Oaklawn Cemetery

Here are the results from the cemetery shoot today! The Sprinklers were on for half the day, and we thought we were locked in at the end of the shoot haha, but the photos came out great. Still learning to gauge visually what speed and F-stop I should use, my skills are definitely improving with all of this practice. Quick tip, using a low f-stop while having a person close to you with an interesting background makes the person stand out very well.

First Photoshoot

First try at portraits in awhile, i'd say they went quite well! That was a wonderful afternoon.

I've been itching to photograph a "Skins" house party. Too bad those only happen in Britain haha. Also, exciting news! I finally have all the equipment I need (tripod + sigma super wide angle lens) to fully unleash my potentiallll. Expect to see work with lots of long exposures, two more photoshoots,  light graffiti, and timelapse photography very soon.

Artwalk/Broken Places/Biggest Post Ever

Artwalk had some pretty interesting people. I swear one woman was carrying around a fake baby in her stroller, then a guy who looked EXACTLY like Dennis Hopper from Blue Velvet approached me and asked if I had found Jesus.I didn't sell any prints, probably because they were huge 16x20's, but made a lot of new interested contacts. Actually, in the two days after art walk about 120 new people read my blog, which is really exciting!

What I realized from art walk/the vendor next to me was that cute handmade headbands sell like baked bread haha. The headbands were very well made, and I know most if not all of my female friends would love to buy one of these. Here's the etsy website where you can get them.

www.secondcycle.etsy.com

After displaying my photography at art walk I've been really productive with my work. As I said before i'm focusing on people now, so i've taken a couple of pictures of myself (they are on lookbook/they were pretty hard to do by myself) and soon i'll be photographing two great friends who are going to model for me. For those who don't know what lookbook is, its an online, invite only community where people post interesting photos of themselves/ what they are wearing. Looks gain popularity by the number of people that "hype" them. Click on the HYPE link to go to lookbook.nu and hype me! Next time I will definitely have someone photograph me instead of using the camera timer.

HYPE

HYPE

HYPE

Next, a couple of photographers and I have gotten together (This was David from the Jaxscene blog's idea) and decided to photograph the "Broken Places" In Jacksonville. Here's My take on that theme.

And here are some photos that did not fit in the "Broken Places category, but warrant posting on the blog. Interesting Story about the last photo; I kept on running into that couple that day and when I saw them sitting there I couldn't help but include them in the photo. the photo came out so beautiful, I kinda wish I would have given them a card for my blog so they could see it. Anyways i'll be posting up/actually doing those photoshoots soon and feel free to comment!

-Alex

Swing Tree

Hello there friend, heres a picture I took just today. Theres a magical time in the day (as the sun rises and sets) when some things just look AMAZING. Seriously, set your camera on a stabilizing surface and take pictures right before the sun sets.

I should be able to visit a graveyard this week and get some good shots to put up.

Oh dear Santa please bring me a tripod so I can take perfect pictures right before the sun sets/rises!