My Car

June 3, 2015

Remember how I said I'd take some good shots of my car and write a feature about it? Well, the feature and all the shots still only exist in the future, but I went to South Mountain last evening and some of the shots I took excite me enough I can't wait to share them. Look forward to a feature of my Honda soon.

And this is why I love rain and cloudy skies

May 20, 2015

I'm still working on the Penske Cars and Coffee photos, but these ones here are some of my absolute favorites, not only from this shoot, but also out of all the photos I've shot. This is why I love rain and cloudy skies for photography. Those conditions provide the perfect lighting and backdrop for moody images, with water droplets beading on surfaces adding to the effect. I just love how the water beads and flows across the body of the cars. Design and physics in motion.

I also had fun processing the photos. Monochrome was really suitable here; to be honest the Ferrari FF photos I think are the best photos I have ever taken and will be hard to top.

I also played around with extreme contrast and sharpness, which also turned out really good due to all of the colors. I have to say, I am in love with these rain shots. Too bad I live in a desert!

When taking and editing these pictures, I kept thinking of the E3 trailer of Forza Horizon 2 and all of the close-up shots of the cars with water droplets all over them, for some reason. Plus, the song "Revolution" was also looping in my head. Look forward to seeing the full coverage of the Cars and Coffee event in the following days!

Barrett Formal Dance Portraits

May 12, 2015

So, I'm beginning to edit and upload all my photos I've taken over the past three months that I did not have time to go through during school. Here is the first completed collection, which has come ahead of the Cars and Coffee photos because I need to complete it first for my friends.

If you do not know, Barrett is the honors college at Arizona State University, and every year Barrett hosts a formal dance. I had no intention of going, but several of my friends who were wished to have some photos taken. So, I obliged.

We decided to take photos in the square of Old Main, which have the oldest buildings in the campus, with some nice brickwork and flora. Unfortunately, everyone else wished to take photos in the same location. So, after having to abandon Old Main and the fountain, we settled on another building that looked just as nice.

There were four people I needed to photograph, but only two of my friends were present. So, I took some photos of them together.

After these snapshots, we decided to take some individual photos, utilizing the beautiful flower bushes and railing nearby. Of course, there was also the traffic on the road behind us that we had to worry about, but at least traffic wasn't too bad, and there were enough opportunities to take photos without cars in the background. Here's the gallery of my first friend.

And after her, my other friend:

And another group photo:

After all this, the others arrived. I guess there was a miscommunication because they said they were also there, but I was confused and time was running short, so I snapped a few group photos before my friends departed for the dance.