Monday, October 1, 2007

10.01.07 - kickin' it off right...


starting off october with some pics that i'm happy with... lighting was great.

some water tower shots... i still don't really understand what these things do... i even wikipedia'd it ::shrugg::

christopher mchidey... please note we're wearing different shirts
(i called him this morning at 7am to figure out what he was wearing so we wouldn't wear the same thing today)
i tottaly dig this style of lighting...


this is suppose to be a "oh no" face but Chris made me laugh...


three takes on a churh... yay for good lighting.

lil desat and contrast


b/w baby.

12 comments:

hb said...

these are amazing
esp the church ones

Jim Baker said...

why thank you :)

JStanford said...

very nice

I just discovered my camera has a b/w setting...so I played with that for about half an hour tonight...pretty fun. Tomorrow I'm shooting some fireworks for the yearbook, we'll see how those turn out.

chris.hidey said...

yeah nice find on that area... and we really need to make sure we're wearing the same shirt from now on, i thought that's why you called this morning....

Jim Baker said...

i've yet to shoot in b/w on camera too... tim lease says its pretty amazing... the guy he assisted out here used to shoot b/w on camera. i'm pumped to see some of your new work man... keep it coming.

pz
jim baker

Jim Baker said...

lol... CHRIS! i saw that church last time i was up that way when i shot that mcdonalds... we were just real lucky that the lighting was amazing for us. next time... we'll make sure we're dress cordinated... maybe if we ever make it big as photographers we can hire like wardrobe managers....

TheoJunkie said...

Water towers store water "up high" in order to keep the pressure up so it will flow out of your faucet. A pump pumps the water up, and then the pump can shut off... otherwise the pump would have to run constantly and you would also have to have a pressure release valve-- wasting energy and burning out the pump. With a tower, the pump can do its job and then shut off. The more water you can hold at the top (i.e., the bigger the "balloon" at the top of the stand, the less frequently you have to run the pump (the water level will take longer to go down below the height it needs for correct pressure). All it really is, is a pipe and a tank at the top. The rest is just support and stairs/ladders.

... sorry, I just felt COMPELLED to help you out here... :)

Jim Baker said...

ahhhhh... very enlightening you learn something new everyday... thank you very much.

Rachel Barker said...

LOVE the church shots, especially the desat.

Great work, Jim. Keep GOYA!

Jim Baker said...

ms. barker...

thanks for stopping by... i've been 'goya'ing pretty much non-stop. i need some stinkin' paying gigs now... :)

Anonymous said...

i love the lighting in all of these. i've been meaning to get out to shoot some fall leaves lately....wish you could join me!

Jim Baker said...

fall stinks down this way... this was the weekend i was suppose to be headed up state but the trip got canceled... oh well... another time.