Green Screen PSA for OSU bike riders safety

Currently I am in a studio production class at OSU. This video was for an assignment to make a psa about bike riders safety. As you can see it does not look very realistic at all. In fact its some of the worst green screen work I have seen.  But It was a fun thing to shoot and I have to say I learned a lot of what to do and what not to do when …

House party

This weekend we had a “Valen-times” party at our house. Slow start but it was a pretty fun night overall. I think the picture does a better job to expreess the mood of the party then what I could write. Still found some time to take pictures that night

Crow

    A Crow pearched on the branch of a tree out side of my window this afternoon. Shot with a Nikon D2H, iso 200, 80-200mm lens

Photos from the Black heritage fashion show

  From now on I plan on posting some of the photos that I have been taking for the barometer and posting them here along with the story it ran with.  This last Saturday I was the papers photographer at a fashion show, Here are a couple of the photos I liked.     By Caitlin Cagle The Daily Barometer The Sigma Delta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. hosted their 17th annual Black Heritage Fashion …

Mike Rowe on Discovery, Misconceptions and the value of work.

I got the chance to meet Mike Rowe a couple months back while I was in San Francisco for campus movie fest. At this event Mike Rowe gave a talk on the beginning of his career and how he got started in the business. Here is another talk he gave for FORA.tv about a particular experience he had while working on dirty jobs on Discovery, Misconceptions and the value of work. Lots to take away from this.

First Day of the year

I took this photo A couple days ago while I was out on upper river road, west of Grants Pass. Shot with my Nikon D2h   

Valley Panorama

  Drove up Spencer Creek again to day and took some photos of the valley. The fog thats been in the valley finally started to break up today.   

2 photos to post today

  This is an old post to a fence that I was walking by today    I drove up Spencer creek road to try to get out of the fog in the valley. It was completely clear out just a couple hundred feet up. Only a few of the hills in the valley broke through the top of the fog

Christmas Tree Bokeh

  Here is an image I made by the Christmas tree. I set the aperture wide open and the focus ring to infinity.  

Caveman Bridge photo of the day

Had some fun last night walking around making some long exposer images, Here is one of the images that I liked. Its the caveman bridge in Grants pass.         

OSU in Review 11-1-09

Check out the latest episode of OSU in review. This week we talk about  the osu emergency alert system for osu the start of the trail blazers season. halloween and homecoming and this weeks music and entertainment news.

Snug Life wins best comedy at the Oregon State campus movie fest.

Im still really suprised that we were able to pull this off. I was confident that our project submission was funny and as good as we were going to make it but  I was worried that we wouldn’t make the top 16. For all of our friends that showed up to support us,  THANK YOU ! I really do appreciate it. Also thanks to everybody that worked in the team to create this video. I …

OSU Flash Mob

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_A86cZmOE] The Flash mob tonight was a ton of fun. Here are some clips from the delayed flash mob in the Library.

Back in school

Here is just a sneak peak at what my schedule is for fall term. First couple days of class are already keeping me pretty busy.

Camping in eastern oregon.

Camping in eastern oregon was great. My Father and I camped out for 2 nights, the first night we spent over by the town of plush east of lakeview. In the warner rim area. This photo is looking from our campsite over to heart mountain to the North east. The second day we drove over to heart mountain and took a gravel road across the top over to the town of frenchglen.  From there we …

Family Photos

Its rare that our entire family gets a chance to be in the same spot all at once.  Its strange because when I was growing up it was completly common place for everyone to get together on a weekly basis.  Even though that was the case it was still rare for us to get a family portraits. In fact there is only a handful of photos like that around. Glade we finally got the oppurtunity.

backpacking at waldo lake

Heading out backpacking with some of the guys for an overnight trip, We will be leaving tomorrow at about nine and driving east on highway 58 to waldo lake. Tonight I have been putting together some of my gear. It will be pretty cool to head out and rough it for the day at least.  Suprisingly that short amount of time requires allot of gear just on its own.  I was looking up some info …

Sunrise photos from the wildlife refuge

The other morning after Jeremy and I got back from the surprise Dave Chappelle event in Portland, I left before sunrise and drove out to a wildlife refuge that’s south of town.  I was dead tired since I had been up all night but the morning was great for shooting. It’s interesting to see how different the sunrise is from the sunset. I had my Nikon D40 and my D1 with me. I was trying …

“The Greatest Show that Never happened”

“The Greatest Show that Never happened” – Dave chappelle Tuesday night at around 11:35 , Jeremy ran out of his room and exclaimed that Dave Chappelle would be doing a free event at pioneer square in portland and that we needed to drive to portland  right at that moment to see it. I at first did not beleive it at all, as you can imagine there are very few things that sound more like a …

Tears for Fears concert

Yesterday I went to the Tears for Fears concert up in portland, I had a ton of fun. The concert was at the zoo strangley enough, right in between the polar bears and the elephants. My friend Justin Ross invited me to go with him to the concert. The show overall was great, the guys in the band are still very solid. Especially Roland Orzabal (the goofier looking one in the image) really showed his …

News article on Chelsea and Joshua Silva

I am reposting this article from http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_12767150 Its a couple of days old. I am sure at this point every one knows about it. Rip Chelsea and Joshua Silva The second victim has been identified from a three-car crash Thursday on U.S. Highway 101 near Garberville.Chelsea Silva, 17, from Grants Pass, Ore., was ejected from a Dodge 3500 truck along with the driver, 25-year-old Joshua Silva of Willits, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department. …

Another photo from my Nikon D1

I took this photo just the other day with my Nikon D1. This was just one of the flowers growing in our garden. I was impressed with the quality of the image. There are many things that I could have done better as the photographer, But the captured image itself is at a much higher quality then I thought it would be. Right now I have it blown up as my desktop image and I …