.dandruff 12.29.09

thats what it looked like. finally the first bits of snowfall this winter. hopefully there is more to come as i love taking snow pics. going out taking pictures when there is no one else stupid enough to do so, especially going out just to take pics.

hopefully this winter will be the return of my photo blog. i promise to only put interesting stuff up, as pictures of snow can get boring….”WHOO! more pictures of snow….MEH”

heres to a snowy winter, but not too snowy i still need to get to class ;)

 

 

 

.boom headshot! oh and zombies!

.so today was an unexpectedly sunny day. it was only unexpected if you didn't check the weather like me. today's beams of sunshine were not wasted, for today i was on another shoot. im pretty sure hannah has been looking at the forecast for weeks waiting for the elusive UFO in the sky we apparently call the "sun". here follows the products of said project.

So i pretty much edited and gave her the pictures same day, which is like a record for me.
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After the shoot i went out with a friend to Powell’s to sell some textbooks. expecting a nice liesurly stroll to powell’s we were instead met by these folk.
(i wish i had brought my 50mm or 28mm instead of my 100 macro)

YEs thas a guy.

 

even Zombies need their fix.

This is pyramid head. no im not being mean, he is dressed as “pyramid head” a character from Silent Hill 1 or 2 (im thinkin 2)

needless to say i was a bit surprised, and in fear for my brain…for i like my brain in my head not being chewed on by the undead. today was a good day. DOH! i just remembered i need to submit some homework due tomorrow!
im audi 5000

.superman returns

 

ok so not really superman, just supranaMAN
i haven’t been on in awhile as i have been busy with school and have not time for this supposedly addicting hobby. The weather is getting colder and the leaves on the trees are turning. i look outside my window and realize i should be out there taking photos. alas call it “busyness” or just plain laziness, i had never picked up my trusty companion to capture the changing colors this season. So it was a lazy monday no work just about to start my homework when i get a call.

(the follow conversation actually happened, and in no way did i alter any part of the conversation…ok maybe a little)

JN: “Hey man you busy?”

ME: “no, not really wuz crackin?”

JN: “oh you know same deal. yo i wuz wonderin’ if u wantz to be like my personal paparazzi fo’ like me ‘n my girl ”

ME: “hex yea man, fo sho!”

so i dropz wat i wuz doin’…….ehm excuse me. it seems my street language has somehow crept into my normal paragraphs.
so i dropped what i was doing…. homework can wait. Finally the Canon gods looked down upon me and deemed it necessary for an outside force to urge me to pick up my 40d and shoot.

the following is the product of my impromptu photo shoot wid mah boy johan and his woman… who has a name i just wanted to anger all the feminist out there.

Johan | Dani

I claim this land in the name of Awesome.

 

my favorite. brown sweater, brown shows, fall colors.

 

thanks for askin me to take pics. it forced me to take out my camera again.

for more… i will possible put more up on my facebook page, if and when i have time.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=127710&id=516986898&l=e80b6edd11

 

until i take more fotoz, peaze y’all

.why do i torture myself?

i already know i hate hiking and yet i still went. getting nice pictures is all well and good, but when you’re gasping for air half the time its no fun. even little olivia (feet shown) was a trooper while i brought up the rear.

of course i could have made up some excuse about taking pictures and just yelling, “hey…yea i will catch up later, im taking pictures.” instead i opted to become the caboose walking even slower than the love birds (below).

its not a creeper shot, they just happened to be where we were wanting to take the group shot (seen below)

 

it makes me feel a lot better when im at home reviewing the pictures i took and realizing, “yea i guess it was worth it.” the weather was swell for pictures though the occasional cloud cover was a real bother (what a day to decide to shoot manual). i now must sleep as i am scheduled as a singer tomorrow, or rather in 6ish hours.

gutten nacht…bis morgen

.goin legit!

ok so i realized that if im ever going to be legit i cannot be mixing my nonsensical randomness with my photography work. i will still be posting pictures on this blog, but my more serious legit pictures will be posted on my other blog supranafoto.blogspot.com

does this mean i will stop being random? no probably not.

so if you want a good laugh or just need something to do on the vastness that is the internet just continue reading this blog, but if you want straight up photo talk visit my other blog.

.wedding assist 090709

so today was my first official wedding photo assist for Adi. now assisting does not mean im an official wedding photographer, im just assisting one. i was simply a pack mule, and perfectly content with that position. it was fun learning from a person with waaay more knowledge and skill than i, and watching him do his thing really got me thinking on how much i still need to learn. even though i was running around most of the time doing his every whim, i was still able to eek out a couple shots here and there. my job as an assistant came first so i wasn’t able to take my time to compose shots i really wanted. at the end of the day it was still a really fun wedding to assist/shoot.

for official photos check out the wedding photographer’s blog or website

CONGRATS Adam & Caroline.

.lets dance! 090509

PDX Improv hosted a spontaneous dance event @ Clackamas Town Center today. pretty awesome. i had the privilege of being asked to take some pics! also i met this ridiculously talented photog, whom i am secretly jealous of, also assisting in documenting said event. check out Tim’s stuff here. you’ll have to wait for the official release but here is a sneak peak.

i had to put this one up cuz this guy is uber serious about his dancin.

 

.Maudrey Wedding 082909

it was bloody tiring, but it was really fun.

going into the wedding and knowing the lighting situation fritz (other photog) and i were getting nervous. we went to pro photo supply and wanted to rent some lenses. of course with our luck all the good lenses were rented out for the weekend. we were in quite a pickle until fritz found another photo supply store with the lenses we so desperately needed just a day before the wedding. THANK YOU GOD!

that being said 85mm f/1.2 and 50mm f/1.2 were my heroes! with 15mm fisheye f/2.8 coming in at a close 2nd.

there is really nothing else to say, but i have a new found respect for professional wedding photographers. to their advantage they have larger wallets so they can purchase higher quality lenses. equipment aside it does take a certain skill to photograph a moment that happens only once in a lifetime.

i pray as i edit i have quality pictures to present to the couple.

enjoy a few pictures i was able to edit.

…….now its back to wading through my 600+ photos

 

 

 

.kids carnival

i will update this with more pics when i have the time and actually feel like editing some of the other pics i took. i did not take much since i was stuck in the photo booth area trying to spit out photos for ppl. unfortunately we weren't able to churn out the pics fast enough for ppl to pick them up, even though Johan made a valiant effort.

i simply have to put up this pic because she is sooooo perfect as a kid model i think. the next face of gerbers? huggies?

EDIT: so @ home and sick i decided to pass the time by uploading more kids carnival pics.

.photographer porn

i seriously need to stop looking at photographer porn.
by porn i mean gear and by gear i mean glass and by glass i mean lenses in particular.

you dirty minded cretins, not its not pr0n

i lust this

.wedding shower

08.08.09
wedding meeting

because im hard core….
i am posting the same night.

what started as a wedding meeting became a surprise.

the plan was just to have a last meeting before the rehearsal….or so maudrey thought.
(because im really lazy i will shorten Marcos and Audrey with “Maudrey”)

so dinner went on as usual

the meeting begins.

photog meeting in the dark. we had the bride and groom in our meeting cuz we cool like that.

this was my hero tonight. without my flash i would not have gotten half the shots i got.

so the trickery begins. we told them that we would take them out for dessert, but the location was a surprise so we need to blind fold them.

i simply couldn’t resist. i tested to see if he was peeking or not.

we pretended to go in the car and told them we would meet them there.

in reality we weren’t going anywhere; we stayed right where we were and decorated.

.upon their return we have them dress up for the occasion.

NOW this is where my flash failed me and ran out of batteries right when they were getting their blindfolds off. i pray this does not happen when im taking the actual wedding pic. because of the battery incident i missed the reveal, but i got right back in the game with fresh batteries.

a game of dress up. boys do the groom and ladies do the bride. as you can see the boys should totally apply for a designer position on America’s next top model.

now every wedding needs a pastor. so here we have a rabbi-priest-imam. so in other words a radically cheap suicidal kosher man who likes little boys. ZING!!! yea, thats right i went there.

the bride and groom pose fo a picture.

raining roses.

thanks to Vania for the fisheye attachment. these pics would not have been possible otherwise.

For the rest of the pics click Here

GOOD NIGHT!