Finally, the last band member of the Firebird 4000 Project is Matt, who is the drummer! I love that Matt’s drums are all shiny and in focus in this picture. :)
One more day of fun sneak previews! Check back tomorrow!!!!
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FB4K – Jake
Next up in the ongoing sneak preview of the Firebird 4000 Project is Jake! He does the main vocals and the rhythm guitar and he was rockin’! Plus he let us have some of their pizza after the show so that was awesome too. :)
More tomorrow!!!!
FB4K – Jill
Starting off my sneak peek of fun pictures from the Firebird 4000 Project show is their basist, Jill (who also plays the lead guitar, keys, and backup vocals)! She’s totally badass and awesome, both at bass and in general. :)
Tune back in tomorrow for more! :D
Portrait: The beginning
This weekend, I had the pleasure of getting to be an event photographer. It was one of the most fun things I have done in a long time and I was totally not expecting it. Here’s what happened (in a nutshell): My friend Matt (shown here) is in a band called The Firebird 4000 Project and I went to go see their recent show. I brought along the Nikon D80 just because I thought that a concert venue might be fun to photograph. Then when I got there, The Firebird 4000 Project got really excited and told me to go ahead and photograph the entire show! It was fun. It was a really good experience I think because it showed me how much I have grown as a photographer. I was comfortable with my camera, whirling dials, pressing buttons, and even changing lenses mid-show. I was purely focusing on how to make whatever shot the best it could be. How should I frame this? Where should my subject be? What should be in focus? How much depth of field should I have? I ran all around the band trying to get some group shots and individual shots of each of the members. And I took over 100 pictures… I can’t wait to play event photographer again (whenever that is…)
You’re probably thinking to yourself right now that this picture up there looks more like a portrait than a picture from a concert and you are right. This is pre-show. But tomorrow is when the real fun begins…
Black and White: Just Me
All I can say is that I had a ton of fun doing my self portrait photoshoot last week. If I wasn’t as lazy, I probably would have gotten rid of the blurry door handle behind my head in Photoshop. Oh well… I’ve been SUPER busy with life so I am just happy that I have time to post anything! :)
Hey Buddy, Whacha Doin’?
Went on a walk on the trails by my house this weekend and played with my baby camera. It’s a bit frustrating actually to go from where you control all the settings even down to what the camera focuses on with the DSLR to having pretty much no control and trusting that the camera is smart enough to figure out what to focus on. I was having a lot of issues with the macro mode especially. Oh well, I guess it requires more playing…
Anyway, I thought this picture was kind of neat not only because the butterfly on the flower is in awesome focus but also because of the blurry butterfly in the corner flying into the picture. He looks like he’s like “Hey friend! Wat’s goin’ on?!?!” Fun.
I eat this sushi now
Sometimes I like playing with my Bamboo Pen tablet… It is amazing. For this picture, I was trying out a free application that comes with the tablet called “Sumo Paint.” It’s roughly a free equivalent to Photoshop and is made specifically for the tablet. It has some strange quirks to it but I guess that is understandable in a free image editing program. Fun times… I hope that shark gets to eat his sushi…
Fun with Fisheye
Well until I get enough money to have fancy lenses for my DSLR, I will be content to play with the crazy modes on my little Canon Powershot. For example, the Fisheye mode can be insanely entertaining or insanely neat. This top picture is an insanely neat example taken by Cobalt. For an insanely entertaining picture, please see below (I took that one)… Hahahaha…
Black and White: What’s that you see, Russell?
Sometimes I think that I shouldn’t be allowed to have as much fun as I do with my DSLR and its remote control. This picture (and the one below) were taken out of boredom and a huge desire to take a picture of me “lurking” upstairs. So I borrowed Cobalt’s tripod and set it up crazily on the stairs and then busted out the remote control. Russell the shark came along for the ride. These pictures were kind of silly not only to pose for but just to take in general. Every few pictures, I’d stop and run down the stairs to check out my results/determine if I wanted to change any of the settings/my poses or whatever. Ha… I am so weird. Anyway, I love this picture because it is just so goofy. I feel like I am on some crazy children’s network TV show and Russell and I have to solve some sort of crazy mystery before the evil guy gets us!
On a completely different note, check out the picture below. Here, I felt like I was going to sneeze and I thought it would be funny to have a picture of me sneezing with Russell just hanging out… So here it is.
FINALLY… on a completely random note, when I typed this post’s title, I typed “Blah and White.” I hope you don’t think these pictures are blah… :(
Exploring the coral reef!
Today’s picture comes from Target! My friend Ali and I found the craziest pillow ever (shown here) and decided it looked like a coral reef. My stuffed shark Bruce looks like he’s right at home…
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