Shop Talk Group Shoot

Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of going to another one of our Shop Talk group shoots. These are always fun because you get the chance to work with a couple of different models and not just one. Also, it is great to be there with several other photographers at the same time. It gives you a chance to see how they interact with the model and direct them (something I am still working on personally) and also how they get some of the photos that they get. This time we met in Heritage Park in Junction City. I shot 2 women, and also got to take a few more shots of Liz (she usually plays modeling dummy for us during these things). It was cold as hell outside, and I discovered that I had apparently left one of my gloves in my rental car in GA the week before (not a good thing). Anyway here are a few of them. Make sure you check out my Flick stream for more too.

Night Shoot around the area

So over the weekend I decided to go out and try my hand at night time photography.  I was browsing around Flickr and came across some really cool shots doing what they call "Light Painting" where you basicly take a long exposure picture and selectively light different parts of the frame for cool looks.  I am going to try that, but for this, I was just taking some long exposure picutres to see what kind of stuff I could get.  I have to say, other then freezing my ass off, I am really happy with the results.  Below are a few of what I got.  Check out my Flick to see some more.

More of Emily posted

Finally got a chance to finish working on my shots of Emily and got them posted.  I am really happy with how they came out.  Here are a few, but you can see the entire set on my Flickr feed.

Emily Previews

So on Thursday afternoon I had the pleasure of going out and shooting with Emily, a student at KSU.  The shoot went great and I am really happy with what we got.  Here are just a couple of the shots that we were able to take away from it.  Check back soon for the full shoot.

More Tye Pictures

Finally got a chance to finish working on Tyes photos from last week and I have to say, I am pretty happy with them.  I found Tye on Model Mayhem (check her out at Totaly Tye to see more of her stuff).  We went shooting in Heritage Park here in Junction City.  Below are a few of my favorite pictures from our session, but you can find the entire set by going to her set on Flick.  Check them out.

Tye Previews

Finally got a chance to get started on editing Tye's photos that I took on Sunday.  Tye has been modeling for about a year now and just moved into the Fort Riley area about a month ago.  Here is a sneak peak of just a few of what we were able to get.  More to follow soon.

My Current Shooting Schedule

Here is my current shooting schedule.  If you are interested in shooting with me, check out my calendar and lets figure out when we both have some free time to make this happen.  Right now I am looking to build up my portfolio and am looking for people willing to shoot TFCD (or if you want to pay me, I will happily take your money too).  If you're interested, send me a note to PhotosByGI@gmail.com. 

A night out shooting

So as you may know, I am a member of a group of local photographers on facebook.  The other day one of the other guys, Luke Townsend posted a message asking for someone to help him out with a night shoot.  I love Luke's flash work and since I am mildly retarded (ok fully retarded) when it comes to working with flash I jumped at the chance.  We went KSU and managed to get into this cool little "basement" section to shoot two models.  After spending a fair amount of time getting the lighting setup just right (never truely realized what all was involved in it to get "the right look" we started shooting.  Some of the shots were great (hopefully he will get some up on his blog before to long).  In addition to helping set the lighting and generally playing gopher boy, I was also the lighting dummy part of the time.

Who knew that I looked good in purple?

Abandoned Stuff

So I spent the better part of last night going through and editing the stuff that I had taken yesterday.  It seems like the word of the day yesterday was "abandoned".  I managed to find some really cool places to shoot.  Unfortunately the snow kept me from getting as close to some as I would have preferred, but hey, I still managed to get some great shots in the end.  Here are a couple.  Check out my Flickr stream to see the rest.

Son of a B*&ch

So as I posted earlier, I decided to brave the cold today (we got up to 10 degrees by the way) and go shooting out in the country.  I had mapped out 8 locations that I wanted to hit up (along with anything I might pass on the way).  Things were going good.  Most spots were good (a couple were a bust though).  I was at my 2nd to last location and parked the car on the side of the road to walk up to the location (A bridge over a frozen river).  I was walking up and hit a patch of ice.  I went falling backwards, I tried to tuck the camera into my body, but apparently it didn't work.  It hit the ground.  I got myself up and picked up the camera.  I looked and saw the lense 5 feet away.  Unforutnately it hadn't come off the camera body cleaning (would have been nice).  Instead it ripped it apart (check out the picture below).  The worse part is, this lense is pretty much brand new.  I bought it about 2 months ago when we were in Colorado because my other lense bit the dust on me.  Oh well, guess I get to see how much it will cost to repair, or get another lense.