Baby Pics

Here are some of the studio pictures that I have been working on lately.

Photoshoot

These are my brothers and there wives.
from left- Jared, Lindsey, Carissa, and Justin
also starring... Roman (Justin's kid)

Happy Easter

HAPPY EASTER!!!

This is the creepiest picture i have ever taken...

macromania

I had to take a break from the light testing shoots so I took the S9100 out for a macro shot. The macro function is one of the reasons why I love this camera. Later I brought the lights back into action with the 5D and continued improving my lighting techniques.

(auto macro)
I brought the 9100 to life again for this picture.

1/250 f4.0 200


1/160 f2.8 100

Galluping all over the world

This week is spring break...Why am I Galluping? no one really knows. I just got done reading "There is NO Time", by J. Paul Nyquist. It is a book from Avant Ministries talking about restructuring our style of missions from long-term missionaries to short-term missions. They talk about how we need to be more productive and strategic in our sending of missionaries because with each new day the percent of people in the church compared to the % of people on earth is going down. I would encourage those who are interested in missions to read this book. It not only talks about what the new movement is looking like, but also what the "new" missionary is looking like. well.. like Paul. Not really a new approach ;), but maybe a little more faith based approach in timing. Anywayz check out the book for yourself.

Also... I took a picture of a light bulb while I had all the lights off and let the camera absorb the light. Then I photoshoped the life out of it and came out with this. It sort of shows the heat waves coming off the light.

Lighting Experiments

Jon, good friend of mine who is also a photographer came over to my house last night to hang out. While he was on my computer I took some pictures of him to experiment with more lighting techniques.

1/160 F4.5

Thanks for finally looking up Jon

1/250 F9 100

1/250 F2.8 100

This was not my favorite picture, but I thought I would show what the different angles of flash looked like.

Also.. Apparently this is not the first time that Jon has been asked to be a model. Abercrombie? no seriously.

Thanks Jon.

start of spring break

I am sitting in the crib at the Union waiting for my last class of the day to start so I can start my Spring break! My last class is music appreciation... yea I know I am a musician, but who doesn't take an easy A when it is in front of you. Tonite I will be attending an artist/photography workshop at my church (Berean). I am hoping to get more involved in the area of arts at my church. Maybe it will be an opportunity to use the gifts that God has given me in photography and use them for the church as well as in business. Speaking of photography... I have been messing with a few new lighting techniques after recently purchasing a few umbrellas and lighting equipment. It is amazing to see how the right lighting can really take a picture to a new level (especially off camera lighting). This summer I will be shooting around 10 weddings. God has really been blessing me lately. It almost makes me laugh to think that a gift that God has blessed me with is something that people will pay to see. Thanks God. I am excited to see where photography takes me. I have been doing a lot of research in European photography and the trends that they seem to be setting. I am hoping to bring some of these ideas into my style of photography so that I can keep up with the newest trends that the big name photographers are showing. Well it's time for class...

Im home now and took some pics to show what I am currently working on. As I was talking about early, I am working on lighting and today was lighting glass.

1/60 F2.8 ISO 200

This was the first picture I took with an umbrella on each side. The picture turned out well, but I was sure I could get a more creative picture using the lighting differently so I took a few more pictures.


1/100 F2.8 ISO 200

Taken with flash on board. Good, but details are only par.

1/250 f5.7 ISO 200

I took this picture with one external flash and one umbrella. This goes to prove that lighting can really make a big difference in pictures. Also...there was no photoshop or editing tools used on this picture. The details of the glass are sharp and well defined.

Its been a while

So I am sitting at Gallup interviewing people as I write this... I've been thinking a lot about life and how we live it. I wouldn't call myself a real philosophical guy, but for some reason I have been thinking about it a lot.

This last semester of school I took off and went to Africa and stayed there for three months. If you read the earlier blogs then you can hear all about it. Since getting back, I returned to school, started working again, and am back to the normal style of living that I was used to before I left. A lot has changed since getting back. Mainly my perspective. While in Africa, my eyes were opened a little...to what life is like outside of what I thought was normal. It made me wonder what really is normal I suppose. We are all growing up in a culture that tells us to go to school, then college, then get your 40 now 50 hour jobs, get married, and then retire on your 2 million dollar 401(k). We are like a big assembly line...except we are the product being made while the belt pulls us through. yikes.. What if there was a generation that dared to be different? What if God has called you to something that will make you trust in a system different that one that seems to "work" for everyone else?