on a sunday afternoon
Tuesday, 29. December 2009
team scs
Tuesday, 18. August 2009
My buddy, Ferdie Ang, needed some photos shot for his new web site, www.team-scs.com. So he called me up and I shot some ladies in his team shirts. Here is a teaser. I should have a few more up this week.
truspeed motorcars
Sunday, 19. July 2009
The owner of one of the dealerships i work for races Porsche cup cars. Yesterday he had a track event so I went out and shot some photos of him in action. EDIT: I added the rest.
my new sti!
Sunday, 5. July 2009
I drove around town trying to find interesting backgrounds. There just aren’t any here in the suburbs. I need to find an area more industrial or rundown.
the last photo
Saturday, 4. July 2009
Here’s the last photo I took of my Limited before I traded it in.
san onofre beach
Thursday, 18. June 2009
My friend Jeff and I drove down to San Onofre beach yesterday to scout out some locations for a photo shoot he has coming up. I brought along my camera and snapped a few shots.
pretty flower
Tuesday, 2. June 2009
Nothing special, just a flower I noticed while out walking Fisher.
And a succulent plant.
survivor dan
Tuesday, 12. May 2009
My really good friend Dan was diagnosed with cancer less than a year ago. After his operation and chemotherapy, he began his road to recovery. It’s only been 5 months but he has come so far. So we wanted to document how far he has progressed.
beach shoot with liz
Wednesday, 22. April 2009
Haven’t had time to shoot anything other than cars lately. Here’s one from the beach shoot I had with Liz last night.
spot metering & birds
Wednesday, 18. March 2009
I saw these birds in my backyard tree a couple days ago. So I grabbed my camera and my 70-200 f/2.8 lens so I could go shoot them. I took a few pics from behind them and next to them but I still didn’t have a shot I liked. I moved in front of them and when I raised my camera, they flew away! They saw that I was pointing something at them and got scared!
I thought I had missed my shot but a couple hours later, I looked out the window and saw that they had come back. I went out there again and without rasing my camera, I raised my arms to show them I wasn’t going to hurt them. They seemed fine so I raised my camera and took a few photos. Looking at my display, I saw that the camera wasn’t metering the birds correctly because the sun was behind them. (I wanted to keep the sun behind them because it outlined them nicely from the background.) The camera was metering for the whole picture, so when it saw bright light, it darkened the exposure. I switched the camera to spot metering where it only meters what you have in the exact center of the photo, recomposed and took the picture. Voila! It came out perfectly exposed.
Here is the photo with lots of adjustment layers in Photoshop like levels and curves.
new lens on my wish list
Sunday, 15. February 2009
Someday, when I am making more money, I want to buy this lens:
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
While shooting cars, I need that extra stop to f/2.8. My f/4 isn’t cutting it inside the car where I can’t use flash!
new photo job
Saturday, 14. February 2009
I got a job doing some contract photography work for another car dealership. I’ve been doing it about a month now. It’s cool, just a lot of work! Here are some cars I have shot:
2005 Mercedes SLR McLaren – Retailed for $450,000
2005 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti – Retailed for $260,000
2006 Ferrari F430 – Retailed for $179,000
2007 Porsche 911 GT3 RS – Retailed for $106,000
more milo
Friday, 6. February 2009
Haven’t shot anything fun in a little while so of course, I took some photos of my cat. Here’s one of them.
engagement photos
Friday, 16. January 2009
I did a faux enagagement shoot for some friends of mine who are married. They never actually got photos taken before they got married so we took some now!
liz and holly
Saturday, 3. January 2009
I had a shoot this past Monday with Liz and Holly. Here’s how it turned out!
snow in the mountains!
Thursday, 18. December 2008
Because it was so cold and rainy the past couple of days, we got some major snow in our mountains here. I took this with my little point and shoot on the way to the grocery store. The foothills below it were on fire last October if any of you saw those pictures I took.
it’s raining!
Wednesday, 17. December 2008
My most favorite weather ever! I love when it rains. If it dies down a little bit, maybe I’ll go out and take some photos! Wet stuff is always prettier.