Cal State Fullerton Steporcist

Last Sunday I had the chance to shoot Cal State Fullerton's National Pan-Hellenic Council's step show with my good friend J. Go. Gonna toss up a few of my favorites.

Japan!

In a record breaking editing session, I finished all my Japan pictures. You can check them out at my website. I'll toss a few of my favorites up on here though :D

Escape from New York

Quick note, the last of my New York pictures have been uploaded, take a look!

The Long and Winding Road

Japan Preview

Here's a preview of some of my pictures from Japan. I realized that I still haven't finished editing my pics from my trip to New York, so gotta get on that.

NIkon Creative Lighting System (CLS)

I recently acquired a second Nikon flash (Sb-600) to go along with my main (Sb-800) and have starting playing around with Nikon's CLS system. For all you non-Nikon shooters, Nikon has a system of wireless flash syncing you can use without having to buy anything other than the actual camera and flashes. Here are a few pics from my first foray into shooting with off camera flashes...I had no idea what I was doing.

PS- The last of my road trip pictures should be done before the end of the week...hopefully!

Quick Update

I got lazy editing pictures. Here are a few random ones I did for a slideshow at work. Enjoy!

Magical Mystery Tour

We've finally made it to New Jersery, and have gotten Jason all moved into his apartment. Newark is an... interesting place, to say the least. We're heading to New York tomorrow, but since we can't bring any bags to the Jimmy Fallon show (!) won't be able to take pictures until Thursday. For now, I'll toss up some teaser pictures from the past few days (still no editing ability till I get home =/)

Shots from Niagara Falls, Hard Rock Cafe, and the Baseball Hall of Fame.

On the Road part 2.

A few pics from the past few days, St Louis and Indianapolis. Haven't edited anything yet so don't judge me!

Apparently the whole 'out of focus' picture is what the cool kids are doing, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

Heading through Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Canada over the next few days, hopefully I'll be able to get some more stuff up.

On the Road part 1.

Started my two-week cross country road trip today. Using my buddy Jason's computer, figured I'd quickly toss up some teaser pictures, enjoy!

Best Buy Talent Show

My store recently had a talent show for it's employees, I played some songs with people from my department, but took some pictures. Since I spent about 8 hours editing the video from the event I'm just going to toss up some eye candy (I'll link the video when I upload it!) BTW, that picture of DJ Fonzarelli was shooped in a way that I picked up from Scott Roeder, interesting stuff.

San Diego was discovered by the Germans

Last Tuesday I took a day tripper (one way ticket yeah!....) to San Diego to spend the day with my friend Elisse. I had never been to San Diego before other than visiting Sea World, and was stoked to take some pictures.

Nikon d300 [] f 1.8 [] 1/3200 [] ISO 100 [] 50mm

The sun was OUT this day, so I got to pretty much shoot everything on 100 ISO. Once again I stuck with the 50mm for most of the day, which had it's pros and cons. While I enjoy the depth of field control it has, the length sometimes feels a bit much (cropped sensor~75mm in actuality).

Nikon d300 [] f 5 [] 1/500 [] ISO 100 [] 50mm

Nikon d300 [] f 1.8 [] 1/3200 [] ISO 100 [] 50mm

Even in some of the darker area we visited I managed to keep the ISO at 100, which was cool. The Well picture is my first foray into sepia images since I worked in a portrait studio (three years ago...). As for the cannon picture, I'm pretty pleased with how my black and white pictures are coming out these days.

PS- My photographer friend Michelle Kim finally got her website up, so go check it out!

Home + Studio = Home Studio

My band has finally started recording what hopes to be a real demo/ep of sorts. Our good friend Emilie has been kind enough to lend her expertise with the whole recording gig. I went up to Rancho today to meet with her and my drummer Daniel to record my bass parts, and took some pictures along the way.

Nikon d300 | f1.8 @ 1/60th sec | 50mm | 1600 iso

We pretty much set up my bass amp in one room and ran all the cables into the living room. The room with my amp was pretty small, and I had only brought my 50 with me, annnd it was kinda dark, but I was pleased with how the depth of field (omg BOKEH) turned out on this one.

Nikon d300 | f1.8 @ 1/60th sec | 50mm | 1600 iso

This was actually taken by Daniel, one of the few good ones he managed to squeeze out (haha!). I definitely think I enjoy black and whites more than colors, and I'm always trying to find a post production method that gets more of a film look to it. The noise factor is something I'm enjoying more and more in these shots.

Nikon d300 | f1.8 @ 1/60th sec | 50mm | 1600 iso
/Nikon d300 | f1.8 @ 1/60th sec | 50mm | 1600 iso

Just some other shots to look at, you can see the rest of the photos here. BTDUBS, the second shot is a cheap knock-off of a Brandon Wong style pic, haha.

first post!

moving the photo blog over here...sorry tumblr :(