1/19 to 1/25

Monday Jan. 19: Della's (or my old) apartment living room floor

Della and I had a slumber party in her living room while I was in Rochester. One night we watched a very weird and silly animation called "People" (but this is not the point). This is a shot of very sleepy Della. I liked the body language and angle of the shot, since it is obvious that it is being shot from under the table and on the floor. I appreciate the simplicity of the environment. Also I enjoyed that Della is clearly dressed for the day in (in non-sleepwear), that it is obvious that daylight is pouring in the window, and yet Della is sleeping, or is in a position that says "I don't want to wake up yet."

Tuesday Jan. 20: My bed

I needed a shot, or so I remembered while lying in bed trying to sleep. So I pulled out my cell phone and snapped a really dark 1 mp cell phone pic of me sticking my mouth guard out of my mouth. It was a really bland image, until I noticed that Lightroom had a direct positive filter as an option. I was so curious that I clicked on it,and low and behold it made a better, more interesting image just because of the contrast.

Wednesday Jan. 21: The basement

I walked downstairs and thought it was hilarious that my brother was talking on the phone and talking online with the same person. I loved the body language he had while on the couch coupled with the fact that his computer lit up his face well. ( Doesn't it look like he is having a fantastic conversation!)I also found that even though there is a large bright spot in the corner of the image, your eyes don't focus on it because of how large and bright it is. It almost hurts your eyes, like staring at the sun does. Because of this, your eyes are drawn to my brother, the point of the picture. On top of that I like the little touches, such as the large pile of Mountain Dew Bottles next to the shoes in the right bottom corner.

Thursday Jan. 22: Nowhere, Nothing, No shot today

Spent the entire day re-editing the project seen here.

Friday Jan. 23: The Edge Teen Center

Movie Night at the Edge, where I was volunteering. I got a group of kids together to play scene it with me. Its interesting to see what people remember about movies. I just really liked Jake's facial expression that he made while trying to figure out an actor from a really old photo of the actor.


Saturday Jan. 24: Living Room

Look we are finally taking down the Christmas tree (its fake, not a dried out old flammable one thankfully). The pattern of light on the box drew me to this image. Otherwise, I think my Dad's left arm looks really freaky. The background also looks a lot like motion blur to me, but it isn't because I know that my house was not moving while I took the photo.


Sunday Jan. 25: The Couch

This is where I spent most of the day, working on my smugmug website thing. Typical face of mine while doing webwork. Here's my smugmug though.

1/12 to 1/18

Monday Jan. 12: The Edge

Went to the Edge for a meeting and a paper signing session. For some reason a lot of kids decided to play pool. Its kind of small, but I liked that Nate's eyes were in focus. Also the arrangement of the balls on the table was nice, not too many but enough to show that he was playing pool.

Tuesday Jan. 13: My Living Room

After having not shaved my legs since the first week of July, I decided it was time. It was recommended to me that I document the process, a much more difficult task than I orignally anticipated. I have removed the shaving pictures, at a request. But anyways here are the clean legs.



Legs successfully shaved clean. 2 hours later.

Wednesday Jan 14: Nowhere, nothing, no shot for today

Thursday Jan. 15: The Edge Teen Center

The above image is just a silly image of Matt modeling through my brothers legs. His facial expression was priceless, that is why it is here.

Below is another picture of Carlton, thank goodness someone is animated on Thursday nights.
I took the photo because of the repetition of raised hands in the image. I made Carlton's hands frame the rest of the hands so that the idea of hands would be more obvious.


Friday Jan. 16: Julie's Room:

This was part of our stalling for the Amanda-driving-up-to-surprise-people day. I liked how obvious the action in this picture was, as well as being able to see the action close up, and her entire face in the mirror. I thought it would be a cool idea to do, and I enjoy photographing in mirrors. Julie was amused. I also appreciate that the light reflecting off the mirror provided a nice fill light on her face in the otherwise dark and nastily lit RIT dorm room.

Bucky's Apartment:

We surprised Bucky and Della with fun toys, which included Sock 'Em Boppers. Watching Della and Dan go ninja style boxing with those sock 'em boppers was very interesting, if not potentially dangerous for the innocent by-stander. I liked the closeness of this image, as well as the blurred action that shows you how fast they were running around and pounding each other. The anticipation of Dan moving to his left is a nice moment too.


Saturday Jan. 17: Panera

We went to eat at Panera for breakfast. Della decided to get a massive mug of cocoa and I decided to photograph her drinking it, since the cup was so over sized. I liked this one because she wasn't staring at the camera while I was taking them.


Sunday Jan 18: RIT Dorm Side

This is the view of a bench in front of Sol as I was walking back from Woyak's room. I just really liked what the shadows looked like. Especially that the shadow under the bench so clearly copied the design of the bench. It was monotone already, so I decided to check out Lightroom's default grey scale conversion action. Over all I like it.

1/05 to 1/11

Sorry for the lateness of this post. Internet issues and the importance of other things have delayed my updating.

Monday Jan. 5: The television

This is just a shot of what I watched today: How I Met Your Mother, the best show ever on tv. I recently bought all of the seasons on DVD, and have been watching them all. This was a fun moment, I just liked the intense moment of frustration and anger in Lily's eyes. Nothing special, just a shot of a tv screen.


Tuesday Jan. 6: My Bathroom

#1 This is proof to the world that I do indeed shower. Albeit, not every day, but showering nonetheless. Secondly, I liked how the steam had effected the mirror in the bathroom so that only a small section of it was still a mirror. I am overall very pleased with this cell phone self portrait.

Wednesday Jan. 7: My Kitchen

We got a brand-new stove, and it is awesome! But before I go on and on about the stove, I am going to cut to the photo. My dad was doing the wiring, and he was shining a very bright light on it. I liked how this light highlighted the focal point of the image, where the wiring was being done. This was my favorite shot of the because it feels like my dad is being so sensitive and careful with the drill.

Thursday Jan. 8: Under my Christmas tree

This is really just a poor example of painting with light, but it was done without a tripod or an assistant. With a tripod a light shining assistant wouldn't have been needed. I think I will try this again sometime with a triopod, since our tree is still up.

Friday Jan. 9: Craig and Ann Elyse's place

I am one of the editors for my church's website, mostly in charge of photographs. Today Craig, Ann Elyse, and I worked on the website for a long while. What I like most about this image is that Craig, the scene, and the computer are all in focus and are exposed to be in the scene together, without needing photoshop to selectively process the areas of the photo.

Saturday Jan. 10: Chris's Living Room

On Saturday, my brother's loudness of having band practice ON TOP OF playing Guitar Hero was too much for me, and I headed off to visit my friend Chris. We watched several movies that night, and at one point I decided to snap a few shots off. He asked me how I could take photos without light. I mentioned that I didn't need light on, but indicated to him that if I did, that there was a light next to me. I proceeded to turn it on, blind Chris, and take photos of it.

Sunday Jan. 11: Honeyville Baptist Church

This photo is just a quick shot of the parishioners in front of me holding a hymnal I just like how the hymnal was being held. Its not that spectacular.

New Year's Eve! (finally)

On New Year's Eve I volunteered at the Edge. It was a lot of fun. Here are some pics to show case that.

Whats a New Year's Eve party without food and drink? This is focused much softer than I would have wanted it to be, but I did like the forwardness of the action in the image. Also I love that this kid is focusing so intently on his pouring. Kudos to him, that meant that there wasn't going to be a mess to clean up after he finished.

This Photo reminded me of cheesy 80's music videos with the mirrored light and persons. Photographing dancing can be fun if you play with it.


This is an image that shows a photograph can make action seem much, much more epic than the actual action. Carlton fell flat on his face immediately after this frozen moment in time. But he does look pretty cool doing a one handed handstand in the shot.

Like I said this image is a prime example of boys showing off 100 times more than usual in front of females with cameras. Joe's pole handstand break dancing led to many more show-offy antics. Such as the following:

This is Matt doing a Chuck Norris round house kick spin over top of Joe. I especially love the facial expression of Joe. He was cringing the entire time because he was positive that Matt was going to kick him square in the head. (Matt didn't kick anyone all night, but Joe did come close to knocking me over twice). I really enjoy that this picture contains both action and reaction.

And to wrap it up, here is the typical NYE picture of someone toasting to the New Year. I particularly like the speck of light that illuminates the mouth area. I noticed this and was very glad to get one frame that contained this speck of light.

Have a great 2009 everyone!

12/19 2008 up to 1/4 2009!

Monday 12/29: My Living room

I noticed the repetition of santa circles on the table and it was nearing midnight. I needed a photo of the day so I took it. Nothing fantastic, just a picture.

Tuesday 12/30: My living room

My bro kicked me out of the living room so that he could watch Monty Python and The Quest for the Holy Grail with his friends. I came back and raided the movie party with coconuts and a camera. Cole was lucky enough to be photographed by me. He has crazy eyes when he plays with those coconuts. I didn;t take too many shots so that I could leave the crew alone.

Wednesday 12/31/2008: The Edge Teen Center

This is one of my photos that supports Nathan's theory of "A girl or a camera makes boys show off. A girl WITH a camera makes them show off even more."

To see the rest of my New Year's Eve pictures check out the extra blog .

Thursday 1/1/2009!!! : My Basement

New Year New Rockstar. I was playing Guitar Hero (CHEAT ON THE CHURCH- GRAVEYARD BBQ) and my computer was there so I decided to show some attitude and be a rockstar *click*

Friday 1/2: Kohl's Dressing room

I bought some sexy pants today (dress pants :D) and decided to take a pic with my cell phone. Not spectacular, but the only shot I took.

Saturday 1/3: St. Joe's Hospital, Grandma's Room

My Grandma has been in the hospital for over a week, and today was her birthday so we all went to visit. The sink was crazily shiny because of the direction of the light on the mirror. I only had my cell phone, so that is what the pic was taken with. I really like that you can see the sink in the reflection of the mirror. Also, I can only get good self portraits with a cell phone, so that is what I take with it.

Sunday 1/4 : Honeyville Church
I've been put in charge of photography at my church so that we have images to put up on the website that we are creating. Communion happened this Sunday, and I wanted to capture it for the website. I only had a 70-200mm on my camera in order to mix it up. This was the shot I liked the most because you see young and old, and interaction.



HAVE A GREAT 2009 EVERYONE! Keep checking in here for more updates, more photos, and more analysis!

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