The Shoeless

So, yesterday was the rumored announcement day for the Nikon D800. I was all excited, I was working at squaring away the money needed to purchase this camera and finally make the switch to a full-frame camera. Something that I have been looking forward to for quite sometime. Which leads to my slight disappointment when it wasn’t announced rumored because of the floods in Thailand. With that said, I would like to say how much that sucks for Thailand and I feel for them. I wish them a speedy recovery from this disaster. It has been a little weird with the recent natural disasters. They seem to be a little more plentiful lately or maybe I’m just closer to them so it feels like there is more of them. I don’t really know.

With all that said, I need to figure out what I’m going to do.  I’m really itching to buy a full-frame camera and I kind of want to wait to see really what the D800 has to offer, so we’ll see. Apart from that maybe a new lens is in my near future, maybe that 24mm f/1.4 is in my future. I wonder if that will be a good purchase though. Part of me says YES, it’s a 1.4 who wouldn’t like that, plus on my D300 it’ll be a 36 which would be nice and when I get my full frame it’ll be 24 which that will be nice as well.But then part of me wonders if I should get a zoom lens that will be more versatile in my travels. But I have a 50 and a 85. after the 24 the purchase will probably be a 70-200… can’t wait for that one Hm….we’ll see.

So The first few pictures you’ll think my theme is silhouettes but it’s not. I just have been trying to get better and show more emotion attached to them. They are fun though.

The first one is kind of special to me, because I got to go shoot the U2 360 Tour for N.C. State’s paper, The Technician. So that was pretty awesome!!

Bono on a Bridge

I went with one of my friends to get her tattoo, so naturally I took pictures. The point is I was able to borrow my friends 5D. Shooting on full frame open to my eyes to a new side of digital photography, that I have been naive for so long.

Marisa getting her tattoo with her twin sister sitting close to her.

To view more images from that please click on the image or go here: http://kutsuphoto.com/tattoophotos/

To get back into my idea of silhouettes, the newt image is one of my friend Marisa under a beautiful afternoon sky.

The next to be grouped with the silhouettes is my friend smoking from a hookah followed by a nice long exposure of the hookah.

Brent smoking hookah

Long exposure of the hookah

Every year, N.C. State has an event to raise money for Habitat for Humanity, known as Shack-a-thon. Groups of people build small shacks to live in for the week while raising money each day. Students have to also sleep in the shack as well.

Girl studying in her shack at night.

After having a model show up, I got one of my friends, Ryann, to come the Rose Garden at Raleigh Little Theater to take portraits of her. Chris and took turns managing the flash and taking pictures, while Brent used the reflector.

Ryann in the pond.

Brent with the reflector and Chris with the flash.

So a few of my friends discovered some face paint that was left over at my place. They started painting their faces. One of them took on marks that you would think she would belong in an Amazon tribe.

Marisa with her face painted.

We had an article about a pie baking contest at the State fair, due to judging rules we couldn’t get a picture of the pie.  So, a fellow photographer got a pie to photograph for the story with the previous friend, Marisa, to pose with it.  We later consumed that sweet sweet pumpkin pie.

Marisa looking classy with the pie.

Ryann eating the pie.

Just for fun times, Ryann decided she was going to use her hands to make decorations on a freshly baked cake.  To me this was the best plan that could possible happen.

Ryann with frosting.

Bought a new lens this past weekend, look for a post soon on that.