Day two with my baby back!!!
And what better way to celebrate the second day of my baby being back than by posting some pics from tonight’s youth service at church? I have a secret in store for tomorrow’s blog post so hopefully these couple of pics will hold you over!!
As always, enjoy!!
Yes, we have a pool table in our youth room 
Robbie in the cafe before service started
AJ demonstrating what it means to be a servant... new testament style!
A larger shot of our awesome chairs and couches and lights!
Ahhhh, my camera is back and I’m breathing again!!!
I didn’t realize how much I missed my camera until it was gone and back. I forget it’s like a lung to me!!
I took a few pics tonight but here are the two I’d like to share.
As always (:D), Enjoy!!!!
What do you shoot with??
My brother going macro with his full frame MKII
Finished up the first set!!!
Of family pictures from church that is!! I’m stoked!!
Enjoy!!!! (As always!)
Pastor AKA "Silver Fox" and family
Our main worship leader
Another nice family
I make babies cry...
I need to get some boxes for kids to stand on... suggestions??
These two have been married for ages, I would guess 
Sorry so little talking today.
LKPP: Low Key Product Photography
I’ve done a lot of high key product shots in the past and have never really dabbled in low key photos… that is until I tried to shoot fire against a white background with multiple light sources and no gobos. What a pain!!
I thought I’d give some shots a chance recently and figured I’d post up the results… This is black foam core being used as a base surface and rear black backdrop. (though only as a backup as I used my directional lighting to control fall off). Yes, I do realize that only ONE of these pics will look truly lowkey. I have a second but it’s not getting posted today…
On to the pics!!
Oh look! A miniature pool table!
Oooh, my new Mophie iphone battery case...
Domokun!
Nikon 70-200vr
I hope you liked the pics!! (I know they didn’t include people like I usually do. I need to get out more!)
Thanksgiving… NOT!!!
So yeah, I’ve been giving thanks all day about all kinds of things but last night I went out and gave myself a reason to give some extra thanks lol. I bought one of these… (matchbox car for size reference of Roku and the 46″ monster lol)
On the recommendation of a friend I also ordered Season One of a show called Eureka. If it’s anything like my friend described, it should be a pretty awesome show. 
I leave my blog post with a self portrait I just did with my fisheye. I haven’t busted that sucker out in a while but here she is about four inches from the mirror lol:
Modified for that film feel... I've been nostalgic lately...
xD
Photography light study… of sorts…
As a photographer, you’ve gotta challenge yourself at times to stay on your A-game. One of the ways to do that is to look at other photographer’s techniques and mimic them. Then you get to learn some nifty tricks about lighting. I didn’t nail these perfectly but then again when you’re using a magazine cover as a gobo and a magazine subscription card as a snoot, you can’t expect perfection lol. I tried though.
- Deleted for copyright reasons.
- Tom Hanks by a famous photographer
My brother as tom hanks lol
Yeah, the different colored jackets is one of those small details that I just went with because of what was available lol. The light isn’t QUITE as concentrated on the face as I shot it but my space to shoot in was extremely limited so I couldn’t move my main snooted light back any further. The background light is a single SB600 pointed at the back wall. Both flashes were triggered with cheapo RF602s from china
This second light study was from a strobist posting…
- Again, deleted for copyright reasons.
- Original strobist post…
Looking at this one in retrospect, I really missed it lol. I’ll try it again later lol.
Close but meh lol
Enjoy!!
LiT leaders… make an announcement video?
A couple of them to be exact (and correct my own title lol).
Today, the LiT leaders went upstairs with video-master J. Kisser to make a sweet set of videos for the kids. Here are some pics from the video shoot.
(who was dumb enough to give me the boom mic??)
(when did I get smart enough to grab my 11-16 while I held the boom!? lol)
Enjoy
Jason prepping...
Two cross light setup (one out of frame to my right)
The ladies do their announcement...
Panzer poses...
Panzer gets face-mic'ed!!
J. Kisser adjusts the multi-hundred dollar tripod thingamajigger lol
That’s all I could get as a photographer/grip. Holding the boom mic meant no shots while any filming was going on and none of me while filming an announcement with Pastor applejacks. *sigh*. Maybe next time RJ will get there sooner since he’s taller than I am.
SV Mod meet at the batcave…
Yessir, as one of my hobbies overlaps another, there is an inevitable set of pictures created.
Photography + Motorcycling = my most recent set of pictures.
Here are a couple pictures from that set. The whole set can be found HERE.
Brad's bike and car
DANG! Omari drove from NYC to make this meet!!
I finally put my new chain/sprocket on... by myself
Yeah, we drink oil 
Sometimes we actually do work lol
Fixing the neighbor's garbage lol
Super stock looking picture of an aftermarket sprocket and a stocker
Even changed a tire without anyone getting hurt lol
Go time
Heading five hours back to NYC!
Overall it was a productive meet. A lot of hot dogs and brauts were eaten. Maybe even some of the kids mac-n-cheese lol. Good times
This is half of what motorcycling is all about. If you own a bike and never work on it, I IMPLORE you to take your hand to a wrench. It’s rewarding like nothing else
Pulled the trigger on a new lens…
Transcript of the above video:
So in celebration of my 29th year of life on this wonderful third rock from that blazing ball of helium in the sky, I pulled the trigger on a new lens.
WHOOO DOGGY is she a PERTY lens!!!
/redneck accent
That’s right… via UPS right now there is a Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 AF-S/G/ED/N lens on the way to my hands!! Two pounds of professional goodness all waiting to unlock the range of photos that I usually capture via “foot zoom”.
CAN YOU TELL I’M EXCITED!!!!
My next two posts will feature a few blogs and photographers that I respect heavily
