Thursday, February 4, 2010

While we're on the subject, can we change the subject now?

{Looking towards the future, we were begging for the past, well we knew we had the good things but those never seemed to last, oh please just last. -Modest Mouse}
Well, I had a job interview today, we'll see how it goes... I think I did well, the company looks pretty promising, I think it may be a good place to work... We'll see when I hear back.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

a post a day till i give up... day 1

Working at a portrait studio allows me to use a camera. A lot. But i've felt myself growing stagnant. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to get myself outside of the 'portrait studio box' that is trying it's very best to close in around me. So this weekend I decided I was going to renew a past goal. A photo a day. Every day. Some days i may only post process a recent photograph i took... It rains a lot here, and i'm not a huge fan of shooting in the rain (this equipment is too spendy!) but ultimately i hope to shoot a meaningful photograph every day.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

New Studio Strobes and other toys...

I realized it's been quite some time since i've made a post, and I have made a couple fun purchases since my last post, so i decided to update you a little. I purchased 2 1600 watt alienbee studio strobes, some of the cheap ebay wireless flash triggers, and a "digital" holga lens (basically just the holga lens glued onto a canon body cap... cheap, but fun nonetheless!) I figured I ought to post some new pictures up so you could give them a look!

The alienbees test shots:

Sean, showing his best side to the camera.


This is Olivia's latest look, I'm getting this smug expression on a daily basis now, oh ten year old sisters. :)

And the Holga lens:

I know it's a little noisy, but it was dark by the time the mail came, so I had to play around with it indoors with the iso turned up real high, notice the sweet spot is through the center and top-center of the pictures with the nice holga-esque dropoff very evident everywhere else. I'm quite pleased with the lens! It definitely turns my very expensive DSLR images into very cheap looking Holga replicas :)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Oh Seattle...



Gasworks park & a full moon, make for a nice combination. I love my city.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

because people take pictures of each other...



Photographs of Summer, through the lens of a new DSLR :)

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

we've gone a'wandering


Camera in hand, we wandered down to the piers, looking for some kind of adventure. We found some gulls, the market, and about a dozen strung out hobos. Great.

craftivity... monday?


Well, this is going to be a quick post. Tonight troy and i found instructions online for how to make wide angle and fisheye lenses for a point and shoot camera. Since materials were cheap, and since i don't really have any fun photographic toys at the moment, troy and i decided it was in our best intrest to make one of these contraptions. Here is a sample photo, tomorrow i'm going into Seattle, so i'll get to try out it's full potential downtown.