from the imprint.

Visualization Assignment 3

So this week in

visualization assignment 2

  Well for my Visualization class we are now keeping a blog of our images. It looks like I am about a year ahead of that so I am putting the images here and not making a new one. These two images are of Isolation. The top being isolation of geometric shape and the bottom is isolation by emotion. My subject clearly being buildings and the pure white backgrounds are because of the magnificent cloudy weather I always have down in San Francisco which helped with the idea.

I had a couple of ideas I tried to execute for this but they all came out poorly and this was the best one I had for the amount of time I had left. Considering I have 4 classes that require me to photograph for and a part time job while trying to keep up my newly formed competitive gaming hobby not doing technical shooting has become almost a chore with everything else I have to do.

"iThai" Taking the Lumix GF2 for a spin

 So a couple nights ago I went out to iThai with Mahkayla and Brianna. The food was great,  I never had such wonderful curry before. Anyway this is to test out the higher iso range on my Lumix GF2. The video mode was impressive to say the least but the biggest issue I had was at iso 1600+ there was a bunch of digital noise. I shouldn't expect a camera of this quality to be the best at night but I did have a hope of it being better than the canon 50d. The 50d does have a better higher iso range for digital noise. The worst thing about the lumix is the kit lens! Which isn't all that bad actually. I am hoping to get the wide angle pancake lens for it.

Now the video quality on this beast is amazing. I don't have a lot of experience with DSLR, or compact system camera video but it is amazing from what I have been used to in the past.

Getting back in the groove

 It's been so long since I last worked with studio lighting so I decided to give it another shot. These were for my PH225 online class for composition. I am not a huge fan of compositional "rules" but here are my submissions for that assignment.

They aren't "horrible" but they aren't "great" but I don't have a great feeling of direction with them. The self portrait in the middle is how I would like my lighting compositions to kind of play out since it has an ethreal feel to it but I am not sure on when I am going to be able to put it into play.

I do have a couple ideas for fashion portraits with it but there isn't a whole lot I can think of off hand as I drink this delicious spiced amber ale blue moon. I guess more will come with time.