Photogeddon - Day 34: Odds and Ends

Today's photos are a collection of odds and ends. I will let you decide what is odd and what is end.

So my first photo is of my good friend Chris David of peoplephotos.biz. This was taken at the wedding he helped me shoot on Halloween.

Chris David - Wedding and Portrait Photographer



This next photos is of a random homeless person. I love the way the composition turned out on this.

Homelessness is not so random

This next photos is a macro of the leaf, still in green.

Green and Textured

This is a typical Northwest morning.

Misty Pacific Northwest

This was my Halloween costume, in which my wife worked on my full length cape all day. After much frustration for her, my costume was complete and neautiful enough that I won first place for best costume. By the way, I painted and decorated my mask.

Post Halloween

Photogeddon - Day 28

Photogeddon - Day 22: Photographer Animation and much More

In an effort to experiment with DSLR animation, my good friend Chris David requested me to shoot a sequence shot of him. I wasn't sure exactly why he was asking for it or what he would do once the camera was snapping, but I am always game for a little experimentation, so I shot about 11 frames of him doing exactly what you see below. Because of the size of the file, 3.05MB, it may take a few seconds to load, but it is a cool result... so wait for it. 

Wait for it....

I used Adobe Photoshop CS3 to generate the animated gif. In addition to the above animation I present the below photos for today's Photogeddon. The photos are from yesterday, as I have way too much going on today to be able to take new photos... I have about 1000 portraits to process from yesterday as well as I am going back to collect my personal affects from my employer at 5:30 PM and I have to make some time for my wife who I know if feeling a bit like a widow. After all of the that I still have a new website to finish putting together... all in a day's work, right? I love being this busy. :)

Kevin Kubota

Curves



Moon



55 Chevy

Cherry 375hp 55 Chevy

Photogeddon - Day 21

What an amazing day. Michael, Nathan, Chris and I went to Bend today to help Kevin Kubota with a community giving event he puts on every year. What a blast we had. Here are some shots from our road trip... I will post more shots from our trip tomorrow; after I get some rest. A 226 mile round trip and 6 hour portrait shoot has left me all but brain dead.

Outside of Bend



Michael Conkey



Nathan Smith

Christopher David

On the Road Again

Photogeddon - Day 7

 

Photogeddon - Self Portrait

 To mark the successful completion of my first week of Photogeddon, let me restate my 12 steps to becoming a better photographer and person in this world.

1. I will stay involved in developing myself and others. I will go to the overnight shoot with fellow photographers, rain, sleet, snow and inner critic be damned, and I will experiment and play but most of all I will have fun.
2. I will share my results with you here. Good, bad or indifferent; I will share and accept feedback constructively, even when the feedback isn’t so constructive.
3. I will help others. I am going to help others improve their craft and develop their voice.
4. I will believe in others.
5. I will motivate myself. I will watch Zack’s Transform video as well as his Creative Live series again. I will read informational and motivational blog posts.
6. I will take five photos each and every day. I will share these photos here with the title of Photogeddon – Day X.
7. I will try; day after day, week after week and month after month. This means every day I will do something new and stop living/reliving in yesterday’s success/failure.
8. I will continue to develop myself. I will attend Joel Zak’s Artist’s Way for Photographers workshop in January. I will attend Kevin Kubota’s Digital Photography Bootcamp® next year and each year following I will attend two or more workshops.
9. I will believe in myself. If I can’t believe in myself, how can I believe in others? I have the knowledge. I have the talent. I have the drive. I just have to believe it and I will from now on.
10. I will put my foot in the ass of all my critics; my inner critic included. There will be no more fear in my life. No fear of failure. No fear of success. No fear of disappointing myself or others.  
11. I will take one day off from my day job per month and spend that day developing my photographic voice and style. This is not an exercise of mimicking others, but actually developing my own voice, my style, my own self.




Photogeddon - Negative World


12. I will share my voice with the world.

So what have I done to accomplish the goals set forth? Well here is the list:

1. I have challenged myself to help shoot a wedding and I have read about and applied a new post-processing technique.
2. I have posted results from the wedding, the good, the bad and the indifferent.
3. I have helped others. I helped Chris David with his wedding shoot, I helped Nathan Smith with his senior portrait shoot. I have posted two free presets for Lightroom to allow others to have the tools to make their work better in post. I attended the Local Help Portrait planning meeting and made value added contributions to the meeting.
4. I had absolute faith in my fellow photographers to meet their obligations and they did.
5. I watched Zack Arias' Transform video as well as his Creative Live Series, or at least part of the series.
6. I have taken 5 new photos each day and posted them on my blog for feedback and people are actually providing feedback.
7. I have shot something different each and everyday. I have went some place new and photographed something new. I have not tried to recreate a past success or improve and past failure. I have focused on producing something new each and every day; Monday - Construction; Tuesday - Water, Wednesday - Senior Portraits; Thursday - Different Subjects (Morning, Flower, Lines, Bee, Waterfall)
8. I am signed up for Joel Zak's workshop and I also actively pursued the SummitUp workshop contest on Twitter and won. Not only do I get to go to this workshop, but I get to take someone with me and I chose to bring Nathan Smith. So in addition to developing myself I am also able to let my success be the success of others photographers as well, all because of Kubota's generosity.




Photogeddon - Spooky


9. This is a constant issue I have to work on. I believe in myself where I am comfortable, but have less faith in myself where I am not. But getting a second senior shoot under my belt, thanks to Nathan and a wedding under my belt thanks to Chris David, I believe in my abilities more and more each day.
10. I received a negative comment on one of photos that I posted on Flickr. I actually responded to negative comment to try and figure out why my photo was rated so low by this person. His response was to my inquiry was, "I just didn't like it." So rather let it eat away at me, I took joy in the fact that the majority of others did like it.
11. I have not done this yet, but it is coming soon.
12. I posted an entire series of articles on my blog  on the death of creativity and I have received some feedback, both in person and via email. This means my voice is being heard and people are responding.

So for the rest of this long photogeddon post, I am just going to show you the remainder of photos from today.

Photogeddon - In the Grain

Photogeddon - Paranoia