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  • I'm not much of a traveler, so why do I have such a love affair with distance?

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Sunday, 13 May 2012

Monday, 23 April 2012

  • Dramatic Portrait Photography

    I've been shooting dramatic portrait photography.  Check it out:

     

    http://www.kineticdesigner.com/2012/04/11/portrait-photography/

     

     

    In other news, I finally feel confident in my skills enough to label myself as an official photographer.  I have a long way to go before I call myself a super professional photographer but I know enough to competently thrive as a photographer if I wanted to.  hip hip hurray.

Sunday, 25 March 2012

  • Hunger Games thoughts? Battle Royale was so much better

    I saw Hunger Games on Friday. I thought it was just okay. too many blaring errors though. Acting was good but it's like Jennifer Lawrence' character was plucked from her Winter's Bone character. The moral of the story was pretty convoluted and the purpose & origins of the Hunger Games was hardly established or believable. Too many rule changes. Too much shaky cam that it made it look like bad camera work. And CGI dogs that appear out of nowhere? Really? So random.  Battle Royale did everything so much better.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIuRjqcpuGQ

     

     

      In the end, I personally feel that The Hunger Games may not have stole all the same scenes (although there were many striking similarities) but they did use the same general premise and executed it poorly and without as much foresight.  Like the youth half the time seemed like willing zombies when it came to expressing their fears and emotions.  In the end, Battle Royale was more believable because as humans, we could relate to the idea that it's against human nature to just kill other people and tried to reason ways to work together and survive, perhaps even beat the system (which will likely be the obvious spoiler to the end of the sequels--sorry I folks).  

    What do others think?

Monday, 12 March 2012

Monday, 05 March 2012

  • Secret Video only for my special folks

    To all my subscribers and potential viewers, I've just posted a special "secret" video for limited time.

    Actually it isn't so secret.  It's another fashion video I edited for another LA fashion photographer.  It's a privated video because it has a copyrighted song I was told to use so I was hesitant to make it "public" and want the photographer or whoever else post it.  With everything going down with Megaupload and youtube blocking content, it's hard to share creative works.  The song was actually requested by the model for her video.  We were gonna change it to a "creative commons licensed song but the other songs didn't work and the model wanted this song in the end.  In case you didn't know, this genre is regaeton, a type of spanish upbeat music popular in many spanish music radio and what not by artists like Daddy Yankee.  So I had no clue to find a replacement regaeton song for this.

     I didn't shoot the video so pardon the unsteady camera work at times.  I tried to color correct and edit it as best possible though.  

    oh, and the passcode is:  roxy  

     

    enjoy.