I was bored today and decided to make an account on YouTube. I uploaded some of my old car videos. Check them out. I used to really like this stuff! Now it’s all about still pictures.
Now Fisher on the other hand, doesn’t mind the camera at all!
Milo loves getting her picture taken, can’t you tell? 
I was really bored yesterday so I went up into the foothills and took some pictures. It has been so hot here lately I waited till like 6 o’clock to leave the house. It was over a 100 but it’s supposed to be cooler today.
And… I’m back.
On Monday, I went to Fry’s Electronics and bought all new parts to build a computer! My current one was just not fast enough anymore. I could barely run Photoshop CS3 and I have to use that everyday!
For $475 bucks, I got everything here:
Case
500W Power Supply
Motherboard
Dual Core 2.33GHz Processor
2GB Memory
500GB Sata Hard Drive
DVD-R
I went back the next night and bought more RAM, though, he he.
I installed Vista on it, my first time using it, and I really like it!
I have yet to clean up my studio, though! This is what happens when you build your own computer. Boxes and manuals and wrappers go flying!
The build and install went smoothly but Travis decided to upgrade his computer as well and the Photoshop install files were on his computer. So I have been without Photoshop until this morning.
After shooting Song, she and I set out to capture the sunset. I gave her a couple lessons and she was on her way. For these I metered to the outside of the sun, locked the exposure and then recomposed my shot. I’ll update these as I edit.
See the little girl?:
Here’s another one from the series. Blue sky, normal looking model. It’s almost not noticeable until it’s pointed out. Although, going through the set, I could have probably used another couple layers of the warming gel. I didn’t bring any more with me, though.
Song and I went to the beach today to take some pictures and so I could practice my SI technique finally. With this picture, I had the camera set to tungsten white balance and I have a couple layers of warming gel on the flash. You can see that the sky is really blue but the subject is still very warm. If I didn’t warm up the flash, she would look dead. That’s not good.
I just added my equipment page, check it out!
Today I put together a homemade snoot. A snoot is something that slides over your Speedlite and directs the light down the tube to your subject. I took a piece of thin cardboard that came out of a package of Fruit of the Loom t-shirts I bought, folded it around the Speedlite and used blue painter’s tape to tape it all together. This helps for portraits when you don’t want the whole face lit.
I had no one to practice on so I had to use myself. It’s not a great picture of me but I definitely love the snoot effect!
