4/52 - Adam

Meet Adam, he just married one of my oldest friends Emily. I had the opportunity to shoot their wedding this last weekend and it was a blast. This portrait was more of a happy accident than actually doing it on purpose. He was just getting ready to walk down the aisle, when I got him to give me a quick glance to snap this shot. What I really like about it, is the hint of the groomsmen just in the background. They are just subtle enough to show what is going on, but do not overtake the photograph.

One thing I did learn while shooting this wedding as a newly found strobist style portrait shooter is you do not have time to be a strobist style shooter, haha. I tried setting up an umbrella for a couple of shots, but soon broke it down and stuck with my flash bouncing through the ceiling and my newly acquired Gary Fong lightsphere.

Just in case you are wondering, I did not post one of Emily (the bride), because I wanted her to see the photos of her self first.

4/52 - Adam, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

3/52 - Carolyn

First off, I would like to thank my soon to be sister-in-law, (still sounds weird to say that) for stepping in front of my camera and letting me take her picture.

I knew going into this photo that I wanted it to be black & white, and minimal, but other than that it was a toss up. I started out trying to get a solid white background, but with a single flash and my Cactus triggers failing on me every other shot, it made it quite difficult. I made a few adjustments to my flashes location and took a test shot. Something close to the 50% grey you see above is what I got. I really liked it so decided to keep going with it.

I still seem to have trouble communicating with my models during a shoot. Hopefully that is something that I am able to work on throughout this year and eventually get super comfortable with.

3/52 - Carolyn, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

1/52 - Happy New Year

A new year, a new photography project and soon I will have a new blog as well. I will keep you posted on that.

It has been over a year since my last big photography project and a lot has changed since then. The last photography project I tried, I wouldn't say failed, but I was not completed. I found myself getting really lazy and my photographs were reflecting that. So since I was unhappy with the results I decided to scrap the project and try again some another time.

That time is today, except this time I am taking things a little bit slower. I promise these descriptions wont be so long in the future and hopefully I can start to record flash data for anybody who is interested. That is all for now, I hope everybody has a great new year.

1/52 - Happy New Year, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Pedernales Falls State Park

This last weekend, Carolyn, Catherine and myself went for a hike at Pedernales Falls State Park. It is only about a 30-45 minute drive from downtown Austin and despite the lack of rain in central Texas, it was quite a site to see. Without the usual water rapidly coming down the river, it exposes these massive rocks that would normally just be peaking out of the surface of the water. I managed to get a few good shots while out at Pedernales Falls and hopefully I am able to go on more hikes in the coming weeks, especially since Texas has decided to finally have temperature below 85 degrees for once.

Pedernales Falls Again, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Pedernales Falls Panoramic, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Time Lapse Camera

Not quite sure if you remember my Time Lapse project from way back when, but I ran into quite a few problems with my equipment. Firstly, putting the strain of taking thousands of photos with my DSLR with the only purpose to be importing it into a video was starting to get costly. It actually cause my 40D to Error 99 on me a few times. Today, however, I stumbled upon a camera that would help get rid of all of those problems!

It is a Digital Time Lapse Camera, from PhotoJojo. Go check it out:
http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/time-lapse-camera/

For $150 and being water proof it is quite nice! It even gives you a few different choices on how often to take the pictures and then saves it all in a video for you!

It is a nice alternative to taking quick and easy time lapse movies, but I think I would miss the creative control when it comes down to editing the final JPEGs to get my own personal look and feel into the project. Since I am not that much of a After Effects guru, I think I will just settle for the rare occasions that I use my DSLR for this.

Night at Panama City Pier

While I was on my trip to see the Space Shuttle Atlantis take off for the final time, we stopped in Panama City for a couple days. One of the nights, I went down to the beach with my family around 10:00pm and snapped a few shots of the pier that was there. This shot is one of my favorites from the trip and I even have a black and white version of this same shot that I really like just as much. Maybe I will post it at some time in the future.

Night at Panama City Pier, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Atlantis Says Goodbye

Have not posted in a while, mostly because my flickr Pro account ran out and I am afraid of loosing all my photos. Anyway, I had to upload a picture from my trip to see Atlantis take off. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget.

Atlantis Says Goodbye, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.