Kyle and I for Color Photo… I kind of wish that the roles were swapped, or that it was the same person in both places.

Alec a couple days ago.

I did this to complete a pair of assignments for my color photo class, then came to the conclusion that it was just a diptych and didn’t fulfill any of the requirements for either assignment… Did more shots last night which actually fulfill the assignment, which I’ll post tomorrow.

EDX at Nocturnal Wonderland in San Bernadino!

So many wonderful times were had this weekend, and I really got to work my artistic muscles with the color correction on these photos. Trying to fancy things up while maintaining the performer’s skin tones. Also, EDX is a super nice guy.

Axwell at The Warfield in SF on Saturday night.

It’s really weird to think that I’m flying from SF to LA just to make it back to class on time… All of this traveling is so contrary to the fact that I’m renting a room from my dad and attending community college in my hometown. Life has been so small, yet I was privileged with a taste of a larger life. I’m so glad for all of the wonderful people I met this weekend.

This is Sam the dog. I took this picture last weekend.

I’m almost done going through this vow renewal, and then I’ve got to plan for a couple color shots for class, as well as figuring out a landscape for the 4x5 (so excite). There is also a lot going on which we’ll leave unexplained for now. At least Sam the dog knows how I feel. Thanks, Sam.

After shooting my first wedding (well sort of), seeing off the closest friend I made in high school, and throwing some laundry in the washer at my mom’s place, I realized I had an assignment due this week. I only moved out a week and a half ago, but it already feels weird coming back to the house that I grew up in. There was an immediate feeling of frustration as soon as I walked in the door; something residual from the previous weeks, despite my recent effort towards strengthening my positive attitude.

I asked my mom to help me hold a quick seamless backdrop for a lighting assignment, and then had her sit in this doorway. When I told her that the second half of the assignment was to shoot someone we look up to, her face sort of lit up, as did mine. It was a nice feeling.

Portrait for Peter FJ on Saturday.

I was a little uneasy doing portraits for another photographer, but Peter’s a friendly enough guy that it was actually a great experience. This shoot also got me a bit closer to figuring out my production look so that it translates well into post production. I never would have paid attention to that relationship (in digital) without a hint from James Chororos, whose work is wonderful. Developing a look, yay!

How not to focus on a coffee cup.

Can we just do this again? Getting press passes is Hard (LA).

Nathan at this awesome beach house that Thomas just sort of borrowed from a family friend. For a WEEK. It was really, really cool.

I need to shoot more pictures… All I have to post is this single roll of Gold, so I’m kind of dying. Every other recent thing has been head shots, which you can’t really post on Tumblr unless you’re some senior portrait site or something. Yeah.

Jake in Mario’s backyard, Sunday (I think). Kodak Gold 200.

I worry so much about my little brother. I guess it runs in the family; I wish it didn’t. His mom signed him up for football even though he kind of hated it in the beginning. I noticed he was getting more agressive even before I knew they started hitting… It’s a really scary thing to see how well you can train a kid to hit other kids.

Sometimes all we can do is try to live as our own best example. I’m sure he’ll be fine either way.

Alec a few weeks ago; Kodak Gold 200.

Sometimes he just dresses like this because he feels like it; I feel like he passes for the “fashion” tag… I don’t even know what that means, to be honest. I’m really kind of amazed that the highlights clipped the way they did; it’s probably just the scan. Oh well.