aiad-111112

Image No. 11 of a 30 day project

I'm a day late posting this shot. I decided to watch that 

zombie show instead of processing a photo.

day 1 of 7

So starting yesterday, I'm creating an image a day for 7 consecutive days with a single lens.

nikkor 50mm f/1.8D: 1 of 7

7 days with a 50 gallery

aiad reflection

Here it is, the second day of December, two days after a month long "an image a day" project and I have to say it. It felt weird not taking a photo yesterday. It was also a bit of a relief though. Finding time to create an idea, set up a shot and execute it during my already busy schedule was difficult sometimes. Some of the images came easily and some not so much. The quick ones took thirty minutes or so to shoot, process and make a blog post about them. Then there were some that ended up taking closer to two hours to get through the whole process. That's a lot of time spent chasing an image, but I really enjoyed doing it.

I learned a few things along the way too, which was part of the reason I wanted to do the project. I had a couple eureka moments with lighting and delved further into post-processing software/methods. I also spent a lot of time thinking about photography. I had several photo ideas come to mind that would take much more effort than what I could cram into two hours. Soooo I have almost convinced myself to do a 52 week project for 2011, which would mean shooting one image a week for the year. I think I could produce a "better" image given a week's time to stroll through the creative process.

I'm pretty stoked on every image from the series, but
here are some of my favorites from the month:


11/08/10 - strummin'
(It's my boy doing what he does... I like that.)


11/10/10 - it's getting dark too early
(I never shoot landscapes.)


11/19/10 mike and das boot
(Mike just looks pimp!)


11/24/10 headed to mellow(Maybe I played too much in high school... I don't know.)



Here's another for the outtake gallery.
I'm pretty sure there are a few more that will end up there.

11/28/10 - CT Kitteh

see the rest from the month long project at and a others at kinetic-images.com/projects

aiad 11/19/10

Project photo number 19. This shot was set up and executed pretty quickly. We were getting ready to eat dinner and needed the table. I spent a little bit of extra time processing this one. I was trying to create a cool/blue gray sort of look and it took some time playing to find the end result I was after. I'm digging what I came up with.

11/19/10 - photo of a photographer

check out more from the series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/10/10

10 days in...



check out the whole series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/08/10

An image a day project photo number eight. I had a pretty big grin on my face during the capture of this image. As I was composing the shot, my son started playing the theme song to the Super Mario Brothers video game. I couldn't help but chuckle a bit.

11/08/10 - strummin'

check out more at kinetic-images.com

photo booth

So a while ago, I started playing around with a "photo booth" idea. My wife and I spend a good bit of time hanging out around the house with friends. So I thought it would be cool/fun to have a "photo booth" set up sometime when we had company over. So I tried it out one night and we had a ton of fun, so we did it on two other occasions.

The Idea:
Set up the Booth
Instruct the guest on how to use the equipment

Create fun, silly no pressure photos

The Booth:
Camera on a tripod, with a remote, set on a 5 second delay
Some reference points for depth of field ("x" on the floor)
Simple solid background
Simple lighting set up
Simple instructions: Have fun!


The Photo:
After capture, I cropped the images and made most of them black and white. Nothing fancy, just a quick and dirty edit.

I really like how many of the images turned out.
Check out about 40 more images
from the this photo exercise here ---> kinetic-images.com

lucas

A recent shoot with a recent arrival. Little Lucas...

and his brother.



more images can be seen at ---> kinetic-images.com

snowskate

Late night snowskate photo.


Check out more here ---> kinetic-images.com

bread & milk

Oh no! There is snow in the forecast!

We must stock up on bread and milk!
Quick, to the store before they run out!


I took the point and shoot to the store for the weekly grocery trip. I strapped it to the grocery cart and pushed it around. It made shopping a little more fun and only a few people looked at me kinda funny.

Anyway, I was lucky. I beat the rush and
there was still plenty of milk and bread.

Kennedy

A few images from a recent shoot with little Kennedy.

More can be seen at kinetic-images.com

ella

I recently had the pleasure of photographing little Ella.

I really like this next series of three

she's just so dang cute

So far she has been easy one too shoot. Here is the latest gallery of little Ella --> kinetic images

Cullen

So, my friends Erin and Sharon added a new member to the family this morning. At 2:45 am the hefty little Cullen, weighing in at 9 lbs 8oz, was born. My family went to pay them a visit this evening and I grabbed a couple photos while we were hanging out.

(click images for larger version)

Little Cullen @ about 15 hours old

Big thanks to my son! He acted as my lighting assistant by holding the fill card (a pillow with a very white pillow case). The very nice window light was coming from camera left and the fill card is about a foot to the right of the little bugger.

Congrats to the happy family!

First Post!

Well I guess it’s about time I post something on this here blog. I mean, I signed up for it like 11 months ago or something... Anyway, I plan on updating this thing as often as I get time to do so. I might be a little too optimistic by saying this, but i would like to update it several times a week. But who knows? I’ve been pretty inspired here lately and I hope to make this blog one of my outlets for my creative fix, photography.

I’ll start with the subject “bikes”. I like to ride them and I have many, many… many photos of people riding them. So here are some of my fav's from the last couple of years.

(click images for a larger version)

my first published image

Mountain Bike Action Magazine - March 2008

Showdown at Sugar 2007 - Banner Elk, NC

US Open of Mountain Biking 2008 - Vernon, NJ

US Open of Mountain Biking 2008 - Vernon, NJ

Merritt White, somewhere in western NC

Power Aid series 2008 - Snow Shoe, WV

6 Hours of Warrior Creek 2009- Wilkesboro, NC

Red Bull Rampage The Evolution 2008 - Virgin, UT

Thomas Vanderham - suicide no hander over a 59' canyon gap (siiiiiiiiiiick!)

well this is a start anyway...