No pictures today

So this past quarter (now that it's week 10, to me its all over ) I took a class ophthalmic. For anybody that doesn't know that is, it's doing photography of the inside of the eye, it's what gets done at the eye doctor, hard, but once you get it... it's just same thing over and over. Although I find the imagining interesting, I've learned that this is definetly not for me, there are apsolutely no grounds for any creativity. All you can do is get a perfectly in focus picture of the correct field of an eye. From taking this class, I have learned how much I hate having strict rules that cannot be broken in any way. I like to be able to take a picture and then to be able to manipulate it, whether it be with light, the certain objects, or later in photoshop. But, hey, I'm not a very scientific person.

If you're looking for something funky to look at, just take a look through out all of Urbanoutfitters.com. the very long link below, are these awesome headphones that would be awesome photograph!!
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Fall in Rochester

Rochester isn't necessarily known for it's beautiful weather... but autumn here is really nice... if you look at the ground to see all of the leaves that have fallen. With in those leaves, there are always that few beautifully colored ones that stick out from the rest around them. These are shots from this weekend from Mendon Ponds and Mount Hope Cometary just of that. These were shot with a Canon G11.

Still working on that website, with no new updates up online to it as of the late, but I've been revamping the galleries, and will post when that is up and running

Website update?

Been working on my website for a whole month now... and honestly, I feel like there has been very little improvement in the last 3 weeks, but still proud that I'm doing this all by myself! Anyway, to the left is a screen shot of a possible gallery update. I'm having a hard time figuring out what type of gallery I like the best, and especially how I want the font to look. I like the font choice, not sure how I feel about the font size, color, and current location though. Also, spry menus are proving to be way more frustrating then I previously thought that they would be!!

This Image is an oldie, but I thought that I'd share it. This is one of the first shots that I ever took with my hasselblad.

Panoramas

I've always loved doing panoramas. The one to the left isn't the best example of one (not edited, or cropped), but I love the concept of being able to show everything, in a wider frame to show the entire view of where you are/were. This past weekend I was in nyc for photoplus (or photo expo, whichever you prefer), and I got the chance to walk around the city and do some street photography. I took it to myself to do a few panoramas, and this is one of the results. This wall graffitti is actually the front of a children's daycare center on Houston, which is right outside of Soho. To put the panorama together I used a program called PTGui Pro. Hands down this is the best program to use when putting a panorama together. You could also do it with many other programs such as using the automate in photoshop. The advantage of using PTGui in comparison to using photoshop is that with PTGui it sets control points and figures out where lines match up, etc. Although I did this panorama hand held (you can tell because it doesn't all match up perfectly) it is best to use a tripod because by using a tripod when you put the panorama files into a program, the program will have an easier time matching up all the lines, and in the end saves you time.

just for fun

This is just for the cute factor, my boyfriend and my dog :-)

personal projects

During the school year I always find it difficult to do personal projects because of lack of time, sleep, nutrition, etc (list of excuses could really go on for a century). But this past Friday I put homework aside for the afternoon and got started on a project that has been in my head for some time. Here are two of the in progress shots, conveniently taken with my phone (so excuse the quality)

For this project I am spray painting headphones different colors to create a more graphic still life, which usually isn't my style. Friday I spent a majority of the day spray painting them, which took a few a hours, and then took them into the studios to try out a few different set ups. I didn't have the back drop that I wanted to use with me, so it wasn't as successful as I would have hoped, but I got the exact lighting set up that I wanted to have which made it a good dry run, getting ready for the real deal.

On another note, this coming Thursday through Saturday is PDN's Photo Expo in NYC. If you've never heard of it, photo expo somewhat of a photography trade show, but instead of selling things it's mainly a place where you get try out the latest and greatest of any type of photo gear that you can possibly think of, talk with other photographers, go to workshops about new photo software, and quite a bit more. I decided to purchase the gold pass this year to be able to do more on the floor and go to more seminars.

promo cards

makin' promo cards