Since Tiffany has gotten her new Nikon D5000 we have gone shooting a few times and I was allowed to play with it for a bit. The other night though I reshot my Fantasy with it since it’s ISO rating is through the roof in comparison to mine. It does an amazing job but I ended up shooting too high and ISO and could not print them cause of pixelation which is still better than what my camera gives me at that rating. I just cant believe how much clearer it has gotten in the past 3-4 years.

I went to my first B-boy event 2 weeks ago and tried to shoot as well as I could in the low light situation. The B-boy event itself is a rather amazing thing to see the strength that all of those guys had and their ability to do some of those holds and flips during break-dancing was just awesome. They invited me back to shoot anytime so I will go back soon, plus they said they would show me some moves if I wanted so we shall see how that goes…

Still playing around with slideshow videos but here is my second one. I made it using the contents of my photoshop skills book where I took different skills that I knew in photoshop then put examples into a book to show clients.

About 2 weeks ago I went to a concert with Tiffany and got to take a good amount of photos. I am still going through them to see what is sharp, looks good, and is not too dark. Hopefully I finish that sometime soon but until then here are my favorite 2 so far.

For the first time I am trying to go add a photo slideshow onto youtube so here is the test run to see how it works… keep your fingers crossed.

I am sure some of you saw my attempts to photography motion with some martial artists while getting the right amount of a stop and blur. It was not exactly what I would call successful but I think I know what to do for the next time. I tried to look up a tutorial on how to do it correctly but everything I found was a bit different than what I was trying… oh well. Here is one of the closer examples I found.

As a follow up to my last post about people taking shots of videogames while playing, I found something that made me extremely happy. This is a photographer from Germany who takes some interesting shots some of which include videogame scenarios characters and objects. Purely amazing!

So I was looking at a video game magazine while also looking up photography and somehow ended up typing in video game photography. Apparently there are people out there who take shots from video games very seriously and artistically. I ended up reading this article and saw how exactly gamers are “taking photos” now a days since it has been changing for years. I really can not decide how I feel about someone literally playing a game and just taking a screen shot of something that a group of game designers created and calling it their own art just cause they post it online. Such as these photos.

There is this web comic that I read called little gamers that I recently started and have been reading through the archives trying to catch up. While waiting for the comic to load one day I left the room came back and accidentally scrolled down too far on the page revealing other things that they support. One of these being their Flickr account with their photography. It just made me really happy to see that and if ever I go there I am going to see if they will join me on a shooting day cause it would be amusing.

I was going through more of my old photos that went along with assignments I have been shooting for lately. I was looking at my first sports shots from before photojournalism classes and still laugh at how close I was to getting such a great moment but missing it by being to close.