Today the day job rented out Seven Peaks Water Park for the company party. Yay! From 4-11pm the park was used by Nu Skin employees and their families. I hung out with my friend Jenn and we sampled all the different junk food and road the lazy river. I did hit a few of the fun rides. Yay!
And this photograph was taken with my iPhone 4 and the Hipstamatic app. I love that app.
Seven Peaks Water Park with Hipstamatic
This is shot with my point and shoot camera. Using compression of a long zoom you can make the mountains appear closer than they really are. If you shoot this wide angle the mountains become smaller and less imposing. This was edited in Nik Software’s Viveza 2 which was recently upgraded to 64-bit and is now compatible with Photoshop CS5 on the Mac, finally. Now if they would just update the rest of their plugins life would be happy!
Provo Streets with the Mountains
I love my iPhone 4. The only dropped calls I have had have to be blamed on crappy AT&T coverage – half the time I have dropped calls I am no even holding the phone – it is sitting in the passenger seat of my car as I barrel down the highway.
And I love the camera that the iPhone 4 includes. 5 megapixels for a camera phone is perfect. More megapixels would only lead to noisier photos.
And my favorite iPhone app is Hipstamatic. A while ago I had complained that Hipstamatic only created 600 pixel images. I was a bit miffed that the 5 megapixel camera was going to waste. Well, I found a setting in the phone that lets me create higher resolution photographs. Woo hoo! I think I will be using the app more and more. It is just fun to create vintage photographs that imitate some classic film cameras, lenses, and paper.
Club Omni with Hipstamatic iPhone 4 app
The Hipstamatic app helps create holga style images or Diana images. And since I have the iPhone 4 on me all the time it is often the best camera I own since I can’t always have a DSLR with me.
This is a photograph of an abandoned building that use to be Club Omni. Provo is notorious for having a failed nightlife. Go figure. For a while the building was a plasma clinic – so homeless people could donate plasma and get money for drugs and alcohol ( I am guessing that is what happens ).
This building is going to be torn down sometime soon – Nu Skin is looking to expand with a new building. So now is the time to photograph the old buildings.
That’s right, happy July 5th! That is when Utah decided to celebrate the July 4th holiday. And I spent the morning photographing the hot air balloons and the parade. It was a lot of fun and a lot of photos. And this time the hot air balloons have actually launched. On Saturday only 3 launched and the wind carried them off to never-never land.
This time they balloons were able to compete with their hot air balloon games. I hope you enjoy the photos – it is time for bed! Long weekend, and I almost look forward to work tomorrow. 
Boy Scouts with American Flags
Hot Air Balloons on Monday
Police on horseys
Bicycle stunts in Parade
Monday morning Hot Air Balloons
Roller Skating Stunts
Balloons and the mountains
American Flag
Bag pipe drummer chick
Julianne shades her eyes
Tank during parade
A damnation balloon
Military Support in Parade
Yellow hot air balloon
Happy 4th of July! In Utah, if July 4th falls on a Sunday, the holiday is completely ignored and celebrated instead on the 3rd and 5th. My family tested out a train float that will appear in the July 5th parade in Provo, Utah. And each kid had the chance to be the train’s conductor/captain. I have no clue what they call the train person.
Train Float
Julianne captains the train float
Henry captains the train float while enjoying candy
Happy Birthday to me! May 12 is my birthday and I turned “almost 40, again.” I am 37 today and what better way to celebrate/commiserate the passing of age than with birthday cupcakes. A co-worker treated me to these from The Sweet Tooth Fairy Cupcake company in Provo, Utah. I will be in the gym for the next week to burn the calories, but they are so so worth it.
The Sweet Tooth Fairy Cupcakes
I finally ditched my cubical at lunch! Usually I will grab lunch at the Nu Cafe and eat in my cubical. I need to get out of the office if only for an hour during the day. I grabbed my camera and I went on a mini photowalk around downtown provo. And today’s photograph is of the Provo Tabernacle that I created using my Canon Lensbaby with the wide angle attachment. I created the HDR in Photoshop CS4 – it did an OK job – it looks real. I can’t wait till Photoshop CS5 is released, well, all I can do is wait.
Provo Tabernacle in HDR with a Lensbaby
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
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Jhonathan Lange
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