Classmate portrait!

I decided to go with my original image for the select... I just liked the tones on it a bit better than my retakes.



Valerie Mosley holds a locally-grown green pepper to her face. Mosley, described as a "food nerd" by her younger brother, worked at Wild Oats, a natural food store in Tulsa, Okla, for five years before attending the University of Missouri to study photojournalism.

Slides

I went to the Heritage Festival and the Pinnacles with some friends last weekend and brought some of my film cameras. The Pinnacles were crazy; I almost fell of the side of this huge cliff. So, all-in-all, it was a good trip.

Photos? Of course.



This is Chelsea. Chris and I asked her to pose, and she just randomly did this.



It's fall! This photo looks way better before it was converted for the web... the color just isn't as vibrant.



There was a bunch of people at the Heritage Festival just making their products as people watched. It was cool stuff. I love the skin tones on this photo... Kodachrome is just great for that.



My exposure was a bit dark here, but I love the old-timey feel of this.

Just catching up

Okay, so I recognize how long it's been since I've updated this with any of my work other than that last copy test thing. So, here's a collection of stuff I've done recently.

I got a 30D about a month ago, and one of the first things I did, naturally, was take photos of Caitlin. She found my fedora and we did a portrait shoot using a reflector and natural light from my window.



Kinda looks like "A Clockwork Orange".

I keep saying that I'm working on a photo essay over Hissom, a center for the treatment of the mentally disabled that was abandoned 20 or so years ago, but I really can't find the time to conduct the interviews. Until then, here are two photos from the shoot.





I used a D3 last weekend to shoot some stuff for my meter calibration/copy test assignment. Here's one of the photos I used... it's in black and white here, but it was shot (and turned in) as tungsten-balanced.



This was shot with a 70's Vivitar 70-210 f/3.5 Series 1 lens... I am just totally blown away by this thing. It's very unique... it almost feels like it's designed to be a soft-focus lens when wide open, as it's mostly sharp but has this kind of soft distortion that makes portraits really, really nice. The lens was Caitlin's, but I own one in OM mount (and I bought an adaptor for my EOS after using hers for maybe 3 shots).

I do a lot of messing around with astrophotography, and that weekend was no exception. This is somewhere around a 20 second exposure.



I included parts of my house for perspective.

Finally, I went out yesterday to shoot the sunset at a lake on the MKT trail. It had just been pretty cloudy, so the light was doing some cool things coming through the clouds.


(That photo's definitely best viewed larger on flickr)



I rarely get landscapes I'm happy with, so it was a pretty nice day, overall.

Under Duress

Death threats from one Will Lounsbury aside, I really should update this.

¡¡¡It's portrait extravaganza time!!!



This is my final project subject for Fundamentals of Photojournalism. Cutline? Yes please:

The wind blows in Jake Johnson’s hair as he stands on the roof of Conley Avenue Garage, the usual venue where he performs what he calls “noise-punk mixed with folk undertones”. “I mainly just play guitar,” Johnson explained, “but I do different types of percussive stuff on the guitar through use of harmonics and objects shoved in between the guitar strings and various stuff like that.” Johnson’s performances gather crowds of up to thirty people, all dancing to his music. “It was just a really cool experience to know that I was a part of something that was moving them,” Johnson said of the audience at his last show.



Hey, look, it's Chris Dunn! Chris is my photo editor over at the Maneater. We all went to get ice cream, and since it was such a nice day, I loaded by Hasselblad 500C/M with some Fuji Astia slide film. I found out that slides are wonderful.



This is my little sister, Lindsey, on HIE film. This stuff is kind of amazing... reeeaally grainy, but some amazing effects. It's a shame it's going to be discontinued.



It's Caitlin! My Polaroid spit this one out only after wasting another shot.


Whoo... I just hope this will deter Will from killing me.