New Blog is Active

I've finally started adding more posts to the new blog. If you've entered my blog from my main website, you should have already seen the new posts. For those that are still reading this one, the link is here. I've also created a link on the sidebar on the right. I plan on moving these over but we'll see how that process goes. In the meantime, I will be adding my new posts to the new blog. Thanks for being patient.

Chris

New Blog Coming Soon

It's been a while since posting. Family/School/Work has been keeping me extremely busy and I want to reinforce the word "extremely." Another semester has passed. In that time, we took a trip back to Oklahoma to see my Dad and the rest of my family back there. It was an awesome trip and I do have some pix from there that I will post soon.

I finished up my advanced SolidWorks class. This semester rocked my world. I need to take my family to the Del Mar Fair (yeah I still call it that) to see if my final project got posted for public viewing. Work has been crazy busy lately. This is a good thing.

Besides that, I haven't shot too much. I did do a model shoot last weekend though. I have the initial JPGS but I need to finish the files before posting. I've also been trying to videotape the kids a bit more. Jayden is so cute right now. Her vocabulary is increasing at a staggering rate.

I have put down the XBOX360 controller and hung up a lot of my Halo 3 late nights so I can work on my guitar and my photography. I've also started working out again because of my fast food eating during the semester. 15 pounds comes on fast and I need to get back down.

That's about it for now for catching up. I will update again when the new blog has some content worth reading. Until then, I hope everyone is doing well.

Chris

My Little Sis is Engaged

My little sister and her fiance planned a trip out to California for Christmas this year. It was nice having her and Danny here together for the first time. They brought out their cool little "kids" so they could enjoy the festivities as well.

She had inquired about me doing her engagement session and of course I had to step up. We went down to Balboa Park. I haven't personally shot down there before this but knew there were a million photo opportunities. Needless to say, we bounced around from location to location until it was dark. Afterwards, we stopped off and got a Mexican Mocha from a little stand. Let's just say, yuuuuuummmmmm!

Rob joined us on the shoot. We both clicked away and got some really cool photos. Thanks Rob for heading down there with us.

Now that school is over for winter break, I should have some time to get back on the PC to edit some photos. I have a bunch of cool stuff of the kids during the holidays. Jayden is getting big and Jake is such a big help.

In the meantime, enjoy some more photos from the engagement session.

Steve & Kerry

Here are some teaser images from Steve & Kerry's wedding this last weekend. It was a very cool wedding and I'm really happy with the images. Steve & Kerry were great to work with! Rob assisted me on this shoot and I can't thank him enough for the help. I got through the culling phase tonight and started working on the post processing. There are a lot more that will probably be put into a slideshow.

It's going to be a short post tonight as it's really late (or early depending on how you count time). I will be heading over to Rob's tomorrow to go through his images so I probably won't be posting tomorrow. Give me a few more days to get through some more edits and I'll start working on the slideshow. In the meantime, enjoy the images and thanks for checking in.

Flowers for Daddy Part II

Here's another photo from last Monday. I wanted to play around with cropping and this image lent itself for the task. Because I usually use my 70-200mm, I do a lot of cropping in camera. Although I like cropping in the camera, it does kind of limit the possibilities with an image. The crop below is a 4x8 crop of the image above. The only difference between the two images is the amount of sharpening in certain areas.



It's a short post tonight but I think the last few nights are catching up to me and I'm exhausted. Rob and I are shooting a wedding on Saturday so some new images will be posted soon. In the meantime, you can enjoy these pics of my baby girl.

Until next time...

It's All In the Details

I was going through some older images today trying to get caught up on some editing and I came across this detail shot I took of Jayden's first pair of shoes. This photo was made during one of Jake's baseball games while Jayden was playing around. I think detail shots are extremely important, especially of the little one's because they do grow so fast. I can't believe she's already 16 months old.
For the final image, I went for a cross-processing look on this one with some de-saturation of the grass and her pants. The original image is posted below.

From Daddy's Girl to Rockin' Brother's World

Last night I said I would post a pic of Jayden wrestling with her bro while yelling at Jake's buddy. Well, I decided on this one instead. The joy Jayden gets while playing with her brother is just too cute. Like I said before, she's not afraid to get in the ring with people. In this case, the grassy octagon.
This was shot with my 85mm f/1.8 lens. I like using a fixed lens when I need to push myself to move around. The post from last night was shot with the same lens. I really love this lens. The images are crisp and it makes me move around which is a good thing.
Tonight, you get the joy of getting two versions of this image. I would like to know your comments on which version you like better. Just for the record, I am still undecided on which one I prefer.
Until next time...