BBQ at Bry and Meg’s
Yea, don't ask...
The girls make mopping the floor fun.
I'm getting pretty good with that bow and arrow.
Pose Running Seminar with Crossfit
We did a seminar for “Pose Running” with Crossfit Newtown. It’s funny, running is such a basic and essential movement in so many activities and yet, we never really practice it. Even more importantly, we never stop to wonder “Is this the right way to run?” We just assume the way we run naturally is the best way. Well our Pose Running Coach Tracy (Forgot his last name) let us all know how he feels about the “Normal” way of running. Basically Pose running philosophy states that we all run inefficient and even unsafe. There’s a whole lot to explain for you to really understand Pose Running so you’ll just have to google it to learn more but basically, Tracy taught us that if 1 single running stride consists of 10 individual steps, we need to cut out the first and last 3. Well, sorta anyways. Enough talk, here are the Pics!
Our Pose Running coach, Tracy.
Working on some lighting with an old classmate.
One of my favorite photographers, Joe McNally was in town for a lighting seminar and my Buddy Ross made the trip up from DC to hang out and go to the seminar with me. The seminar was great, learned a lot. When we got home we practiced a bit of what we learned. Here’s what they looked like.
First Fashion Show
I got to shoot my first fashion show this past Thursday. Lucky for me I have a lot of very talented friends that thought of me when they needed a photographer. Sara Be ( http://www.thelionandtheunicorn.biz/ ) put the whole show together along with a lot of help from friends. I thought the night was a success and I had a lot of fun shooting it. Thats not to say it was easy though… I didn’t really know what to expect so luckily I made sure I brought almost all of my gear just in case and as it turned out, I used almost all of it. The available lighting was way to dim at its brightest, the walls were dark, and the ceiling was too high for any bounced flash. I almost started to panic at first but I just sucked it up and started playing with my lights. I actually kinda felt like I was back in my editorial photography class, it was kinda cool. I managed to find a setup that I liked (I’m including a picture + explanation of my setup for any fellow lighting nerds) and the rest was just about good timing. I never really saw myself as a fashion photographer but I have to admit, it was pretty fun!
OK here is the breakdown of my setup. I had zero ambient to work with so it was all lit with whatever lighting gear I had. I used 3 sb-800's all with the diffusor cap attached. Two on the ground firing up towards the models backs for a rim light. One camera right on a light stand about 7 feet up firing down at the models as they walked towards me. All of the lights were triggered using my d200's pop-up flash as a commander. (Thank god for Nikon CLS, lets see a canon do THAT!) I was shooting at ISO 250 at f/6.7 for 1/125th of a sec. It was a kind of tricky setup to do but I was pretty happy with it!
No car = walk home from the train station.
OK my car seems to be dead for the time being. Still hoping I can resurrect it and squeeze a few more months of life out of it. In the mean time, it means I will have to make the occasional long walk when I can’t find a ride. Luckily this day was a really nice one.
Halloween me please.
FINALLY took a Sat. of and got a chance to hang out with my buddies with a Halloween party at Bry’s house. I was “A guy caught in the Wind”. Idea complements of Jon at work. Good times.
See "Guy caught in wind". Get it?
U2 at the Meadowlands
Man I love those guys. Nobody puts on a better show than U2. God bless the Irish.
I love slide-shows.
I know I must be the modern day equivalent of that old guy from the 70’s who would somehow trick his neighbors into sitting down and watching slides from his most recent trip to wherever. Corney background music playing and a cheesy commentary and all. Still, I can’t help myself. I love slideshows! So many of our pictures never leave our computer, facebook maybe, if we’re lucky. We work hard creating our images and we need to show them off properly so we won’t forget all the good times. There’s something about the flow of a slideshow along with a well thought out soundtrack and smooth transitions that bring your images to life. What better way to keep the memories alive? —> Enjoy the video, its a long one. Or don’t, hey I don’t care, I made this as much for me as I did for you guys. Besides, I don’t won’t to be accused of becoming that old vacation slideshow guy from the 70’s. 
Center City Protest
A protest through the streets of center city Philly provided a nice little distraction during my class. Even grabbed a quick snapshot of it too.
Soccer in Princeton
It was a beautiful Sunday for a soccer match and my sister Nicole (who plays for St. Johns in NYC) was playing nearby at Princeton University. We met my family there and even though it was a good game, I couldn’t help but take a break from rooting on my sister to take a few shots of my funny little cousins.
SORRY for the break! + Some cool holga images from MT.
Hey, sorry about the break in my photo of the day posts. I got back from MT and jumped right into my last semester at school plus work, crossfit, and a bunch more stuff I’ve been needing to get done. So Snapadia had to take a back seat for a little while but its back now! Here are some holga images I’ve been meaning to get up for a while now. I used 35mm slide film in my medium format plastic holga. (ie: small film in a bigger camera, thats why the image went across the entire film strip and not just between the sprocket holes on the sides of the film) Oh, and thanks to the holga being notoriosly unreliable, it popped open at one point while me and Thomas were enjoying some TDS burritos so a few of the photos were burned out a bit. But the rest turned out pretty cool. Enjoy!
Its a lovely neighborhood.
Well its sorta a nice looking neighborhood around my campus…in the pretty fading light anyways. Its got character !
Last Payphone Standing
It worked last semester but I guess Temple is done with payphones. Don’t think anyone’s gonna try and use this one.
