Posts made in May, 2009
Bonfire Memorial Photoshoot
Monday I got this wild idea to wake up before the crack of dawn and shoot the Bonfire Memorial as the sun came up. Wow, it was not a wild idea, it was a great idea! Only problem was my brain doesn’t work so well at 5 AM. It was one of those “I can’t brain today i have the dumb” moments. I took some great shots that looked awesome on the LCD screen but I didn’t realize until later that I had three major problems: I left the ISO at 800, I had my McDonald’s coffee cup in a few of the pictures, and I had my camera back in a few other pictures. Doh! Right before the sun came up (~5:30) I was able to dial the white balance down and make...
Read MoreGeorge Bush Presidential Library and Museum Photos
I went up to the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Sunday to take some shots to find a good bridal portrait location. I was surprised how nice the pond behind the museum is so I shot almost 1.3GB of photos. Only wish it had not been early afternoon; the light was not great. Watched a photographer take some shots of his future daughter-in-law. He was really good at posing her and telling her what to do, but he seemed a little light on the camera knowledge. Once I was done shooting at the museum I headed over to the administrative building. I was surprised to see a few photographers waiting their turn to shoot; popular place on Sundays. I was lucky...
Read MoreWebsite Updates
Well, the front page is almost finished. I’m planning on a few more tweaks today or tomorrow then I’m going to start working on the blog section. I’m not really happy with the code (I hate PHP intertwined with HTML!!!). So the OCD in me wants to write an HTML wrapper class (poor man’s template system) that would allow me to only have PHP in my theme code. Since I don’t program PHP anymore I find myself writing Python and then wondering why I get errors when I try and display the page . Also, the JQuery has issues in Safari; sometimes the details are listed and other times nothing is listed. Will have to debug that. It’s funny...
Read MoreMurder Mystery Dinner
So Scott had a great idea to host a murder mystery dinner. Megan and I had a great time. The theme was based in the 1920s and was centered around a speakeasy. Megan was the daughter of the mob boss who was killed and I was a reporter who wanted the boss dead. Luckily neither of us were the killer and both of us guess the correct person at the end of the night. This was the first time I was able to use all of my camera equipment. I set up the ezybox to the left of the camera and a umbrella to the right. The room was very dark so I’m really happy with how the photos turned...
Read MoreRing Dance
Well Megan was nice enough to let me bring my camera to Ring Dance. We had a great time, but my pictures are really bad. Just goes to show you that you can’t buy your way into a great shot. I have all the gear and I screwed up on exposure 101 that night! Still a few of the pictures are interesting and I told people I would post them.
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