The Design department at the SRJC put on a Fashion show recently, and I have to say that the show was super good. There was energy, tons of people, and the designs were great! I was invited by one of our fellow students who is aspiring to be a designer. She is really creative and it shows in her clothes. Check out RAA Clothing at Model Mayhem for details on here work, and connect with photographers/models in your area. Here is a slideshow of the days events:

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The class decided to head over to the Sonoma Horticultural Nursery located in Sebastopol, Ca. for a field trip day. It was cloudy, sunny, raining, and the light was all over the lace in spurts which made for an interesting day of photography. It was a lot of fun! There was easily 12 of my classmates there, and we were the only ones there which we had the run of the place. 

The Sonoma Horticultural Nursery was huge! A lot of beautiful plants, flowers, statues, bridges, fountains, and you even need to be on the look out for their alligator!! ;) So why did we all head over to the nursery on a rainy not so great looking day you ask? To photograph everything! Honestly the clouds created a great filter from the sun. Although we weren't getting the light we needed for faster shutter speeds, we definitely had the advantage of even lighting conditions which I'll trade for shutter speeds any day of the week. Cloud cover acts like a giant light box which is great.  A tripod would have been helpful for precision focusing, and drinking two cups of coffee that morning probably wasn't the best idea. I was literally shacking all over the place trying to steady the camera.

We even had a little Camera war going on through out the nursery. You would feel all alone in the moment with whatever flower subject you were photographing, and then all of a sudden, in between shots you would relize that someone 50 yards away was taking your picture while you were deep in thought. So the Camera Combat began. You had to be stealthy otherwise you would get the cheesy smile of your classmate. Which works most of the time, but in this jungle like environment it was the "consecration" look you were going for. 

The photos that are accompanying todays entry were taken that day and adjusted in photoshop. Levels, color correction using the "Color Balance" to get rid of unwanted green casts, saturation, and then sharpened.

As always please feel free to contact me regarding any work regarding photography, questions regarding photography, these shots, or purchasing any photos. Thanks again for stopping by!!

O yea!! I'd also like to thank the guys at Lowepro for sending me their CompuRover AW. I'll be giving a full review in a few weeks after I've used. Thanks guys! (if you would like your product reviewed please feel free to contact me)

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It went down this past Saturday night (April 3rd, 2009) at the Rock IT  Room in SF. ADDx (with DJ-E Train), Can't Find a Villain, Square One of the Cyph4, and Addamantium the Plumber all performed with great energy getting the crowed involved. 

My friend Susan who promotes Hip Hop shows all over SF asked me to check it out, and being homies with ADDx I decided it would be a good time to try some "Club" or "Show" photography. Flash is absolutley horrible!! I knew this going in, but figured that I need to learn flash eventually. So I took some photos of ADDx to get some practice, and had a lot of fun hanging out with good people and good music. 

It wasn't until yesterday that I got excited about shooting clubs or shows. I did some research online to better the indoor lowlighting monster that is Flash Photography. I'll be getting a few things to help difuse the harsh light of the flash, a wireless adapter to take the flash off the camera to place wherever I want, and be attending more shows to photograph these types of events.

To the left are the photos that I thought turned out pretty good. I'll be doing more posts about indoor lowlight "Club" or low light photography with flash over the next two months for sure..

Please feel free to contact me about up coming shows in the San Francisco Area.

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