2010 Resolution
Become a fan of my Facebook page!
Quit coffee? Oh hellz to the no. If anything I’ll be drinking even more of this sweet legal drug now that I’m heading back to school in May. If you’ll notice, my coffee cup is sitting on a tripod. I never use a tripod. In fact the last time I used a tripod (before right now using it as a coffee stand) was November 28th 2009 for my self portrait, then on July 4th 2009 for fireworks and before that was September 13th 2008 for my BMW (this is actually a very cool shot, check it out). So as you can see, I use a tripod twice a year.
My point is I don’t have a lot of experience in long exposure photos. Outside of setting the F stop to 22 on my 16mm lens, that’s all I’ve got going for me. My goal for 2010 is to take one ridiculously amazing long exposure photo. It might not sound all that challenging but the truth is I’m incredibly busy and lazy at night both of which make an awful combination for staying up late for a photo.
Jeff Engelhardt is pretty much for me one of the best long exposure (and everything else actually) photographers on Flickr. All of his shots are nothing short of amazing and this 2010 year, I hope to stay up late with a cup of coffee and hit an amazing long exposure photo.
Anyway with the long weekend and easy work week I’ve been partying so hard I’m actually grateful the work week is back. I never thought I’d say this but I’m looking forward to going back to work to recover. I hope everyone had a fantastic New Years.
This is for the group Macro Mondays. Every Monday a macro photograph is submitted for the week's challenge. This week's theme was "On Fire".
Taken with a Nikon D300 w/ a 85mm f/1.4 Nikkor Lens
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Nikon Speedlight SB800 Fired Through Umbrella, Left (1/40)
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Perfect Blue
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One of my favorite things about the holidays is that my friends who all live out of town finally come home and visit. I never really cared about the holidays until I went to college and I found that my close friends were scattered all over the place. Consequentially we’d only get to meet up a small hand full of times during the school year. Elle’s my best friend and she currently lives in New York City for med school. Since I’m in San Francisco, 99% of our relationship is based off of messaging, emails and phone calls so getting to hang out is a pretty cool holiday gift. We were chatting and she sent me this really cool Alicia Keys photo with her hair blowing so we decided to try out something similar.
If you’re curious about Elle, she’s a med student who’s going to specialize in radiology. That means she’s a photographer =). Granted someday she’ll be using a camera that cost millions, for now I think I’ve got the upper hand in terms of photography. By that I mean she’s young, attractive, nice skin, pretty and in good shape and I get to take her picture. When I’m old, smell weird and dying of something, she’ll be the one taking my internal photo trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with me.
This is for the group Strobist Sundays. Every Sunday a strobist photograph is submitted for the week's challenge. This week's theme was "Holiday Gift".
Taken with a Nikon D300 w/ a 85mm f/1.4 Nikkor Lens
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Nikon Speedlight SB900 Fired Through Umbrella, Direct Left (1/2)
Nikon Speedlight SB800 Fired Through Umbrella, Direct Right (1/40)
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Round
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1:1 Macro FTW.
It might not be on fire right now but for a split second I can promise you there was fire coming out of the business end of the Heckler and Koch USP.
[Click Here] A more festive photo haha… no violence, I promise.
When we went to Las Vegas a few months ago someone told me that there were great shooting ranges there and that you could fire machine guns. I’ve never shot a machine gun before so I told everyone that I really wanted to go and for the most part, just about everyone wasn’t having it. It didn’t help that we were drunk for 4 days straight which might I add is incredibly unhealthy. I remember it was over 100 degrees outside so I bought one of those 2 foot long iced margaritas. Sangeeta and I started to drink it and by the time we reached the end of the 1st block, we were already falling over. For $5 they throw in an extra quarter bottle of rum… how do you say no to that?!?
Anyway since then I’ve been itching to go shoot and my buddy Chris found some free time a couple weeks ago, we went. He brought an AR15 rifle and an H&K .40 caliber handgun. This is one of the shells I picked up on the way out of the range.
I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas holiday. My parents gave me a card and a check. The card was actually a card that someone else gave them and the just crossed out the names and wrote theirs and mine next to it. Awesome.
This is for the group Macro Mondays. Every Monday a macro photograph is submitted for the week's challenge. This week's theme was "On Fire".
Taken with a Nikon D300 w/ a 60mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor Lens
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Forward Motion
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Elle’s my best friend so say anything lewd or mean and I’ll be forced to hurt you.
Anyway Elle finally find some spare time out of her busy schedule to hang out with me for a couple hours. She’s got a couple weeks off from med school and came back to California for the holidays. For 99% of the year, our relationship is based off of AIM, text messages, random phone calls and the occasional shit talking email so I’m really happy we found some time to hang out.
This girl also happens to be my harshest critic when it comes to my photography.. and life, marriage and all that other crap. It mostly comes from the fact that when I take a bad photo or fuck something up, she has no issue telling me I’m a loser or the photo sucks (or both). When I finally grew up and started off camera flash, I wanted to take her photo since its been over a year from the last time she made an appearance on this site.
Taken with a Nikon D300 w/ a 85mm f/1.4 Nikkor Lens
Strobist Info:
Nikon Speedlight SB900 Fired Through Umbrella, Direct Left (1/2)
Nikon Speedlight SB800 Fired Through Umbrella, Direct Right (1/40)
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Baby Will You Be My Corona and Lime
This was my song of 2008, I still sing to it when it comes on my ipod or my radio.
Shwayze - Corona and Lime
Anyway, I woke up this morning to see this on my breakfast table. We had a really fun and beligerant night last night. Well my friends did, I was the driver so I only had 3 drink. It was my old college roomate's birthday and we went out to celebrate. Our firend WIll almost got us kicked out of Dragon Bar ... and then he almost got us kicked out of Cable Car Pizza at 1:30am. Great pizza but I think the owners were pissed at us.
Anyway I went to get some fruit this morning and as I was cutting my orange, I saw this on my glass table so I grabbed my SLR and here we are.
Check out the coasters! Sangeeta bought them for me =)
Taken with a Nikon D300 w/ a 85mm f/1.4 Nikkor Lens
Natural window lighting for a change!
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Uploaded on Dec 20, 2009
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