day 033

today's fun was trying to color balance for the next shoot and realizing that not all my lamps are balanced the same.


no bueno. will write more later

day 032

today was the first day of on model alternate view photography. the first day of a shoot that lasts until mid january. today was for men's outerwear and we only had one model, the senator Tim, from new hampshire. on monday we kick off women's with two models per day for the remainder of the shoot.

all in all, not a bad day. definitely a rough start, but it ended on a positive note. the bummer about the day, all the work with trying to match lighting the night prior was a waste. because i made a decision without consulting anyone else, the "anyone else" was a bit shocked with the change come this morning's first shot. for some odd reason, i took it a bit personal. i know it wasn't meant to be, but i felt beaten down. i am not saying anyone was rude or disrespectful. not at all. i think the feeling came because i was trying to improve on the appearance of my work and make it better and more visually appealing, and that was not welcomed. that just kind of stinks when you do something you feel good about, and then find out you just screwed up.

anyway, bummer.

what creative fun was had for the day? nothing really. i didn't work on anything. i was at the studio until nearly 7, then straight home to let the boy out of his crate to pee and poo. then to nicole's, then dinner, then back to the boy, then back to nicole's, then sex then bed. pretty darn busy day. there is some indirect creative-ness to mention for the day. congrats to tugboat for getting a positive response from your proposal.

i will have an f-ton of time to be creative this weekend. the lovely lady-friend is out of town, so i will be weeping behind my camera all weekend. mostly because she will be in dallas in 80° weather enjoying my old stomping grounds. ¡no chinga bueno!

day 031

today's creative fun-ness? nicole and i trekked up to the studio to set up for the men's outerwear shoot. we dialed in the lighting for tomorrow and also finessed it enough to match the lighting being used in the catalog for on-figure silo. so that was good. not super creative, but a definite step in improving my studio abilities.

what i really need to do soon is something completely off the wall creative. just a stupid little graphic piece or something.

day 030

first off, i am a day late on posting for this day. flat out pathetic.

yesterday was a long day for me. i could list some reasons why, but they really don't matter. i say that not to belittle the items, but mostly because they are in the past and they are resolved. so i don't feel the need to reflect on them now.

but let's get to the meat of this post! the creative work of the day! can you feel the excitement!?!

i test printed the raw file from the delta print. i needed to see if it was corrupt or not. and now you are wondering if it worked!?! right!?! IT DID!!!!!

the raw printed from my work computer to the work printer. so, i don't think the file is corrupt. that is the good news.

that is it.

day 029

oops, i forgot to post yesterday. well, i didn't really forget to. i think i just got too frustrated and pissy to want to get back onto the puter and post.

i was trying to post up a revised food portfolio for steve on picassa. i posted my shots at their full size (16x10" @ 100 dpi) in hopes that he could then pull down which ever ones he wanted and still have them at a decent size to post to his site. after i posted everything and reorganized it so that it was in the flow i wanted it to be shown, i took a gander at the whole piece as a slide show. and for some f-ing reason, everything was look extremely desaturated. so i thought that maybe it was just because they were on the web, and when steve pulls them down he would have them back at their original saturation. so, i pulled one down from the web and opened it in photoshop next tot he original. nope, still desaturated.

so i figured i would just burn them to a cd and hand it over on my way home the next day. no big deal. so i deleted to album and the order i hand placed everything in. this is where i got frustrated and pissy. i didn't think to record the order.

that burned me, but i was already in a pissy mood even before that. after i got home i went for one of the best runs i have had in a long time. i didn't do an especially long distance, only a little over 6 miles. but it was the energy i had and the speed at which i ran. i swear i could not slow down. i felt like i was sprinting for nearly all of it. and on the uphills i was keeping pace with what i usually ran the downhills on other days. it felt great. usually that just wakes me up and i am gunned for the rest of the evening. but not this time. nor did i get hit with a tsunami of ideas like i typically do. weird.

i did have one good idea. i thought of shooting a guy and gal in a vintage car in a typical make-out spot at night. the shots would be about the the garments no about the models. so not really fashion photography. for example: camera looking dead into the side of the car, with the door open and the guy standing tot he right of the door with his shirt off and pants slightly undone. the crop is a landscape and you don't see his feet or anything above the top of the stomach. his hand is resting to his side with a lit cigarette. in the car, out of focus, you see a female pulling back on a stocking. the scene is that they just finished their naughty escapade. all the shots would be about the garments, with the bodies and the naughtiness out of focus and not the center of attention. something to expand on for a future test hopefully.

so, what did i accomplish yesterday? i did make pegs of all my food portfolio pieces and edited out the ones which i would not show. that is a good thing. now if i could have just saved the order.

day 028

what a productive sunday. started the day off with a run home from farmer nicole's. showered and hit up the good egg for breakfast, then split to whole paycheck. nicole kept me on track and we picked up a few veggies to test with. made it back to the casa and just started testing. first carrots, then some strange orange looking tomatoes thingys, then the coffee beans. actually picked up a few new shots.

hasta

day 027

most importantly, it is my b-day. i turned 30 today.

what did i do creatively today? nothing. i did nothing, and i am oddly okay with that. i felt guilty about it for the beginning of the day, but then realized it was not that big of a deal. that was also after nicole and i decided to knock out some hands holding fruit and shit shots tomorrow. now that she is on it, i know they will get done.

but now i am hitting the sack early. hasta