Colorado

This is a panoramic I took when Michael and I had just entered the Colorado state line. A massive, beautiful storm was there to greet us. We pulled off on an exit in a rural area and I took this panoramic while hanging out of the sunroof on the side of the road. It was by far the best trip and as a whole, one of the best experiences of my life.

I know the blog image is very small, bear with me and (please please please) click on it to view it in a larger version.

Pharmaceutical #1

The Biocommunications students have a pharmaceutical shoot due this week. We have to turn in two images showing different moods or views with the two different pictures. I tried to stick with one medicine, and chose Valerian Root. Valerian Root has been used for the treatment of sleep disorders, as well as anxiety.

I decided to portray the natural aspect, as well as the calming aspect, while showing one of the ways that Valerian Root can be taken (as tea).


For fun, I also took a closeup shot of the tea itself.


This is me doing an earlier shot of the same setup. Thanks to Lindsay Hutchinson for the setup shot!

New Portrait

I am very excited to have a new portrait of myself! Thanks to fellow classmate, Ian Briscoe, for helping me out with it! We used 2 lights, one with a big reflector on it to light the background, and one with a large softbox on a small lightstand to light me.

We shot with a D300, and a 300mm lens (yes, he was practically on the other side of the studio), at 1/200 and f/5.6, ISO 100.

Hanging Rock (again...)

This past week my friend Michael and I took a day trip to Hanging Rock with the dogs. He worked on a practice panoramic, and I took some photos just for fun. This was one of the shots I took from a tiny crawl space on one of the ledges. The trip was fun and relaxing, with school in full swing, sometimes it is good to get away and shoot just for the joy of it.

Portrait Practice

This week for our Bio-communications portrait class in our weekly partner assignments, we had to demonstrate 5 different lighting patterns. I lucked out, and got Chris Kennedy as a partner. This lighting pattern is split lighting, and I used 750 hot lights. On the shadow side, I used a scrim and moved the light far away for just a little bit of fill light. A big thanks to Chris for being a wonderful teammate and model!

D90, 18.00-55.00 mm lens, f/5.6, 1/200, ISO 1600

Clayton and Titan

This is my friend, Clayton on his parent's property.  Clayton's family owns a llama, named Titan. Titan is kind of skittish, but will eat food out of your hand sometimes. Clay told me once that Titan got out and started eating grass around the neighborhood. They got a call from a couple houses down asking if they had lost a llama! Hahahaaa! I can't imagine looking out the window to find a llama grazing on my lawn! 

This is Titan. Eating some food in his field!

Logs

Michael, his brother, and I went out to his brother's friend's house to go shooting. For the second time in my life someone convinced me to shoot a gun. The gun we shot was a Glock 9 mm, so that was a different experience from using a hunting rifle. WOW! But the land was a huge, and the two houses were really nice. This shot was taken on the patio area outside, near the fire pit. 

I also used the video on my D90 for the first time on this trip. While I am not nearly good enough at shooting to post a video (it took me almost 2 minutes to shoot one clip the first one) I am hoping to post a video up soon. The video quality is okay. Better then on point and shoot cameras, but also not as good as regular video cameras. I also thought the way you have to prefocus was sort of annoying, but that also might be user error. I am still experimenting with it! So hopefully I will have SOME kind of video up soon enough!