San Clemente Pier **Week 29/52**

Took a while for me to post this... but I wanted to post something new and not from the Laguna shoot. Took this around 9pm when it was twilight. I don't have any ND filters (minus my GND) so I have to wait till I had less light. 30 second exposure around f/18 or so? not 100% sure.

It was taken while we were with our friends Brad and Gaby's last visit to the beach before they headed home back to Michigan. :(

Laguna Sunset **Week 27/52**

Drove to Laguna beach for an amazing, and relaxing day with the wife. I wanted to get some shots of the sunset since I haven't had the chance to shoot for quite some time. Did some exploring and came across this little gem.

ND Grad
Singh Ray CPL

West Caribbean Cruise **Week 26/52**

Haven't been shooting for the past couple of weeks. Just catching up on more photos in my library that I haven't touched.
This was shoot on the ship early in the morning while on our way to Cozumel.
Tried out some new software plugins for PS CS5.
Black and White Conversion in Nik Silver Efex 2.

Lake Tahoe Emerald Bay **Week 25/52**

Haven't really taking some photos these past couple weeks. I'm just catching on photos from my last vacation at Lake Tahoe. Here's my most recent project that I just finished.

Cropped and centered the Image.
Desaturated, and a series of masking that go to far in detail to talk about.

The weather that day was pretty intense. It was taken right before a HUGE snow storm that was coming in, and literally 15-20 mins after I took this photo, we were in a complete white out. Couldn't see 5 feet in front of me.

Sandy Shore, Lake Tahoe- snow walk *Week 24/52*

Finally got around to edit some of the photos I took in Tahoe from a couple weeks ago.
Took this one right after sunset. Was kinda bummed, I got skunked on the trip. Probably left with only 4 or 5 decent shots. The is the last show of the night that I was able to get.
Knee deep snow, in freezing weather. I love it <3

Heather marternity *Week 23/52*

With the whole situation with Santa Rosa, I needed a new location to shoot, I figured we went to the place where I got married at Lake Oak Meadows, and it turned out to be a pretty smart idea! :D Had a lot of fun with this shoot. Cant wait to see the baby :)

Skylar *Week 22/52*

I took Skylar's Senior photos a couple weeks ago (I just now got around to uploading them here :p ). The shoot started off pretty cool, but then it turned for the worst. Apparently you need a permit to shoot at Santa Rosa Plateau. I didn't know this, and about more then half way through the shoot, the Ranger comes up to us and told us that he could confiscate my equipment, and pay a $1,000+ fine, and get charged for indecent exposure (she did a wardrobe change outside... not was exposed... just wanted to be a jerk). Played the whole, "Im sorry, I didn't know, well leave right away." It worked and I was still able to get the shots that I needed. So it worked out in the end.

Lauren in Lake Tahoe *Week 21/52*

Took this photo of my beautiful wife Lauren while we were on a family vacation in Lake Tahoe. Had a really fun time ice skating :D Brenizer method with about 18 or so images stitched together. Was kinda hard to keep still while both of us on ice skates >.< but I think it came out pretty good.

Ashley P. Week 20/52

Forgot to post the photo on here... whoops :p But I did happen to do some more edits to it. Clean up the skin and smoothed it up a little more.
I shot the series (Which you can see on my Photography facebook linked below) with Ashley at Victoria Beach, in Laguna. Its around sun set, and used a speedlight around 1/16th.




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Its to loud for Sackboy **Week 19/52**

Sackboy thought he would be to handle the volume being cranked out to "11" apparently he didn't enjoy it to much.... I think his ears are still ringing :p

Sackboy exploring **Week 18/52**

Was just chilling with sack boy in the front yard before I had to go to work, and just enjoying the warm weather in December. I really gotta cut the grass >.<

LMFAO ROCK THE BEAT! Week 17/52

Week 17/52

I really didn't want to post a photo from work, but I figured I would go with this one. Really shows the essence of the club scene. REDFOO from LMFAO really made the club happen. Really full of energy on stage, and his entourage was jumping all over the place too. He was really hard to photograph cause he was just all over the place. But I got a few good ones. You can see the rest on my facebook page in the "Photography" folder: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2051444&id=1116391887&l=16901a0153

AH YEAH! Cabs here, T-shirt time!

I've honestly seen the show maybe 1.5 times... and not a full episodes, just small bits here and there. But if you don't know what I'm referring to. I'm talking about "Jersey Shore". The newest season has set the record for the most viewed cable TV Season Premiere in history. (And for being in standard definition, that's not bad at all.) We had a PACKED house this last weekend when we had DJ Pauly D doing a guest DJ set at Silk the Club. The wait to get in was wrapping down the stair case, and out into the casino Valet. VIP was sold out, and the guest list was passing the 5000 person marker. The Venue alone only holds 1600! With huge crowds in the club, the security was holding the crowd control guard up to keep the fans from rushing the stage. I was able to squeeze by the mayhem and was able to grab a few shots before the night was done.


Here is one of the shots that I was most stoked about. Enjoy!


DJ Pauly D in the mix

Week 16/52 Adventures of Sackboy

I took a LOOOOOONGGG Vacation from working on this project for a couple of reasons. One mainly being that the holidays really kept me from shooting from what I wanted to shoot, and two, I finished the photo class, and was a little burnt out on shooting.
But now to continue shooting I started this little series called, "The Adventures of Sackboy". A fun little series that will bring you through the eye level of the character of Little Big Planet, and bring him into our world. So here he is, and here is his first story:

Came to work, and I found this little guy tangled up in cables all alone. So I decided to take him in and take care of him.

Week 15/52

Another school Project photo! yayy. haha. The challenge this time was "Food". I shot the seafood grotto before, and had amazing results. So I asked the chef if I could shoot him one more time. This time I used "cool" LED lights. Its a panel of LED's that are a continuous light. Really efficient in the video realm, and somewhat for photography. I just had to bump up the ISO a bit, just so I can shoot at a high shutter, and have a fast aperture. I had to make a collage just to get a feel of the whole deal.

Week 14/52

Ok ok ok... I have to admit, not my best photo I have taken on these series of photos, but I needed a shot, and I was pressed for a photo for my photo class. The challenge was 1am. I had an idea to shoot the pond in Temecula, but on my way off of work, I realized that I had no tripod. And to top it off, Lauren was waiting there for me, and was gonna surprise me with some food, and Starbucks :( Thanks to no tripod, there was no surprise. But I did end up having a better idea. I meet up with Lauren at home, picked up my tripod, and had her drive, and I sat in the back seat, set my camera up on the tripod, and picked up some trail lights. The photo is composed of two images, the lights on the streets, then a longer exposure to pick up the lights in the cabin.

Week 13/52

Week 13 was definitely hard to choose from. Pechanga held its first "official" MMA fight. (I say official because every weekend when silk gets out, there seems to be a brawl going on. haha)
There were a lot of good fights. Decided on this one just becuase of 1. He's my buddies Nick's coach, and 2. It really shows how the sport is. Not just boxing toe to toe, but also expands the fight to the ground, where you can throw in wrestling, and Jiu Jitsu. All in all a pretty good night.

Shot cage side at a ridiculously high ISO.

Week 12/52

Week 12 was another shoot in the school studio. My buddy Matt needed some new head shots to send to a modeling agency, and I need some shots for my school project. He had a few wardrobe changes, but this is one I enjoyed the most.

Fill light 3/4 lighting on camera right, and then kicker/rim lighting camera left. Shot on a gray background.

SLACKKING!!! Week 11/52

Sorry I havent posted on this blog in a while. (really doubt anyone is reading it tho. haha. :p ) But time to play some catch-up.

Week 11 was shot in the school studio. I saw an ad in Transworld Snowboard, and I really liked the catch lights. I put 3 slim soft boxes together and formed them into a triangle to get the effect. Turned out pretty cool. Now only if I can really get some of my own lights I could do this outside of school :\. Oh well...

The additional shot is from another angel to see how it was set up.

Week 9 and 10 / 52

Where to start...

The past couple of weeks have been supppper crazy. Did an awesome photo shoot with Wendi, Liz, Cha Cha, and Laney. then after that, well... I got Married! Then we left for our honeymoon in the West Caribbean for a week, and now we are here... on my 23rd birthday! whoot!

So here's an update to the 52 project, at Shot of Wendi in the bad ass military jacket that Laney brought in, and Cha Cha did the hair and make up.
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And then here's a photo of Cozumel that I shot over our honeymoon vacation.
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