The R6

Last Thursday I shot my buddy's new bike he just got a few week before. So I gave him a call and asked him to bring if he could bring it by so that I could photograph his bike. He was all about it and was happy to bring it by for me. so here is one one of the shots from the shoot from last Thursday. It was a lot of fun to shoot and it was good to see my friend. The bike is a 2009 Yamaha R6 in all black with gold on the rims and fork. That is a really clean looking bike. I am looking forward to shooting nore bike. I think I am going to try to get my uncal Tom to bring his new Aprilia SXV 550 to shoot this weekend. Thanks for stopping by.

Whale watching

So a few weeks ago I had a chances to go on a whale watching trip for class credit. I have always wanted to go on one so I jumped at it. I get to go see whales and get credit for class? I don't see a downside to this. And there was not, I had so much on this trip. It was a all day trip out of Santa Barbra and it when out to the Channel Island and we just floated around all day. So I had to make a small persontaion in class so I made a video to show and talk about a bit. So check it out hope you like it. And thanks for stopping by

Shooting fun

So this last Saturday I had another spec ad shoot with some art directors that that I go to school with. It was for Ridel wine glass. We where shooting 3 of the 6 wine glass they Ridel makes. So we shot three three models and they where to give the feeling of each wine they where to be. It was a pretty simple shoot three girls on white not to bad at all I had three asstistan on the job so it when really smoothly. I could not have done it without these guys they where a huge help on the day of the shoot. I also had a ton of help on the preproduction from my good friend and roomie cecilia Gavia. who made the whole thing so much easer for me. There was a lot of things that I did not have to thing about because of her help. One more reson why the shoot when so smoothly as it did for me. I can not say enght about my crew on that shoot if it was not for them my shoot would have not gone the way it did. So thanks a big thanks to you guy for all you put in to it.

Go checkout cecilia web site at http://ceciliagavia.com/
and elwins at http://www.elwingoh.com


And as always thanks for stopping by.

I has been a long time.

Hey every one hows it going? I have not been on for some time now and not a ton has happen but, I would say a lot has gone on in my life. One school is coming to an end for good. Yes my academic career is over and it is now time to go back to the real world and try to make it after a 3 year break. On the work front I have done a bit of assisting for a photographer that I really like and his work is what I want to shoot for a living. I learned a lot from the two time that I work with him and his first assistant. They both gave me a ton of good info on how to shoot cars and run a real world set. It is not that far off of what we do at school but there are little things that are different. But that is just because of all the time on set and the experience of shooting a lot of job.

I got my web site up and my book is started. But your book is the kind of thing that is never done you are always working on it. I have come to the realization that I need to shoot more people for my sports book. I have the action in my book but not all the jobs that I may get in the future is going to be a action shots. I'm going to get the job that is just a person shot. I need to be able to show I can shoot that kind of stuff. So in between shooting more AD shot and action sports I will be shooting more people with all the time I'm going to have on my hands.

Well I am not every good at writing a ton. So I'm going to take off but I will be putting up more blog again so keep stopping by and checking in. And as always thanks for stopping by.

The new bike.

I have not been on here for a bit and I just wanted to show what I have been doing besides photo. I have been riding mountain bikes for like the 12 to 15 year. Mountain biking was the first big love of in my life. I am not a bad rider but I was not good enough to make a living doing the thing I loved and this made me sad, But this is how I found photo. I started my taking pic's of my friends riding and this is how I found that I could make money doing something that I love so I when for it. I Still ride and will always ride my bike. I fell off for the last three years but I really need to get back to riding to make me feel normal again. I have two bikes that were put up here before and I'll put them up again and my bike that I am building. This is my hard tail it is a 2004 Haro escape 8.3 it is a awesome and a good all around great bike that has done well for me. I have beat this bike and it always ready to go again. This is my Big bike it is a 2003 Iron Horse SGS PRO. This down hill bike a been as equally a awesome bike and has been a ride that takes a lot for and has not need to a lot of work done on it. It has need the normal things done to it like services and thing of this nature but other then that it just keeps on going. And I am not the smooth ride in the pack out there so it gets beat really hard too just like the Haro.

As i was saying I am building a new bike because why not. The frame is a older frame but is in amazing shape and was a bike that I have wanted for a long time but could not buy one at the time they where being made. but all the parts that are getting put on are new and up to date parts. I really can't want to get this bike out on the trail I know it will be an awesome ride and will be fun. I will up date as the build moves on and it makes it ut on the trail. Thanks for stopping by.

A day of futbal

Today my niece and nephew had soccer games. I use to go to them all the time but now that I live in LA I don't get to go to them like I use to and I miss that. They are fun to go watch and I have been watching them for sometime now. My nephew little Mat has been playing for the last 9 to 10 years and my niece has been playing for the last 4 or 5 years. So as you can guess I have been to a lot of games. And my brother and sister inlaw are always there if they are not working and even if they are working they try to take a long launch to swing by to watch for a bit.

I just got my G10 in on Wednesday so I have been taking it all over the place with me an shoot anything I like. An why not shoot at the game. So I did and these are just two of the things I got. They are fun and I had a good time shooting today. The images above is my brother and the one to the right is of my brother and his friend Ruben watching on like to proud dads. I is funny because the world just goes away when the game is going for the both of them, dead to the world with there eyes open.

The G10 is a fun little camera and I'm glad that I got it and can tell I am going to have fun with it. Thanks for stopping by

Schools out for summer

Ok so it been about week that I have been on break and I have done some much needed sleep and then I came down to my hometown of Oceanside. This has been fun for me like last night a bunch of friends from Hoehn Mercedes were I worked before I started at Art Center when out and got some beer and wings. Man that was a good time we had not done that for about a year or so if now longer and even my buddy Alec can never go out do to his wife and kids got to go out with us. It was good to see him he is a good guy. I love photography and talking about it all time is fun for me but it is always nice to get thoughs momentes where it is every thing but photo. It's nice but the only thing is that when I do talk about photo they done know why I do what I do. The weeks of perep time weeks of sleepless nights or hours and hours of work to get one shot or even the photo nerd joke that only and photo person would get of find funny enough to lought for like 20mins and think of another photo nerd joke to go with the last one. I do always love the momentes that I have with my friends when I come home for a break but in the end I need other photo people or people in the industry I live in or what people like to call creatives. Thats is wired to me creatievs. Anyways I guess it comes dwon to that I love to come back to Oceaside but it is not home anymore where I live in LA is home now that I where my life is now. I guess it is ture when people say you can never go home. Thanks for stopping by