OH MY GOSH!!! + Photoshoot with my sister! :P

So I have been away for a while and so much has been happening!!!

I have hardly been able to pick up my camera for the past like 4 months because I have been in the Fire Academy at College of the Mainland. It has been an amazing experience but it's taking so much time! I can't really do anything else. Classes are Monday-Friday 8am to 5pm.
Luckily though, I will be done on May 10th!!!

Well here is one of my most recent shoots!
Also my first time to really use my new Paul C Buff Alien Bee external strobe that I got!!

All the images were takin with 50mm 1.8 in my makeshift studio in the garage!!! :)

Let me know what you think!! I love critiques!!!! xD

I know there are quite a few where the background is not consistent... :( I was working with the limitations of my equipment and just trying some new things out.

Tulips!

Alright so last my dad got some tulips for my mother and when they opened up the were REALLY nice. So I thought it would make a great photo-op. Let me know what y'all thing. 

Oh I just got my track shoes yesterday and the are like totally awesome. So there is definitely going to be a shoot with those. Also I have me first track meet this Thursday at St. Thomas high school in Houston so hopefully I can get some nice pictures. I also have a track meet this Saturday, again I hope to get some nice photos.

Bullets

First off I would like to thank all of you guys that commented on my last post!! It's nice to see that people still stop by!!! 

So I was playing around with my external flash some more!!! I didn't change my camera angle because I wanted to learn more about flash placement. What would happen if I put my flash here or there. Let me know what you think?

Oh! For those of you into guns. The ammo is 7.62x54r it's Russian ammo, for my 1931 Russian Mosin Nagant.... I ought to do a photo shoot with that. It's really cool with the bayonet and pretty wood finish. I ought to try and find some old WWII looking torn up or military cloths that look Russian and do something. Although I would need a model for that and the only thing I seem to be able to take pictures of lately are inanimate objects.  :_(

Yea I have been really discouraged lately. It almost feels like people are afraid of me as a photographer because I am a guy.  It's really discouraging... it seems God has given me a gift but people aren't letting me have the chance to use it.

Oh! I am sorry, I am sure your not interested in my problems.  I hope you enjoy the photos.

My blog should be getting updated fairly regularly now that photography class has started. 

Sound Board

Rudolph the Play

About 2 weeks ago I got to go see a friends play, and it was really good. Although I seem to always forget to bump up my ISO in situations like this, but I did shoot in RAW so I was able to bring them back

Dance Recital

So the other day I had the honor of going to see a friends dance recital, which also gave me a great opportunity.

I chose to use only my 35mm and Lensbaby at this event so I could get more familiar with them.  I didn't really get to move around and change my angles, but I enjoyed watching the recital and who knows maybe I will be on the stage next year! xD