After surfing the net for days upon days and talking to more people. I am getting into photography more. I am currently working on the newspaper for my campus and every issue is a different challenge. I mean anyone can take a photo with decent light and say, "Here ya go. Put that in the issue!" But I am trying to take it to the next level. I want to share my creativity through photography.
After surfing the web and reading blog after blog, I noticed that the camera I have and the 2 lens I have are very nice for the style I am shooting in most days. I have also recently been carrying my point and shoot camera on me where ever I go. This is due to the fact that I found one of my new inspirations I wrote about a few posts ago, Chase Jarvis. Even though he is a Nikon shooter and I am more fond of Canon, I really dig his lifestyle and his photo shoots he has to do. He gets to travel the world and work with some pretty sweet people.
So I wrote this post because I am now researching (I can't really say shopping) for a new lens and maybe some accessories. I found on on the blogs I read that Sigma is coming out with a new lens and the photos from the test are absolutely gorgeous. And the sweet thing is none of them I viewed needed photoshop. It was just a good lens!
Here are some links from what I have been browsing through:
http://digital-photography-school.com/sigma-10-20mm-f35-ex-dc-hsm-lens-review
http://digital-photography-school.com/the-most-lusted-after-soon-to-be-released-point-and-shoot-camera-is
http://digital-photography-school.com/the-1-focal-length-weekend-challenge
http://digital-photography-school.com/popular-digital-cameras-and-gear
I am slowly getting into more photography
I want to thank a friend of mine
I just wanted to post this in thanks to a friend I know who is a pro photographer. I saw him over and over again post photos on facebook and each of them had a caption that read, "Best Cam, Chase Jarvis". Then another photographer started doing the same. These photos were really cool and looked like they were all photoshop'ed up.
I was curious and my friend, the internet, helped me quickly find out a little information about Chase Jarvis. Apparently, he is a pretty well known photographer who travels the world and journals about each of his days.
He doesn't journal in a notebook...he uses his iphone and a created app by him, called best camera. This allows anyone to snap a photo, edit it like a pro, and post to the net in three clicks.
After he got this going with his app, he started a website to show all of his creations, his app, as well as his new book that is a collection of all of photos.
http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/
There is his blog and you can read on a little more about him if you wish. It's kind of cool and interesting to me.
kaoss'ing everyday
I just recently got this new "toy", it's kind of expensive to be considered a toy and it's called a kaossilator. There are more and more youtube videos of this thing being used in all sorts of manners. I feel in love the instant I saw it on youtube and knew I had to get one!
So, I saved up in my piggy bank and one day went to go get one. I ended up getting lost and got there too late the warehouse was already closed. I wanted to get one really bad and said I will be back in 2 days. Two days pass by and I get really sick. I was sick for almost 1 week.
Days later, I get out of class and tell myself that today is the day and that I am going to get a Kaossilator. I go to the bank with my girlfriend and pull out some cash from the ATM. I get the Kaoss and I have not stopped using it since. This was about 2 weeks ago.
Here is my first video on youtube of me using it and I think I might be able to run with the big dogs.
Some New Music
Wow, it's been a long time since I have been on here. I was in my new new Advertising class today and we were talking about Twitter and blogs and I was the only one in class who said they did both. So, here I am, blogging again.
Over the past few weeks I have been looking for new music and a good friend of mine told me about a singer name Jonny Craig, from Emarosa. Craig has just released his solo album and I have to say, it's very good. The song titles are a bit odd but the music makes up for it.
Here is one of the songs I can't stop listening to...it's called Children of Divorce.
Just got back from St. Louis
Me and my girlfriend went to St. Louis for the weekend to see a musician named Trevor Hall. We also did a lot of other things as well. We went to the Bud Brewery and took the whole tour and got to see how the beer was made and then at the end got two free beers. That was pretty nice. The we went to the Zoo and that was okay…it was really hot though so we got pretty tired pretty fast and saw as much as we could. Then after that we went and stood in like for about 3 hours to get to the top of the Gateway Arch. The last day was kind of a bummer because it rained and we wasted our time and money at the science center and was late getting to the mall.
i think i found something to distract me even more
okay so i have been on the web surfin through sites and blogs and reading a lot because of the amount of writing i have to do for my two classes i am in. i kept running into "tumblr". for the longest time i didn't even think anything of it but today i actually clicked on a link to the main site for tumblr and thought it was pretty sweet.
next thing i know, i have an account and am trying to figure out how to use everything it has to offer.
richhashley.tumblr.com
check me out on tumblr....i guess!