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7th March 2010

Utah AIDS Foundation Oscar Night 2010 – Day 185 of 365

written by dav.d

The Utah AIDS Foundation hosted their largest fundraiser of the year with the 2010 Oscars. This year the event was hosted at The Rail Events center in Salt Lake City, Utah. And it was a fantastic night with great food provided by Bambara – I took a bunch of photos cause it takes some practice to for good food photography. So I have included a number of those photographs in that blog post.

Channel 4 was there to cover the event and Chris Vanocur updated the audience through out the night and encouraged Stan Penfold to run for Governor in a few years. However, Stan Penfold plays a critical role at the Utah AIDS Foundation and he and the people of the UAF play a huge role in helping the thousands of Utahns affected by HIV/AIDS. They need your help as well – so visit http://www.utahaids.org/

I have photographed or volunteered at these dinners for a number of years – so I hope to see you there next year. And check out the full gallery of photographs on my SmugMug gallery.

Utah AIDS Foundation's Oscar Night

Utah AIDS Foundation's Oscar Night & the Red Carpet

Utah AIDS Foundation's Oscar Night

Food photography from Bambara at Oscar Night

Utah AIDS Foundation Oscar Night

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Posted in Daily Photograph Project, Event Photography, Food Photography | Tags: academy awards, aids, bambara, channel 4, chris vanocur, Food Photography, fundraiser, hiv, hiv/aids, oscar night, oscars, salt lake city, the rail, utah, utah aids foundation

November 12, 2009 -- Hotel Monaco’s Red Party for the Utah AIDS Foundation – Day 70 of 365
December 2, 2009 -- Condom Advertising for Utah AIDS Foundation – Day 90 of 365
December 27, 2009 -- Homo for the Holidays with the Utah AIDS Foundation @ Club Jam
December 2, 2009 -- Candlelight Vigil for World AIDS Day in Salt Lake City
December 1, 2009 -- Today is World’s AIDS Day

6th March 2010

Friday night is drinking night at Jam

written by dav.d

Friday night was Jam night and I of course had my camera with me – here are some photos – check out the full gallery on my SmugMug page.

Red Bull & Vodka

Josh serves drinks

DJ Tidy spins the hits

Lube and condoms

Jam visitors

Just dance

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Posted in GLBT Events | Tags: club jam, Event Photography, jam, salt lake city, utah

November 14, 2009 -- Friday the 13th Private Party at Club Jam
January 31, 2010 -- Club Jam’s Busiest Night Ever!
January 26, 2010 -- Club Jam FINALLY Gets Their Liquor License – Day 145 of 365
December 27, 2009 -- Homo for the Holidays with the Utah AIDS Foundation @ Club Jam
December 19, 2009 -- Club Jam hosts a Utah Symphony Party

27th February 2010

Utah Bear Fest 2010 @ Jam – Day 177 of 365

written by dav.d

This week has been the Utah Bear Alliance’s Bear Fest 2010. And Saturday saw Bradon win Mr. Utah Bear 2010 and Kyle win Mr. Bear Cub 2010. It was a lot of fun and it was a great chance to use my new camera for most the events. Check out the full gallery of photos on SmugMug (photos are available to purchase prints and digital downloads).

Bradon wins Utah Bear

Kyle wins Utah Bear Cub

Utah Cyber Sluts played hosts and Emcee

Swimsuit contest with Q&A

I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK

Utah Bear Fest

We have our own sashs

Ticketed Event

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Posted in Daily Photograph Project, GLBT Events | Tags: bear, bear fest, club jam, contest, fur, furry, gay, utah, utah bear alliance

March 6, 2010 -- Friday night is drinking night at Jam
January 31, 2010 -- Club Jam’s Busiest Night Ever!
January 26, 2010 -- Club Jam FINALLY Gets Their Liquor License – Day 145 of 365
January 19, 2010 -- 360° La Revista Gay en Español de Utah
December 27, 2009 -- Homo for the Holidays with the Utah AIDS Foundation @ Club Jam

15th February 2010

QUAC Ski-n-Swim 2010

written by dav.d

QUAC hosts their annual Ski-n-Swim weekend every President’s Day. You might as well put that in the calendar and plan on 2011. It is on my to do list to get back in the pool. I might even be in shape by next year so I can get in the water as well and not just the photographer. Friday started at the Sheraton Hotel with the opening party and then Saturday had the swimming meet and water polo games.

The swim meet was at Steiner Pool at the University of Utah. The windows there are tiny compared to last year and with the overcast and rainy weather there wasn’t much light at all. I had to crank the ISO on my cameras to ISO 1600 and that was a bit painful. I shoot with the Nikon D300 and the Nikon D90 which do pretty well but not as good as their big brother cameras the D3, D700, and D3s for low light and low light sports performance. Since I am primarily a portrait photographer that is rarely an issue. But I do have the Nikon D700 and D3s on my wish list. And shooting sports reminds me why Nikon really does rule the roost in sports photography. With my Nikon D300 I can get 6 – 8 frame a second. The D3s will get about 10 and shoot in the dark. And the autofocus system on both cameras is dead on perfect.

But I am still going to be buying a Canon camera – cause I am a camera whore. Help support my camera habit by checking out the full gallery and purchase some photos! Momma needs a new camera!

QUAC Ski-n-Swim Lanyards

QUAC Ski-n-Swim Swim Meet

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QUAC Ski-n-Swim Swim Meet

QUAC Ski-n-Swim Water Polo

QUAC Ski-n-Swim Swim Meet

QUAC Ski-n-Swim Volunteers

QUAC Ski-n-Swim Trina

QUAC Ski-n-Swim Lisa

QUAC Ski-n-Swim Swim Meet

QUAC Ski-n-Swim Martini Race with Canada

QUAC Ski-n-Swim at Club Jam

QUAC Ski-n-Swim at Sheraton Hotel

DJ Tidy spins the mix at Club Jam

QUAC Ski-n-Swim at Club Jam

Lesbians!

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Posted in Event Photography, GLBT Events, Sports Photography | Tags: quac, salt lake city, ski-n-swim, Sports Photography, swimming, utah, water polo

February 13, 2010 -- QUAC Ski-n-Swim Preview – Day 163 of 365
February 17, 2009 -- Water Polo at Ski-n-Swim
February 16, 2009 -- QUAC Ski-n-Swim Sunday
May 5, 2008 -- QUAC Ski-n-Swim 2008
March 7, 2010 -- Utah AIDS Foundation Oscar Night 2010 – Day 185 of 365

10th February 2010

Sunset on the Salt Lake Library – Day 160 of 365

written by dav.d

I almost didn’t take a photograph for today! I did take a photograph with my iPhone of a gorgeous sunset over the Salt Lake City Library and I didn’t think that much of it. I figured I would still take a better photo – and I never did. I was so wrapped up in other projects after this photo was taken that I would have missed a day in my 365 Daily Photograph Project. Fortunately, I did take this photo.

Sunset over the Salt Lake City Library

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Posted in Daily Photograph Project, Urban Photography, landscape photography | Tags: iphone, library, salt lake city, sunset, utah

January 16, 2010 -- Brady & Steph Preview Image – Day 134 of 365
March 7, 2010 -- Utah AIDS Foundation Oscar Night 2010 – Day 185 of 365
March 6, 2010 -- Friday night is drinking night at Jam
February 15, 2010 -- QUAC Ski-n-Swim 2010
February 1, 2010 -- Kenze’s Salt Lake City Photo Shoot

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

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Posted in Male Model Photography, portrait photography | Tags: headshots, jhonathan lange, male model, portrait photography, provo, utah

December 15, 2009 -- Preview of Jhonathan Modeling Portraits – Day 103 of 365
June 18, 2009 -- Rusty Lopez – Actor Headshots
February 2, 2010 -- Provo Mountain Range – Day 152 of 365
February 1, 2010 -- Bradley Portrait Photography
February 1, 2010 -- Kenze’s Salt Lake City Photo Shoot

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

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Posted in Daily Photograph Project, Nature Photography, landscape photography | Tags: landscape photography, mountains, nik software, provo, silver efex pro, utah

January 12, 2010 -- Provo Streets at Noon – Day 130 of 365
December 26, 2009 -- Sundance Landscape in B&W – Day 114 of 365
November 26, 2009 -- Turkey Shoot – Photowalking Downtown Salt Lake City – Day 84 of 365
February 4, 2010 -- Jhonathan Lange Male Model Headshots
January 4, 2010 -- First Holga photos back from the photo lab

1st February 2010

Bradley Portrait Photography

written by dav.d

I am playing catch up with my bloggy blog – and finally posting some portrait sessions from the past month. This photo shoot was with Bradley. He turned out to be a natural in front of the camera – and I will say that when someone is a natural I end up taking a hell of a lot of photos. But in any case I will do my best to whittle the photos down to the best of the best. I don’t want to overwhelm people with hundreds of photos and I personally get overwhelmed if I have to sort through hundreds of photos.

And the best photographers show their best work – don’t settle or bother with mediocrity. There just isn’t time in life to bother with a mediocre photo. And as I improve as a photographer I really want to show off 3-4 photos tops in a blog. But I still like showing 8-15 photographs. Maybe for weddings I will show a ton.

Bradley's portrait photo shoot

For Bradley we started photographing outside with my Lastolite portable softbox and my Nikon SB-800s. And then we moved indoors to photograph a white seamless and black seamless. I used my Alien Bees studio lights for the indoor photography. It really pays to have two sets of lights. Woo hoo!