Childhood is fleeting

In just 18 days my childhood...or teenage-hood will be over. Working that full time job to pay those full time bills. I can only hope I do not lose my sense of ambition and fall into some sort of crappy ikea lifestyle. Here is a picture from a few months ago, I received an ok to post it so here it is--Charlie from Love Generation:

Frustrated

The good news (sort of good): I have joined the working forces of America, got a job at Verizon Wireless. The bad news: Mr. Palahniuk would be oh so disappointment in me. I have had creative constipation for so long now, I feel like I am not producing anything I am satisfied with. Here is some sort of illustration:

Have my standards gotten too high? Am I not having fun with this anymore?

Job interviews and new projects (which I am still constructing in my head)

I have this cool project in my head, with 0 technical know-how. So perhaps I shall struggle through with it in the next week or two, just like how I am struggling to get a full time job. Keeping my fingers crossed, I realized I dont need to worry. Just put your best foot forward and if they dont like it, well, something else in my life is planned then.

This picture was not what I wanted to do originally, but its the best one that came out of the batch. Until I buy a remote trigger, I am not going to do this kind of stuff anymore, manually focusing my lens and dropping crap on water is hard, especially remembering where I focused on. My tripod is broken and scratches my camera so I dont use it either. Anyhow here is my picture.

A new future

For those who have once in a while checked up on this blog know that I have been teetering on the line of lawyer and not lawyer. I made the jump and told my parents, which came out much better than I thought. Now I am on my journey to see where I will be. I tried my hand at some "advanced" photoshop tutorials. Unfortunately the one that struck a lot of interest also had the absolute worst instruction for a novice like me. Anyhow, here is my attempt.

Life is a teeter totter.

So I hear when something goes extremely fast(rockets, cars, life), everything seems to slow down despite its velocity. These past few months have been feeling exactly like that. Perhaps the calm before the storm. Well either way, its about time I brace myself.



On another note: tried to do some sort of minimalist photos. By that, I mean take 2 pictures of pigeons flying.

Love Generation

I had a chance to work on a RedOne music video production. The release date is May 20th and the group is called Love Generation. I will have some stills to celebrate the release date in May, more so because I worked on it and also just to help out the people working behind the stars making the video. The last 4 days were great, and I learned maybe how you present yourself is key to getting a gig and not getting one. Also, make business cards, I missed a good 10 or so great connection opportunities this way. Great. Anyhow since I havent updated this in a while, so here are a few pictures.


First picture that has satisfied me without an edit. Just slapping on a watermark.

Set Photography and Engagement Session

My my, what a week it has been. I think I am realizing I may not want to be a lawyer after all, I might try to push for some set photography internships. NBC? Fox? Well either way, my goal for the next two weeks is to barge in one of those places in downtown SD. Here are some pictures for now. Maybe I will work on my other project for now as well.

I got to help shoot a music video, a band called Future of Forestry. More pictures to trickle down later, this is the only one I decided to give a quick edit just to see how it would look. Not bad for 1000 ISO, my D700 truly is worth all the microwaveable burritos that caused indigestion for a few painful months.


Congrats to Michelle and Tim! Getting married in a week I believe.

Another picture of the two. I need to start editing more I suppose.