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Live - Laugh - Love

A little over a week ago I went biking around the lake with a couple of friends and one of them asked if I would do a photoshoot for her and her roommates, who are all just about to move into a new apartment.

They wanted a few photos for a picture frame that they have that has spots for three photos along with the words “Live,” “Laugh” and “Love”

So, this Thursday, we had a chance to go out to the train tracks downtown Bemidji and do this photoshoot.

As a payment for the photos, Jake, who I had taken along as my assistant, and I received homemade blueberry pie!

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White Seamless

A couple of weeks ago we had the chance to take over the sanctuary at a local church for a few hours in order to build a white seamless set for this photoshoot.  Read more to see more photos from the shoot…

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"We look like we were Photoshopped in!"
But they weren't...

Last night we successfully held our second summer workshop, our class size doubled from week one to week two even though two of our new participants just came as models, it was fun to have more people.  We started out last week with three people, and this week we were up to six (even though Ellen and Marie came just as models… we’re still counting them.)

Last nights focus was balancing off-camera flash with twilight, we spent the first hour reviewing the concepts that we had talked about the week before, then we went out and put that knowledge into practice.

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A photo that I took last summer exposing for the sky and foregound subject.

We just finished with our summer workshop kickoff.  When we got together the consensus was that we wanted to cover the topic of photography off-camera flash.  So we went through part of the Zack Arias OneLight Workshop.

If you are remotely interested in joining us to learn, we are getting together again on Wednesday and we can fill you in on anything that you missed… don’t feel like you need to come knowing anything, we covered a lot tonight, but will be reviewing what we covered tonight and applying it in a real photo shoot.

You learn better by doing anyway, so here’s the basics of what we looked at tonight and what we’ll be applying Wednesday.

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Check out CreativeLIVE.com for FREE training.

I have to give a shout-out to CreativeLIVE. Chase Jarvis is an amazing photographer and has helped start some free online live training classes… the content is free if you watch it live, and after that you are able to purchase the courses at a great price!

This weekend they will be hosting a weekend workshop featuring none other than Mr. OneLight… Zack Arias.  I’m really excited about the workshop, and have already pre-purchased the course as I will have to miss the live event because I will be hosting a small workshop myself that is kicking off this Friday evening.

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The Zack Arias OneLight Workshop

I’ve talked with a few people that are going to be around the Bemidji area for the summer about the possibility of doing a few photography workshops.

Nothing is set in stone as of this point, but I am going to be talking with some of the interested parties tomorrow.

As of right now, we are looking at working through some of the following workshops:

Zack Arias’s OneLight Workshop

Vincent Laforet’s HDDSLR Cinema

Strobist Lighting Seminar

Fundamentals of Digital Photography

I’m sure that we wouldn’t have time to work through all of these, but we are going to pick a day of the week and see how much we can get through.

As a part of working through the DVDs, I’d also like to have hands on exercises to go along with what we are learning.  I have all of the video seminars and have gone through all of them individually, but I think that it would be a much better learning experience working though these with a group of people.

There will be no cost to participants who want to work through these with me, just bring your own equipment, and I’d love to explore the world of photography with you!

The Canon 5D Mark II

I got to go to the NABShow again this year, that is the National Association of Broadcasters trade show which is an annual trade show/convention that happens in Las Vegas each year.

One of the big hypes this year was 3D television, this was no surprise to me as they have been showing this off for the last couple of years, and in the last year there have been quite a few 3D movies that have been coming out.  But this year it seemed like every other exhibitor that I walked past was trying to get me to put on 3D glasses to see their implementation of 3D.  3D is a “cool” thing, but I wasn’t all that excited about it because I don’t see it as something that I’m going to be doing a whole lot with, but there was something else that caught my attention (and the attention of quite a few other people.)

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Loose Ends (iPhone Photo)

If you know me at all, you know that I’m not the best conversationalist in the world… and I’m not the best at conveying my ideas by talking about them.

I like to surprise people with the things that I do.  Rather than talking about something for a couple of years and slowly making progress toward it and have people get bored with my ideas, I’m more of one to quietly work toward something and then one day say “look what I did,” or “look what I can do.”

This is good in some ways, and not so good in others.  I think it’s less overwhelming do do things this way… I am working on multiple things at once, and rather than having everyone know everything that I’m working on, I’d rather keep things compartmentalized, some people know some things, others know other things, but very few people get the whole picture of what all I’m doing.

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Wow, where does the time go.  Over the summer it was a lot easier to take the time to keep this up to date.

In my free time over the last few months I’ve been working on things like, financial responsibility, guitar (again,) and this month, my free time is going to producing a DVD series called ProAcademy Series.

A local business owner of a sound and lighting company approached me with the idea of producing a DVD on event lighting.  We have since filmed it and I’ve edited it, and just have a few finishing touches to put on it before we can start shipping it as a finished product.

It’s funny how a few “finishing touches” can take longer to do than the rest of the editing process of the entire video.  In total I’ve got over 20 hours of film for this project, and the final video will be about two and a half hours.

My goal is to be done with this before the end of the month.

Jalapeno Cheese Brats from Stittsworth's Nymore Food Mart (iPhone Photo)

On July 2, I decided to stop in to Stittsworth’s Nymore Food Mart, a local meat mart that is just a few blocks from my house.

I have friends that have had high reviews of Stittsworth’s brats, so I decided to try them for myself.

I do enjoy some flavor to my food, so I decided to go for the Jalapeno Cheese Brats.

I grilled them on a medium heat on the grill until they had nice grill marks and were starting to burst (I’d rather have them burst on the grill than in my mouth when I take my first bite.)

I sprinkled a little extra shredded cheese on the top and added a small amount of ketchup.

I enjoyed the fact that there where full slices of jalapeno (the full diameter of the pepper, but in quarter inch thick slices.)

The cost was a little more than I would plan on paying for lots of brats, but for feeding just myself, they were priced fairly.  It was about $10 for six brats.