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Headshots

I haven't posted anything on here in a while. I've recently really gotten into doing headshots. I think it started with my house. I'm living with 6 other guys this year, and we're doing these posters that have a picture of each guy on them. Since I've taken a couple of these headshots, I've really come to appreciate the simplicity of them.

I also upgraded to Flickr Pro today and so I've been enjoying putting up full size versions of my photos. Here are a couple of the photos that went up today.

The Frosts

So, I was in Virginia Beach for 10 weeks of the summer at a program called Leadership Training. I was interning with Great Commission Ministries, and the experience was pretty awesome. I got a better grasp of what I would want to do if I went on staff with GCM at the Revolution.

While I was out there, I only picked up my camera a couple times. The last time was take some family pictures for some friends of mine. Here are some of those photos.

These are the Frosts! Carl, Carolyn, and Lincoln to be more specific.

Lincoln doesn't really give smiles away.

However, his parents do a pretty good job at getting them from him.

No better way to end the day than a mouth full of sand. Eat it by the handfuls.

I'm not really sure what to do in regards to posing and stuff just yet, but the Frosts did a great job. It was a fun short shoot, and it makes me excited for the photography class I'm taking this fall.

Stu Stock 2010

The band I'm in (Speakeasy) played at Stu Stock 2010. This is a concert thingy that Ball State puts on by the Studebaker dorms. We played first so I took some pictures of the other bands playing. Here is Scales. They played last and easily had the most energy of any of the bands playing there.

Uke

So, the school year is coming to an end. This means that finals are here. I had a final for my copywriting class where I had to design a bilboard for a company or service. I decided to make one for my photography, so I asked my friend if he could come pose for me. We messed around in my driveway for an hour or so and this is probably the strongest image from the set.

Also, here is the lighting diagram for those of you who are interested. Both strobes were direct/bare.

Valentines Day!

So, I'm aware that Valentines Day was almost 2 months ago. I was going through my images today and stumbled across this, and realized that I never posted it anywhere. This was a shoot that my roommates and I did for a Valentines Day dinner.

The guys of my house church decided to put on a dinner the Thursday before Valentines day for all the women in the house church. The guys all prepared something to do in a talent show, which ranged from a sexy nun-chuck demonstration to a group song. Myself and another guy made some desserts and I decided about two hours before that we needed cards. So my roommates posed for me and we got a bunch of 4x6's printed out to hand to all the girls. The cards themselves had "Happy Valentine's Day from the guys!" written on it, but I'm just gonna put up the photo that was used.

Here is the setup that I used. We didn't have much space to work with...

For those interested...
EOS 7D
1/250
f/8.0
ISO100
18mm (18-55IS)

The 580EXII had a pink/magenta gel on it to give the background some extra color. The background was a sheet nailed to the wall. The wardrobe was slightly purposeful... Pink and white for the theme with contrasting sun glasses. All post was done in Photoshop CS4.

I'm planning on posting up lighting diagrams for my posts from now on. Hopefully they're helpful to someone.

<3 Freddie

First video with the 7D!

So my roommates and I are in this sketch comedy group called Something Else. The group films and produces one sketch per week, while the members often have a blog they do once a week as well. My roommates both have a blog that they do on Wednesday, so I helped them film it. We only had the lighting in the house and the modeling light from my Genesis 400, so it was all filmed at pretty high ISO.