Homework/Playing with Fire

Some nights I lay in bed and think to myself, "I wonder if there is a way I can poor gasoline on something, light it on fire, watch it burn, take pictures of it, and be productive at the same time." Then I took a class on alternative processes. This is only the beginning. An image of the finished project is coming soon. The process was really the fun part though.

Some Film

It's always fun to go back to the manually wound roll of film and reminds me of my early days in photography. Here are a few pictures from Utah Lake. The photos can't express how cold and windy and muddy it was that day.

In Class

I'm in my Digital Imaging class and I decided to put this up. Why not?

Gideon and the Egg

This is a digital composite I created as part of a final project for last semester. Even though it is very Uelsmann-esque, it's fun to dabble in various types of alternative digital photography.

What came first?

The Pianist

Miriam is by far the most talented pianist I have ever heard in my life. I have the privilege of being her brother, which naturally qualifies me to do all of her photography. I guess you could say I am a sponsor of sorts. I am very pleased with the images from this session. Aside from minimal cropping and adding type, I didn't do any adjustments to these images, they are straight from the camera.

Riders

Wow. What a change in pace. A few friends from school and I went to a track in highland and took some pictures for some BMX riders so that they can submit them to potential sponsors. We had a pretty complete setup: a generator to power two power supplies, which powered three flashes, these all triggered by a wireless transmitter on the camera called a Pocket Wizard. That enabled us to move anywhere on the track and not be held down by cables. A few of these jumps ended in teeth-clenching wipe-outs, but I guess that's not as much of a concern as is getting the picture of the good part of the jump. Sometimes I need to shoot something totally different to remind myself how much I truly love photography.