A quick little Stop Motion

This is coffee time.

I do wish I could have gotten a better sound for the stirring of the coffee but this is my first real attempt at a stop motion video. Which to be honest I did enjoy making. I might do some more of these in the near future and finally get good use of of Final Cut. Who said me taking media classes in highschool was a waste of time?

A Studio Shoot with Sasha

 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 ;)

Some Studio Work

 So beyond my normal work I been posting on here I thought it would be a good idea to incorperate some of my studio work on the blog as well. Seeing as I been extremely lazy and need to get back in the grove of posting my own work on here and not just school stuff I am hopefully going to start up on one of my projects again shortly. Yes, I know I need to finish the infrared photoshop technique tutorial. It has been on the back burner for ages now and will be finished when it is finished.

Other than that this was a simple limbo white background set up. Three strobes with bounce umbrellas going to another bounce onto a white seamless background. This also has an extremely large softbox for the main light. I forgot the power settings on the profoto pack but the average meter reading was about f/5.6 for the background.

Vizulization Assignment 6

Reflections

So this is my shadows and reflections project for my visualization class. These are vortographs of something I use everyday since I have moved to the city. They are important items to me, yet extremely simple. They are water jugs, simple yet they have worked time and time again.

Shadows

Depth Of Field In Portraits

f/ 5

This is a makeup assignment for the 5th assignment in my visualization class

f/25

My New Canon 85mm 1.8

So this was one of the first images I have taken with my new 85mm 1.8 canon lens. Honestly it was a great buy for the price I got it at. At around 295, with out tax I picked up this beauty and it has been worth every penny so far. Both of these images were taken with the 85mm lens in studio. Which now getting used to the studio, which has been an awesome work space so far, I just need to get more reliable models. The ones I do get are awesome though. I can't thank Dustin and Sasha enough, you guys rock!  In other news this lens is going to be wonderful for vortographs. I will end up having more vorotgraphs in the near future utilizing this lens in the near future.

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.