I can see the light at the end of the tunnel

The end of the semester is near. Only one more week of regulkar classes then time for finals.  Here is my shubmission for this week. The studio lighting class I’m taking required me to recreate an environment in a specific time of day. I used a yellow orange gel over the flash and placed it low on the scene to […]

Oops.

I ralized after I did the last post that I forgot to put the HDR Moab image up here. High Dynamic Range is all the rage these days. You take multiple images of the same subject at different exposure values then combine them in either photoshop or another program like Photomatix. The program crunches the data and spits out some […]

Playing catch up.

Schools been crazy this semester as usual. My instructor is Sandy Frank and I’m taking studio lighting advanced. So we are lighting glasses, people, objects, you name it. This shot is of my son Jorden; he agreed to pose for me (though it cost me a trip to the ice cream store).  This photo is part of a high key/low […]

Salinas Airshow 2010

 This last saturday morning I attended the Salinas Airshow. I have always loved planes and jump at the chance to go to an airshow anytime. Being unable to see the jets in the sky it is very difficult to shoot them. I have to rely on the kids telling me where to point the camera when the jets are inbound.  […]

Best of Summer 2010 Gallery

The best of Summer 2010 gallery is up; it was a great summer and a great road trip. I saw lots of great stuff that I have always wanted to see, and a lot that I didn’t know I was missing. A few notes about the gallery, There are a few “arty” shots which is a departure for me. I […]

Sometimes stuff breaks…

While touching up the pictures from Mesa Verde I hit the wrong button in lightroom and got a happy surprise…I’m generally not one to do artsy shots but I really thought this one was pretty neat. Let me know what you think and you can check out the rest of the gallery from the main page. So, while I was […]

Summer Vacation Photos Incoming!! Take Cover!

Vacation has come and gone now its time to start my favorite part, sorting through the hundreds of photos I took. This years destinations included Mesa Verde in Colorado, The Grand Canyon in Arizona the Arches National Park in Moab Utah. This years photos are very majestic, I’m excited to post them for you all to see.   The toughest […]

Summer is already half over.

I can’t believe it. Spring came and went. I haven’t picked up the camera for months and I’m going to tell you why. I was conducting a personal experiment. In my continuing quest to become a better photographer I took a couple of classes at the local college with my wife. I took a black and white drawing class and […]