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7th February 2010

Watching the Big Game – Day 157 of 365

written by dav.d

I don’t follow football as much as I did in high school or college. These days I will go to BYU football games with the family and watch the Superbowl with friends.

And part of the fun of watching the Superbowl is the junk food and the beverages – including Mike’s Hard Lime and Grape Soda.

Mike's Hard Lime and Grape Soda

Mike's Hard Lime and Grape Soda

And you can only watch the Superbowl in HD – if you are watching anything less than HD – the terrorists win. And I had a lot of fun Twittering during the game. And it was fun to twitter which commercials I thought were the best. My favorite was the Snickers commercial featuring Betty White.

HD is the only way to watch the big game

HD is the only way to watch the big game

And I watched the game at a friends home – getting there was a challenge. I had to wait about 10 minutes for this stupid train to very slowly cross. I was pissed! And I did miss the opening prayer ( oh wait that is only at BYU games ) and I missed the National Anthem which I understand was screwed up by someone, again. And I did miss the kick off because I didn’t know how to turn on their damn tv and Direct TV. Too many remotes and not enough time.

Get out of my way! I am about to miss kickoff!

Get out of my way! I am about to miss kickoff!

As for any gays who didn’t watch the football game – shame on you. Football is the gayest sport in the world! You should be watching it because they have tight ends, wide receivers, guys in jock straps, tight pants, going deep to catch balls, guys slapping each other on the butt, and a few other “gay-ish” activities.

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6th February 2010

Walking Capitol Hill – Day 156 of 365

written by dav.d

This morning I finished a super fun photo shoot in Ogden with ladies from the Roller Derby – those photos will be edited and posted at a later date. However, I decided I would take a break from digital photography and go photograph with film. So I grabbed my medium format camera and went hiking around Utah’s Capitol Hill. I would use my digital camera to meter and use those settings to photograph with the film camera.

This photograph is one of the digital shots – edited in Nik Software’s Viveza 2. Using their controls I am able to at least fake an HDR tonemapped image and take the original photograph from bland to a level I find much more cool and edgy.

Monument on Utah Capitol Hill

Monument on Utah Capitol Hill

Friday is the day for the Daniels and Bush clans to get together for dinner and this time we went to BYU’s Cannon Center. While there my nephew Henry decided to hang out in the book bag cubby holes. I had taken a few photographs cropped tight to just show him – but then I thought it would be a much more unique composition to show the scale for the cubby holes in relation to the 2 year old tot.

Henry hangs out in the backpack cubby holes

Henry hangs out in the backpack cubby holes

Now that I have finally taken photos with a real Holga camera – I know what it looks like and the qualities of a true film camera with a plastic lens. And no matter how much I joke that film with the wave of the future – digital really is where it is going.

This photograph is pretty dang close to a digital version of a Holga camera. I used the Lensbaby Muse with their plastic lens accessory. I put in the f/8 aperture ring and I had the lens straight forward rather than try and tilt the plane of focus. I didn’t try to up the contrast – because the plastic lens is supposed to be less contrasty and just soft at the edges. The one thing I couldn’t fake too much is that the Holga shoots in a square format. This will work perfectly when I upgrade to a full frame 35mm DSLR. Until then I am stuck with the cropped version.

Digital Holga style photograph with a lensbaby

Digital Holga style photograph with a lensbaby

But I am still a fan of Holgas. But to have digital and the Lensbaby really does lead to some creativity that film can’t achieve. And of course with digital you know exactly what you shot without waiting to finish the whole roll of film and then wait to get it processed.

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4th February 2010

Jhonathan Lange Male Model Headshots

written by dav.d

I am still catching up on blogging some older photo shoots. These photo shoots have been from Christmas and January and I had given the photos to the clients a while ago just never blogged the dang photos. And I sometimes like to edit the photos a little bit more – but more and more I don’t think I need to claw through photographs in Photoshop. More and more I am able to photograph and they photos are ready right out of camera – which is cool.

And this was my first photo shoot with my Lastolite Ezybox softbox – and I really like the light it creates for portraits. This is also proof that I can photograph outdoors in the middle of winter. We can’t go for too long because the nose will turn red but we get some great shots in the time we have.

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Jhonathan Lange, Male Model's headshot photography

Jhonathan Lange

Ok, not really a nerd – more of a geek. And here I am geeking out about my latest set up at home. Here is a screenshot of my 24″ iMac (yep, size queen) with a second monitor attached because I love dual monitor setups.

Right now it is running Ubuntu’s Linux and it is running Windows XP. The Windows XP is connected with VPN to my Work computer which is also Windows XP. And sometimes I will use my MacBook Pro 17″ (still a size queen) to run my iMac from bed. So from my laptop I can run 3 different computers with about 5 seperate operating systems.

Yeah, I am a geek.

My iMac running 2 displays with Mac OS, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux

My iMac running 2 displays with Mac OS, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux

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Photographers have a TON of camera bags. I would guess they have more bags than they do equipment. I purged some bags this past summer – ones that I never used. And I have decided to upgrade from my old LowePro Roller 2 to a new bag from Think Tank.

Think Tank bags rock – they have a lot of little pockets and that is just winning me over. And this bag has a security lock. The combination is for me and the key on there is TSA approved so IF I ever had to check this bag and the TSA wanted to open it to check it – they could. Will I ever check this bag? No, I would rather walk home. Never check your camera equipment or valuables.

Lock up the Airport Security v2

Lock up the Airport Security v2

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2nd February 2010

Provo Mountain Range – Day 152 of 365

written by dav.d

I am still a camera snob – would take a DSLR over a point and shoot everyday. But if I don’t have my DSLR on me then I have a point and shoot or at worse I have my iPhone. So I can still get a photograph – and then I can fix or upgrade the image with Photoshop and plugins. And I have talked about Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro – and I will talk about it again. It rocks as a photoshop plugin.

And it helps being single sometimes so it makes purchasing camera gear and software a hell of a lot easier. Wink.

Provo Mountain Range

Provo Mountain Range