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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Khadeeja Islamic Center in West Valley

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Saturday, February 1, 2014

This took me a while to do. After I finished the reaper, I decided that there needed to be more in the picture so I went through my photos and put the gate, lantern and arm tree together. The arm tree is a combination of my son and my arms that I was going to use for a different composite, but ended up changing the concept. I used my son as the model for the reaper as well. The last thing I added was the crown of fire on the skulls head.

This was one of the more complex composites that I have done. I think it looks pretty cool.

No arms or hands were harmed in the making of this composite (except for my right index finger for pushing the camera shutter button and left mouse button so many times). All the sores and effects on the hands and face were created with Photoshop.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Venetian Masks

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Swimmers

We went to a swim meet the other day and I passed the time waiting for my kids to race by taking slow shutter speed photos of racers swimming by. The sun was setting and coming right through the window lighting up the whole pool with nice sunset light.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Hill Air Force Museum

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Halloween - The Dark Mistress

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Kids are Everywhere

This is a short 2 min. film I made with my kids. It has it all; blood splattering horror, gut busting comedy, and especially heart wrenching drama. OK, so it has none of those, but it was a blast making it! Make sure you turn up the volume as the sound effects are half the fun.

Without a Care

I couldn't decide which one I liked better, so I posted them both. The room was so orange after I lit my son on fire. He did good at standing there for a while while I took several photos. Luckily he only got second degree burns. Had they been third degree we may have needed to go to the hospital.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Jordan Conservation Garden

Before it starts snowing, I figured I should get out and take some macro shots. I am amazed at how much easier it is to get an in-focus macro photo with a flash. I was using between f18 - f22 on all of these shots, and I didn't edit them very much besides some small adjustments and cropping.

I made a diy softbox for use with my macro lens and flash last year but never used it. I looked for the YouTube video that I got the idea from, but couldn't find it. This video has people using the same type of thing though. The softbox is almost parallel to the ground instead of being parallel with the lens. Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG37YvAJog0