yargh.....

so lately i have not been happy with my photography. the last band shoot i did i was very meh about, and i just got an email from the record label saying that they want a re shoot. i just need to take some time and really work with the lighting i'm using and post production and spend more time lining up shots/scouting locations. i am going to sit down tomorrow and spend a lot of time on a self portrait until it is lit perfectly, exactly how i want it.

wish me luck.

"Just take it in stride.
One breath and I think I feel free.
All we can do is strive for the best thoughts,
the best feelings, the "warm fuzzy" feeling.
As a child, I believed these all came to me due to the process of living.
Grab the wheel right now, and make this life yours.
Walk with me.
Leave your disgusting fever.
Take this life - make it yours.
Forgotten are the days of wandering pointlessly in my dreams.
Carry me with your wings."

August burns red lyrics to Endorphins.

Today/yesterday took a pretty stressful turn because I found out I needed two new tires for my car, which is never cheap. It ended up being cheaper than expected, but i was still left with a $266 dollar bill just waiting for me to sign. Fortunately I got back a senior that I had thought I lost to a lame portrait photography company, so I'm doing that on tuesday (weather willingly) and yeah. Hopefully things with money will start turning around a little bit here. Working at levi's is fun and all....... but I gotta get that money somehow.

Grab the wheel right now, make this life yours

ugh

this is a shot from a set I did for this couple Kyle and Ciera. I've known kyle for a long time and ciera is a photographer, so it was a good time.

So I want to fill you in on something that I find extremely frustrating.

People who flake on photo shoots. I have had this shoot booked, and rescheduled 4 times, and now he decides to go with David Banks Studio. www.davidbankstudios.com. one of the most generic, boring and lame photography studios in this area. I'm not saying I'm a great photographer or building my ego, but honestly this is a tad ridiculous.

Seniors, bands, portraits, everything falls through. Maybe I need to just take it to heart and up the game with my photography, which I'm already working on, or I need to try and start dealing with other people.

How frustrating.

Ben came over for a little myspace shoot yesterday because I got my alien bee, and here's my favorite shot from it. to me it's got kind of a sarcastic funnyness to it. today i've got a shoot with a band called meridene out of eau claire wisconsin, so it'll be a good ol' drive out to wisconsin.

i haven't been to wisconsin since I moved back, so it'll be interesting to go back there. at least it's just to eau claire and not milwaukee.

so i got an alien bee yesterday, and i'm pretty excited to start using it. tomorrow i have a senior shoot, and hopefully i'll be able to use it. otherwise, I've got a shoot on sunday that I'll use it for. I've got to interview/do a portrait shoot with a teacher at ARCC in the next two weeks, some guy emailed me about shooting at his restaurant, aaaaaand yeah. hopefully all this pulls through.

This is the guitar player of Sky Eats Airplane, thought it was a pretty good laugh.

Now I'm watching something about the chupucabra on discovery channel, pretty crazy stuff.

off to a senior shoot now, photos will be up later hopefully.

haha

i don't know if you can read this but this is Portia de Rossi's IMDB page, and her "STARmeter" went up 19,333% last week after her and Ellen DeGeneres got married. Sadly, it is down 98% this week. Much love to www.imdb.com

oh and a disclaimer, in my iChat window, someone was saying "i didn't know she was gay," not saying it in a negative sense!

photography 1

this is what happens when you know about aperture and take photography 1

class is starting to speed up a little bit. we got our first photo assignment, and it's to go shoot a building that looks very ordinary, but shoot in in a very unordinary way. not sure where i'm going to shoot this yet but i'm excited about it.

i'm pretty sure there are two people who have touched cameras in my photography 1 course. it was pretty ridiculous, but our teacher seems to be very thorough and hopefully i'll learn a thing or two.

tomorrow i'm going downtown to the RNC to catch some photos of the protesters there and hopefully not get maced, wish me luck!