On the Water

Tonight I went boating with my parents for a few hours. Had a good time; took some pictures, ate hotdogs on the beach, swam in the St. Croix, wakeboarded for a bit, all that good stuff.

Just uploaded all the good photos to flickr, below is one of my favorites. Click the photo to see the rest. Comments always appreciated!

Taken in Hastings, MN

Tesla Would be Proud

Last night there was a high-energy thunderstorm in the metro area. As the storm moved closer to where I live, you could see a large cloud full of lightning and hear the low rumbles of thunder in the distance. Luckily the rain had not yet began, and there wasnt any cloud-to-ground lightning so I ran outside with my lightning rod tripod and took pictures. I just thought i’d share a few with you. Clicking the photos will take you to my flickr page where you can view them larger.

June 17, 2009

Pow!

Keeping it Simple

So last night I took the time to set up a little studio in my room in hopes of getting some awesome photos on my  black night stand. I took a while setting everything up, using a couple florescent shop lights (one bouncing off a wall, the other had parchment paper covering it to diffuse the light). Apparently it just wasn’t my night, and I wasn’t really even happy with my best shot.(below)

Fossil watch

After taking this photo, I decided to try and take pictures of a record player which my brother bought at Goodwill for 10 dollars. This turned out even worse than before, and I quickly scrapped that idea. Once everything was put away though, I noticed something on my wall. It was the clock that I had put together from a cheap plastic IKEA clock and a smiley sun I bought at a garage sale. The light was hitting it just so perfectly so I took my camera out and decided to snap a few shots of it . The picture below became my favorite shot of the night, which just goes to show that maybe it’s better to just keep things simple.

Time

Back Again

Alllright… so I’m going to really try this time to keep this thing going. It’s been over a year since my last entry on here. This is just a quick post since its getting sort of late and I don’t have much to say. Just got back from Vegas last week though. Here’s one of my favorite images from the trip.

Venetian Hotel on the strip

Opperation Light Box

So i built a light box (finally) and I think it turned out pretty good. I started with some dowels bought at walmart (under a dollar each for 3′) . I also bought a shower curtain and two shop lights (metal bowl, clamp on to things) . I then cut 1.5″ cubes out of a spare piece of wood i had laying around, and drilled 3 holes in it. each hole goes straight through so you end up with 6 total. Then i assembled it to give me this-

box setup

then after adjusting the white balance for my two different colored light bulbs, we have this as the resulting image

any questions, just email me or comment on the blog and i’ll try to get back to you!

Can someone remind me to do this??

I’m planning on taking some creative lighting photos tonight, havent decided whether to do stock photos, or what, but i’ll see what happens… maybe some sort of alcohol bottles. Maybe i’ll go to walmart and buy some stuff to make myself a lightbox or something. I got a giftcard for christmas and maybe i could use it. could someone email me later at shorty6049@gmail.com if i havent posted? thanks…

Forgot to post on here

Hey everyone. So today i’m currently at $630 in the sony a700 fund. That means only about 300 dollars left to raise, after the next 70 i get from payperpost.i’m planning on using 100 from working at subway over january term, then 200 from my yearbook stipend, and after selling my a100 for hopefully 400 dollars, i’m good as gold.

wish me luck!

A700

so i forgot to let anyone who might read this know, the a700 came out and it looks great. No live view though… kinda angry about that. but anyway, i’m planning on buying one soon, or at least within the next few months. but thats about all for now

Boom

Hey (every)one, how’s it going? I am sort of having trouble believing anyone reads this.. but i’ll keep posting anyway i suppose! Whats new with me? nothing. School is tough this semester and I have at least one major project coming up here. I havent done anything today because i had class from 7:30-9:30am and now not till 3:25… Tuesdays are nice. I just got my Dwight bobblehead (the office) today and i’m impressed with the quality. so now he sits on my desk subtly nodding his head at me. anyway, to the title of this post. I went to a fireworks show last weekend and heres my best shot of the night.

Business is Booming

Lately there have been a lot of new dslrs being released by almost everyone, We had the Canon 40d and their larger pro model (cant remember the model name right now) , then nikon followed suit with the d300 and d3 models, and also the very unlikely competitor panasonic came in with the somethign or other…  but anyway, the main topic i’m trying to get down to here is that sony has YET to release a new DSLR. Why? well, i guess it could be a number of reasons, they may be waiting it out to let the other companies get thier product out and then sony will try and sort of overshadow the other brands by being last. Only time will tell when we see the next big thing from sony.