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Nikon Beats Canon at TIPA Photography Awards

2008-04-27T07:41:00.001-07:00

It's nice to get some more support on my Nikon side. . . of course I think that most pros would readily admit that Nikon is ahead of the game at this point.

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Expansion and Compression

2008-01-16T23:34:00.000-08:00

Perspective is always a difficult issue for me with photography; it's tough to gauge or notice things like expansion and compression just walking outside and taking photos. The idea is that as you get wider, the objects in the frame spread out, but as you go telephoto, the objects in the frame get closer together. Tonight, I perfectly lined up my subject twice at different focal lengths which really exhibits this technique.

Great Photo Project

2008-01-02T21:45:00.000-08:00

This was a project that I enjoyed very much. Dawoud Bey did a very good job in my opinion of representing each student with his choices of dress, posing, and enviroment. More of his work is available at: http://www.dawoudbey.net/ I know I'll be picking up his book.

Christmas at Arm's Length

2007-12-27T11:19:00.000-08:00

Looking through the photos that I took of my family Christmas festivities, I noticed a trend. So, I had fun with it in the editing. I'll leave it to you to ponder the meanings and importance of personality, faces, and such.

Southern California Fires

2007-10-23T21:42:00.001-07:00

New Blog

2007-09-10T12:28:00.000-07:00

As Photo Editor for the Banner and Angelos at California Baptist University, I have decided to take the initiative to promote the personal photographic development of my photographers. Additionally, I expect to learn a lot from this experience. To do so, I am launching a daily photoblog.

http://www.brokentone.com/daily/

Go check it out.

Kim: The First Photoshoot

2007-07-10T19:46:00.000-07:00

This is one of my closest (and most beautiful) friends, Kim. I took these photos of her in May of 2006, and it was the first portrait shoot that I had done. They turned out fairly well, but being portrait photos, I decided that I ought to do some touchup work (not that she needed it). I additionally decided to de-saturate everything except her.

Yeah, so about four hours of background repainting and stuff on this one.

Her eyes are naturally blue-green. . .

We Are the Arsenal

2007-07-09T20:38:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I shot some photos for the band We Are the Arsenal. They are all really cool guys, and they have a great sound. Check them out for sure on MySpace. Their CD art is kinda grungy from what they told me, so I took the photos kinda an antique grunge feel. We shot around in fullerton.

There was this cool bridge over a little canal.

The guys left to right: Ryan, Alan, Peter, and Kris.

This one I think is my favorite shot, so I threw in the logo.

Katie and Courtney

2007-06-12T22:57:00.001-07:00

Okay so here is a project that I recently shot and edited for Katie, a friend from school, and her sister. They're giving these photos to their parents for mother's and father's day.

New Blog

2007-06-10T18:51:00.000-07:00

I give up. I had been putting off getting a blogger account because I would rather host it all and do it all myself, but I finally gave in. I figure that you need a version 1.0 before you can have a version 2.0 (yes Brendan, I have been paying attention), and so many cool photos keep going by that just are not appropriate to post on facebook, but deserve some publicity. So here I am. On Blogger. For now.