Oct
31
Halloween 2008
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Okay, Halloween has got to be my favorite night to take pics. This year 2008 I actually was requested to shoot two events; one Nikki’s of Venice and two the Townhouse Tavern’s burlessque show. First I went off to Nikki’s and it was PACKED with people in costumes. I took over 500 shots, then narrowed [...]
Oct
30
Olivia Munn dressed up for Halloween. Thought I would share.
Oct
23
I shot my friend Megan Tomczak for a model shoot. I wanted to try and shoot a little bit of fashion, headshots, and some creative lighting. I tried out my recently purchaced hot lights, but found I am going to need to get stobes if I want to do any type of fashion shooting. To [...]
Oct
17
Basement Model Space
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My next door neighbor has access to a basement room within my complex. She said I could use it to shoot if I needed to. So tonight I took my lights down there to see how it would work. Right now I only have ‘hot’ lights and found that if I was going to do [...]
Oct
15
Intro to Maya
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The Introduction to Maya class I am taking over at Gnomon is getting started. For my first project we had to create a room. So I thought to myself the bar Nikki’s is a room, let’s model that.
It took me awhile to get started, but eventually I started to have something.
We had to render it [...]
Oct
10
Nikon Line-up
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I have to say I have stayed loyal to the Nikon brand, as my first camera was actually a Pentex — but soon got a Nikon FM2. My first digital point and shoot camera was a Nikon 880. Then when I finally decided to go DSLR, I got the Nikon D70. To finally now I [...]
Oct
8
Took my new camera the Nikon D700 out after work to Hollywood Blvd. Took some pictures with my 17-35mm F 2.8 lens. I really didn’t realize how much my old camera Nikon D70 cropped with the DX lens, and how bad the quality of the image was. I think I really am going to love [...]
Oct
7
Loving the new Nikon D700
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Did I mention I love my new camera. Even fell asleep while reading the manual.
Oct
7
My New Nikon D700 Camera
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My new camera came in today. It is a Nikon D700, and it’s so pretty. Took it out at dusk to take pictures at a high ISO (3200) and the pictures look incredible. I think iam in love – this is an incredible camera.
Oct
4
Referencing Source Material
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I headed over to Nikki’s to check out the architecture and measure the tables and chairs for my Maya 3D class. I needed to reference the layout and perspective of the bar, as I am modeling it in 3D space for my first assignment. Sheldon met me over there with a tape measure around 3:30pm [...]








