148/365 Aggression

Ok, so I guess I am a bit obsessed with this look these past few days. But the style is not quite there yet and I am trying to practice it to get it to how I would like it too look. A lot of the style has to do with how you light the picture too. So I am trying a few different ways to set up lights.

This is a continuation of this series. I have not done one in a while. This is the 3rd edition to this series. Hope by the end of the year, we will have a winner!

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146-147/365

Well I have been liking a style of a photographer that is based in Tucson. His name is Joel Grimes. He has a few tutorial videos you can purchase to learn his style. I have been watching those and attempting the style. These past two days are my first trials. Its really only half of what he does to his photos as he adds a background. I will be attempting the full out photo this weekend. But in the mean time here is what I did. Day 146 my lighting was a bit wrong. Day 147 the lighting was a bit better as to how it should be to do this style. Here they are. Day 146 and day 147

142-145/365 Catchen up again

Well once again, I am playing catch up on the blog! I have still taken a photo every day but have been slacking on loading them so here we go!

Day 142- I had a wedding that I shot on this day! It was my first Greek Orthodox Wedding. It was very interesting and fun to see how the ceremony was! Then after I shot at the reception. Day 142 is a photo of me at the reception. There was a girl there that kept asking me if she could take a photo. So I finally put the strap around her neck so she would not drop it. This is one of the photos she took, and I thought I would use it for my 365!



Well day 143 I finally got the baby's room all cleaned out with my studio stuff and moved into a bigger space to shoot in! It took quite some time to get it all cleaned, but now I have a space and so does the baby!



Day 144- Sometimes I feel like a real nerd. The glasses are 3D glasses that I took the lenses out of. I got the glasses a while back when I went and saw Avatar with my dad.



Day 145- Well, the studio lights that I have been using since the first of the year are actually on loan from my brother in law. He has now requested them back. So I wont get to use them for much longer. Its ok though because I ordered a whole studio set up and its on its way! So I will only be without lights for a day or two if any! Here are the lights that I have been using

141/365

Well, I took this photo to play a little game over on my flickr page, which if you want to give it a try you can do here or on the flickr page. Its a simple game really. How many lights did I use to light the photo? Also if you are daring enough, what type of light modifiers were used? The hint is in the catch light! You can also View larger here

140/365 Messin' around

Not that I am good at the guitar or anything. The piano is my instrument of choice. Check some of my music out here Just messin' around here in the studio!

139/365 Two Faced

Have you ever known someone who is two faced? Well I have and still deal with two faced people all the time. Its kinda annoying isn't it? I had this idea for quite some time now, and decided to tackle it last night. I got tired and decided to finish it up today. Its not perfect but I wanted to be done so I can focus on day 140, which is today. I loved the movie The Dark Knight and this is where the photo idea stems from. Two Face in that movie gets burned real bad and I think they did a great job with how they made him look, unlike the batman from the 1990's.

135-138/365 Catching up with posts

Ok, so rest assured that I broke no 365 day project rules with posting this many at once. I stayed within the rules by taking a photo every single one of these days. Now because I have been busy (as can imagine) with the baby being born, I am now posting my last few days of photos.
After a ton of emotions, and thinking we were going to lose Owen a few times through the pregnancy, he proved to be a fighter and fought through it and came out proving medical reasoning wrong. If you don't know what happened, my wife hemorrhaged at 8 weeks along in the pregnancy. They expected her to miscarry. This was the first week of bed rest. She remained on bed rest through the rest of her 28 more weeks of pregnancy.
At 15 weeks along, her water broke. This usually brings infection to you or to the baby or even both. If infection happens, they have to take the baby out because the mother chances losing her own life if they keep the baby in. The baby cannot survive out of the womb until at least week 24, and even then they have less then a 10% chance of living. The sack which the baby grows in can heal and feel back up with fluid, but when this happens, the doctors have no explanation and it is a very rare thing to be seen. Well my wife's did heal and feel back up with fluid. It was the first time in all of her doctors career that he has seen it happen. My wife had no infection at all. Every week was something to be thankful for!
Around 18 weeks we found out Owen would be born with only one functioning kidney. Which he has now. But you can live a full and happy life with one kidney. So we were fine with that. But there were a few scares when he was in the womb. He had one artery and one vain umbilical cord, which you usually have two arteries. This sometimes is a precursor to a chromosomal abnormality, and the baby only lives a couple hours outside the womb. Luckily Owen did not have this. At 36 weeks and a few days, he decided to come! Now we have our miracle baby!

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134/365 He is here!

Well here he is, after he was born! From yesterday. I will have todays up sometime in the next few days.

133/365 Looking Good

Well, I am going to keep this short. I have one more to upload. I took this shot, and opened it in photoshop to edit, and at that very moment my wife's water broke. So I rushed her to the hospital, and ten hours later she gave birth! See 134/365

132/365 Swinging triplets!

The other two triplets came over for a swing with me today. They are such goof balls. We also love to play video games! Though, its not always fun between us. As you can imagine, it gets a little tense sometimes. I think the other two are just jealous because I am the favorite of the triplets! LOL.

131/365 Chase, coming to a theater near you in 3D

(Alright get your deep movie voice ready) This summer, the biggest blockbuster to ever hit the silver screen in 3D! Better then Hannah Montana Concert in 3D. Bigger then Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D. Even bigger then Avatar 3D. It's Chase! He is big! He is bad! and HE....IS......IN......3D!!! One Magazine Raves "This is 3D!!!" A well known critic gives Chase 3D 3 Thumbs up!!!

Ha ha. I got this idea today to do a 3D image of me. But if you don't have the red and blue glasses I wont really look 3D to you, just red and blue. So if you have purchased Hannah Montana 3D, or Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, you should have the glasses! LOL. Don't I just leap right of the screen at you? Probably not really.

Coming Summer 2010!!!

130/365 My work station

Today was a very productive day. Worked on more stuff, getting our home ready for the baby. There is still so much to arrange and set up, its crazy. Probably anther full day of work around here to get it to how we want it. Moving my studio out of the room that will soon be the baby's room and moving my studio into a bigger location in the house which will be awesome! Its real nice having a studio in the home, and also if I need to take the studio to a bigger space outside of the home, I have that option to, which I have done for shoots in the past, and will have some in the future! Well, here is my set up for my editing/work station. I know its not that exciting of a photo, but I really thought I would have more time to shoot and edit some of the ideas I would love to do for my 365. Hopefully soon though.

129/365 Happy Mothers day!

For mothers day, I wanted the love I have for my mother to be shown and engraved for all to see. And what better way to show that then coloring on a tattoo with washable markers and taking a photo that will last for generations to come!

128/365

This is coming to you a bit late. I did take it yesterday, so I kept within the rules of taking a photo per day. I just got really busy yesterday. We are working hard to get all the baby stuff ready for the little guy so we dont have to worry about it when he comes. I also went with my father to the movies. It is always nice to spend time with him when its just me and him. In between the madness I snapped this shot. It is now being uploaded. I will have todays photo up later also.

127/365 Failed

Well, I decided to try something new today. I took a photo in the studio, which is what you see here, but the second part is what I failed at. I went to take an HDR photo at the local golf course to composite the studio photo into, kinda like a Joel Grimes look. I have never tried it, and after working on the HDR for hours, it never turned out how it was supposed to be. So I just decided to post the studio shot. Hey I tried right? I am going to study a bit more up on how Joel gets the HDR photo, so I can get the final product how I see it in my head. But until then, here is the studio shot from today.

126/365

Today was kind of a lazy day. I came home after work and pretty much sat around. I should have done some things around the house to get things more organized for when the baby comes, but I was just way to tired. Oh well. The weekend is coming up right? I know this photo is nothing special. Just trying a new lighting set up. Very hard to accomplish in my little studio space. Soon I will have a bigger space to shoot in. But I have learned how to shoot in a very limited space which came in handy for a photo shoot I had a little while back that was done in a small area. Thanks for stopping by!

125/365 iHappy

Well if I am ever let near money again it will be a phenomenon. Really, it will. This is our new family toy. Really for me, but my wife is allowed to touch. LOL. It is awesome for photoshop and Lightroom! 27 inches is much better than 13 inches, or so I think! My wife might disagree with me on this one. So I had this idea today for my photo and I think its pretty funny. My wife helped shoot it by pushing the shutter release.

124/365 Today I bring you....

Today I bring you crap!!! It was a real busy day, so I am sorry. You get crap today. I have been working around home, trying to get things organized for when the baby gets here, and I need to get to bed soon, so I decided not to spend anytime tonight. I promise to have better things coming in the future. But today you get this. The light I used for this I bounced off of the balloons from day 100, which are a very silver reflective surface.

123/365 New trick!!!

Today was a good day! Got a few things done at home. Still working on getting everything situated for the baby's room, but its starting to move along. Here is a new trick my dog can do. I didn't think he would stay on my back, but he did:

122/365 confusion

Well today, I spent some of the day putting together the soon to be born baby's dresser. Dont you just hate the fun directions that come with some of the things you purchase at the stores? So much fun. Cant wait for the crib!

121/365

Well everything is going well for my wife and I. She has made it to the point the doctors wanted her at, which was 35 weeks. So now if the baby decided to come anytime there would be no preemie issues. Though it would seem that the baby is going to stay in there for a bit longer! Well here is todays photo