BACK TO SCHOOL...

After 4 days of partying straight… hahahaha… way to end my birthday, with a gottamn project due. Stuuupid shiet. hahahaha

so relax...

MODEL SHOOT – ROWENA + CHRISTINA

so this is rowena’s 2nd shoot with me, and she’s always real chill about things… so we went around downtown san jose, and shot. we had a little audience at one point too, pretty funny stuff. some crackhead was playin with his imaginary dog, while he was tryin to get at rowena.. hahaha. downtown, where all the crazies come out.



also shot another model.. who was part of a lingerie shoot..
holler, had to blur face tho, so no one knows. haha, heres a sample?

WINE AND CHEESE PLEASE!!!

for my extended birthday weekend, i bought alotta 2 buck chucks... $2 dolla wine bottles for my peoples to come party with me. hahaha.. again. Sophistication at its finest… garage + wine = cavi-arty… cus we grown.. 22 now

FAB FRIDAY – DECAF @ TIKI LOUNGE!

for my birthday, because i'm hella cool.
i fockin died, blacked out in 1.5 hours...
woooo too much to drink, hahaha. but from what i remember, i had fun. and lots of it, in a short amount of time!

stupid katrina.. you killed me!

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!

i am now 22. I hear its all downhill after 21… daaaaymit.


google brings up the randomest shit sometimes.. hahaha

LATE NIGHT KINKO'S RUN

i'm at kinkos a lot, in the late night / early morning hours. So much, that they recognize me now. What the suck?! Oh yeah, its my birthday too or tomorrow it is.. but its night. So you know.. Who spends their birthday night at kinko’s? what the eff?

CRYS.

one of my homegirls, crystal, is our model. hahaha. so, these were taken at night, in the evergreen area, with little flashes. still playin around with lighting styles.. its pretty fun.. so enjoy.

WORKING... + CONTEMPLATING…

so at work, im really loud. like, super loud. hahahah. i got in trouble for being too loud… i wanna do a scene shoot. where the action is scripted, and everything kinda looks super contrasty, and the image looks surreal. prolly do some perspective work.. and achieve an effect like this..

since i didn't shoot anything today, heres another one of my shots from that boring ass club even the other day... jsut sittin in my digital workspace.. so i figure i'd put it to use.

REMIX @ BLUSH

bow-ring... i hate random events... especially when i have nothing to shoot, cus then its like i'm there for no reason.. this by far though.. has to be the worst event i’ve ever been associated with in the year i’ve been in this thing… luckily, we were only co-hosts.. cus damn if that was my headline event, i would retire.. ASAP

heres i guess a sample from the event...

well..

i've got an event tomorrow..
all the way over way over there.
BURLINGAME. hahaha

weak sauce..


but i did eat alot today. hahahaha

SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

i slept hella long today.. cus it don’t have school.. but i do have work. at 4:30… i should setup a shoot at work, thatd be pretty coo. document just how much we all fuck around at work, and get some in action dishwashing shots. hahahahahhaha. i kid i kid. maybe

WHY AM I ALWAYS TIRED?

cus forreal.. im always hella tired.. gottamn. it never stops. dishwashing is some stupid shiet.. hahahah. oh well. gotta put in work to get work, to make shit work. at least that’s how i see it.

ergh.. face?

work, again.. washed dishes for hella long. hahaha. also jsut relaxed and whatnot. so it wasnt alll bad.

anyway, heres todays portrait:

black beanie.
ISO 100 - f/1.4 -1/10sec

cyclopsin-it

schoolin.. had an essay i didnt even know about, haha. but thats the regular for me. not too much to say, as im pretty tired... but i did get 2 flyers done for the events i got comin up.

checky..

fab fridays @ smoke tiki lounge : decaf edition



remix @ blush nightclub



and today's self portrait:

homegirls headband makes you feel like reading rainbow.
ISO 200 - f/1.4 -1/30sec

soooper sunday...

the longest mother effin day ever. oh my momma, this damn shoot took forever.. not even my fault tho, its the hair and makeup departments sluggishness, that delayed the shoot start from 12noon, to 3:30pm. daaamn, work at 4:30 also for me.. so i barely got to shoot. missed out on more than half the models... got to shoot 3 of 8. oh well, we'll get another shoot goin, cus theyre my homegirls anyway. hahaha.

anyway, heres some samples...

mary on the stairs
ISO 400 - f/8 -1/100sec

mama bear ger, chilln'
ISO 400 - f/8 -1/100sec



tin tryin to get darker
ISO 400 - f/10 -1/60sec



bee and her crazy eyes.
ISO 100 - f/1.4 -1/13sec



gregg of greggquintos.com
(business partner / mentor)
ISO 100 - f/2.5 -1/4000sec

shoppang...

oh man oh man, saturday.. wake up, hitup walnut creek and the city, do some shippin... but no shootin. forgot my camera, so oh well eh? anyway, i got a photoshoot scheduled tomorrow with the "mod" theme goin. Its a group of my homegirls, and i guess we're shooting in monterey... if all things go according to plan.. but that usually never is the case. hahha. but yeah.. i gotta be up at 5am.. thats some booshiet!

clubberiffic... but not really.

shot club today... but club was hella dead. wasn't even our event, just shot for a friend of mine. crowd was so dead i got to play with long exposures and moving objects. probably 30 - 40 people at best at the event. got some candids, and posed shots, but could have been waaaaaaaaaaay better. or should have been. but what can you do. it is what it is.

samples + self portrait!

attempting dave hill's effect
ISO 800 - f/4 -1/25sec



empty @ agenda
ISO 800 - f/18 -30sec



empty 2 @ agenda
ISO 800 - f/13 -20sec

anothurr.. thurrs-day.

alls i did was work, got some homework done, and took some self portraits. ill have them posted once i load them up. pretty dead day, tired... as usual, but keepin on keepin on.

thoughts.

so, im sick. coughin, sneezing, not so runny, but instead congested nostrils.
oh yeah! sexy sick voice.. like hay there pretty lady, how you spell yo number ;)


... but the best thing about being sick is layin in bed, hearing the doorbell ring, and goin outside to get that karmaloop shipment.. more shoes and more clothes! hollurrr.

see! kind of?

shooo shooopping w/ blurry shooz.
ISO 200 - f/1.4 -1/15sec

post number dos, out of alotta days.

so..

i just got off work. pretty got damned tired.
im not sure if i'm supposed to be using this as a blog, or just to post my photos.
i guess it shouldn't matter? i know people are using flickr, and other stuff like that..
but i got used to this from previous stuff, and its not so bad.
I don't even know how much space is allocated for photos, but if anything, ill host them on my other web space.

but yesterday in class, i think i got caught up sleepin. i didn't mean any disrespect or anything, but i been sick, and when the lights went off for slide presentations, so did my eyes. hahaha. i payed attention to the majority of it, and got some good ideas from the examples.. but i mighta dozed off on 1 or 2 or 10. whooooops.

anyway, i guess i'm supposed to post my self portrait.. so here goes.


dooo doo doooot!

i call this... T K Oh'd. on account of i was hella tired, layed on the floor, said whatever, and took the photo. had flash on the side to get some light, as this was shot in my hallway, with all lights off.
ISO200 - f/10 - 1sec

whooooops.

uh, i hear im sposed to update this thing daily? for homework?
i neglected to do so, so whoooops.. so here's my attempt at catching up... if that is acceptable.


i'm pretty bad when it comes to assignments, because i have so much going on and i neglect it, and do it last minute. i guess i like the pressure.. either that or i'm really good at forgetting. so heres the first one, complete with photo and everything..

so here's me tryin to like taking self portraits.. which is something i really don't like doing.. i find it to be akward. hahaha, but i dont mind being in pictures? so yeah... uh.



checky...

playin around with strobes.
ISO100 - f/10 - 1/5 sec