Yearly Archives: 2012

“Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing, light is everything.” -Leonard Missone

Someone loves light as much as I do. It IS everything. You know what though – I’ve completely forgotten about my external flash, which does come in handy indoors. The photo below was shot right on my bed using the external flash and I am completely pleased with the outcome. The flash was a $500 investment rotting away in a drawer because I never learned how to use it properly – I still don’t know how to use it. It was one of those impulse purchases when I first got into photography and had to have everything under the sun, thinking that the more equipment I had, the better photos I could take.

Wrong.

All I ever wander around with today is my camera, my portrait lens, my zoom lens, and my wide angle lens. I don’t care about anything else and don’t really need anything else except for a macro lens perhaps, which I need to save up for (among a hundred other things I’m saving for). Half of the recipe is my equipment and the other half is the post processing work in Adobe Photoshop – to me, that’s where the ‘creation’ takes place. The snapping of the photo requires ‘the eye’ so that you see beauty in all the ordinary things in life, then post processing the photo is the ‘painting’ of your complete vision, breathing personality and style into it.

Photographers and all lovers of this art form, this photo is available as an 8×10 print at my Etsy Shop. Come shop or support. :)

That’s commitment. I left my MacBook charger at my boyfriend’s place and of course batteries magically drained itself in my bag and is conveniently dead so that I can’t turn my laptop on. Worse yet, I took a new photo to post for today and now it can’t be posted. Murphy’s (stupid) Law.

Luckily, I was at a Laundromat this weekend and snapped an Instagram photo of the laundry machines with my iPhone. It’ll do for now. I’ve always wanted to do a photoshoot in a Laundromat but never got around to it, so then the one time that I was in one, I didn’t have my camera with me of course.

Anyway, the photo quality on the iPhone 4S is certainly impressive.

to want nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing.”

Just returned from a wonderful brunch triple date downtown on this BEAUTIFUL Winter Saturday. It’s beautiful because the sun is shining, the skies are blue with just the perfect amount of puffy white clouds, and it’s pleasantly warm for a day in January.

I’m trying to start a CARS series. It’s just really hard in the Winter when the sun comes and goes in a blink. My style of photography thrives in natural light. I hate indoor photography – especially because I don’t have a lighting kit to somewhat remedy this hatred and I end up resorting to table lamps, which gives me dysfunctional and unbalanced lighting at best, so then I shoot at a higher ISO and end up with grainy photos. Basically, I hate indoor photography. And winter. :) I’m not a huge fan of this photo but it’s getting posted because the rule is A Photo A Day. I’ve posted a number of not-so-hot photos on this blog in the last two years if you are at all interested in seeing some embarrassing work:

Like this one. (I even called it lame right on the post itself. And surprise, surprise! It was taken during the Winter of 2010.)

And this one. (Brutal.)

And this one. (Once upon a time, I liked taking weird and ‘dark’ photos.)

Anyway, the sun on the other hand, inspires me in every way possible. I feel happy just seeing sunlight and even more so when I feel the heat beating on my skin. I know that Winter just started but I can’t wait for the Spring.

“Quit the wrong stuff. Stick with the right stuff. Have the guts to do one or the other. But never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can’t deal with the stress of the moment.” –Seth Godin’s The Dip

How true is that? Quit the wrong stuff and stick with the right stuff and don’t quit on the right stuff. It’s simple.

Remember when I said I had post cards to list on my Etsy Shop? I think that was a good two months ago. I need to take actual product and packaging shots for the shop but here’s at least a sneak peek of what they look like.

I decided to put a little more effort in today with a new self portrait to make up for my outrageous slacking. Self portraits (taken on your own) require a tripod, a remote control, fresh makeup, and a face that’s feeling camera-friendly enough to produce a decent photo. It’s effort. But I thought it would help put me back on track.

Most importantly, this one’s for my love because we’re making waves together.

Ahhh, I’m one day behind but better late than never. Happy new year, my beloved ones. I’m turning 25 this year and something tells me that it’s going to be a defining year. I’m going to own 2012.

Hot tea, tasty snacks, and the arms of a loved one was all I needed to start the year – the photo is a snapshot of a quiet and cherished moment on New Year’s Day.

Above all things, I wish you LOVE this year. Everything else will fall into place.

I also PROMISE I will come back to this blog hard with a new photo every day, not every couple of days. It’s winter now, which means that it’s tough to catch the sun before it goes down because it is completely dark by the time I get home from work. I can only enjoy sunlight on the weekends (unless the clouds decide to rain on my parade). But that’s also why I shopped for so many indoor photo props this summer through garage sales so that I have a box full of funky things to photograph by the time winter hits. SO, I do have a million photo ideas in mind and in a box in my room, I just haven’t had a chance to execute. The horrible truth is that I haven’t touched my camera since I came back from Vegas in November. And when I actually shot this simple photo yesterday, it felt sooo nice. It felt like HOME. I’m coming back hard, I promise. You haven’t lost me!!!