days 161-171 Catching up again....

Ok lets do some catching up on the posting. Each photo was taken on the numbered day shown

Day 161

Tag, your it!



Day 162

I dont really know what I was doing here, I guess the light was mesmerizing.



Day 163

I am watching you!



Day 164

Family photo! This was a very impromptu shot, per my mothers request. I would much rather plan out a day to do a better location and better shot. Oh well. Heres to you mother!



Day 165

Homemade Pizza! Need I say more?



Day 166

This is how I have felt lately. Not fun at all! Dang allergies



Day 167

Bouncing light! This was done with a bouncy ball that lights up!



Day 168

www.chaselester.com Have you been there yet? Go check it out!



Day 169

Light painting with a nightlight purchased from Ikea! It changes colors!



Day 170

My spoon is too big! This is a photo prop my wife purchased for me last week to use when I do my infant shots! The first client I had loved the prop! And the photo turned out awesome for her too!



Day 171

Satch. This is a brand new local Skateboard and snowboard company. They have a line of tshirts and also skate decks right now for purchase. I am doing their product shots for them. Check em out here!



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155-160/365

Does it bug all of you that I have become horrible about updating lately? Well it bugs me too. Ever since the baby came I have fallen out of the habit of uploading my daily photo. I am still remaining faithful with the daily photo. Its a way of expressing myself and a way to keep my creativity going. Here are the last five days. Hopefully I will get on uploading from day to day again. Just bare with the lack of updating everyday! Thanks for viewing and stopping by!

Day 155--
Stinky dipers! Truth be told, he is not too stinky yet. Just though this would be funny!



Day 156--
Just trying out the power settings on the lights. I can get the power very low, which is a good thing! But they also have plenty of power if I need that. But with the lower settings of power I can get pictures with a blurry background. This can be seen here with me zoomed up on my face. As you can see, the blurriness starts to fall on the photo right outside of the focus of the eyes.



Day 157--
I bit into an apple and it bit back!



Day 158--
This idea came to me via my Aunt Renee. She said I should try something with pigs flying. This is what I came up with!



Day 159-- The Queen!!!
I have had this idea for quite sometime. I just didnt have a chess set to do this photo. But I was able to borrow one and I am really happy with how this turned out! I am very competitive in chess you know. Especially when playing against myself!



Day 160--

Well this is the type of style I have been working on lately. But now I decided to try and get all the way through the whole process. Going back on my 365 project the past week or so, you will see that I have edited myself (the subject not the background) like this in a few photos. But this is the entire process finished. What do you think? You can view it larger here.



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154/365 Using new lights!

Well I am happy that the strobes I just purchased have so many power settings (stops) on them! I have a Alien bees 1600 (not used in this photo) and two Alien Bees 800 which were used in this photo! The reason I love the lights for studio work is I shot this at f2.8 which could not be done with the last strobes I shot with. Lowest was like f8 (which would not allow for so much blurriness in the background or foreground) with the other strobes because they had a ton of power. But thats why I got the 1600 so I could keep some of that power for when I go outside!

My baby boy!

Here is a very cute picture of my son!

149-153/365 Catching up once again!

So still sticking to the photo everyday. Just stinking it up with the uploading everyday. So here are the past few days of my 365 day project!

Day 149- Patty cake, Patty cake, baker's man



Day 150-Weekend is almost over. Wish it were just starting



day 151- Tug of war! My dog loves a good game of Tug of war!



day 152- bleh so tired



day 153- New light set up!!! UPS still has my light stands and a few small things. But those will be here tomorrow!

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!

View On Black

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!