Blog posting

I am finding that it is getting more difficult keeping up with my blog, but i'm not giving up yet ;).  Here is my photo I took this evening trying to follow the rules and shooting every day.  Hope your day treated you well.

What's wrong with Photography today...

I am personally not a huge fan of over editing.  I feel that you lose the skill and art of taking quality photos.  I have never really found myself one to look to photoshop to save photos for me.  I feel that if my photo requires that much repair it wasn't meant to be.  While I do find that enhancing photos can help the image be a little more profound, I do find there are some limits that I personally do not wish to cross.

I know you are asking yourself (Matt where is this rant going?!?) Well here it is a link sent to me by my good friend Brian regarding photoshop and some of the new features and abilities that are coming out if it.  It really makes me wonder what is going to happen to the art form that is photography.

http://youtu.be/UrlsnQ32YhY

E-P3 and Christina

As promised I have a few shots from yesterday evening taken by my beautiful girlfriend Christina.  Since I had a nice little break in my evening due to some cancelations I was able to download the photos from the E-P3 and do a little bit of editing to a few of them.  Here are two amazing shots from yesterday that Christina was able to capture.  Hope you enjoy :)

This one is Straight from camera JPEG

Blown Away!

Having a day off made for some productive picture taking.  The day started with the previous post about the giant camera (if you didn't watch the video yet you should :P).  I then proceed to have a nice day with the dog.

Uriah (my dog) and I went for our 2.1 mile run.  On our run I made note of the beautiful clouds and the gusting winds.  I proceeded to drop the dog off and run another 3 miles.  This time around I was able to notices the sky a little more and I thought to myself that I need to make sure to head down to Seal Beach later for a few pictures.

After getting home and shooting around some ideas for starting a photography business, I proceeded to take a few shots of the dog for fun...

After that I just snapped a few shots around the townhouse amazed by the wind, hoping I could catch some of its power on film.

Once Christina got home we hopped in the trusty civic and shot down to Seal Beach.  When we got their we were amazed to see a sandstorm in progress.

After hopping out of the car and being hit by the stinging wind we ventured out on the pier.  We strolled up and down the pier shaping shots while trying to avoid being hit directly by flying sand.

We found that for some reason their were other people out walking around in this weather.  There were people braving the pier...

Kite Surfing...

and running.

There were a quite a few gulls that seemed to be really enjoying the wind.

This gull seemed interested as to why we were out in this weather.

Eventually we made our way out and back on the pier with some nice photos to document our little adventure.  

Hope you Enjoy! I was shooting the 20D for this session and Christina was playing with the E-P3.  All photos today are from the 20D straight from camera JPEG.  Christina's E-P3 photos to come.

Day off.

With my day off today sitting in bed (as I type this) I came across an interesting project. Something that might be very interesting to check out if it comes near by.

A little something

Today I wasn't very good at my photography homework only taking all of 5 photos.  They were all for craigslist posting so there is nothing too exciting their.  I will share a photo that was taking from a trip to  Napa on the wine train.  This shot was taken by my girlfriend Christina using the 20d with the 50mm 1.8 while we were on the train.  I really love this photo, Christina seems to have a very good eye for framing shots as well.

1/80 1.8 ISO 200 

A Afternoon in Long Beach

  I had a wonderful afternoon today.  It started with a great little lunch at Zypher in Long Beach with my girlfriend Christina and good friend Brian (Check out his blog here http://nomadbyfate.blogspot.com/).  Afterwards Brian and I decided to take a little ride around Long Beach and see what interesting things we could discover. The most interesting thing we found seemed to be an old Press Telegram building (that appeared to have been abandoned for quite sometime), but unfortunately for us all the entrances were locked.  Even with this disappointment we continued our photo adventure and bike ride around downtown.  Here are a few shots that I was able to get with the E-P3.  Once again I am thinking that the EVF would be very useful.  All shots are straight from camera JPEGs.

Hiding behind the e-p3

Brian the Hipster

Confusion

Overall I am very happy with the IQ that I am able to get out of this little camera with the kit zoom.  As usually let me know what you think :) have a great day!