Smoke. Just keep smoking.

This last week has been crazy.
I started my internship which I am ecstatic about to learn and teach if possible. I am actually going to be helping Jeff with a house listing photography assignment on Wednesday.
Aside from starting a fantastic internship I got the chance to photograph my brother again and every time that I do photograph him I seem to really bring out his expressions and I love it! I was originally shooting for an assignment but as I started it was almost uncomfortable because I went into it as a model shoot portrait style photo shoot. But hes my brother and I'm not uncomfortable around him so he opened up and really just helped me relax and help me for ideas to shoot. I got a few really great photos in my opinion even though I have had some other views on them...

Scot holding Bob

Smoke is life

Now honestly I am so freaking proud of all the images I captured this last week and no matter what I know that I can capture any image when I put my heart into it. I have decided that I want to start getting other photos for my portfolio since I already have a commercial portfolio but I want to add other forms of commercial photography into it so that I can expand it and show it to potential clients and other photographers. This is my goal for this quarter and no matter what I want to reach this goal.

PS. Here is a sneak peek of what else I did this weekend !

Big Rock

This week I have really been excited about my intership. I am interning with a professional commercial photographer for the next 8 weeks. Even though I will have to balance school, work, and my intership I am honestly so excited to learn from a professional who will actually help me learn and improve.

I have also been working a lot on improving my health and well-being. I have been excited since it is so nice to start going hiking a bunch so that I can get healthy and I can be happier. We hiked up Big Rock south of Spokane Valley and this is one of the photos that I got from a different rock facing this one. There were rock climbers and it made me want to start rock climbing!!

I also besides hiking have began running everyday with my GFs dog Jackie who is recovering from a sudden spaz in her back letting us find out she has a very sensitive disk in her back and arthritis in her back legs. But having her with my really makes me happy because I know when I am getting healthy that she is going to get healthy with me and I would love to see her running with my a few miles a day being a happy dog like she once was. From my first run of the year, knowing that I have not ran before except back in jr high gym class, these are the stats from that.

Starsetting

 Throughout my life of being a photographer I have always wanted to get the best of everything, Lenses, camera bodies, flash, lighting. But because I am just starting out I couldn't. I started with a 35mm FILM Minolta Maxxum 7000 as my first real camera. This was my first camera and hey it did the job and it helped me learn the basics. But as I progressed and I wanted to do more for example, I personally did my own senior photos because I don't like being in front of the camera, and I had some good ideas at the time for it. I needed to get a better camera so I did, I got my Nikon D5100. Now this camera when I bought it seemed like a spendy upgrade since I was just starting college and I really couldnt afford it, but I needed it for class, for myself, for learning. My D5100 was awesome it really opened my eyes to what I could do with a camera, because I was always on auto mode up until I learned the basics of manual, which I think was the case for all of us.

After two years in college I overheard people talking about upgrading and it made me think that hey if im going to get photo jobs I am going to want the best I can get so that for the client it is the best that they can get from me. I researched for hours for camera in my budget. I even thought about switching to canon but then I came across the Nikon D610. I have been looking at these higher end cameras since I bought my first one and I had dreamed about finally getting one. I compared it to a bunch of other cameras for specs about every aspect and yes.. its better than my D5100. I decided heck why not upgrade when I can. I have a variety of lenses I can still use with it and It will produce higher quality images, I can get more control over my images and it will hopfully help me land some jobs.

Well I got it on 4/9/15 and I decided I wanted to go get some sunset photos and star photos since its brand new, why not? This was the result of two spots that I went to and photographed.