New Portfolio Site

Sorry I've been mia for a few days, but I've been working on a new portfolio website to showcase my best photography and my print work. Please check it out here, I'm so proud I coded it all myself. Now hopefully I can get myself a job. Here is a screen shot of it.

Bird's Eye View

I've submitted another picture to Jpg Magazine that could possibly be published in the next issue "Bird's Eye View" with the help of you guys! Click on the link below, you may have to sign up to vote, but it's worth it! There's a lot of great photography on this site. It's not all professional, which is what's so great about it. I took this picture on the top of the St. Augustine Lighthouse. You can see a shadow of the lighthouse in the center of the picture, which overlooks an inlet. There are some pretty cool ghost stories about this lighthouse that you can read here.

Old Fire House

Supposedly this Fire Station is haunted. I think it looks pretty cool, with the old car out front it reminds me of Ghostbusters.

LuckyOliver

I came across this micro stock photography site called LuckyOliver. I have been interested in selling my photography and have been running around my mind the idea of selling stock photography. I'm not too sure how successful you can be. It seems like you would have to submit hundreds of pictures and hope that people will buy them, because you get such a small profit. In this case you have to make $100 in order for them to mail you a check, it seems like a lot. I'm still weighing out the pros and cons. This site is worth checking out though, the design and layout is very nice and the photography is really good.

cre8Buzz

So I joined this site called cre8Buzz about month ago, it's a community of talented people where you can let your creativity be seen and heard. It's great to get more exposure for you blog or any website you have. There are some really talented people on there right now. I've posted my photography and links to my sites and have noticed more traffic coming from there. In the photography community on cre8Buzz they started up a monthly photo assignment. A topic is chosen, you have a certain amount of time to post the photo and everyone makes comments on it. It's pretty fun, anyone who is creative and wants more exposure I would suggest checking it out.

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Baseball

It rained today after I got home from work, around sunset the rain turned to a drizzle and there was the most beautiful color outside. So I went out and took a picture of this baseball that appeared in the yard a while ago. The color made for beautiful pictures, too bad it was still drizzling I would've scoped out the yard some more. I gotta take advantage of lighting like that, it's not too often that it happens. I didn't even do much to this picture in Photoshop other than adjusting levels slightly.

leaf

This is such a huge leaf, you couldn't tell by the picture, I think the texture of it almost look like plastic. I brought this into Photoshop and did some adjustment layers on it to give it that look.

Typography

I really like the art of typography, certain fonts and ornaments catch my eye. I'd like to take a series of photos all on typography.

Garden

Here's another shot of a statue at the Ringling Museum in the rose garden. I really liked the details in the hair and clothes from the back. Old statues have an eerie look to them, so I brought it into Photoshop and desaturated the picture a little.

A Snapshot A Day

So I started my sister blog, A Snapshot A Day, two months ago and I wanted to give it a go for a little while before I mentioned it on here. My goal for this new blog is just another step in my venture of becoming a photographer. I plan on posting and new picture or at least taking a new picture a day to polish my skills. So far I think it has helped. There's been a few days where I have been MIA and didn't get to post a picture, I gotta get better at that, maybe learn how to make a new post from my phone. But, all in all I've been very good at taking pictures everyday. Please take a look at my new blog if you haven't already.

Mansion Statues

The Ringling Museum was just a photographers playground! These statues were on the side of the mansion towards the back. I had been taking pictures of just the white statue and thought they were a little boring. I came across this statue in the foreground and decided to try and get both statues in the shot. After uploading this image on my computer and taking a look it almost looks like the white statue is scolding the darker one in the foreground, thought it made for an interesting composition.

Inside the Ringling Mansion

Inside the mansion you couldn't take photographs with a flash. Usually when I take indoor photographs if there is enough lighting I don't use the flash, so it was ok. A lot of my pictures came out blurry though, I was trying to move fast so I wouldn't be in the way.

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Back of Mansion

This place was so beautiful. There was so much to take in, so many pictures to take it was hard to decide what pictures to take. I was just taking as much as I could and coming up with compositions as I walked along. The mansion was so massive that trying to take a picture of it in one shot from the back was impossible. At the time I wasn't even thinking about taking a panoramic stitch.

Statue of David

So I guess this Statue of Davis is a cast of the real one. The statue is pretty massive especially the hands! In the second picture of the art museum courtyard you can see the shadow of the statue in the grass. I like taking pictures like this, one of the subject and one of the shadow.

Ringling Museum

So I went to the Ringling Museum over the weekend and took tons of photos. This is one of my favorites. I was snapping pictures of this cool looking gate and last minute I noticed this awesome shadow the gate was casting on the ground, so I moved around where I could see it the best and this shot came out.

Lake Winnipesaukee

This is one of the tallest pictures I've taken. When I took the picture I was too close to the house to get from the canon to the top of the flag all in one shot. I took two shots not really thinking at the time that I could stitch them together. I realized this after I uploaded the pictures onto my computer. I took it into Photoshop placed the two pictures together, did levels to get the color to match on both and had to clone stamp out a rope that was blowing in the wind and didn't line up in both pictures. I'd like to do one of those panographies mentioned on Photojojo, where you take tons of pictures of the subject and later stitch all the photos together.

Psycho

I always need to have my camera handy with this cat. I finally found the best spot to take a picture of him without so much moving around, the tub, he loves to lay down in there. This is his version of the Psycho shower scene. Well, I learned that putting the camera on the continuous shot mode and the pet setting, I'll come out with a few decent shots. That's when you can get those candid yawning shots.

All Star

Another shoe shot! One of my favorite pairs of shoes, they can definitely tell a story. I had many pairs of these shoes growing up. The shot was slightly grainy when I took it, since the shoe was a little grungy I decided to give it more of a grainy look.

aviator

I've been on a glasses photo shoot kick lately. I guess you could say this is another one of my themes.