Cam girl

One of the first assignments in the Ad Illustrations class was given out by Axel Dohler. The assignment was to make a humorous ad that promoted a product or service.

This image by Derek Woods inspired me. With Dereks blessing, I shot my girlfriend holding a couple of my cameras that I own with a different lighting set up as well as not as many cameras as Derek had.

Feeding Film Frenzy

Rick Steadry is the man with 3/4 of his face showing in the top right corner. Mainly to keep his identity confidential. HAhahaha.

This semester, I am enrolled in his Ad Illustrations class which is offered at The school of Photography at Orange Coast College every 2 years.

First couple assignment were warm ups, which Ill post later on. But earlier this week, he gave us an assignment that he wanted us to shoot in 35mm transparency film.
He was very generous in giving a couple rolls of Fuji Provia and Velvia film to each student. This one assignment will definitely push us in to becoming better photographers creatively as well as technically.

Sheilds Date Orchard in Laquinta, CA..

My girlfriend and I went to Shields during our anniversary weekend. It's a date orchard and gift shop out in Indio, Ca.. If you're ever out in the Palm Desert area, definitly stop by and check this place out.



How can you resist?



2 Ladies work the milk shake machines and the lady on the far left works the cashier and scoops ice cream cones



Shields had this freezer full of different flavored ice cream for their parlor.



I had a mango shake since for some reason dates don't appeal to me. Super good on a hot day.

Anniversary weekend at La Quinta, CA..

Everytime I see this image, I hear Adam Sandler singing "I want to grow old with you" from the movie "Wedding Singer'.



My girlfriend and I celebrated our anniversary during Valentines day weekend. So we made this cinnamon toast crunch treat thanks to our friend John giving us the recipe.



We were on our way to the movies in La Quinta and there were hundreds of cyclist riding on Jefferson.

Disney's California Adventure

Went to California Adventure on a rainy Friday night.



Went to see the Mission Tortilla tour at California Adventure. At the end of the tour they give you a freshly made tortilla as well as a scale to see how much you weigh in tortillas. So I weigh 1,920 tortillas. All I need now is fiash and pica de gallo.

So happy

My girl and I walked around Target for our friends daughters birthday gifts. Im the biggest kid when Im in the toy section. Wish I was Josh Baskin in the movie "Big" as a toy tester.

Natural tones of Nature

Just admired the basic tones of nature when just enough light comes through during a dark gloomy day.

R&B(Rain & Bokeh)

Drove with the wipers off for a bit. I dont suggest anyone doing it, but I was inspired. The things I do to get my shots.

Macroed in on the drops on my windshield and happen to get the bokeh of headlights from the opposing lane

Raining it up

Drove with the wipers off for a bit. I dont suggest anyone doing it, but I was inspired. The things I do to get my shots.

In this one it started to rain hard and wanted to capture the motion as it streak up my windshield as I drove

Window Carbonation

Drove with the wipers off for a bit. I dont suggest anyone doing it, but I was inspired. The things I do to get my shots.

Flicker

Had some fun with a friends ground xmas lights.

Reiner ide AMC

Nothing really to do since it was raining out all week. So my family and I went to the movies earlier this week.

"Did someone blink?

A funny article I came across. Click here to see


Photo taken by the Associated Press

Looking out from in

Taken from inside the Asian Garden Mall in Garden Grove, CA.

Relief

Taken when the first set of storms came through Southern California. This was a short relief from the pounding weather.

Taken at the Orange County Fair 2009

Enviromental Large product

The Craftsman air compressor in an enviromental setting for a large product project. I partnered with John in this project. Thats him as the model.

Small Features on a Large product project

This is the 2 stage air pump that fills the Craftsman 175 gallon air compressor that i shot of my large product project.

Shot this with the help of my classmate John



Air hose that was a part of the large product I did of the 175 gallon air compressor.

Check

Another Assign ment I did for my commercial class. The concept was "Whats your next move" to incorporate both the investor and investee in strategic decisions and choices.

Strobe with 9 in. grid reflector with grid straight down on board game at 1/8th.

Shot this with the help of my classmate John

That is his hand modeling

What can your bottle do?

Partnered up with my friend John on a stop motion project we had for our commercial photography class.

We A-lit the bottle with a Hensel strobe on the background and used a speed light and reflectors to create an articulating highlight and fill in the logo.

Took several tries to get the good amount of bubbles and making sure the bottle was squared up. In end, we were happy with this image.