Today is Tuesday, and I feel like I have a lot of things to take care of today. I'll blog whatever I plan to do today on another day. Let's recap..
Met up with Anthony and Renee to watch them do a photo shoot of a baby(I don't remember her name). It was pretty chill because Renee's mom is the manager of an apartment complex at Avalon Skyway, so they get to use the demo apartments as a studio. Here are some pictures I snapped before I headed out.
After the photo shoot, I headed to Huy Dao's place to shoot the 2nd Installment of my project Blog Lapse. It was the first time I've shoot a time lapse in that style. I don't think its really a time lapse, its just a video with motion blur. I don't really know the term of that, but I was really happy with the final video. I had to shoot on a small cf card(2g) so I had to lower the dimensions(quality) to save space. I should have edited the pictures just to correct some coloring and some details, but in the end, I think the video is fine the way it is. I messed around with my friend Anthony's flash by making it fire overhead. Here are some stills. Huy Dao and.. Russell Rabanal
This week has started off very good for me. For some weird reason, I'm pretty confident to say, this week will be a good week. Sunday started on the sour side, but as the day went on, I finally got into the creamy center and the day turned out to be pretty good. On Monday, Q and I decided to go to Carmel-by-the-sea(near Monterey, just down the highway). Yesterday(Tuesday) I had my job interview at ReMax Real Estate as a front desk receptionist. I thought the interview went well, but we'll see how I did when they call me back(if). Later that night, shot a little time lapse video and made an awesome dinner with friends. Today, I have a telephone-interview with The First Bank. Hopefully, all goes well.
I've messed around with my friend's Nikon d70 and as I snapped photos I compared it to my Canon. I can't really say one is better than the other because I had fun shooting with both cameras. I don't know very much about Nikon and it's ba-jillion settings and two different auto-focuses, but I got the hang of it as I snapped pictures of random still-life things around my house.
There are things that I must point out though comparing the d70 to the 20d, xT and xTi. The only thing that bummed me out about the Nikon d70 is that the lowest iso is 200. I understand that you can barely tell the difference between 100 to 200 in general picture taking. As you start taking photos at night or things that need long exposure, the difference between 100 to 200 can be easily noticed. Other than that, I'm fine with everything else. The Nikon d70 may be a low budget camera(all I've been shooting are low budget cameras), you can still work wonders and create amazing photographs with it. I can get into more depth, but there's really no point in doing so. Here are two photos that the d70 spawned from earlier.
I've decided to add to my list of photography projects. Making time lapses of people's life style in their homes. Its very simple really, hangout with them and let the camera do its own thing for a good hour or two. I'll be working on a really short video later today, so I'll get that posted as soon as I finish it.
This little segment is 599 photos long and when that's all put together, its about 1:30. I'm aiming at least around 2:15 videos which is over a thousand photos to put together. Usually it will take me at least 4+ hours to get my time lapses together. Well check this blog out later today/night.
EDIT: The project is called project Blog Lapse. Here's my first video, its short but enjoy. I'm going to turn my critical thinking cap to make angles and colors more interesting in the time lapses. For now, this will do(that'll do pig, that'll do).
On the other note, I'm going to upload most of my videos on vimeo. I'm having too many problems with youtube.
I haven't signed into my blog for nearly a year, possibly longer. I'm guessing blogging is a good way to keep your friends(or strangers) up-to-date about your daily routine. Blogging can also be a digital diary to which you can rant about how much something pisses you off or how Janis is a slut for cheating on Brett. On the bright side, I'll consider updating my blog as much as possible. Depending on how lazy I am to jot useless crap to the world wide web, my goal is to at least blog once a week. It seems to be an easy goal being that a blog a week won't keep a reader occupied on my site for no more than 5 minutes. Doesn't mean that I'll blog only once a week, I'm just saying that will be the minimum boundary I should stay above.
I'm pretty sure many people have seen my Flickr. Lately, I've been interested in different techniques of shooting my portraits. Bokeh(the art of blur) is one example of spicing up your night/dark photographs. Though I prefer black and white photos over colored, I've recently started to shoot more colored portraits so I can mess around with colors and lighting effects. So I'll keep everybody posted on how all that comes along.
I've talked to a few friends about a photo project just to keep our asses up from chairs and get us around and about. I have two projects in mind that seem reasonably doable. First, snapping photos of objects beginning with each letter in the alphabet(A-Z). Second, snapping 100 photos of 100 strangers. Honestly, when it comes to actually doing it, my shyness level goes up and I start to pussy out. My hypothesis is that 75% of the men and women you ask to take a photo of will say NO. Seems logical, but I'll man-up and ask people(kindly). I'm not 100% sure these projects will go through, but like I said before, I'll keep everybody posted.
I can't end this blog without a song to say farewell to the reader. I leave you with The Shortwave Set performing the song: Repeat To Fade from the album: The Debt Collection. Check it out.
