Haven’t had much to upload since my desktop is down…for about a week now. Working on getting that back up and working off my laptop now. I just installed photoshop so hopefully I get the rest of the pictures plus more up as soon as I can.
08
Feb
10
update 02082010
03
Feb
10
KMH BBQ: Part One
Lots of pictures and not enough time. Busy busy these days and I’ll post some everyday. It was a huge turn out and a good time. Enjoy.
This was actually written some time ago. I just didn’t have time or the effort to post it up. Its what I have done before my computer crapped out on me.
02
Feb
10
fallen friend
I will not be posting anything today or possibly for a little while. Some time on Sunday my dog had fallen ill with something unknown and could not get up. Didn’t eat or drink too much. As time progressed he got worse and worse. At some point, I realized he was blind and crippled. I would have taken him to the Vet asap, but they were closed and I could not take him until today. I had to pick him up into a stretcher to bring him into the office, when they finally took a look at him, the results were not good. His rear legs have no reaction or reflexes, he had no sight, not even reaction to light, and they think the issue was in the brain. If they were to treat it, they would have to run tests (MRI, CT…etc) and all sorts of stuff. They said German Shepards could live up to 13 years or so. I’ve had him for 12 years and if it was cancer, chemo would last for two years or more. Possibility of him recovering his rear legs were extremely low because 24 hours had past since he lost them. In any sense, it was not reasonable to put him through the strain and suffering. Alas, I spent a couple hours with him and my mom and aunt came to see him before we had to put him down. It was sad, but even sadder when my mom started to reminiscence. I’m still young, but I never have I been so sad before in my life.
RIP my old friend.
30
Jan
10
strobism phase two
More strobing tonight. Getting lots of progress on how I like to light stuff. Still working on getting rid of the parking structure lines. I really hate seeing those, maybe if I used umbrellas, it might get rid of that issue. Anyways new cars, new shoot. Enjoy the pictures.
29
Jan
10
Strobism Phase One
Did a bit a strobing tonight since I got be hot shoe adapter to sync my strobes with my camera. Now I no longer have timing issues. Took a little while to figure how to light things the way I wanted to, but as time progress things got better and have a good time experimenting with the lights. After I am more familiar with the lighting in the dark, I should probably try some daytime strobing. Here are a few pictures from tonight.
26
Jan
10
Cellphone Sightings
Busy as hell these days with all my school crap going on. I try to do some stuff here and there. I got all my camera gear together so I’ll probably doing some shooting this week along with the KMH BBQ timscribbles.com is sponsoring. If you got the time, come out and get some shots.
Slammed little old school Datsun I saw in Escondido the other day. Pretty sick.
Here is one of those early morning wake ups.
25
Jan
10
Things are looking up
I just got my hotshoe adapter for my strobe sync cords. Now I can finally strobe in sync as opposed to my strobes going off before the shutter. Happy face. Can’t wait to take it out for round two. Here’s a little ad for FlashZebra who got my order here so fast. Small little site, but they did a job on my order.
24
Jan
10
flashback
I have been incredibly busy these days with school now that the semester has started. Too much stuff going on to have time to shoot or cover stuff, but I’m working on changing up the site to be more user friendly along with some other surprises. For now, I just got back from chilling with fullcoupe and did a little shooting while enjoying some Jamba Juice. We decided to go back to our old spot, shoot in the old style, and shoot the same old car.
15
Jan
10
lighting the night
I got a set of strobes this past week and I didn’t really get around to trying the them until tonight. Thing was I forgot to bring a power strip so I had to shoot with only one strobe. Another thing was they flashes were so fast, my camera lens wasn’t fast enough to capture the flashes. So I stood like 30 feet away from the strobes just so I could beat the speed of the flashes. It was literally trying to beat the speed of light. I got a couple shots that were remotely within my range of quality.
For one I need to get a faster lens and second, I need to practice some more with these strobes.
After I put the strobes away, I decided to do some of my old fashion long exposure shots. Something I am more comfortable with anyways.
11
Jan
10
LA Photo Shoot
I finally got around to hosting another photoshoot. This time, it was in downtown Los Angeles. We started out shooting at the American Apparel building until we got hassled by security so we had to move out and find another spot. American Apparel was a great spot to shoot at, but the second spot was pretty nice and secret too. Good day, lots of shots, very little money made, but what can you do. Some cars were easier to shoot, some had better parking spots, not much I could really do. I wasn’t going to be picky since I had to shoot 20+ cars in under two hours which is usually how long it would take to shoot just one car.
Click the images. Or don’t. I don’t care.
Dopest Shot of the day, no doubt. Fits are easy to shoot and always come out good.
