anyhow

I shot these with my lens or my photographer John’s 60mm macro AF lens. which is amazing. I purchased that friday a 55mm OLDER macro lens that was only $170. I loove it. that is what I shot the stuff I will post after this with. hahaha.

SO.

I shot this little guy first and really played with him in the raw window to see what I could actually do in the raw window. he as shot with just daylight on white. but he is this little figure they had in the studio. kinda creepy but I like the effect i put on it – raw window RULES.

circa 1970. I rule. haha well actually, the raw window does. I really like this though. I realized you could do A LOT more than I thought but i like this little man, I tweaked the colors and what not and again with the vingette. I didn’t use the LOMO thing but I did do it all in the raw window.

NOW!!!! its time. for amazementttt haha.

I got to use John’s macro lens. and I shot some strawberries. with daylight.. with a difusser and really got into the small DOF and just shot.. I really liked the small amount of DOF I was getting when I first started to shoot and I kind of kept playing with it.. it was MY FIRST TIME doing macro.. but I’ve always really wanted to.

so. STRAWBERRIES! (disclamier:: these are A LOT more vibrant in bridg/PS on my screen. while uploading them to post them on here I noticed they aren’t as bright red and vibrant which sucks. but oh well. used your imagination! HAHA.)

I started actually shooting with my lens.. this is with my 28-80mm. the light was GORGOUS!

28-80mm lens as well

these aren’t as bright as they are on my screen,like its a massive difference, the greens, red and whites are a lot more brighter and contraster. like I said above…but enjoy the detail!

MACROTIME.

ooo, I like the way the DOF is really odd. its like in a line. but i dont know. i love small DOF. a friend said that where the focus was places in some of these was weird, but I was shooting for detail of the strawberries with a lovely boquet of DOF. haha

up close and personal. I liked this. because of how really small the DOF is but where there is some -its TACK sharp.

strawberry hairs! (its pissing me off how desat and not bright they are. they were really red when I shot them and I boosted them a bit but anyhow..)

detaillllll <3 upclose. I love macro.

this one is kind of weird but I like it.

^ this is by far one of my favorites. <3 I just really love it.

beautiful light! it could be cropped but I like it.

this pisses me off.

they are all so much brighter and vibrant in PS and in bridge. and they are jpegs and whatever I dont know. the whites were real white and bright and the reds weren’t dull like they are here. but WHATEVER! =[

but I have so many more than what i'm just posting that I picked.. I was really selective with the ones I put on here cus I didn't it to over flow with similar images of strawberries. but anyhow - carry on!

heart strawberry<3

OK now. I wanted to see how close this micro lens could go that john had.. + I wanted to shoot this ringfor my jewelry assignment but it was too small and I would have needed like a lot more bellows and whatever. ANYHOW.

here is my ring that I love... and I shot it with daylight with a diffuser on black velvet.

these ALSO aren't as vibrant as they should be... mmm. but they aren't AS bad. because the only real real vibrant color in these shots is the amber anyhow.

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I love amber <3

(not as vibrant as it should be.it should be be more golden.)

=] I love this ring.I could have had more DOF but I was having a fun time.

these two last shots are very similar but different. I had to post both.

anyhow!

that is all for now.

enjoy my photos.

let me know if you have any questions or comments.

ILOVEITUP here eand their daylight section of their studio rocks.. the stuff I will be posting next is outtakes from out last 2 shoots and stuff i shot with the profoto strobes in the studio.

xo

this is Keb’ Mo’… he is a blues guitarist that I saw with my aunt and uncle at the berklee school of music last weekend.

he was real good, not really my normal type of show, but I GOT YELLED at for taking photos after I asked. wtf. anyhow.

I got this one. it was really the only good one.

with my 70-200mm.

THENNNNN… last week. I got word that they were shooting a movie in Boston. Called “21″ about the kids from MIT that did the poker thing and went to vegas and won all sorts of money.. anyhow. kevin spacy and kate bosworth are in it. I got word about where it was going to be shot, and I told my uncle when he picked me up from work and we went to investgate. and here are my shots from the adventure!

these are tons of matthews arms and all kinds of gels from a grip truck on the street on the way to where we found them shooting.

grip truck. =]

grip stuff! just sitting out on the street! craaaazy.

dressing rooms on the side of the street!

this is a church RIGHT before the bridge to cambridge on Mass. ave… I thought it was pretty. so I shot it. =]

the bridge across to cambridge. and there is MIT (where we ended up) on the right.

and we FOUND IT! it was RIGHT infront of MIT… and we almost walked right into it.

this is from up that little sidewalk where that lady in the tan coat is in the above photo… and they had a big scrim and TONS of extras.

MIT. lovely snow!

from the side walk behind this one.. where they were filming. scrim with a big ass hot light behind it.

and amazing camera….

AMAZING CAMERA. and some actors and hopefully a director..

another one. actors and such.

I turned around from watching them shoot and I saw this. and this girl looked beautiful in this snowy day in front of this old building.

it was perfect.

well that was my monday afternoon of last week. and keb mo was sunday.

=]

it was fun.

enjoy.

I SAW A MOVIE BEING FILMED! with stars. didn’t see any famous people though =[

but talked to a few extras. it was cool.

<3

I need to learn to go to bed early, when I NEED to. and not drink so much wine. very small hangover + way way tired SUCKS.

but I hadn’t had wine in a while. so it was kinda nice, but I was alone. so that wasn’t but my grandpa is really sick.

he has had random random complications the past few weeks and he now has a virus and they aren’t sure what it is. not the flu. not pneumonia.

I dont know. its starting to freak me out. but I just found out yesterday we will be going to NC for Easter. which will be nice but SUCK at the same time.. i want to see my grandpa, friends and family but I don’t really wanna go back. haha. but I get to come back here so that is nice. but anyhow. its not for another 2 or 3 weeks and I will be there wedneday night thru easter monday. like 4 or 5 days or something. which is kind of long but I hope I get to see some of my friends.

I found someone to see the decemberists with me on saturday. I’m stoked. and she is adorable.

her name is tascha. =] and she goes to simmions college. hopefully I can hang out with her some before the show happens. but everyone else I’ve met or whatever is working on saturday night.

I’m at au bon pain. not pronouced that way. pronouced ” AH booon pah”.. you know. french. haha

its a nice little place. its a cafe. they have coffee, a nice breakfast and lunch. and all sorts of pastries and juices. its kind of like panera?.. a short walk from 25 drydock… its at like 21 drydock. same building.

and they have free wi-fi.

BUT, im going to finish my bagel and walk to work. <3

toodaloo

I LOVED IT. I was so upset I couldn’t photograph some of the exhibits but I wrote down TONS of artists names..

they had the bullet going thru the apple photo there by herold edgerton – like 1 millionth of a second strobes, RIDUCLOUS.

but anyhow. and A TON of really cool exhibits.

so.

PHOTOS

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this is the charles river.. right behind the ICA.

the deck on the ICA.. and part of the finical district of Boston. and the wicked cool overhang over the water. no support on the ICA..this building had the COOLEST architecture.

this is the back deck of the ICA… and that is the cafe inside those windows.. the entrance was to the right of this photo around the other side of the building.

this is going more toward the entrace.. on the back deck of the ICA. and a lovely view of downtown finical district of Boston.

this is the entrance to the ICA… amazing painting illustration on the wall. beautiful. a lot of my friends need to come to this place.. there is so much amazing art!

this is the most AMAZING elevator that i’ve ever seen. its HUGE and completely glass all around. amazing. (at the ICA, dur)

going into the “super vision” gallery on the 4th floor. its an amazing exhibit. I took a photo of this.. because I really loved the line that I highlight so beautifully(haha) in photoshop. =] there would be TONS more photos but you obviously cannot photograph in gallerys.

this amazing view over the river. its between the 2 sides of the galleries on the 4th floor. its astounding to walk into. its such an awesome room.

amazing windows. amazing view. boston = amazing. period.

amazing lines and symmetry. <3

part of the view. closer to the windows.

part of anthony’s 4 pier resturant. the other side of the view in the room… I should have done a panoramic. but yea.

anthony pier4 resturant behind the ICA. and a beautiful sky.

this is the room underneath the great view room and between the two galleries on the 4th floor as well..its a computer lab with all kinds of information about the artists and the ICA and videos you can watch. with a cool view of the water and a very neat feel to the room.

the view from the bottom of that room above out the lovely windows… its kind of scary to back up and look back into the room.. i almost felt like I was goin to fall out. the windows lean out over the water and the deck.

looking back up in the room. with all the lovely imacs. and people enjoying themselves and learning.=]

AMAZING elevator from the 4th floor looking down. this thing was so awesome. seriously biggest elevator ever. bigger than any service or any kind of elevetor i’ve been in. and all glass.

this is the view of the elevator from the back of the computer room. thru glass.. coming up. I like it.. its very abstract. =] hehe.

and I kind of did a self portraity type thing?

cool ass orange chairs in the cafe of the ICA. I love them. and the light was beautiful.

this was a shot from behind my aunts head… and the way this post thing framed with this girls body and posture… looked really nice. not as nice though as they did in person.

annnnnd

THAT IS IT!

ICA = awesome. the first museum i’ve been to in Boston and I love it. I can’t wait to go to the museum of science and others. and the aquarium. but it was a great experience I have TONS of artists to look up!

Enjoy.

and LET ME KNOW what you think of my photos? and enjoy your “trip” to Boston thru my photos!<3

We are on the 6th floor. and there is a navy hospital ship right across the street being worked on.. we are the building right behind the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal.

this is a photo from google – we are that big ass building behind that cruise ship. its awesomeeee

dock 25 yo! 25 drydock ave. this is where i work. I love it. (ps, that is the link to john holts website. dock 25. there are more photos of the inside of the studio and what not on there as well.

Here is some of the stuff I shot last monday at work when we had some free time, I brought my camera in and played around.

apple blossoms from the shoot from the week previous. with some LOVELY window light that they have in the little back room. there day light “studio” area. haha

okay so those are those. internship. from work. I love it. and I’m sure I’ll have more photos to come from the studio – i hope. but that is where I work and something I’ve shot in the studio in beautiful window light…I have a few other posts to make today. but i’m going to keep it organized so its not just like a ton of photos in one post from a bunch of different things.

So last thursday. it snowed in Boston and all over the north east. it snowed here 8 inches.

I took some photos and made a “snowman” that late afternoon haha. he is more of a snow pile. but its the most snow i’ve seen in YEARS. so it was exciting.

drops on the window… it was SNOWING.

snow man! haha. he is cute. but now completely COVERED. it snowed + 4 inches after this.

before the snow man building I took some photos of myself in the snow.. and then downloaded some cool brushes and a really awesome action for photoshop that makes your photos look like they were shot with a LOMO camera. which RULES. and it was totally awesome for these photos..friday was inside photoshop day. i explored and had fun with it. and the brushes I downloaded were kind of like 35mm film base+fog. aka. the sproket holes. or whatever. but ANYHOW

here is one of the snow with the lomo action… it was a cool shot of it snowing anyhow.

its hard to tell in this photo. but it really gives it a cross-processed high saturated hi contrasty greenish tint and vingettes the sides (sp?) it only works well on certian types of photos.

but I played with the ones I did of myself. which they are silly of course. but they are neat.

this also shows the brushes i downloaded… there are few different types of film edges and i got a cool polaroid border too but they didn’t fit right. anyhow. these have the lomo action on them… and the film border and some cool brushes.. a lot of them were just small little splocthes of things.. for like neat graphic designy things i just wanted the borders and what not. ANYHOW.

i love this action and it totally works for me cus i love GREEN. anyhow, those are my being silly and cold in the snow trying to bear the wind. haha . but its been a very photo eventfully few weeks up here. I’m loving it. I have so much too post!

one more for this post.

this is another one I shot of myself but I looked really sad but I loved the way my eyes “spoke” in it and so I did the lomo on the whole photo and then cropped it and saturated my eyes a little more. it looks like a still from a movie – its intense. I really like it.

so. that was a lot to take in. and I have tons more to post.

ENJOY! let me know what you think of the photos!<3