Getting Back

Sorry for the lack of updates lately!

So about a week ago I got my white backdrop put together finally. It's pretty fun, but I need to buy another flash to help light it evenly. Doh! >.<

It takes some pretty cool pictures still.. even if I have to load them all into photoshop and paint out a few non-white parts here and there. Soon that will be fixed though! I was messing around with it trying to get a new facebook picture... busted out the horse mask but was told that I've already done that gimmick once and have to retire it now. :-(

Horse Mask, I hardly knew ya.

In memory of Horse Mask: Sept 08-May 09

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So instead I just stuck my head inside of a plastic bag and waited until I was seconds away from blacking out -for realism purposes- and was happy with the results... I guess!http://www.flickr.com/photos/myotomy/3547785984/sizes/l/in/set-72157612459496897/)

Favorites Part Twenty Nine

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This was taken along 150 / MLK drive heading west out of Danville. It is an old abandoned train car. I saw it and figured I should check it out, and the inside was way cooler than I expected. I definitely want to do a photoshoot in here someday.

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Favorites Party Twenty Eight

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This was taken the weekend I was at my Aunt & Uncle's farm for my Grandfather's funeral. They didn't have very good luck with their shipment of cows that arrived that weekend. One was dead 24hrs after receiving them due to a sickness it got during transport. Another had its leg snapped when it was being unloaded. It later died. All in all I think they had 6-7 of their cows die from this shipment, which is pretty disastrous.

I took some kind of fun pictures of living cows that weekend, but this one was probably my favorite from the weekend. It was fitting.

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This was one that was a little less morbid. I still thought it was scary as hell. For some cows at least.

UoI Student Board Photoshoot

So I was riding a train into NYC last Tuesday night and I get this message from this dude, he was like "Sup, take some pics at UoI Sunday?" I was like "Cool."

Set up and shot from 1pm-6pm Sunday April 12. Had a lot of fun and got some cool pictures! What will they be used for? Only time will tell...

Break

Ok I reached the end of my favorites heading back in time, I am going to be going over some more current ones now. Thank god, I was getting tired of the old stuff.

I have been keeping pretty busy with photography related stuff lately, I am working on building a white seamless studio background, as well as slowly working on photos for a music-related project I have.

I put an ad in the DHS yearbook, and got a webpage designed... that was pretty fun.

The website is www.tomolsonphotography.com and was designed by a fellow up in Canada, he does great work.

I'll post some new stuff here soon!

Favorites Part Twenty Seven

Too many photos from Hawaii! Oh well, it's something I am glad to be able to complain about.

This is from the lava fields of the Volcano National Park. It was a pretty cool place, kind of sucked that it was permanently stuck in a rain cloud while we were there, but still an amazingly unique place.

I was most fascinated with the seemingly endless lava fields at the park. They weren't really endless, and I probably only saw something like 5-10 square miles of them (which is still pretty huge) but the visuals they provided of a seemingly endless field of sharp black rock were just awesome. If I lived in Hawaii I would spend a ton of time there, especially for photoshoots.

This is an HDR shot that I edited pretty heavily. I should go back and re-edit it, maybe this will inspire me to get around to doing that. I'm not too happy about the sky at this point, it's a bit too grey but the ground is still really amazing.

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Favorites Part Twenty Six

Here is another one from Hawaii.. but looking back this is probably my favorite from the trip at this point in time. This is actually a re-edit, as my first was waaaaay over-saturated, and that's just not my style now.

The story goes like this:

It was Monday, our first full day in Hawaii and Nick, David, Mandy and I are heading to Hapuna Beach, setting out around 10am. We are taking the scenic coast route I guess, and on the way out of Hilo we drive past this crazy hillside graveyard. In the middle of it is this gigantic gorgeous tree.

I had watched "The Fountain" less than a month before and the "Tree of Life" vibe this thing was giving off was ridiculous... despite the fact that it was surrounded by a bunch of tombstones. I think as soon as I saw it my jaw dropped and I said to Nick "Ok Nick you gotta take me here later." I think it was Thursday when Nick and I took a drive to find some flower specimen for him and he said he would take me by this spot.


We get there and I'm walking all around this place trying to get the angle I had pictured in my head, but unfortunately the graveyard wasn't as steep on the hill as I thought it was, and since I was limited to a wide angle lens I had to settle for something different (Sometimes I really wish I could fly purely for a photo taking aspect).


I still really liked the photo, the sky and the clouds and the tree all just look so perfect in my eyes.

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