Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunset at the observatory
Stella and I went chasing sunsets yesterday. We found one at the Griffith Park Observatory.
Enjoy,
Frank
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Faded & Blurred 365 2010 day 30
Every Saturday morning we head out to Orange County for mt daughters horseback riding lessons. She is learning to ride "English". Here she is moving fast, and having fun!
Friday, January 29, 2010
Faded & Blurred 2010 29
Wandering around at lunch time on this beautiful Southern California day in January. My day 29 entry for 365
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Just playing around with bokeh, while my class was shooting models. Canon 5DMKII, ISO 500, 5.6, 1/20 sec, 24-105 f4L
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Faded & Blurred 2010 28
So sad, the trash can is open, and in the top right corner of this image. If you went through all the trouble to haul it here, how hard is it to put it in the can?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Faded & Blurred 2010 27
My phone was feeling a little self conscious today. It remembers that lustful, half-glazed look in my eyes.
My phone did remind me though, that it still had a camera in it...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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M favorite image from our http://fadedandblurred.com Descanso Gardens photowalk. Taken with my new Canon S90, a great little camera!
Faded & Blurred 365 day 22
I wasn't even aware I could post images to my blog straight from Flickr... Awesome!
This was snapped with my iPhone during our winter storms last week
This was snapped with my iPhone during our winter storms last week
Faded & Blurred 365 2010 day 26
While I am currently leaning to the right, I really wish was i slightly closer to the middle...
Coming up this week
Hi eve
ryone!
I realize this is a few days late, but as often happens around here, it's been CRAZY busy. For those of you that missed it, we had a fantastic shoot in my Sunday class with our model J. Rose as our bride, and she just rocked. We learned how to saturate skies while shooting almost directly into the sun, and we did it with speed lights!
The rest of the images in this post were shot on location at Lower Arroyo Park in Pasadena, the location for Sundays shoot. I love this location, and have used it many times for many things. We will meet there, please do not go to Tri Community. This shoot is only open to students, expect it to be crowded. If you have mentioned bringing a model, please send me a confirmation email. This shoot should be fun!
Coming up for the rest of my classes:
Wednesday night we will be talking about pricing and packages for weddings. We didn't cover this last week, as it was storming and we had a small class.
On Thursday night we will be shooting, we will have at least 1 couple.
Obviously on Sunday we will be shooting. I have included a Google map to the location below.
View Larger Map
ryone!I realize this is a few days late, but as often happens around here, it's been CRAZY busy. For those of you that missed it, we had a fantastic shoot in my Sunday class with our model J. Rose as our bride, and she just rocked. We learned how to saturate skies while shooting almost directly into the sun, and we did it with speed lights!
The rest of the images in this post were shot on location at Lower Arroyo Park in Pasadena, the location for Sundays shoot. I love this location, and have used it many times for many things. We will meet there, please do not go to Tri Community. This shoot is only open to students, expect it to be crowded. If you have mentioned bringing a model, please send me a confirmation email. This shoot should be fun!
Coming up for the rest of my classes:
Wednesday night we will be talking about pricing and packages for weddings. We didn't cover this last week, as it was storming and we had a small class.
On Thursday night we will be shooting, we will have at least 1 couple.
Obviously on Sunday we will be shooting. I have included a Google map to the location below.
View Larger Map
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Descanso Gardens
Hey there everyone!I am just finishing up an exhausting but fun photographic weekend. It started off with the Faded & Blurred Descanso Gardens photo walk, then this morning I did an engagement shoot, followed up by my wedding class at Tri-Community this afternoon. Does anyone want to do some editing for me? :-)
As you can see from the pictures, we had a great turnout at Descanso, and the weather was fantastic. A good time was had by all, and we finished it up with pizza and beer at Georgees in La Canada. You can see many of the images shot at the Faded & Blurred Events group on Flickr. It may be the last time we in California will see the sun until February. I shot most of the images here with my 5DMKII and the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS, a fantastic combination. I also used my new Canon S90 for the shot of the yellow flower. I love this new point and shoot camera.
The Canon S90 has a 10mp sensor (the same chip in the G11), it's image stabilized, has a 3x lens which is f/2.0 at the wide end, and will shoot up to ISO 3200 (it is very usable at ISO 800). It also has a decent macro function that you can see in the yellow flower image. And the biggest selling point for me was it's pocketability.
Coming up this week in class:Monday school is closed in observance of Martin Luther King
Wednesday night: We will discuss packages and pricing strategies
Thursday night: We will have our first engagement shoot. Weather permitting, we will be shooting in downtown Covina. We will meet at school first.
On Sunday, we will al
so have a model, and again we will be meeting at the school, so go there first. See you all soon!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Faded & Blurred Photowalk this Saturday
Hey everyone!
This Saturday, 1/16/10, Faded & Blurred will be having our first photo walk of the year. We will be going to Descanso Gardens in La Canada. All are welcome of course. We will be meeting outside the main entrance at 12:30.
As with all our photo walks, we will be sharing our images in our F&B flickr group, and Jeffery, Nikki and I will be choosing some images for prizes. Our prizes for this walk are as follows:
1st place, winners choice of a Black Rapid Double Strap or a Shootsac Hip Slip lap top bag.
2nd place will receive a $25 gift certificate to BorrowLenses.com
We will also be choosing 1 image to be our February desktop calendar
Admission is $8 or $6 for students, and $3 for kids 5-12. If you have children, they are more than welcome. I will have at least 1 of mine.
A map to Descanso is here.
To enter our contest, you will need to upload your images to the F&B flickr group by midnight on Saturday, 1/23/10, and tag your images with "Faded & Blurred Descanso Gardens". We will hopefully announce our winners on Sunday.
And don't forget to register for a free account on our site at http://fadedandblurred.com
Hope to see you all there!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
This week at Tri
Hey everyone! Just a quickie here to keep you up to date on what's coming up this week at Tri.
Monday night, Beginning Wedding: More on equipment and techniques for shooting weddings
Wednesday night, Advanced Wedding: Come get inspired. Not by me of course... ;-)
Thursday night, Engagement Shooting: Get that flash off your camera
Sunday Afternoon, Wedding Photography: Practicing off camera flash
See you this week, and I promise, a more engaging blog post later this week. I have been very busy the last few days with this:
Frank
Monday night, Beginning Wedding: More on equipment and techniques for shooting weddings
Wednesday night, Advanced Wedding: Come get inspired. Not by me of course... ;-)
Thursday night, Engagement Shooting: Get that flash off your camera
Sunday Afternoon, Wedding Photography: Practicing off camera flash
See you this week, and I promise, a more engaging blog post later this week. I have been very busy the last few days with this:
Frank
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Welcome back students!
Welcome new students, and welcome back old students. This post will just be an aid to get you up to speed at school.For the new students, here are the places I can be found:
Faded and Blurred Please feel free to register and create your own profile, it's free, and built for you!
Frank Wise Photography
My Flickr
Tri-Community Flickr Group
Faded & Blurred Flickr Group
frankwisephotography (at) gmail.com
Model Mayhem
Super Shoots
All of those are places where I can be found, and maintain a presence. If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email, I am pretty good at responding quickly. Going forward, this blog is a great place to find out what is coming up in the following week, I update it at least weekly. I hope we have an amazing semester, we have several new classes being taught for the 1st time, and I am very excited about them.
The image above was my entry for the Faded & Blurred 365 project today. It is a reminder to stop and remember to indulge your passion, fire up your creativity, spend a few minutes charging your batteries.
See you all soon,
Frank
Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to 2010. To celebrate the new year, focus my passion, and to promote Faded & Blurred, I started a 365 project. But instead of doing an individual 365, I started a group. Each member of the group will be posting 1 image daily for 365 days. We already have over 30 members in the group, and I am really looking forward to seeing what develops over time. Both with individual creativity, and with my own photography. It will be a nice benchmark to see where we started, and where we wind up.
If you would like more info about the group, you can find it here. To follow along or join the group, you can find it here. All you need to join is to be a Faded & Blurred member and have a flickr account. Both are free.
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