Summer time

So last week was was my last week in summer school and now I have a free summer with three days off from work. I plan on using these days a week off for cleaning (my car and bedroom at my mom's house are a mess), thinking of photo projects and a few other things I have planned.

I used Thursday, last week, as a fun day in the studio and I will post those photos up later.....after I download them.

FOOD

So I had done some drinks for the food category for the studio class, which the teacher liked both of, but I wanted to do some "real" food too. On Tuesday I took a stab at some food and made a breakfast thingy with a cantaloupe, but that just looked bad soI kept it simple.

Here are my drinks








And here's the "real" food

Summer school -- goes so fast

Si five weeks ago I stated two summer school classes and there is only one more week left. I have had so much fun the the studio class it's too bad the course is only six weeks cuz I would have gotten so much more studio time during the regular session. But I'm so glad the second class -- a GE -- will be over. It's been a little stressful during the final weeks, with a paper due (last Thursday) the midterm (yes midterm which isn't due till Tuesday -- in the final week) and the final which we will be able to e-mail, but grades and due soon after the session ends so she can't give us too much extra time for the final. The one helpful thing is the fact she's letting us do the test in groups so in stead of having to do five questions for the midterm I only have to do one and we will all answer No. 5 together.

Once I have edited some more of my products (and bubbles -- had so much fun doing those -- thanks to Joleen, Sabrina and Sharmon) I will post them up here.

Fashion

So I tried some modeling shots for one of my major projects during the spring semester and some turned okay -- but it was slightly visible that I wasn't a fashion photographer. I had a lot of fun doing it and for the lighting class we had to do fashion again.

I posted a message on myspace so I could get someone to drive all the way to Sac and try some shots in the studio -- although we can do the fashion on location. A few people answered and I got my friend Kat (from High school) for Tuesday's shoot in the studio...

This is how some of my stuff turned out.



















Then I played around and made this....







I'm planning on getting together today with another friend from high school and set up something with Kim (A girl I met a little over a year through another friend, who has done some modeling before)on Friday. Hers I will be doing on location.

Products

Here are some products I have done the last three weeks and plan to turn in tomorrow for the second submission for the lighting class.

Starting something new

Well I have seen many people I go to school with do blogs throughout school or a trade (such as photography). I plan to began doing so now, not that many might want to read, but I thought I'd give it a shot.

I'm heading into my final semester (after summer) at Sac State as a double major in photo and journalism -- I have two courses during the summer (one being general ed and the other being a studio lighting class, which is something so new to me.)

So far my best photography work has been sports, although I've drifted away with the journalism stuff. I was the sports editor the State Hornet for the last year and a staff writer (in sports) the year before. I did some photography for the Hornet (mainly gymnastics and softball), but now I'm not going back to the Hornet and I can focus more on my photography, which is probably the best thing since photography is the field I would LOVE to work in.

I'm still figuring out what I want to do in the long run in life (I make around 20 bucks an hour being a server (with wages and tips), which is great, but not something I want to do forever.

I plan to use this throughout my summer (photo) class and final semester and show some of my work. I will try to go to some Hornet games to get more sports photos since I just got a Canon 40D last Wed.