…and I are going to spend some quality time at Keegans. I hope that Donna is working cause lots O coffee sounds good.

This is now the best photo of a model that I have ever taken :)


Camera: Canon EOS Canon 10D
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f 4.5
Lens: 28-80mm @30mm
Date Taken: Oct 29 2003

It is a shot from the photo shoot that I had with Justyne today. I bought a slave device so I can have two flashes (Thanks so much for the loan Mike) and it seemed to work out pretty good studio wise (photos to come) but this shot came from me juggling around the two flashes on the camera. The location is in the back stairwell of our building. As we were walking out to go down the stairs our neighbors came out of the elevator. After the typical greetings that you share with your neighbors, he looks at me, at Justine, and then at my camera with two large speedlights attached with brackets and crazy stuff. (it actually looks impressive) and says “hey are you a photographer?” “Ya” I replied “what tipped you off” :) Funny stuff I tell you! Flash number one was the smaller Vivitar 2800 speedlight that had a blue diffuser plate on. I had it mounted on the hot shoe of the 10D pointed at about a 45 degree angle at the ceiling. It is this flash that accounts for the blue tinge to the walls and ceiling. The other flash was a really old (but fantastic) Vivtar 273 connected to the Canon 10D with a pc sync cord and was mounted on a side of the camera using an L bracket. It was pointed straight at the ceiling and was unfiltered & undiffused. This was a shot that when I took it I said “oh that was way over exposed” and well I like it just the way that it is. It is photos like this that reminds me of why I wanna be a photographer. Anyway I should get to bed soon for I have an even more exciting day tomorrow starting with a photo shoot with Adam followed by a photo shoot with Erin. so on that note g-night

So I am sitting in the star bucks on 170th and Man for those of you that are not in Edmonton or haven’t left your basements all day, it is snowing like crazy. I haven’t seen snow like this since March 2 (I only know the date only through a set of odd circumstances. I am not like a crazy grandpa that knows all the dates of all the major weather occurrences for the past 50 years) it’s sad to think that the non winter time in Edmonton is less then the winter time. I am sitting here waiting to meet With Justyne, a model from OMP. Oh and here she is…..

…. so the coffee went well she was a fun person that reminds me strongly of some one that I know only I cant think of whom. Ahhh another week of playing the who is that person game. We are going to do some studio work tomorrow during the day. We are working on a gothic theme so we will see how that works out. I spent the day working with numbers and figuring out business stuff. I got the copy for the Superpages ad and it was good except the background that was supposed to be white was not. So I noted the changes and fired it back to them. I do fear about the huge disclaimers everywhere that said if we don’t hear from you by X date we will print the ad as is. I guess I will bug my sales rep in a few days to make sure that they got the requested changes. I would just relax and let things take there own course but I find that every time I expect people to do their jobs and things to wok as they should they do not. I have often wondered if it is my interference that causes the issues or if the issues are always there. The limited study that I have done would say that it is not this way and that one has to be extremely proactive about everything :) But I am going to drive home soon and then perhaps for coffee at Keegans or something. Ohh I got a chance to do some photos for a Home builder. I meet on Monday to discuss the details and what have you, it will be fun to do some commissioned work. To practice those skills But the Starbucks coffee has officially given me a huge case of Gut Rot. So I am going to leave half a cup here and go home :)

“and I was curious how they got everything in french but then I realised they’re the same boxes as us only they turned them around on the shelves”
heheh

Love ya babe!

So I am hanging out in my kitchen drinking a beer (don’t ask) Miranda has disappeared to Montreal and I am here being a bachelor. SO I spent the first 24 hours that I was alone cleaning our house like from top to bottom, because I am going to paint some walls later this month and that is much more easily done when the place is clean :) I am kinda liking being alone but man o man I miss Miranda. I am getting lots of stuff done but I would prefer to be less productive and have Miranda here. Oh well what can you do :)
On a totally different note. I have hooked up with two models from OMP and have shoots and Coffee meets booked with them both. I have Erin this Thursday and I meet with Justyne tomorrow :) So we will see how that all goes. I also meet with Adam today to yak about doing some head shots over a cup of Starbucks swill. I hope to do a whack of photo shoots this week because I need the portfolio work and what have you. I also am looking for a new full/part time job to help pay the bills and stuff whatever I can get done this week the better. I have been working like mad on all these websites that I have going on as well so I am busy which I suppose is a good thing when one is Mirandaless :) I hope to have a few more ideas to Andr?a at Ruckus by the end of the week, as well as have a lot done on the Timberwolf site. Our site is basically done except for the content which is far from finished, another thing that I get to add on to my list of things.
Sunday was take Miranda and Scotty to the airport so they can fly to Montr?al day. On the way we stopped at a Booster juice for fruity goodness, and in the parking lot was a cool old Caddy. So while Scotty and Miranda were inside I hung out and took pictures.

After I dropped Miranda and Scotty of at the Airport on Sunday and on my drive home I spotted a cool old car parked off of Calgary Trail. (I mean Gateway Boulevard damn them and there dumb renaming of streets) so I fired around to take a closer look.

While I was driving down the alley to get to where the aforementioned car was I saw two others in a nearby auto body parking lot.

I had good times to say the least

So on Saturday we were driving around whyte ave area and there was a march against the Occupation of Iraq, that I had read about but the info that I had was that people were going to meet at Gazebo at 2pm. Well it was 20 after 1 and I was no where near Gazebo so it was still somewhat of a surprise to me. I stopped and grabbed a few shots but these are the only good two.

But I think it is food time so I am going to make something to eat now enjoy.

This sorta reminds me of See Magazine Funny shit.
But on another note this OMP Membership kicks ass. In two days I have had three models email me from it. Wow! I have emailed them all back and will see what happens with that. We are off to Westlock this afternoon for Miranda’s Baba’s birthday. We are having dinner at the Westlock Inn, and then we are taking family photos after the fact so it will be good times for me.
Today’s picture comes from the other day with the VW bug at southgate

Camera: Canon EOS Canon 10D
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/250 sec
Aperture: f5.6
Lens: 75-300mm @300mm
Date Taken: Oct 21 2003

thanks to asylus for the link this is too cool.
Me if I was on southpark.

So in other news I am to have a photo shoot with Krysten today but as things go on it is looking a lot like that is going to be a studio shoot :) We will see how the day progresses. I was up to a crazy time last night working on my rphoto site. It will be done soon I think however not soon enough. I had a model email me from OMP yesterday asking about portfolio work. I emailed her back and said sure so we will see if that turns into anything. But I have a large bowl of special K that calling my name so I will post later.

Today was a good day. I got up at 5 min to 8am and while brushing my teeth I packed my bags for the day and feed the cat. I drove Miranda to work shortly after that. You see today was the day that Mike had to take his car in to Southgate Volkswagen for some service & my task today was to pick him up. While I was waiting in the parking lot I grabbed a few shots of the dew covered Beetle next to me.


Camera: Canon EOS Canon 10D
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/45 sec
Aperture: f 5.6
Lens: 75-300mm @300mm
Date Taken: Oct 21 2003

We dropped Jetta off at her aunts and we had the entire morning to ourselves. So we drove about here are there to see what we could see. What we saw first was this huge stream of water that was rushing out of the ground like a geyser. There was as near as we could tell a water main break that didn’t just break and leak, nooooo It broke and pushed thought the asphalt and shot 20 to 30 feet in the air. So we stopped to take pictures

Near 11:30 we went to get Jared from school and take him to join Jetta at their aunts place. It was after that Mike mentioned that he hasn’t been to the new Ikea yet.


Camera: Canon EOS Canon 10D
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f 5.6
Lens: 28-80mm @53mm
Date Taken: Oct 21 2003

So after resisting the urge to eat copious amounts of Swedish meat balls and plates of the crazy good torte, we got the hell out before money was spent. :)


Camera: Canon EOS Canon 10D
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/750 sec
Aperture: f 5.6
Lens: 28-80mm @75mm
Date Taken: Oct 21 2003

But I am really tired and though I really wanna write some more, and less like a four year old telling of his summer vacation, I am going to leave it like it is and go to bed.

Working on Per’s Last Shoot. I see that I used the 300mm lens almost exclusively and you can really see the difference in the quality of the shots. I have been shy of this lens since I got the canon 10D because of the whole multiplier thing. Oh I Just realized that most of you have no Idea what I am talking about :) Well in a nutshell because the Canon 10D has a smaller “film plate” then a 35mm camera (its 24mm I think) the focal length is slightly different. There is what they call a 1.6X multiplier on whatever lens you have on it, so my 70 to 300mm lens becomes a 112 to 480mm lens. So this can makes it hard to fit everything in sometimes. :) However, I think that I am going to just back up more because I really like the look of these shots.


Camera: Canon EOS Canon 10D
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f 16
Lens: 75-300mm @75mm
Date Taken: Oct 17 2003

har Har
K i am going to bed for real now :)