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Location portraiture.

the last couple of weeks have been challenging and fun, learning how to act quick and adjust to ones location has been challenging. Each situation has presented a unique opportunity to capture a great image and working on location is now less daunting than before! 

Posted April 17, 2013 at 9:25 pm

 A few weeks ago during our architectural module at school we got the opportunity to go and shoot the Frank Gehry building at M.I.T in Cambridge, as Gehry is my favorite architect this was a treat! i have never been overly interested in this avenue of photography but with this opportunity how could i not be? Having unbridled access to the building was great we could shoot anywhere, i learned a lot that day and thought i took some ok photos, what do you think ?  

Posted April 12, 2013 at 11:51 am 2 notes

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I think i have started to finally get a feeling for what i would like to focus on as a photographer, turns out i really enjoy taking portraits, something about a beautifully lit composed shot really makes me happy, Melanie is in my class and seeing how my class is quite small she gets to be our subject more often than not, being extremely photogenic helps a bit as well. This shot was taken with two canon speedlights off camera. To the subjects right was a 580ex II (main light)  set to 1/4 power reflected off a white umbrella and the second 580ex II (fill light) was at a 45 degree angel to the subjects left in front of her set to 1/32 power reflected off a silver umbrella, while it is a relatively simple set up it works quite well for the effect i was going for. Thanks again to Melanie from www.mluphotography.com for being such a patient subject.

I think i have started to finally get a feeling for what i would like to focus on as a photographer, turns out i really enjoy taking portraits, something about a beautifully lit composed shot really makes me happy, Melanie is in my class and seeing how my class is quite small she gets to be our subject more often than not, being extremely photogenic helps a bit as well. This shot was taken with two canon speedlights off camera. To the subjects right was a 580ex II (main light)  set to 1/4 power reflected off a white umbrella and the second 580ex II (fill light) was at a 45 degree angel to the subjects left in front of her set to 1/32 power reflected off a silver umbrella, while it is a relatively simple set up it works quite well for the effect i was going for. Thanks again to Melanie from www.mluphotography.com for being such a patient subject.

Posted February 20, 2013 at 11:16 pm 1 notes

Posted February 20, 2013 at 5:10 pm

"My relentless buying and selling of cameras of course unmasks a basic lack of self confidence in my own vision. That’s why we all keep running to the store. We hope that someone will come up with a piece of technology that, in itself, will be so profoundly good that it will mask whatever our self-perceived creative weaknesses are. We continually hope that there’s a magic lens which we can use to make our images sing in a different way. In the end we’ve spent $500 or $5,000 for a new magic lens only to come back to the realization that we’ve been taken once again….by our own psychological frailties."

Reblogged from armorfoto

Kirk Tuck (via armorfoto)

Posted January 30, 2013 at 11:20 am 2 notes

Little bit of macro work today, it’s my eye!

Little bit of macro work today, it’s my eye!

Posted January 26, 2013 at 12:11 pm

Messenger Prom CMWC2012 !

Posted January 14, 2013 at 6:09 pm 2 notes

A little bit dated.

Below you will find some old pictures i have taken, i know putting up old content isn’t all that time consuming but to myself it is a important part of evolving and remembering ware i have been as a photographer and in my personal life.

looking back i realize i am most inspired when i travel to a new place and i think i am going to try to do more of it.

Something about seeing a new place for the first time is when i seem to capture my best images, i also am aware that i need to see the everyday world around me in a new way photographically but for some reason i have a hard time with it, i see the same old house when i walk out the door the same school the same road….seasons change, light changes but for some reason i cant seem to get as inspired as seeing something/place for the first time.

It’s a new year and i guess change is in the air, and i just need to reach up and grab it.

Posted January 14, 2013 at 12:47 pm