I’m a wandering soul…

Lot’s of things have happened the past few weeks, and I honestly don’t have the desire to go through it all. Suffice to say, things have changed sorta changed here in Nashvegas, and things have been had to be put off, but slowly things are happening. Here are some high and low-lights, some of which you may already know if you follow my Twitter.

Low

• I got a job at Harris Teeter, which is actually in itself a highlight, and it’s an easy job. However, the low is that I’m not getting paid enough and/or I’m not getting enough hours. My roommate was having the same trouble. Thus, the apartment complex we’ve been planning on moving into said we weren’t making enough and couldn’t move in yet.
• Because of that, I’m currently homeless. We were paying to stay at the last place we were at. We’re now so poor that paying to live there another week was just unaffordable and impractical ($100 for a week in a dump… though the location in town was awesome). So we’re crashing at a friend’s apartment instead.
• I have no internet, and no laptop to go find the internet. I’m dealing with it, but it makes things difficult, especially since so much of my own business relies on the internet. I get by with a little help from my friends (ha)…. but I’d really just like it if I had an iPhone or at least my own laptop/iPod Touch to go hunting for wi-fi myself rather than borrowing friends’ laptops. But if I had the money for that, I wouldn’t have a problem getting my own place to live in and pay for my own wireless.
• My car battery died today. Luckily I’m off work tomorrow, so I can go get it fixed, but I’m not looking forward to having to pay for it.

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The world just looks more beautiful through the lens of an SX-70

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Adventures as a Nashville resident

Well, I’m officially in Nashville. And unfortunately, a lot of the things that were originally lined up for my arrival have fallen through. The house I was living in? Not happening. The temp jobs? Not exactly, more like possible freelance jobs (which is still good, but I need something more solid).

So, what the heck am I doing? Well, at the moment I’m living in a house with Chris he got through a friend of his. We’re living with a few other people, and we’re paying to live here till the end of the month. With this time, we’re looking all over the place trying to find any sort of job that can let us get our own place to live. Ideally it would be in another house, but at the moment it seems like it may be the best, most feasible option for us to just move into an apartment complex we’ve been looking at for a while which is giving us a really great deal. But lately, it seems like the plan changes every few days, so who knows what will happen.

Some exciting news to me though is that I just bought a Polaroid SX-70! I got a really good deal on it, otherwise I wouldn’t have spent my much needed money on it. It’s in incredible shape and came with a leather case. The photo on the right is one of the first photos I’ve taken with it. Unfortunately, the thing is about the SX-70 is that although it can take 600 type film, it needs some sort of filter in order to keep the shots from overexposing, since it was originally made for film two whole stops slower than 600. I don’t currently have a filter for it, which is why the photo is overexposed (and that’s with the dial turned all the way at it’s darkest). But, I like it anyways. Eventually I’ll figure out a way to more accurately filter the shots so they are exposed correctly, but I was just too excited to not take some shots now.

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Nashville, here I come

Sorry for my lack of entries as of late. I’ve been pretty busy with editing wedding photos, plus a lot of my family has been in town and I’ve been spending time with them. I also haven’t really had much to update about until now.

The past few weeks, I’ve been trying very hard to figure out how I can move to Nashville. Since I live so far away from there currently, for a while I was stuck in the cycle of “Can’t get an apartment without a job, can’t get a job without a place to live.” I got a little scared that I’d have to put off the move for a few weeks to figure it out. But luckily, things just started to fall into place.

So as of right now, the plan is that I will be leaving Houston on August 9th and driving to Nashville. Me and Chris, a good friend of mine from college, will be rooming together in a house with a couple other guys. We’re paying rent, but there’s no lease and it’s rather informal, which is great just in case we get there and realize it’s not the best place for us, which is the hardest part about moving somewhere so far away from where you live currently. We also have temp jobs lined up, which will help us make some money to pay rent and give us time to look for long term jobs.

Perhaps the most exciting part of the move is that I’m in talks to start an apprenticeship/internship with an incredible photographer, David Molnar. I’d be doing a lot of the same things I did for Visage Photography, but also assisting on shoots. I think having a connection like this is going to be invaluable for getting my own freelance photography business off the ground.

So for the next week, I’ll just be getting ready for the move. I’m also excited a friend of mine, Lauren, is going to be in town this week. We’ll be hanging out a little while she’s here doing crazy dance stuff and some photography too. Which reminds me, if anyone is looking for some crazy awesome photos to put on their walls and would like to help support her trip to Africa, consider buying a print.

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Wedding #2

This was my second wedding shoot. I felt much more prepared for this one in many ways. Since I’ve shot a wedding before, I already was prepared for the kinds of things that would happen. Also, I was much prepared gear-wise, since I practiced a bit with my new camera and did a lot of research on using flash.

The wedding was of course in Portugal in the town of Porto at a place called Casa Das Ribas. It was outside around 4 in the afternoon. The setting was near perfect in every way. It was easily the most beautiful setting I’ve ever shot. Overall, I’m very happy with the photos. I primarily used my new Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 lens, and it’s so amazing how sharp the photos came out. The above photo is probably one of my favorite shots from the whole wedding. It was shot at f2.8 at 50mm. In terms of post processing, I actually did very little. Liz’s eyes were so piercing even in the raw file.

Now I just need to go through the hundreds of photos that need post processing. I think I’m going to try and keep them relatively natural looking rather than doing too much cross processing or anything else too intense, which should hopefully cut down the PP time.

Today I started a weekly thing I’ll be doing. Every Monday, I’ll be taking an abstract photo. Here’s my first.

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