The End

Today is my last day of class. I really enjoyed my classes this quarter. I learned a lot. Thanks Mr. Jones for teaching us a bunch of cool stuff!

Christmas Lights

Since its getting to be that time of year, many people are putting out their Christmas lights. Some major time and planning went into something like this. I hope you enjoy.

Final

A short video about me talking about school.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

I'm on my way to the Carlos Museum and of course it's raining outside. They have some really cool Egyptian stuff there. Wish me luck!


UPDATE: Arrived safely back home. I was only able to stay about an hour. There was an exhibition of Andy Warhol's Polaroid Portraits. Andy Warhol’s Polaroid Portraits offers an unusual look at the intimate relationship between the photographer and his many subjects. Photographs of famous figures such as Dorothy Hamill, Sylvester Stallone, and Mrs. Carter are featured along with lesser-known subjects such as Alphanso Panell, the latter a study for Warhol’s 1975 series Ladies and Gentlemen.

Taxidermy Photo Essay

I really enjoyed this assignment. I learned a lot and had fun doing it.

School is fun.

At 1 P.M tomorrow I will be at Gwinnett Tech with Gregory Heisler and Denis Reggie. If you don't know who they are then I'll tell you who they are. They are both amazing photographers. Gregory is from New York and has shot 74 TIME Magazine covers. Denis is a wedding photographer here in Atlanta. He has coined the phrase "wedding photojournalism". I am so excited.

Busy Day

Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day. I have to finish up everything for my Humanities class, which includes a trip down to the Carlos Museum by Emory, a Dream House Project which I'm doing in iMovie AND a few papers. I have to be at school by 12:30. And work at 3:30. Yay.

The High

I'm going to The High today for two reasons. One because I have to for my humanities class and two because of the Terracotta Army Exhibition. I'm so excited. I know there is so much to see. I hope we can get through it all!

The McLovin' and Mordecai Show

Anne Geddes

I love taking pictures of children, so does Anne Geddes. She takes her work to a new level and I love it. The babies are just so cute! Check out her website.

To the ER

I had my first encounter with the Emergency Room Tuesday morning. After numerous blood tests and an ultra sound the doctors think that I have a kidney stone. They couldn't find it, but with my symptoms that's what they think it is. I have never experienced this much pain in my life. I wouldn't even wish this much pain on my worst enemy. Thanks to some pain meds that I am taking religiously every 4 hours, it seems to be alright.

A kidney stone
A thing so small
Is hardly worth a mention
Unless your trying to pass the things
They quickly get your attention
There is a cure
I promise you
That this is not a joke
Puree a bunch of asparagus
And chase with a liter of coke

December

It's already December, and even though we have been forced into the x-mas mode with Holiday Portraits, its finally time. I think the tree might get put up early this year. Can't wait to start decorating. Check out these trees!

Wedding Photography

Today in class we talked about wedding photography. A past graduate from Gwinnett Tech, Marc Climie has made a great career out of it. Marc was recently awarded by the Wedding Photojournalist Association, an association governed on principle that judges strictly on the merits of photography and not on stylistic digital manipulation.He also has a blog. Check it out here.

Howard Schatz

Underwater photography is cool. Taking this picture on land would be hard enough, just imaging being underwater.

H2O, Schatz's seventeenth book of photographs, is the third in his series of explorations of imagery made on, over and underwater. Published in the fall of 2007, it is a breathtaking feat of underwater photography and a visionary celebration of movement and form... To read more click here.

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry is an amazing photographer for National Geographic. Before I was even interested in photography this photo of the Afghan girl caught my interest. Her eyes are so beautiful.

Eye See You

How to Do Macro Eye Photography - Mr British - The best free videos are right here
An interesting video on eye photography using a macro lens. Check it out!

Executive Portrait

I photographed Jeanne Young for my executive portrait assignment. Can you guess what she does? Thank you Jessica and Lindsey for all your help.

Who Doesn't Love Legos?

Charles C. Ebbets was a photographer who took this very well known photograph during the construction of the Rockefeller Center in New York in 1932.
Mike Stimpson photographs legos. Thats about it. His lighting technique is great.

To the Taxidermist

On my most recent trip to the taxidermist, I was able to photograph the skinning of a fox squirrel. Pretty gross right? Oh and it was, but it was still cool. I chose to photography taxidermy for my photo essay in photojournalism and I'm so glad that I did. The guys there are so awesome and are more than happy to help me out with this project. Not that they have to do much, just their jobs. I have also learned some interesting things while doing this. Maybe a new hobby... maybe not.

Ty-Dye Friday

Black Friday... I think not. Its Ty-Dye Friday! Ty-Dye is such a cool thing and I found a tutorial on how to recreate it on photoshop. I can't wait to try it out.

Best Interview Ever

Jessica interviewing me on school and what not.

HolIday Portraits 2.0

Photoshop or not? We had fun in the studio, because that is what we do. Come join the fun!

War

In photojournalism we recently watched a video about the photographer James Nachtwey. He is an awesome photographer and focuses on war photography. The video is very emotional and graphic.

A film about the American photographer James Nachtwey, about his motivation, his fears and his daily routine as a war photographer. If we believe Hollywood pictures, war photographers are all hard-boiled and cynical old troopers.

Buy this video!

Richard Warren

In advanced portraiture we have an assignment due. Fashion is one of the the options. I find it really interesting and Richard Warren has some really great ideas to go from. Check out his work.

Ironic

Gerbera daises are my favorite flowers. I have a a few growing in a garden and they are actually blooming right now. Its the middle of November. I hope they last. Tony Howell has some really great pictures of flowers.

10th Year Wedding Anniversary

Tonight I had the privilege of celebrating the 10th year wedding anniversary of some very close friends of mine. I have known them for just about 6 years now. It was a lot of fun. And of course I took pictures.

I love my mom.

My mom was so impressed with all of our blogs that she decided to make one too.

How to Change the Size of your Audio Player

Are you interested in changing the size of that black box for your interview? It's simple. Below is the original code. I changed the height to "60". Make sure its in both places. Try different heights and widths. If you want to get rid of the black box all together, change the height to "20".

My interview with Jessica

I did an interview with Jessica Cargle.

Environmental Portrait

In class, one of our assignments is to shoot an environmental portrait. Erik Almas has some really great examples on his website.

Holiday Portraits

Today was my first out of three days shooting for holiday portraits. We had absolutely no one come in from 6-8. It was good to practice though, so I can't complain to much. For times and dates check out our holiday portraits blog!

New Fav

After googling surreal photography I came across Frank Uyttenhove. What to say... I love it. I think he is my new favorite photographer, for the rest of the week at least. He photographs are very unique and unlike most others.

Taxidermy Tuesday

Not quite what I had in mind, but something interesting I though I would share. I plan on shooting a taxidermist for photojournalism. Don't know exactly how it's going to play out yet. Check out Sarina Brewer's site. It's crazy.

Comment

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Lost in the Woods

Not really lost... I went over to Collins Hill park to take pictures for my fill flash assignment. Sara, my model, was great. Thank you so much. And thank you Jessica for letting me use your flash.

Citrus

I love stumbling across random photographers on the web. This photo is by Evy Johansen. It reminded me of my fruit assignment with the 4 x 5 camera.

Before and After

Before

AfterI fixed my header yet again. Dodging and burning can make such a difference. What do you think?

Rotating Banner

Interested in having multiple headers? Here is a site that tells you how to do so. Good luck!

Time Lapse

Time Lapse has always been very interesting to me. You can do it through video or by just taking pictures. This video is nice and short, and gets the idea out. Perhaps someday I will do something like this.

Atlanta Time

Today I went down to Atlanta with some class mates trying to find something post-election-y to shoot for photojournalism. To say the least, it was very uneventful. Rode the marta for a while, even to the airport... and nothing. Though I did get this shot of a baby sleeping. Cuteness. If only he were wearing an Obama button or something.

Post-Election

Tomorrow I will be heading down to Atlanta to capture the post-election for my photojournalism class. I don't know what will happen, but if anything is going down I hope I am there when it does. If you don't hear from me in a few days you will know why.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

The winners have been announced for the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the Natural History Museum in London and the BBC Wildlife Magazine.

The breathtaking images include chimps fighting over a bushpig, a snake and a frog in deadlock, and an encounter with a 14 metre long whale...

To see more winning images click here.

Photoshop CS4 Review

Photoshop CS4 is the 11th version of Adobe's venerable and industry-standard imaging application. It's hard to imagine that Adobe can continue to make large changes to Photoshop. It seems that just about everything but the kitchen sink is already in the application, but once again, Adobe has found ways to take a mature application and improve it... Click here to read on.

Michael Schwarz Photography

Michael A. Schwarz is an Atlanta photographer specializing in Editorial and Corporate Photojournalism. He is also in great demand for his Portraits and Fine Art Wedding Photojournalism.
I found out about Michael in my photojournalism class. His pictures moved me.

This is my Life

During the summer I made this video in Multi Media. I ended up learning a lot in the class, especially how to you iMovie. The video is about my life thus far.

Flickr

I got a flickr account. There are pictures from my photo shoots at school and some other favorites.  Check it.

Fighter

This is my dad. He has lung cancer. He smokes. These pictures were taken to document his chemo session. That's all.

Zoo Love

Even though it was chilly outside there were still some sparks flying between the animals.

T.P?

This is the image I'm turning in for a grade. Who knew toilet paper could be so scary? Jessica did an awesome job being a model. Thanks again!

The Zoo!

So I finally made it over to the zoo yesterday. Did you know they are shooting a movie there? Now you do. It was a great trip. Saw the pandas, a dancing elephant, singing otters, a baby orangutan,  and a hungry snake. Sounds like a children's book. Pictures coming soon!

I am McLOVIN

This is McLovin'. He is a rat. He likes to sleep a lot and eat bananas. He was the model for my Pet Photo assignment. Isn't he cute?

La De Da

So nothing exciting happened today.  Well except for the fact that I woke up at 4 am. Not fun. I took some pictures of my dad getting his chemo.  Great expression on his face on one of them. 

Oh yeah. I'm going to the ZOO on Thursday. I'm excited!!

The Mummy

Mondays are always exciting. Today i had a blast shooting for my high key photo assignment. Thank you very much Jessica and Evelyn for all your help.

These pictures were taken afterwards when we were supposed to be cleaning up.

Happenings Over the Weekend

Over all this weekend has been pretty good. I had some good photo opps and I wanted to share. The first picture was taken of the moon on Friday night. The second picture was taken in Helen, Georgia on Saturday during Oktoberfest.

Tomorrow I'll be shooting the High Key/Low key photo assignment in the studio, so look for pictures soon.

Children

On Monday I had the wonderful opportunity to photograph a little girl named Caeli. She was born to be in front of the camera. 

 

I love being able to come to school and know that I will be taking pictures and not learning algebra from a book.

Today Jen Kolb came to talk to our photojournalism class. Check out her site.