Hmm

Soo I need to update this more. I will really try.

Flyin'

I went flying with my cousin Sunday. We flew up to Point Dune(or is it Dume?) then flew back down PCH, cut across the foothills to the Getty, Hollywood sign, Dodger Stadium, Staples, Downtown. Here are a few pics...

Downtown.


Tuna Cyn. The canyoners will know this one..

The 405.







Link to Pics

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Originally uploaded by SL BlAk SoLdIeR

Strobed with some Calumet Lights before the amp went out. Darren's cars not-so-daily-drivable slam.

Twarbo TC

Rain's freshly turbo'd TC. Derek and him were working on it when I got back from Hollywood so I dropped by. Shiet looks sick as hell with the fatty intercooler.

Canyoons

Darnell and My quick run up to stunt to test out Darnell's cooling fix. Just some random pics. It was very hazy out there. As usual more info on Flickr.

The Meet

A Ford RS200 came to the meet so I had to snap some pics. More explanations of my pics on my Flickr.

Lake Castaic

After a evening of fishing I snapped this pic off. No pp, right off the camera.


Lake Castaic
Originally uploaded by SL BlAk SoLdIeR

Ducati 696 MONSTER

The Ocampo's Dad's Ducati 696 Monster. This thing looks sick as hell! I tried to do something new with it by using a work light to illuminate the bike trying to get the effect of me using multiple strobes. I think the pics came out pretty well for my first real lighted shoot.

Flickr

Eh, I haven't been using the blogger much, since I just upload straight to flickr.

So for more pics just check out my Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/slblaksoldier/

Track Pictures...

So I'm SUPER lazy to copy and paste about 150 links onto my blogger because it takes forever to do with Flickr.

Here is the link to my pics from The Streets of Willow.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/slblaksoldier/sets/72157605312759107/

Apirl Showers Bring May Flowers.... even if they are inside

I was walking by my living room and i saw a photo-op, so I busted out the gear and fined tuned a picture. 28mm prime, f/4, 1/100, iso 100, flash @ 1/2 bounced/diffused back & up. I only worked the exposure a bit, and then did the border. One thing is that I wish that the green popped a bit more, but overall I'm really happy with the picture, I haven't really shot like this in a while.

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

Rollin' Shots with Charles.

Roses

A pic of some roses my mom received for her birthday this week. I had to hop on the table to get this shot. I also unsharpened mask to get some sharpness out of it. Yeah, I haven't done any pp like that in a while, butt it woulda totally been a waste of a great picture if i didn't.

Bridal Shower

My Cousin's Bridal shower they asked me to shoot. I took it as a good way to work on my flash photography, since I haven't really done any. I'm only going to upload two pics. Over-all i thought the pics came out pretty well. Too bad I won't be able to shoot her actual wedding, I'm going to be apart a groomsmen(?). No PP in these pics.

Over-Exposed... yeah, I know.

I coulda gotten a better angle to show all their faces...

I Don't Know

Why I like this pic, but I do.

e36 + drop + mbumper + wheels = sexy

Charles' Sexy e36

A new creation from ATLP Laboratories

So Mike put a new logo on the new batch of exhaust. On Friday he installed one of the new exhaust on an 07' TL-s. When they were done I thought it'd be good to try and grab some pics. Here is one picture i took with the help of a work light i bounced off the wall. This picture was heavily worked for white balance, and also the distracting reflections on the tip. I tried to clone stamp them out but I didn't want to totally remake the reflection, so I tried to take out the major distractions, but the reflection in general is still pretty distracting.

New Goal

I have a new goal for this blog, rather than it being for the sole use of showing off my weak ass photography skills, I want to change it so that it kinda less serious, and more of just pictures I take, whether it be serious pictures or just pictures of the things I've done, or just want to show you guys. More of like a 'my life in pictures blog' but not as tedious and boring. haha.

LMs

I threw on a LM rep the other night to see how'd look, I'm not really feeling it much. Also note the yellow foglight covers.

EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!

Okay, so last Thursday I planned a photoshoot with DJ's S14. Once there, I wanted to try something new; Auto-Multifocus while shooting wide open aperture. Not the greatest idea, since i was shooting at 1.8 the mutlifocus didn't work to my advantage, because of such a shallow DOF. So that is why a few of these pictures might look a tad out of focus. Mark just brought up a good observation, the power lines in the reflections are pretty distracting, but I'm too lazy to clean that up. Here are like 4 pictures of about 200 I took that evening. Sorry bro!! I know you spend a lot of time cleaning your sexy ass car, but I facked up. We'll go shoot later though.