Thoughts: Meeting of Minds

“A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.”

It is Day 2 of my shoot with my cousin and his fiance, they are lovely to work with. I don’t think i will ever get it this easy in the future and they have been excellent hosts.

As i’m going through this shoot i feel like it has been a learning process, each and every step of the way. Each time a different situation, a different lesson.

Journeys: La Jolla Cove

Day 1 of the engagement/pre-wedding shoot with my cousin and being brought around to these great locations in SD. I can tell i’m quickly falling in love with the place (: that and my 3ft octa.

Shot a whole bunch of shots today and already have some favorites and know which ones work and which ones don’t. Now to really start processing and cranking them out

Tmrw’s another long day ahead but i’m so looking forward to it. Love the weather here too (or maybe i’m just a bit more used to the chill of Buffalo)

Journeys: Torre Pines Gliderport

well.. not exactly the gliderport, but right next to it where the cliffs tower over the pacific ocean.

here i am at the end of day 1 in san diego, having a moment alone to enjoy the sunset, and a pretty good one too (:

its been a long day, i’ve pretty much been driven through most of san diego as it is already, only not having been to the south part.

but tmrw, the real work starts! starting the day’s shoot early in the morning and i’m all excited really heh!

Journeys: Church of the Transfiguration

Went to this abandoned church last Saturday with Tim, Jeff and Jeremy. Quite an adventure, crouching and climbing through the basement and then climbing up into the main sanctuary. Yes I know i’m still not done with the editing for the orphanage and most of Sam’s shots as well. Heh!

Now in San Diego, gonna do an engagement shoot for my cousin and as well as staying around for Thanksgiving. Missed my initial flights and had to wait 4 hours but thank God, managed to get on to the next flight out plus an upgrade to Economy Plus on the flight out from Buffalo, then on the flight to San Diego, assigned a middle seat but got a window seat in the end so thankful for the little things He provides.

Ended the shoot with this 6 light set-up heh! Pretty awesome i must say

Strobist Info: 1 SB900 + 3 SB800 in the front of the church

(More images after the jump..)

People: Stephanie

Met Steph went Tim got his AB and we were bored on a friday night, he called up Steph and viola! great subject! heh. we did some chez bits and some long exposure pops later too. Crazy fun hanging out with her heh.

Went to the abandoned orphanage today, so pics for that to upload tmrw I guess, just feel so lazy to edit heh (i blame daylight savings for sapping my energy)

Strobist: B800 into gridded 5ft octabox on camera left, 430EXII into 3 ft octabox camera right, SB900 far back, right of subject

ART313 Assignment #3 Shots

These are just 3 shots of a recent assignment i submitted for ART313. Kinda did like a photojournalist documentary of the life of an international student settling here in a new place. Posting up the most favorite 3 of the 7 shots with strobist info.

In some ways, I was quite fully satisfied with the final product as it does look like a magazine spread. But taking some criticism from my lecturer, he did make a good point. He said it was too straightforward and simple.

(larger images and strobist info after the jump..)

People: Samantha

Sam’s one of the photo editors at the Spectrum and she kinda never had her photo taken so she bugged Tim and finally she did it!

Shot this last Thursday heh after an evening full of ideas and well, she was kinda nervous when she started but she warmed up and i guess it went really well! Wanted to head out to get some shots done outside since we had only shot head shots/heads & shoulder shots at that point and she was still game to go! Kudos to her especially on that cold night. Pity we got stopped by cops twice so that pretty much put paid to the plans for the night.

Strobist: B800 into Beauty Dish with sock camera high right, 430EXII stofen’d and snooted camera left.

Thoughts: The Sun Sets While We Wait

Been off flickr and photos for the past three days. Been busy catching up with work, getting stuff to keep me warm in winter and having a weird body clock.

Caught this as I waited for the shuttle bus back to South Lake, had a bad day in terms of photography. Shot a couple of frames out at the open patch of field between governors and hadley and didn’t like a single shot i made. Formatted the card and decided to head home. That’s when i saw this and shot ithis instead.

And yes, feeling sleepy at 6 pm and dozing off to wake up at 11pm is not normal. Then I wake up and am so fresh I can’t get back to sleep till 3 in the morning =/

Owells, quite a few more photos to go through and then looking forward to the week in balmy SD

Journeys: Spot Coffee

Took a short trip out to Spot Coffee in Williamsville after the shoot at the Alumni Arena. I really really love that outlet, its nice, bright and clean and the drinks are great!

Oh did i mention that the food and drinks are great already?

Cocomoco (front, left), cinnamon raisin bagel (stuffed) with cream cheese (right), chicken, vegetable and dumplings soup (back)

People: Jesmund

Heh one of the guys who came over from the other side of the world with me heh. He kinda found this spot about 10 mins away from our apartments. So near civilization, yet seeming so far away.

Strobist: SB900 into shoot-through subject left