90/365 A hard man's stare

I really am not too big a fan of Wednesdays. Especially today. I got up at 3am and went to work. Got out of work at 12:30pm and went home. I finished up my essay that is due today in class. I usually would have plenty of time to shoot my picture before class but I took a nap instead. That didn't help much. So when I woke up I had thirty minutes till I had to leave for class (4:30pm). I am in class till 9:20pm this evening, so I decided I would hurry and take a pic to upload before class started. Well I was rushed a bit because of this. So here is what came out of todays session. A hard mans stare:

89/365 Like a kid again...

...Well except I have a big bald head now. I started out doing a "many hats of Chase" and then when I pulled them all into lightroom this one stood out, so I thought I would just use this one. Its funny for some reason. This hat will be worn by my son someday. But he is still baking in the oven.

88/365 Splash!

Well its post 100 on my blog and we are getting even closer to day 100!!! I had this idea today and went with it! It always makes a mess when using water in the studio and is kinda a bit scary around all my electronics. There was one of my small strobes used in this photo too that was in the splash zone. But I was not worried. I just had to clean up all the water after the shot. Three attempts were tried and this is the third. This was the best of the three. It turned out pretty nice! Didn't want to keep trying because it was making a mess. But here is the splash for today!

87/365

This is a continuation in the series to this photo. Its a battle starting to get heated. I might have to take it outside! Who do you think is going to win? Me or......me?

86/365

Busy busy day. We are trying to move my studio space into a new area because when the baby is born he is taking the studio space I am currently working in (our spare bedroom)! So we were cleaning out some room for me to move all my stuff into so I can still shoot my 365 and clients. After gathering things to donate to DI (kinda like Good Will, but its a Utah local business that resells used stuff for cheap), we went grocery shopping. Dinner was also on me tonight for almost my whole family. I fed eight of us from a restaurant I recently did some photography work for. Then we went to my wife's sister's home and we watched a movie with her and her husband. So while at their house I set up a light and had my brother in law pull the trigger of me and my little niece. HIGH FIVE!!!

85/365 Few of the many faces of Chase

I really wish that the weather would make its mind up. It must have started and stopped snowing today like ten times. At least it stopped long enough and clear up enough for me to have my shoot! I was worried there for a bit. But it went well. We mixed it up a bit. Did some shots outside and then some shots in the studio! I stepped in front of the camera after to show some of my many faces. Which is your favorite?

84/365

Have you ever had one of those days where it feels like you have your head on backwards? Well I guess today was just one of those days. Spent some more time in the darkroom tonight and came out with a print of a shot I did on a hasselblad a few years back. It turned out pretty nice! Thanks for stopping by!

83/365

Had this idea for a while. However it could be a bit better. The shampoo could be darker so you could see it better. So just view it larger to see the detail. The reason for this shot is because every time I get in the shower my wife complains at how much shampoo I use compared to how much hair is on my head. I tend to use just a tad too much (or way to much according to my wife). I guess we differ on opinions on how much shampoo it takes to wash a bald mans head! Oh well. Heres to buying shampoo frequently!
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82/365

Well I had a first today. Was the first time I have been in a dark room. It was pretty interesting. I started shooting on film years ago, and that is how I learned camera settings and exposures and such. But I always just sent the roll in to a lab that would do all the developing for me. But being a photography major in school, we get to learn all the fun stuff that the pre digital people did and used! So I am now learning the dark room. Well after all the fun stuff tonight at school, I came home and snapped this beaut and did some editing on it...

81/365

Man, I do not feel well. I have no motivation to even try for some kinda wow picture today. So sorry for the blah picture, but this is how I feel.

80/365

If you were deaf you would know what I was yelling. Well this was a fun picture to do. My wife was kind enough to help me all day today to accomplish my color assignment for school. This was one of the color ideas, but I used my wife for the actual school shot. We worked for a while in the studio doing different product shots. We also have one final one to shoot tomorrow which is the show stopper (hopefully). I will be using some of the shots in my actual portfolio and website (when I have it up). Some of the shots are very eye catching (I think). I will have to post some of them on here soon so all of you can see what I am talking about. Anyways, here is the fun shot for day 80! No editing what so ever. Those are christmas lights by the way.

79/365 orange splash

This is what I was doing today for a school assignment! You should check the orange photo larger below the 365 day photo. It was a bit hard to time just right, but after a few tries it came out looking stellar! The assignment for school is on color. I like the orange color against the black!





Wanna view the orange larger then this?

78/365

I have been tempted to try a shot like this one for a while. But I think I waited for it to get a tad to dark today. Though it was snowing/raining right before this. The thing that made me really go outside to take the photo on the street was the wet road, which you really cant tell to much anyways that its wet. It was very cold too, and my hands got very cold very quick. Next time I will wear gloves. I think I will try this again in the future but with a few changes to the set up, and also when its a bit lighter so you can see the background. So here I am freezing my buns off!

77/365

Well this is a failed attempt at an HDR image. An HDR image is three separate images taken at different lighting settings on the camera and merged in photoshop to make a High Dynamic Range photo. You capture pretty much every detail and such in the photo. But doing it on a person is very hard because if the person moves at all while the images are being taken, they wont line up in photoshop. Two out of three lined up fine, so this is actually only two merged together. It didn't turn out the way I wanted it to look, so I did some more tweaking to the photo to get the end product you see below. I also added the black and white in post.

76/365

Its raining light today. Good thing I have my umbrella to bounce the light!

75/365 Standoff

So I have this idea of doing a story with pictures. I think I will start it off with this picture. Every week I will come out with the next picture in the series, but probably on a Saturday or one of the weekend days. So the next part of the series will be released this weekend and then on a week to week basis after that. So the first picture in the series is titled Standoff. As the story progresses these two will be duking it out to become either the saviour of the universe or the destroyer of the universe....

74/365 Puppet

Sometimes this is how I feel. Tied down to life. I cant wait for the day when I can shoot photography full time. Well you wont get too many pictures like this because of how long it takes. This is three separate photos edited into one. The first is the background, which was the easiest one. Its a texture layer from a fellow flickr member who has tons of free textures if you are a photoshop person. The next photo was the trunk. I shot the trunk, made it taller in photoshop, isolated it from the white background I shot it on, and then added it to the texture background. Then shot myself on white and edited the white out. Put myself in the position you see and added strings. Quite the task for the final product. All done today. What do you think? I would love to hear from you!

73/365

Just hanging around today. This weekend has been a very nice one. Kinda was sad to not have any shoots, but I kinda did it on purpose. I have been so busy with shoots and life that I needed some time up to catch up with some things. So I got to sleep in this weekend, and just chill. Hopefully I am refreshed because it picks back up tomorrow! Busy and me have a love hate relationship. I love being busy, but for the right purpose. I love shooting and have been happy that I have had so much to shoot lately, but when I am not shooting and its something else that is taking my time, sometimes I hate being busy. I will be out shooting again with hopefully more to show you other then just pictures of myself. Well here is todays photo.

72/365

I have had this idea for a while now. Its kinda taken from the ipod commercials though. I really dont have a big enough space to shoot in to get the light on the background how I would like it, but it still looks cool. I really wanted to get outside and shoot some shots for my 365 project. However the weather has not been very nice lately. Its been snowing all day long! I am ready for the warm weather to come. I am itching to get outside and shoot. I have some really cool shoots coming up when the weather gets warm. So I really hope it gets warm soon! Well, have a wonderful one hour less of sleep tonight. Dont forget to switch your clocks forward.

71/365

Today was a very long day. I went snowboarding for the first time this season. I am so tired right now. Its also past midnight. I have been working on my photo and to tell the truth I am so tired I decided to just be done with it and not try to get it looking perfect or close to. I hope I dont wake up sore from my snowboard experience today. I remember the first time out of the season usually is a muscle getter. So I guess we will see in the morning. Well thanks for stopping by!

70/365 The Tramp

Recently, I got to watch one of Charlie Chaplin's movies in my film class. They really are some good movies even though they are 70 +/- years old. His character he is most known for is called "The Tramp". I decided to try and recreate that character. So what do you think?

69/365 What are you looking at?

Wednesdays are hard. Well I guess its not exactly the Wednesday but the effect it gives me Thursday morning. I get up at 3am for work mon-fri, and on Wednesday I have class till 9:30pm and if I don't get my pic done before class then I have to do it after, such as tonight. Well here it is. Kinda what I had in mind but I wanted a bit more harder lines from light to dark, kinda like a comic book. But I like the end result here too.

I have another shoot tomorrow after work. They seem to be coming more, which is good. I feel I am getting better everytime I shoot! My lighting technique is also getting much better too. That all comes with experience and trial and error. Well here is todays photo!

68/365 Two faced

I like a challenge and as you can see, there was some post edit work needed to accomplish this photo. Though this is a first time attempt, I think it looks ok. But I know there is probably an easier way to do this, and possibly a way to make this look even better. Though it was a fun idea I think. Lighting is fun to play with too. Every day I try to think of the lighting in a way that might help the photo look cool. That is the type of photographer I am. I love light and I try to incorporate it in every image, whether its for myself or a client, in such a way that it draws the eye in or maybe just adds a bit something to the photo. Lighting is so much fun because you can take a complete white background and the way you light the scene you can make the background look grey, such as shown in this photo. Believe it or not, that is a white background, but through lighting and camera settings, it appears grey. I do this in a lot of my self portraits. I think the grey helps the actual subject pop a bit more when the subject is lit properly. Well here is the photo for today!

67/365

While out taking pictures for my school photography assignment, I snapped this photo for my 365 day project. I was able to take the studio lighting out because I got a battery pack that I can plug my studio strobes into! Awesome investment! Anyways, this photo was taken at my Dad's golf course. So here it is:

66/365

I know that I did a very similar idea last week, but after doing it I knew that I would try something again like it. Using the magnifying glass is so funny looking. So I though tonight I would try it with the eye! Very funny result I thought. But what do you think?

On another note, I have been very busy these past few days. Had two big photo shoots that went very well. I hope to have some posted up soon from them. I continue on with this week, looking to be busy once again. I am not used to being so busy, but I am working very hard to become a good photographer. Well here is todays pic!

65/365

Today was an awesome day. I had a very sweet photo shoot, and got some amazing pictures! Along with the shoot I had, my friend Zebulon, who works for United Way, came by with some Live United t-shirts and had me do some pics of a few people wearing them. Well after I got home from the shoot I had this picture in mind and went for it! Kinda a Super man type shot but with a Live United t-shirt under the nice shirt. What do you think?

64/365

Finally the weekend! Well today its me goofing off in front of the camera, not that thats anything new :) . This is a 30x6 size print with ten of me doing what I do...and what that is exactly you ask? Well I dont really know. LOL. I think the fourth one from the left I am doing some type of interpretive dance or something. But, whatever it is I had fun shooting this set! Its fun playing with light. View This Photo Large On Black

63/365 Jump!

Well here I am jumping in a studio that is bigger then my own that I usually shoot in. I was shooing a client in this studio, a much bigger studio, and decided there was plenty of room to jump! In my home studio I would probably hit my head on the ceiling or close to it. But not here. So after the shoot was done, I set this up and jumped! Its tough to get a good looking face while jumping, but this is a fun photo still.

62/365 I think I found old pics of my Great Grandfather...

It has to be right? I think I look a lot like him too. I think these were taken sometime around 1900? I guess photography is in my blood.

61/365 I would forget my head...

I have such a horrible short term memory! I went to Costco today to pick up some prints for class tonight and my wife told me to get some milk while I was there. Well I ran into the store, got my prints and left without the milk! These are common occurrences. I would forget my head if it wasn't bolted on!

60/365

Today was a busy day. After my regular job that I do during the morning hours I had a shoot finishing up today for a local restaurant in Draper called Yoshi's. If you want to see some of the photos and how they turned out head over here. After that, I loaded the pictures and burned a cd for the client. I have some other shoots in the work for this week also. More info as those happen this week! Anyways here is todays shot. Don't I have big teeth?