April 2010
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50mm
I decided once I landed in the motherland is to shoot with only a 50mm with my 5D to make myself move towards or away from the subject rather than using a zoom lens. As well I’ve been shooting Manual Focus to make me think more of my main focus in the shot. Shooting with the 5D that has a full frame sensor with a 50mm lens is like capturing images that I see in my own sight due to the fact...
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Live From The Philippines!
Finally I found some internet at my cousins and I am able to upload and fill you guys in how my first two days were in Manila, Philippines. Traveling from Edmonton to Vancouver to Philippines was probably the hardest/longest plane ride ever… BUT once we got to the Manila around 4am it felt like 6pm for us because of the time change of 15 hours. Though it was a long first day in this busy...
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To The Motherland I Go...
Right now I’m in the Vancouver airpot awaiting to board the plane 13 hour flight AHH! to the Philippines which me, my family, & cousins are going to spend our next month… soo if you don’t see me posting as much it’s because I don’t have access to the internet or just HELLA lazy to post. Either or you will see tons of photo’s & video’s from this...
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My New Buddy Fivedee
Yesterday I finally got my new buddy…Canon 5D Mrk II! Thus far I LOVE this beaut of a body and I got the kit lens with it, 24-105mm f/4, which is sharp BUT it’s kinda slow for indoor shots yet still useful in studio settings. The main lens that I will be shooting with this body will be my beloved Canon 50mm f/1.4 and with the full frame sensor I can use it to its fullest! Soo stoked to...
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Laying It All Out
The latest assignment that I shot/edited was our “Layout” assignment which we were given a strict layout for a shoe AD. We had to keep the shoes as the main subject, keep the image as portrait layout, and keep room on the bottom right corner for pre-made text…basically it was like an art director telling us what he wanted in the shot that the cliental wanted. Soo I wanted to...
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The Red Beast
This past weekend my summer car was out and ready to be driven… thus why I have not been updating cause I’ve been out every single night till 3 AM driving. I forgot how good it feels to drive this car for it’s raw-ness of feeling the road, hearing the engine/exhaust notes, and just enjoying cruising around with friends. Love spring/summer for the weather, events, and making any...
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Car Mode
With my car being in the body shop this week for getting the quarter panel fixed and know that it will be up and ready to drive by this weekend… I have been looking at all my routine car forums/sites: NWP4LIFE, CANiBEAT, Honda-Tech, and our sad local forum that is 780tuners. The most inspiration I get lately are videos of the OG’s on where they are currently like the FF Squad. I posted...
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Check The Rhyme
The biggest Hip-Hop show of the year in Edmonton is arriving this Friday! Big head liners that include: Slaughterhouse - JOE BUDDEN, ROYCE DA 5’9, CROOKED I & JOELL ORTIZ, Del the Funky Homosapien, Pharoahe Monch, Bukue One, Peter Jackson, DJ Zac Hendrix, and many others! Come get your tickets at the shop & listening to good Hip-Hop!
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Scallops Without The Bacon
Saturday nights are becoming a ritual for Mariel & myself to cook dinner right after I’m done work. This past Saturday night we were really craving some scallops in a simple way without wrapping bacon around it like everyone else does and we decided to sauté them in brown butter/olive oil with salt & paper seasoning. 30 secs on each side to get enough browning without over cooking...
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Mos Dub
Max Tannone has done it again with his latest mixtape dubbed the name “Mos Dub”. There are ten tracks of Mos Def lyrics on reggae & dub beats that work soo perfectly like they were meant to be together… which is the truth! Such mellow beats & with the lyricism of Mos… just too good! Lets just say this is on high rotation right now… Download it HERE!
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The Common In HDR
Another day, Another Assignment Due! Soo the latest assignment I finished was a HDR shot of a location of my choice that had a pleasing decor… of course I picked The Common! Doing the actual shooting only took 15mins that consisted of several bracketed shots at f/22 & ISO 100 on a tripod. After that easy part it was time to figure out which bracket shots to use and I finally chose 10 out...
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ED Mag
Coming soon…
www.EDmag.ca
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Window Light
For one of my assignments this week for my Lighting course we had to use “window lighting”. This could be from a flash, strobe, or actual window lighting. We had to have a very very soft light source, no direct lighting, while producing a good portrait that tells a story and has an environment to help that story. Soo I got my favourite model, Mariel, to look like she was thinking about...
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Brunch & BE@RBRICK's
After the hella fun time last night, a bunch of us decided to go for some brunch in the morning at Sawmill. This buffet had a wide range of items from salads, roast beef, eggs benedict, beacon, chocolate fountain, fruits, & much more and was only $20! This blowed my mind… need to go there more often! We had soo much food there, we started to experiment with the plethora of items to mix...
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The Common: DJ Pump & DJ Hedspin
The Common keeps on constantly bringing more and more great DJ’s to the space and last night was no different! DJ Pump & DJ Hedspin from EH! Team DJ’s were spinning classics all night long… brining everyone to the dance floor! As always a great crowd/atomosphere that comes along side with The Common. From seeing new & old faces everytime I go there is always refreshing...
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BIG UP TO LF FOR THE SHOUTOUT ON AIR ON HOT...