More music

I was listening to my Zune on shuffle the other day and stumbled back upon Emilie Autumn who can play the violin in what I would quite possibly call a perfect art form. I have tried to play violin before and have played other string instruments but the violin is what I would consider the most difficult to play. Somehow though she plays it so quickly and without fault to a point that I cannot understand here is a sample of her pure insanity.

Stopping the motion

I have been looking different ways to stop motion with a flash for my upcoming shoot and was very happy to find a video that Chase Jarvis made explaining his shoot for Kung-Fu Network.

Photo shoot

I have a photo shoot set up for Sunday, I will be shooting Mr. Stephen Renney from my Tae Kwon Do studio. I will be practicing and shooting my fill flash assignment for photojournalism. Mr. Renney is an XMA and martial arts instructor. Here is a video to show his skill in XMA and how well he can teach others.

Flash

So one of the assignments we are going to be working on this weekend for photojournalism class is fill flash. Fill flash is when you take a subject that is already light by pre-existing light and you add just a small flash of light into your photo to help either stop motion, bring out the subject or just add contrast. Here is actually a pretty good article I found on it where someone talked about how he uses it and how he figured it out.

Coming of age

Aside from looking for a new camera because it is getting kind of old and an upgrade would do me well. I am starting to look for a laptop upgrade.... my poor sweet 4 1/2 yr old laptop is slowly beginning to die and I have been looking for an upgrade for all the photography work, storage, and photoshop that I will have to run on it here is my current idea for a replacement.

Another Oldie

Here is another picture I took during final four this one is from my 2nd quarter during black & white digital classes. This is the picture before the B&W change cause I kind of like color better for this photo.

In case you forgot what final four is or you have not read previous post refer back to this.

Shoot

Today I was shoot by Jenni Green with Tiffany Bayona in a faux wedding shoot where Tiffany and I where posing as a couple getting married for Mrs. Jenni. It was a pretty entertaining shoot got to dress up and run around like idiots I hope to see the pictures soon and actually think shooting weddings would not be so bad... who knows.

Change perhaps?

So I am trying to become a Tae Kwon Do instructor again which if I get that job will be a great set-up for photography. If I get in I could possibly shoot for their magazine, shoot tournaments, and portraits. Which would be great practice and possibly help me out with some business.

Back to training

Since I have been getting back into training for martial arts I have had to start relearning some of the workouts such as core training. For martial artist core training is the most important thing we can do. All power and movement comes from the core of your body when you are doing martial arts correctly, every punch, kick jump, step should start from your core. If you where to watch a movie such as The Drunken Master you will notice all his stances and strikes come from the core containing more power and ability to move.

That hour

Sometimes we all hit that hour of the night when we can not sleep for whatever reason that urges us to stay up later. Last night I hit mine and the reason I could not sleep I needed to let out creativity, so I started to start studying the guitar again. I am trying to learn all the different chords and get adjusted to holding strange notes. When I was doing this I was thinking of and looking at a certain band with some amazing guitarists Becoming The Archetype. The mix of metal and acoustic is an amazing art form, plus their cover arts are usually pretty amazing such as their first one.