Ahhh.. beautiful.
Jack's on the top of the world.
Here are a few of the photos i took:
Photo by Steve Roth
On Friday, I drove out to Topanga Canyon to hang out with my friends Steve, Matt, and his girlfriend, Kelly. Steve was taking some new head shots for Kelly. I used my friend Paul’s Canon 50mm f1.8 Prime on my 7D to shoot some “behind the scenes”. Paul picked up the lens for under $90 and I think it is a GREAT value. The photos came out really awesome (it helps that my friends are very photogenic).
I was at a 100 ISO, various shutter speeds, and mostly at f1.8. Keeping your subject in focus when using low stops can be tough but I’ll just show you some that came out pretty neat.
Here are some of the raw, unedited photos hot off my CF card!!:
Some branches in Steve’s backyard.
That’s Steve!
Sir Matt Palmieri
Kitty!
The lovely Kelly Devoto.
That’s all for now!
This is a recent drawing. I’m still learning certain aspects of lighting so I had a little help from my friend. But I messed with gradients for the first time and I put the gradient on the wrong layer in Photoshop. I liked the result so the I kept the mistake.
Here is the progression:
I also got some help with the eyes but I thought that they looked especially awesome!
Thanks! 
Here is rough version of a “movie poster” for Time Machine. Yay!!
Comments, feedback, criticism, general notes, and love are always welcome.
Thanks and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
“Bar” by me n Christopher Custodio
I cannot take credit for all of this. Christopher Custodio is a master at drawing/coloring/photoshop/life in general.
So lets break this down like a fraction.
I drew the dude and the simple bar. It was supposed to be a cartoon version of me in a bar.
Chris gave it some color (and life).
We added a gradient layer (pink to yellow) for the bar windows. Clouds and mountains in the background added by Chris. I drew a city in front of the mountains. Chris added some reflection and shadows from the sunlight, which turned out amazing! Cool beans.
We decided a night version of the same bar would just delightful. So we changed the gradient layer and added some stars. We also removed the cast shadows from the sunsety, previous gradient. Then added an overhead hanging light and reflection. Finally, we put in some city light and atmosphere glow. Beautiful.
Well, that’s all for now!! Thanks for checkin’ this out!!
Alex
I few months ago I worked on a commercial for Sherrilyn Kenyon’s book “No Mercy” directed by Chris Roth. I got the privilege of being a camera operator/grip for the shoot. Needless to say, the end result was amazing.
Chris blogs about what went into this awesome commercial. Here is some info about what went on behind the scenes:
http://chrisroth.net/blog/no_mercy
Here are a couple photo time lapses I did on my 7D using and an intervelometer taking a photo every 5 seconds. Sorry I don’t have the exposure time, f stops, and ISOs for these two. I will be sure to include them next time!!
This is a time lapse I shot the day before Thanksgiving 2010. The clouds looked crazy cool and I could not resist taking a couple hours to do this.
Full moon time lapse from early November 2010.
Hooray!
