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.