Contemplated on whether or not I should write about this in my blog or not. Wondered if this was too personal or appropriate, maybe my blog is just about posting Epic pictures. But Since I want to be able to recall my journey as photographer and of my life then I think this blog should be a journal as a whole.
Yesterday at 5:28 pm, Brittany got on a plane back to Oahu, This time not just for the holidays, but for good.
With her footsteps onto the plane echoing the loss of a GREAT friend, my photo assistant, and Lover whom I was certain life had sent me to be with for life.
The echos of these footprints sent a dark cloud of locust over my soul, as I read the text of her boarding all hope of a movie ending where slashed, Instead I felt the locust devouring my joy, my hope, my desires for life. What was left was a hollow bag of bones.
As I am left with a siberian to take care of, I feel its a requirement for him to have exercise before I leave for my 13-14 hour day at school. So this means that this qtr, my day starts at 4 am. My night was sleepless, I remember checking my clock at 1205 before I fell asleep. During the night in my sleep I ran my hands down an empty bed, Which woke me up, The time: 2:13 am.
In 5 minutes I will run to the ferry to start my daily commute of the winter session, and honestly I am worried about where it will take me.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
FIRE! on 16th & Trenton
While waiting for the next match to start on COD black ops, Brittany looks out the window and notices some strange behavior from some pedestrians across the street. So we step out on to the balcony and see smoke Flowing off the Roof of their house
I immediately grabbed my camera and videophone to capture the events. Jumping on my roof I figured I would get an unusual view of the smoke. Shattering can be heard as the heat from the fire shatters the windows.
After making sure I got a solid image from the roof I headed down to the street, For some bystander point of view ( BPOV)
The Fire was out within 15 minutes of the fire dept arriving. So by the time I got down to the street I missed out on the large plumes of smoke, and was left with a measly smoke trail.
Since the smoke had calmed down I used the words "FIRE" to help the viewer out.
Where was the neighbor in all this? On his way home from Idaho. Poor guy, I could imagine the feeling of having a 3 hour commute knowing that your house is burning down!
I immediately grabbed my camera and videophone to capture the events. Jumping on my roof I figured I would get an unusual view of the smoke. Shattering can be heard as the heat from the fire shatters the windows.
After making sure I got a solid image from the roof I headed down to the street, For some bystander point of view ( BPOV)
The Fire was out within 15 minutes of the fire dept arriving. So by the time I got down to the street I missed out on the large plumes of smoke, and was left with a measly smoke trail.
Since the smoke had calmed down I used the words "FIRE" to help the viewer out.
Where was the neighbor in all this? On his way home from Idaho. Poor guy, I could imagine the feeling of having a 3 hour commute knowing that your house is burning down!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Won my 2nd photo competition
A friend of mine let me know Princeton tech, a dive light manufacture had a very small photo-competition going on. Once he saw the competitions photos he felt I had a solid chance on winning. By the time I got to it I wasn't to sure.
The competitions theme was "Beyond bottomtime" Princeton tech did not want to see photos of colored fish and the " normal" type of dive photos. Since freediving is about as far from normal as you can get in america, and equally concerned with bottom time. I decided to submit the majority of freedivers as my photos submited.
By the end of the deadline 217 photos where submitted, I was pretty suprised by the quality of some of the images, others I felt didnt really understand what princeton was after.
about 3 weeks later I checked back to the contest page and was greated with a link saying the winners have been selected winners page found here
GRAND PRIZE was awarded to my image of Paul and the Atlantis submarine
I must say, Im really looking foward to this olympus 6020 and its in camera panoramic mode. I've been wanting to try underwater pans for a while now. Ever since I saw the wetpixel discussions
UW pan discussion 1
Underwater pan discussion 2
While I am sure that with practice and a powerfull stitching program I can get results like the ones in the post. I think the stylus 6020 will provide the quality and the ease to get a great shot while on a freedive.
The competitions theme was "Beyond bottomtime" Princeton tech did not want to see photos of colored fish and the " normal" type of dive photos. Since freediving is about as far from normal as you can get in america, and equally concerned with bottom time. I decided to submit the majority of freedivers as my photos submited.
By the end of the deadline 217 photos where submitted, I was pretty suprised by the quality of some of the images, others I felt didnt really understand what princeton was after.
about 3 weeks later I checked back to the contest page and was greated with a link saying the winners have been selected winners page found here
GRAND PRIZE was awarded to my image of Paul and the Atlantis submarine
I must say, Im really looking foward to this olympus 6020 and its in camera panoramic mode. I've been wanting to try underwater pans for a while now. Ever since I saw the wetpixel discussions
UW pan discussion 1
Underwater pan discussion 2
While I am sure that with practice and a powerfull stitching program I can get results like the ones in the post. I think the stylus 6020 will provide the quality and the ease to get a great shot while on a freedive.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
End of 1ST qtr
My first 11 weeks of school have come to an end. Since most of my first qtr classes where general education I am only going to go into detail with my Principles of photography ( pho101) class.
Class started off with lighting. We learned how lighting effects composition and the overall flattery of the image. This was the first week of school and I honestly didn't take the time into this assignment like I should have. Mr. Ramey set a lot of restriction for the shoot and I took that as don't try so hard... When we reviewed the images the next week I could see how wrong I was as my images were by far the worst in the class.
lighting: frontal
Lighting: Side lighting
lighting: Diffused light ( overcast day)
Next weeks assignment was on focal length. We learned that long lenses will "compress" an image bringing the background close in to the subject. while wide angle lens will stretch everything out.
Feeling like I have a little more to prove after the 1st week I went to the skate park with a mission.
Wide angle- far
Wide angle close
Mr Ramey really liked this one. He even had me print it out for my Final print>
The next couple weeks went fairly smoothly
Depth of field- I was giving a special instruction to use Jacks
Movement- There are a couple ways to show movement in a photo.. You can freeze it with fast shutter speed, you can blur the movement , or you can pan the movement.
I had just bought the xbox kinect, what better to illustrate movement then the kinect where my body is the controller.
Panning-
The weather did not permit stop action outside. So I used an old photo that I took when I was still living in hawaii
Color-
Color will alter how your viewer will subconsciously view the image. Warm colors for heat and action and cool colors for cold and relaxation. You wouldn't want to use cool, blue colors for hot coco, or warm orange colors for fish at a market.
B&w for power and dynamics,
Complementary an triadic color patterns add interest to to viewers eye.
Chromatic 5 colors or more
Complementary
Achromatic ( void of color)
People was are last assignment before our two final projects.
I wanted to do underwater portraits for this assignment which turned out to be an epic failed this one and forgot to focus all my images.
FINAL Story
we needed 8 -12 photos that told a simple story with enganging photos, so I chose gymnastics
Over all the class was challenging, even with my previous photography experiance it was a challenge completing 4-8 photos a week for the assignment. I learned a great deal. mostly basics that I skipped over when I was starting out.
Class started off with lighting. We learned how lighting effects composition and the overall flattery of the image. This was the first week of school and I honestly didn't take the time into this assignment like I should have. Mr. Ramey set a lot of restriction for the shoot and I took that as don't try so hard... When we reviewed the images the next week I could see how wrong I was as my images were by far the worst in the class.
lighting: frontal
Lighting: Side lighting
lighting: Diffused light ( overcast day)
Next weeks assignment was on focal length. We learned that long lenses will "compress" an image bringing the background close in to the subject. while wide angle lens will stretch everything out.
Feeling like I have a little more to prove after the 1st week I went to the skate park with a mission.
Wide angle- far
Wide angle close
Mr Ramey really liked this one. He even had me print it out for my Final print>
The next couple weeks went fairly smoothly
Depth of field- I was giving a special instruction to use Jacks
Movement- There are a couple ways to show movement in a photo.. You can freeze it with fast shutter speed, you can blur the movement , or you can pan the movement.
I had just bought the xbox kinect, what better to illustrate movement then the kinect where my body is the controller.
Panning-
The weather did not permit stop action outside. So I used an old photo that I took when I was still living in hawaii
Color-
Color will alter how your viewer will subconsciously view the image. Warm colors for heat and action and cool colors for cold and relaxation. You wouldn't want to use cool, blue colors for hot coco, or warm orange colors for fish at a market.
B&w for power and dynamics,
Complementary an triadic color patterns add interest to to viewers eye.
Chromatic 5 colors or more
Complementary
Achromatic ( void of color)
People was are last assignment before our two final projects.
I wanted to do underwater portraits for this assignment which turned out to be an epic failed this one and forgot to focus all my images.
FINAL Story
we needed 8 -12 photos that told a simple story with enganging photos, so I chose gymnastics
Over all the class was challenging, even with my previous photography experiance it was a challenge completing 4-8 photos a week for the assignment. I learned a great deal. mostly basics that I skipped over when I was starting out.
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