Glowing Orbs

Supposedly if you take a photograph of a ghost you will capture a floating orb, well we caught three.

Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Provo

So over the weekend I either met some alien like creatures, or I was playing with long exposures. Take your pick.

Oh Higher Education...

Well college is eating my time like an Asian eats rice so I haven't have much time to play with my camera. Luckily last weekend a few of us went to "hike the Y" as they call it here. Basically there is a huge white Y painted on the side of, you guessed it Y- Mountain, and we went and hiked it in the wee hours of the morning. This was out view from the top...

In other news i finally broke down and bought myself a 70-200 f/2.8L. Its an awesome lens but so far the plan is to keep it for a month, and if i don't end up using it enough ill sell it and grab a 135 f/2.0L or maybe a tilt-shift lens, who knows yet. Any way here is a shot taken with my 70-200...

In other news, here are my friends...

FYI, i currently have Sailor Song by The Weeks in my head.

The Gray Card

The first shot of a shoot is always the same with me, and that tends to be the only similar thing about my photo shoots, the gray card.

Well today I was doing a senior session, and I must say it started out roughly. My car battery was not starting, but luckily I had an assistant,Christian DiCenso, tag along this shoot and we took his car. On our way there i noticed some dark clouds so we hurried to get things set up quickly, so we could take them down quickly.

The lighting was fairly basic, a dyi beauty dish was our key light with a shoot-through umbrella as fill, and a bare speedlight camera right was added as a kicker later. The results...

I really liked the cross-beans in the back, I always enjoy intreating backgrounds

About another hour into the shoot and it started to thunder, but I wanted to try just one more thing (We also shot on this little pathway fyi). There is a nice little river running through this park, hints the bridge, and i wanted to incorporate it into a shot somehow. I have always enjoyed long exposure waterscape work with the smooth glossy water, so i thought i would give that a try, and after some brainstorming I came up with this.

We would put Sarah, the model, out on a rock in the river, then Christina would hold the beauty dish like a boom to get some light on sarah, camera left. 

Next I took a two second exposure of the exact same shot to get that nice glossy effect.

Finally, with the magic of photoshop, i took the water from the second photo, and layered it over the first photo.

The second after my shutter clicked we saw lightning in the sky, and hightailed it out of there just a quickly as aw set up, all and all a fun shoot.

And once again, another day down.