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Shawn & Kali

sloanie — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:43:39 +0000

These two got engaged a little over a month ago. We decided to go out to Saltair to do a shoot and got captured some fun images. I love how this one looks / feels…

It feels so nice to finally have more time to shoot and to edit. More to come

Awe.

sloanie — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:49:42 +0000

I cannot really find the words to describe how this time lapse footage makes me feel. Definitely a sense of awe, wonder and humility. I’d love to shoot something like this sometime… I don’t even care if theirs a meteor shower going on.

Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo.

Watch it full screen if your computer can handle it.

I really need to go camping somewhere where you can see the stars at night / where there’s not so much light pollution.

Mesmerized

sloanie — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:12:49 +0000

I’ve been spending some time in front of the computer tonight just mesmerized by what the camera can capture.

I’ve finally had some time to edit the photos I took of Janae and Jamison a month ago. This was the evening before their wedding– we (Kate and I) did a formals session with them so as to have better light and a bit more flexibility with taking photos. I’m so glad they were up for it, the shoot turned out wonderfully– it was a Monday so there was no other traffic at the Draper temple.

Of course it makes a *huge* difference how natural these two were in front of the camera… so comfortable with each other. Kate might have done a little bit of directing but for the most part I think they were just complete naturals. I can’t wait for them to see these photos– I’m so glad I had the opportunity to take them!

On the technical side, this is the first time I’ve done a shoot with a telephoto lens (135mm). I used to always tell myself that I just didn’t care for shooting with a telephoto, that it just wasn’t my style. (Usually I’d use a 35mm, 50mm or 85mm prime). Man was I wrong… I love how these images turned out.

Unconstitutional Font Sizes

sloanie — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:41:09 +0000

Here’s an old gem from August of 2003. Jake decided to complain about the small font size on my blog back then, because I was complaining about how unkempt I thought my site was in general. I don’t think I was politically or principle-minded enough to appreciate it at the time, but in retrospect it’s pretty hilarious.

Jake: Anyhow I’m getting a little too old and the font is difficult to read. I’m calling the ACLU to try and get some of my constitutional rights to large fonts exercised on this website!!!

Mike: Well if I ever get around to cleaning up this slovenly mess of a blog maybe I’ll fiddle with the font size some more… otherwise there’s always IE’s “view-text size-” option.

Jake: You mean to tell me that i have to do something for myself??? like changing my own font size?? I can’t believe you even suggested it!!! what about my constitutional right to have someone else do everything for me? huh?

The Coast

sloanie — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:36:00 +0000

For anyone interested, I have started a new blog that exists purely for art / design / photography (a visual art sandbox, I call it). I derived this post from one I published there as part of a weekly creative challenge. Hey– some content here is better than no new content, right? Sadly I wrote a couple posts in April that are still sitting in the “drafts” queue. Perhaps I’ll publish them sometime in the future. They’re titled “The Good Samaritan” and “On Gratitude”.

I’ll continue to post images and write on this blog as well as I always have– from the spiritual to the philosophical to the completely mundane and inane

This week’s Photography Friday entry: The Coast.

I took this back in 2008 when I was rocking the 40D + 10-22mm. Taken at the beach in Carlsbad, California while joining the Knight family on their yearly beach camping trip (which was a total blast. I’d love to do it again).

Anyhow, I dug this photo up when putting the finishing touches on my BFA project last month. The rays of light breaking through clouds was a motif I used a few times in the project, so this served as an image for a poster at the show.

Next week’s challenge: Symbols.