blue green me

Playing with WB

I set the white balance of the camera to 2500k and set the flash with a minus 3 and a CTO warming gel over it to correct for the skin tone and leave every thing else sort of cold and blue green. Yup I am itching to take a picture or two with this configuration.

End of the week

On growing up.

So I started thinking that it would sure be nice to spend my days playing and being a kid.

I could do it, I would just work a couple days a week and my child hood could come back to me at the expense of my future. But that is o.k. the government will take care of me in my twilight years won’t they?

Ya sure it would be nice to live in fantasy land my whole life but somewhere along the path I grew up and do not have that urge.

Sure I can live on a couple of days work a week or a week a month or so, but that doesn’t mean that I want to live that sort of life style. I have a thing called motivation and ambition not to mention self respect! And that last one counts for a lot, more than one could imagine.

I do what I like for work and have fun doing it. There are times that I am watching the time because I have things that I want to do and not get interrupted by break time or quitting time. Imagine that, working for fun and getting paid well for it.

Go back to being a kid? Why would I want to do that, I am having too much fun now.

Don't pee in my pool and I wont swim in your toliet!

All of my friends and I are crazy.Thats what keeps us sane!

My favorite roof

Sky and tree in brick valley

Sunland

Kim at the BBQ Saturday night

Good going.

Oh what a view.

Ok. Yes I was exploiting the water for this little series of pictures and did not use a polarizing filter when shooting it (probably would have come out looking better) but all in all the pictures came out spectacularly and the exercise was one of pack up my camera and go have breakfast with one of the steel inspectors that I have the pleasure of working with on occasion.
I guess if there is a lesson to be learned it is that if you don’t have your camera, you can’t get the shot.
On a little side note looks like I need to get a better UV filter as this one (heliopan ES 72mm UV-0) is vignetting a little on me.

Reflecting on energy

Bridges again, but this time with water.

Greg P. coming to breakfast.

Where Interstate 10 starts going East

Beverly Hills to Century City

Try and not smash out the window while shooting hoops.

Can you make a bad picture good?

It's Rock Band time

It's like karaoke on crack.

LESSON 1. Don't shoot at ISO 250 at night, shoot faster!

Super Dan the grill man

Yes the demookifyer is on full for this shot.

My light room in a box.

The industry standard for professional photo editing, graphic design, and digital imaging. Yup, just shelled out the clams for it.

More from work

Some shots at work.

In the U.S.A., Canada, and some enlightened European countries such as Britain or France (under doubt, because of Bohem's), work consists mostly of surfing the internet for pr0n whenever the boss is not looking.

For this they expect health benefits and new snow scrapers. Also, in Canada, workers tend to spend much of their time non-working by throwing crumpled up pieces of paper at each other and apologizing profusely. Occasionally a game of "Balled-up Vital Document Hockey" will be started. The victors of these games often expect tickets to the next game of their favourite hockey team.

Woodpecker

The Woodpecker, contrary to popular belief, is actually a type of bird. The "bill" or "pecker" of this amazing bird is a weapon capable of destroying entire branches in one blow. Woodpeckers are easily recognizable by their fondness for knock-knock jokes and double entendres.

Pottery

Pottery, defined by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) as any "fired ceramic wares containing clay once formed excluding technical, structural, refractory or otherwise consumable products" The term pottery is also used to describe a technique involving ceramic, whereby it is mixed with other substances such as vitamins, minerals or carbohydrates and then shaped using a specifically designed pottery wheel. Many of the world's top fashion designers began as small time operators in the rapidly expanding pottery industry. It is a well know fact that Calvin Klein began his career by selling his home made ceramic fish statues out of the back of his British racing green Mini Cooper early in the summer of '69.

Lights

Light, invented in 1866 by famous American inventor Thomas Edison, is a substance once thought to be a utilizable form of energy. Though it has since been dis-proven, "light theory" was a valuable stepping stone to our modern understanding of vision. Although generally thought to be one of Einstein's Malicious Theories, it is thought now to have been a genuine error.

Shot of a shot

The camera is a mechanical device which employs (1) a closed chamber with an aperture at one end through which light enters, usually focused by a lens, and (2) a photosensitive emulsion or electronic chip, which steals a piece of a person's soul. This theory was hypothisized by Running Donkey, a 29-year-old Native American. Because animals (such as kittens), plants (such as potatoes) and inanimate objects (such as Dick Cheney) also possess a soul... (with the exception of Dick Cheney), cameras can also record the spirits of non-human organisms and items as well.

Big Green Machine

Don't really have much to say about this weekend, Threw my back out pretty bad on Friday so I am taking it easy. Here is a nice old van. Played with the colors a little to give it a little technicolor vintage look to it.

Volkswagen or Volksfagen as most people call them: maker of 'wagens' for das 'folk' - that means all of us. Regrettably started as the 'Strength through Joy' car (not a joke) for the German Third Reich. Now mostly owned by German states, German pension funds, and Porsche (who will not admit to same).

Tar Pits

Surgeon General's Warning on Asian Women

Although Asian Women seem alluring and very friendly when you first meet them, this is nothing more than a front to "Sucker you in to the spiral of doom and eternal damnation". It is a scientific fact that Asian Women are able to make anything with a penis go through living hell, within a 20 foot radius.

All Asian Women through genetic disposition have a 5 year plan hardwired into their brains to turn your happy life into a living hell, by draining your life force. A wise man by the name of Master Wu (A lesser known friend of Sun Tzu) in the 4th Century BC states that "Asian Women are indeed a beautiful flower.... just like a Venus Fly Trap". With indisputable proof from the archives of the Vatican and the lost books in the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars now believe that the Huns and Mongols were driven to invaded the middle east and eastern Europe to escape away from asian chicks.

Sunday Morning Alarm Clock

The amazon is a stocky bird, smaller than a Macaw but larger than an African Grey, with the playfulness of a puppy, a beak that could eat a puppy, and piercing scream that could kill a puppy, thus enabling it to eat the puppy, thus allowing it to take the place of the puppy or use its body as a nest. Shortly after discovering the switch, the owner will be subsequently beaked through the head.

Short Bus

A bus is a vehicle intended to carry very large people , their clinically obese wives and sometimes their chunky children too. The name is a shortened version of Latin omnivore, which means "for people who eat everything they see, like the red car off of the milky way adverts from back in the day, where it had a race with the blue car and all that, you follow??".

Yes this is just another one of those silly little facts.

So being a man who works in the elements I find little worth noting like the coming of the Summer Solstice and the official longest day of the year and this year it starts on Sunday June 21 at 05:45 in the morning.

What is the significance of this for you? Probably nothing more than a cautionary tale to keep your curtains drawn and blinds down Saturday night so you can sleep in on Sunday.

But I bet you didn't know that Steve Jobs, also known s Satan, is a gay guy who makes love with Bill Gates on a huge pile of money. It is widely known that when Steve Jobs was born, he was already wearing a black turtleneck, dark-rimmed glasses and peppered hair. The doctors immediately knew he was destined for a life of douchebaggery. While other children in elementary school were drinking juice boxes, Jobs was already drinking triplemochadecafexpresso, which made him just a bit above the juice box conformists. Steve Jobs first started making computers in 1976, to raise money for his cult, but in 1984 he started using them as propaganda to make college students join the iLemmings.

Time and photography

So I am looking at this photography thing and seeing that it is all about time and speed, or more to the point in a very physics sort of way, the speed of light. Color is measured in temperatures and the temperatures are different wave forms of light, they take different amounts of time to travel from peek to peek relative to the observer.

I love fast lenses, a lens that does not slow the light down as it enters the camera, making the picture dark. Although light does not slow down, it just passes you by.You can take a slow lens and speed it up by speeding up the camera, or adding light by using the flash. Basically filling in the missing light or making the available light more powerful.

All right you might be saying to yourself, sounds reasonable but look at how the science interacts with the art. It is like cooking, what is the recipe for the shot and it includes all the camera data, distance data, lighting data, time of day, and disposition of your subject. You can copy many but never really copy all to get a identical shot. Each one is unique.

Try this, set your camera to the ambient light in a room with no one in it, then put someone in front of it with the camera in manual mode with the variables from the exposure metering and compensate the exposure up three to four stops and pop up the flash, and compensate the flash down like 5 stops. (Sounds like you are beating a dead horse) but the fun thing is that while doing this and if you can set your flash to rear curtain sync you wind up with the subject having the same relative luminosity of the scene. Cool eh?How about using colored filters over your flash to ad a cast to the light and then set your white balance to something else, let’s say a little blue to make it cold or green perhaps. How would that come out?

Just remember that kelvin is often used in the measure of the color temperature of light sources. Color temperature is based upon the principle that a black body radiator emits light whose color depends on the temperature of the radiator. Black bodies with temperatures below about 4000 K appear reddish whereas those above about 7500 K appear bluish. Color temperature is important in the fields of image projection and photography where a color temperature of approximately 5500 K is required to match “daylight” film emulsions. In astronomy, the stellar classification of stars and their place on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are based, in part, upon their surface temperature, known as effective temperature. The photosphere of the Sun, for instance, has an effective temperature of 5778 K.

Want to come over for dinner?

The Kitchen is a room in your house where food is stored and prepared for human consumption. It is also the natural habitat of domesticated women. The kitchen also may be a place where overprotective pet owners prepare home cooked meals for their kitten which they place in dainty glass stemwear to make pussy happy.

1gb of memory for a MacBook G4

Yup, it's notebook memory or RAM, or random access memory. It is how computer manufacturers get you to to keep coming back to the shop for repairs. Although RAM is supposed to serve as your computer's short-term memory, in practice it rams into your computer's processing power (hence the abbreviation RAM). Your computer randomly accesses software and eventually causes all sorts of errors due to over-stimulation from poorly labeled pornography. Ignorance of this fact is the primary reason why new users of computers can not operate them competently. .

What it looks like when ducks fart!

The Aroyo

Out for some sun bathing.


It's the hall of the mountain king.


The Colorado St. bridge in the distance.

All right, you know who you are! This is beacuse of you, comprende?