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
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…
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… :(
This weekend marked Cobalt’s and my four month anniversary of being engaged! Awwww cute! :D The lady who was kind enough to take this picture noticed that we were struggling to get a good portrait on our own (see last Wednesday’s post to see our failed attempt. Hahaha…). Anyway, happiness. This weekend, my friends and I went to look for bridesmaids dresses and found two that we really like! Success. Wow… I am getting excited… :)
We have been getting a LOT of rain here recently (wish I could send it all to Los Alamos, NM) so I snapped this picture one night. I was about to go to bed when I saw the moon all creepily obscured by clouds. It’s one of me and Cobalt’s favorite moons (the cool moon if you ask me or the “Lon Chaney” moon if you ask Cobalt…) so I had to take a picture of course. It turned out really cool if you ask me!
Sometimes Cobalt and I are weird…
Again I am showing you pictures from my garden when everything was wee! This was when one of my Mayan Love Peppers finally sprouted. I was so excited that I gave it a little photoshoot. Anyway, I really like this picture because of the grass. It just looks really cool… (Don’t worry baby pepper, so do you…) Now I have three baby pepper plants. I guess I should give them another photoshoot sometime. Maybe once they get into their big kid pots…
Today’s picture comes from this year’s Denver Chalk Art Festival. I love going to the Chalk Art Festival and seeing all the neat things people can put into sidewalk chalk art. Always so fun. This year it was really really hot and there were tons of people milling around so we didn’t actually stay too long. Before we escaped though, I managed to snap this picture. I brought my 50 mm lens for my Nikon D80 instead of my 18-70 mm zoom lens so I was unable to get any pictures of the full chalk art images. I think it was kind of fun to have it that way though because it forced me to be creative and really think about what I wanted to photograph instead of just clicking away at all the cool art (which is in no way bad… obviously… I just couldn’t do it with this lens…). Anyway, this is one of my results. I like it a lot. What do you think?
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