This blog post is long overdue considering I took these photos right after Fanime. I been busy getting ready for my move to San Fransisco so my posting has been very infrequent unlike when I first started the blog. I been slightly engrossed in the Homestuck Fandom and by my self made gamefly get all your money's worth game schedule I have put myself on. Soon I should have another post with my little sisters graduation shots and probably another set that I took a while back. Soon I will be doing a self portrait set and some other silly little things before I abscond from Arizona.
Right here is going to be some shameless self promotion for you guys on facebook to like my photography page:
Taylor Claiborne Photography on Facebook.
Anyway here are the photos I took of my dear friend and future roommate Sasha featuring her little sister in the second image.
This was a fun shoot in Aptos, California since it was after Fanime we were all a little tired but the trip was amazing. I have never wandering in an actual forest until then. Since a lot of minor details and major events are still fuzzy from the lack of sleep and the hikes I can't comment about it too much but it was an amazing adventure. I have a feeling my black and white style is getting to be more favorable to me. I know the caffenol scans probably aren't as good as they could be so that will be a trip on it's own to get that properly done but this is just the start of that still.
The last time I did a shoot with my buddy was way back around last year. Thankfully because of my forgetfulness it makes it look like it was a little under a year ago now from both of the blog posting. I also forgot about this post up until recently but I need to get back to work on the blog more. Forgetfulness is a bad habit of mine since I started working more and doing more school work with out much time for myself in my thoughts, or as Mahkayla would put it,"talking in circles to myself". Beyond it being almost a year since the last shoot there is a lot I have learned since then, it makes me feel like paying about 8,000 a semester is actually worth it beyond getting what feels to be a new life all together since I moved up to San Francisco. I am noticing a good style difference as well. I am getting a lot better with studio strobe which I will admit was a weakness of mine. I had the general idea and concept of studio light down but never really the actual lighting and playing with it. I am slowly graduating from my speedlights, even though I lust for the new one canon has put out. I am slowly getting myself some Alien Bee's and some stuff for them, but I am mainly interested in the beauty dish. Anyways from what I am aware of no one really comes here for my senseless ramblings to myself and more for Vorotographs, so I will be working on doing more of them soon. Also I might be patienting a vortographic lens of my design soon so there might be some on sale in the near future. Time will tell, but I know I will be using my prototypes ;)
