Smoke Photography

I have always wanted to do smoke photography and I came across a youtube video about how to take and edit smoke photography. I can't wait to try it one day. I never thought it would look so easy. I think everyone should try this at least once.

Nikon SB-900 Flash

I bought the Nikon Sb-900 Flash for my Nikon D60. I have never used a flash before so I looked up this video on youtube to help me with the basics of learning how to use it better. 

Fourteen Tips for Photographing in Public

I was looking through articles and came across fourteen tips for shooting in public and decided to read it because I sometimes feel weird when trying to take pictures in public. It gave very helpful tips on what to do in certain 

situation. I think everyone should read this if they feel the same way i do when photographing in public.

Tips for Greener Photography: Greening Your Battery Usag

I was looking through articles and found an article by Jessica Riehl about how to be more green with your batteries and we all know we will never be able to completely get rid of batteries out of our camera bags but we can help the environment by doing certain things to make them last longer.

• Properly store your batteries.

• Recycle your batteries

• Buy the right battery

• Be smart about your battery consumption

Three Day Pictures

I put up more pictures on my flickr page of the breast cancer 3 day 2009! There was so much emotion and things going on! I really enjoyed cheering them on! I was very proud of my sister for walking the 60 miles! There were more men walking than I thought there would be!!

The Neubauers

My sister-in-law asked me to take some pictures of there kids. Here is my favorite of them all. My nephew Cooper was making some of the funniest faces and trying to eat my leg! It is hard to try and get three kids to look at you all at the same time with non of them blinking or making funny faces. It was diffidently a learning experience and can't wait to take more!!Check out my flickr page to view more images.

Nikon lens

Well I really want to get a new Nikon lens and not sure which one to get! I want a new 200mm F2 telephoto lens but I also want an awesome 24mm 2.8 wide angle lens help me decide which one to buy or if you know of another lens that I might like!!

Fashion

One of our next assignments is a fashion photo shoot on location. I was just looking on the Internet for different fashion photographers and came across Toufic Araman who has some very unique fashion pictures that combine many different types of photography like painting with light. Check him out he's got some unique stuff!

Mac on Campus

Mac on Campus will be here on Wednesday and I am so excited to see all the new things that he will be bringing for us to test and play with. Last year he brought a really nice medium format camera for everyone to play with. It was a lot of fun!

Set Construction

Today we began to build the set for our holiday portraits. We also began setting up the waiting room and building flyer's. Every person was working on different things to help such as painting, putting boxes together, making flyer's, and setting up!! It was a lot of fun can't wait to see the finished product!!

Breast Cancer 3 Day

This past weekend I went to the Breast cancer 3 day walk to cheer on my sister and others who were walking. There was a lot of emotion on the first day when they were only half a mile away from the end of the first day which they walked to total of 19.5 miles! It rained all day but they were all in great spirits!!

Sculpture made from artist's own frozen blood!

This sculpture was a self portrait made by
Marc Quinn from his own frozen blood!
That amazing and crazy atthe same time!
The National Portrait Gallery in central
London bought this piece for £300,000 or $497,070.

Should Photos Come With Warning Labels?

I was looking through different articles about photographers and came across this one called  Should Photos Come With Warning Labels? Which they were discussing if photographers should put a warning label on certain photos that may be "unethical".

Nikon D3S

Nikon Once Again Redefines Possibilities with D-SLR Photography with Six-Figure ISO Sensitivity for Stills and Video While Enhancing Overall Performance. The Nikon D3S highest ISO setting is 102,400 which is amazing!! I wish I had the money for this!!

Holiday Portraits Set

I'm very excited that we get to make the set for the holiday portraits this year! It's gonna be an awesome set that everyone can enjoy. It's kinda like a Dr. Seuss theme with really big presents and over sized ordainment's.

Breast Cancer 3 Day

This is my Aunt Millie holing Leslie!

My sister Leslie Workman is walking in the breast cancer three day walk this weekend in honor of our Aunt Millie that died of cancer. I can't wait to see her walking this weekend along with many others. If you would like to donate to this great cause please just click on the links! Thanks!

Holiday Portraits

Check out our holiday portrait blog. Come see us for you holiday portraits this year!!

Denis Rouvre

Check out Denis Rouvre he has some interesting photographs in his addict collection under
work, but also has some great portraits.

Underwater Photography

I was looking around the Internet at different photographers and came across an underwater photographer named Zena Holloway. She does amazing Photographs underwater!

Congrats Amanda

Congratulations to Amanda Gardner for winning the sports photo of the week in our photojournalism class!! Great job I really Love this Image!!

FUN DAY

This weekend we went to Washington Farms to get my bothers family pumpkins for Halloween! it was wet and rainy but we went anyways. My niece Cameron had her camera with her and wanted to take pictures with her auntie. We had a blast out there!!

low key photo shoot

Today we did at low key photo shoot! It was a lot of fun but still a little harder than you think! I learned a lot while helping other while they were shooting. I would like to thank Brittany for being such a great model and Cooper who helped me while I was shooting!! It was so funny to see what everyone what doing with there models!!

Night Photography

For our color class we had to do night photography. It was a lot of fun running around in the dark painting with light. I would love to do this again but with a lot of people I think it would make a crazy picture.

Flickr

Today in our multimedia class we created a flickr account and learned how to link our photos to flickr so everyone can see them!!click on my photo to go to my flickr page!!

Cruise 09

About a month ago I went on a cruise to Cozumel Mexico and the Grand Cayman Islands. It was a lot of fun and I took a lot of photos here are a couple from that cruise!!

25th anniversary wedding

This past weekend my parents renewed there vows for there 25th wedding anniversary! My mom asked me to take the pictures and here are a couple from the event!!

low key pet photography

Next week we are shooting an assignment for school that has to be high key or low key. I was looking at images from other photographers and came across this photographer's blog called cowbell pet photography and they shoots animals and they did some low key pictures with animals. I took pictures of animals last week and remembered how hard it was and this person is doing it with animals...thats crazy!! I thought that it was pretty cool!

Photojournalism Contest

There is a contest for photojournalism in atlanta. Click here to view the web page if your interested. The deadline dates for entry are by November 11. Good luck!!

Kid Photo Shoot

Today I had to have a photo shoot with a child between the ages 0f 1-6. I decided to take pictures of my 5 year old niece Abby White! She was shy at first but once I gave her a gift with all kinds of girly stuff she did exactly what we told here!! I would like to thank Amy White, Abby's mother for letting me borrow her, and I would also like to thank everyone who assisted in the photo shoot! I had a lot of fun and learned so much while helping others shoot there kids. Some ages are better to work with than others! I also learned how to set up a paper backdrop today which was nice to learn so that we can use them from now on!!

Sports Photojournalism

#5 is my niece Carsun Neubauer

Last week I went out and took pictures at my nieces soccer game for my sports photojournalism assignment. It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I had a lot of fun while I was out there. I had a hard time trying to take pictures of everyone instead of just my niece, but after a while i got use to it and had a great time even though they lost their game.

Weather Feature

Yesterday I got a text at 6:15 am saying that we had to go out and do a rain feature for our photojournalism assignment then return to school to look at all of them. I left my house at 6:45 and went out to try and find people in the rain. I didn't have too much luck because every where I went the rain would stop. But I managed to get a shot or two. It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.

Animal Photo Shoot

This week we had an assignment to shoot animals.I was afraid that it was going to be really hard but it wasn't as hard as I though it was going to be and I really enjoyed it! I was excited because I was shooting my American bulldog Dixie! She did Amazing!! She was afraid at first but them she became comfortable and relaxed! I would not have been able to do this shoot without the help of Damian AhChing and Tameka Pero!

My First Blog!!!

This is my first post on my new blog!! This is going to be an interesting experience!!