Tree Frogs!

Here are some pictures of Tree Frogs from my GF back yard. Obviously (on the last picture) it really wasn't purple, I had a little creative fun with it

My Ride - Various Shoots

These are all just random picture I have taken of my car durring different photoshoots since january or so, there will be many more of these to come and hopefully soon some with other cars as well, like my buddy's V6 Accord - so keep on eye out for these

More Night Shots

BluCandy Colours
Columns of Miami
Both Sides
pay2park

These are some more pictures form the night that those Panoramas came from. They're from various places around campus and from US1.

Random stuff, and some new Multipicture pieces

UMiami Freshman dorms and the lake at midnight
Once again the freshman dorms, I really like the vibrance in the green of the grass

UMiami's Frost School of Music theatre multi-shot

My First Panorama

Here's my first panorama shot: Beautiful Downtown Miami, the Port, and the Ocean. I think next time ill take more pictures to make it taller, like add more sky by taking pictures up as well as across. City and Sea

ahhhh Photoshop

So I've taken alot of pictures in the last few days and will be taking many smore to come for the rest of this week since my parents are in town and its time for me to take some touristy time. Today there were 4 Macaws(sp?) in my front yard so I found it an opportune time to snap some shots of these amazing birds, however I currently don't have photoshop or access to my roomates computer who does so here's an un edited taste:Hopefully I can get my Photoshop issues straightened out so I can edit and post this picture and many other from the days to come

Edit: Finally Photoshopped the bird pictures

I haven't posted in a week...

Here's a nice little shot I took the other night in Coral Gables. I took about 30 shots that night and spent alot of the time fiddling with different settings like EV and shutter speed, this is one of the few shots that came out really good entitled Colours and Shapes.This picture was taken the same day as the good pictures of me and my girlfriend in the sunset. the water really reminded me of the cover for the album "Black Sails in the Sunset" by AFI. Lovebirds on Black Water.

These next three are unedited:

EDIT: (5/27/08) edited photos
Miami Love: piece for a forum contest

Curiousity
King of the Concrete Jungle

Post # 2 for today

This picture was taken the other day at a park near the causway for key biscayne. (although my tripod was in my car) I balanced my camera on my wallet, cell phone, and my girlfriends sudoku book, it took a few tries and some play with photoshop but it came out amazing.

The sky appears more like sunset then it really was since we went to the park expecting to catch sunset, however we realized that the park faces east (duh). So playing with a warming filter and keeping the luminosity this was the outcome.

Pollution the first true "post card" type picture I've taken, the trashcan just makes the surreal beauty of the beach just that much more real, and puts the effect of the human condition on the earth into perspect (and believe me, I'm no environmentalist). The composition itself is ironic, a beauty and the beast sort of irony or paradox.

I also dabble in the "lomo" effect (http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-make-digital-photos-look-like-lomo-photography/). I feel it gives a depth of emotion to the pictures. Like this one, for example Comin' Home, in post production this picture really reminded me of a song by City and Colour. Some of the lyrics are: "I've never been to Alaska, but I can tell you this,/I've been to Lincoln, Nebraska and hell you know it ain't worth shit/I've been through Nova Scotia, Sydney to Halifax/I'll never take any pictures cause I know I'll just be right back." I think that if i go back to this one ill redo the lomo and try to bring out the blue in the chairs with some over saturation.
What I think lomo does to this shot is it makes the Hyena look more vicious in its feeding. Entitled гиена (Hyena in Russian). Bellow Fate as you go up you go to where you belong... up top. Bottom left: City Escape

Where to Begin

Here we are, I figured I would start one of these as active critique and explanation of my photography, focusing on my favorite pictures (that I've taken).

This picture right here I so unoriginally entitled movement. I find it interesting how some of the best pictures can be taken under the worst conditions, i.e. low light, lots of wind, etc... As you can see from this photo hardly anything is staying still, it's kinda like a metaphor for life, in that there are few sure things (those staying still) everything else will come and go, never stopping to let you photograph it.

This next piece is last exit during a beautiful cloudy Miami day, I decided to do a photoshoot of my car using the clouds in the sky to avoid any "hot spots" in the photos caused my direct sunlight reflecting off the paint. While wandering around the parking garage I had chosen for the local I stumbled across this make shift exit sign which was there to replace a broken sign.



















These two pictures are, hands down, two of my best. They are photo's of my roommate's cats Gatsby (Left) and Heathcliff (Right). I will be getting these two printed 8x10 as a graduation present to my roommate. What I love about these two pictures is how innocent both of the cats appear, just staring off at something of camera, not noticing my taking their picture. It wasn't easy to get them to both stay still long enough to get the shots I wanted. Lots of wasted mb's went into these.