59/365 Socks!!!!

My wife recently surprised me with some socks she found online for the baby, when he comes! So I decided to show them off in my goofy manner. They are really cute socks too!

58/365

Today was a good day. I spent the day with my wife. We went and purchased her a rocking chair today for when she has the baby. After that we just rested up for the day. We watched a bit of Curious case of Benjamin Button, but we will have to finish it tomorrow since we didn't finish it. Anyways, for the picture today I take you back to the days before digital. Of course the pic is shot on digital but the camera I am holding is a medium format film Hasselblad.

57/365

Today was a very long day. I had a shoot that was awesome! Shot the menu for a local Japanese Grill called Yoshi's in Draper. It was also awesome because after the shoot, they sent me home with a ton of food from all that was shot today! After the shoot I had a photography workshop that I went too. It was on lighting composite. Very interesting stuff! It was really neat to learn a bit about it. Well here is a pic of me eating one of the dishes that I photographed today! Shots to follow from the shoot today soon hopefully!

56/365

I bet all of you are tired of hearing me say that I am tired, so I wont say it. Today seemed like a long day. But school is done for the week so I can just relax in the evenings. Except for tomorrow because I have a photo shoot at a restaurant and then a workshop to go to afterwords. So I guess life isnt slowing for the weekend actually. Saturday will be a day of resting and catching up with sleep. Then we do it all over again next week! Well, heres looking at you:

55/365

I took some time on todays pic. So I hope you like it. I am sacrificing some sleep to post this, and already sacrificed sleep to edit this to get it up. This is what we get when I go into the studio and start messing around. And then pull it into photoshop with a picture of a city. Well what do you think?

54/365

I am going to let you peak into the mind of Chase. You ready? So on my way out the door for school tonight, I was thinking to myself of what I could do for the photo tonight after I get out of class and back home. Since I wake up very early for work, I try to have the idea going into the studio of what to shoot so I dont get stuck playing around forever in the studio. Well as I am walking out the door, I see a banana, and think, "huh, that could make a funny smile. I am sure you have seen someone stick a banana up to their mouths simulating a smile. So the picture idea was set. Or was it? Well as the night progressed at school, my mind kept going back to the banana, saying to myself "well I cant just hold it up to my mouth and look at the camera, how lame is that?" I wanted my hands free, so toothpicks came right to mind, just put a couple in the banana and bite down one them and there ya go! No holding the banana up to your mouth!. Well, I was set. I was on my way home to capture a fun picture with a banana. But wait, thats not it, my mind was still processing. "Well a banana is not like a full smile, its kinda a bit like Mona Lisa's smile". So I thought I would try and dress myself up like Mona Lisa and look at the camera just like she is in the painting, and I would photoshop me onto this background just like the painting. So I get home, I am dead tired. I eat some dinner, and guess what. I have to get up in six hours. So to dress myself and photoshop I wont be getting to bed at least for another hour. So you dont get banana Mona Lisa tonight. I might try it some time down the road when I dont have to wake up early. Well thanks for reading if you made it this far! Thanks for stopping by! Heres lookin' at you:

53/365

Today was a pretty good day. I had a meeting with a client to discuss the look he wants with his product. We shoot this friday! I will have more details to follow after the shoot! I am excited for this shoot too! After my meeting I went and registered at Target with my wife for our baby. We also headed over to Ikea and bought a dresser for the baby's room which I will be putting up soon. Now I am laying in bed about to watch a movie with the Mrs. and call it a night! Probably one of the best mondays in a while. I hate mondays usually, but not today! Well take care. Thanks for stopping by!

52/365

Well I struck it rich as a rap artist! Put myself up on the charts! Now I am blinging! Got me a gold and diamond grill too! Well at least this is what photoshop gives me... Lol. One part of the get up is real though. The watch is. All other gold is photoshopped! I don't think I could ever do this to my teeth anyways. Also, busting a rhyme is not my thing either. But if you are intersted in hearing a rap by a photographer click here, it starts at about 33 seconds in. Oh and by the way, if you are a photographer looking at getting into commercial work, the video in the link "Sessions with Joey L" is amazing! Well to the pic!

51/365

Today I had a portrait shoot and the family wanted to get some shots in the snow. So we drove up into the mountains where the snow was. But guess what? Despite the nice weather in the morning, and a bit of sunshine, it was snowing pretty hard by the time they had set for the shoot. But the family were champs and bared through it, and in result we ended up with some pretty great shots! I have done some shooting in the cold before, and luckily knew what being prepared for such a shoot would take. I had my snowboard coat on with the hood over my head along with an ear warmer band around my head. I had gloves on to keep my hands warm as I shot away. But this I learned because of a past shoot where I did not have any gloves and my hands froze. When you shoot you cant keep your hands in your pockets! One is holding the camera and the other is pushing the shutter button. So the past shoots I have done over this winter I have been prepared!

50/365

Well, we have made it half way to triple digits today of 365 days of self portraits. What a ride its been so far. Some days its been very hard to think of an idea to shoot and other days I have an idea and go for it! I have been pleased so far with the results! What about all of you? Are there favorites? Are you enjoying my photos everyday? Or maybe I just bore you. Well whatever it is, this self project has already in a short 50 days helped me understand lighting better then before shooting everyday with studio lights. I have more confidence with clients when shooting them and in turn been able to capture some really awesome pics of clients! I have had more notice to my work, and in turn will have some really cool shoots coming up for clients! Today I had this fine idea! What do you think? View bigger here!