Spring brings new life and new adventures. The weather is starting to take a turn for the better and its bringing life back into the city. The other day I ran down to the local skate park with my cousins. Rarely do I travel anywhere without my camera and its a good thing because there was some serious talent out at the skate park that day. Here are some shots:
Last week I had the pleasure of shooting the staff portraits for Bay Valley Christian Church in Bay City, MI. I have been attending BVCC for almost a year now and have had the opportunity to get to know some great people. They are currently developing a new website and needed portraits of the new staff members. I took the studio on location and set up in the lobby of the church. Simple set up 2 Nikon Sb-800 with umbrellas, triggered with PocketWizard transceivers. These were some of the best people to work with and had a great time hangin out with them. These are some of the out takes mixed with some keepers.
Graduate school at Saginaw Valley State University has really pushed me to look at the photography industry from a different perspective. I have started a research project looking into how photographers are using Facebook.com. More and more photographers and other small businesses are jumping on this band-wagon. They are using Facebook to target specific groups of people. This is a new concept to alot of people but one that is pretty effective. There will be more to come on this topic.
New camera lens: Canon 24-70 f/2.8 I have been putting off buying this lens for a while, why, i have no idea. The lens is great and very universal. This was shot at my house this past weekend in terrible lighting conditions but that lens did a great job on the Canon Mark III.
From time to time Saginaw Valley State University puts on a good show. Unfortunately, its the good shows that are the most over looked. No matter how much time and energy gets put into advertising these event; they tend to be a flop. Once again, a great show, but a short turn out. Take The City a local band from Bay City came out and did the opening for comedian Michael Jr.
Here are some of the images from the engagement session with Ryan and Krista. They were a wonderful couple to work with. We are looking forward to covering their wedding in September.
So as I have been spending countless hours on Facebook I decided to start something new. I am going to jump on the band wagon of blogging. Mainly to keep up with times and also because i think it is a great resource. I have stumbled across some of the top photographers websites and they are all blogging these days. They have some very education articles which is very inspiring. So...here goes nothing and please excuse my terrible grammar, hopefully that will improve with blogging more often...or only get worse.
The other week fellow photographer James Fry and I were talking about doing something photography related but not work related. Seems lately we have been getting bogged down shooting events for campus...you can only shoot so many lectures and speakers before it gets old. So we decided to take a group of people into some abandon buildings in Bay City, MI. It was a blast and also served several purposes. 1) have fun 2) get away from campus 3) build portfolio 4) have fun 5) learn 6) be free and creative 7) have fun 8) make a video.
The video is pretty rough right now. I love apple but imovie is a little ridiculous when it comes to editing video. I didn't have final cut on my macbook pro so imovie it was. I will be reworking the video in Final Cut once I get my hands on it. So with that in mind here is the video...
