Luis’ Blog

Last week, on the 12th it was Virgen the Guadalupe”s Birthday. So Aracely and I went to a church in Santa Ana to cover the event. People from all kinds of places come to bring her flowers. It was very beautiful to see how many flowers she had. We talked to the people in charge and they explained to us that a few days later the flower are taken to different hospitals in the area and to the local cemetery. I’ve been covering all kinds of event with Aracely Martinez for the OC Excelsior, a spanish Version of the OC Register. We always have a lot of fun, and its been a great experience so far.

Here is the Digital version of the News Paper from this week.

www.ocexcelsior.com/articles/font-2096-style-normal

www.ocexcelsior.com/sections/slideshow/?id=1809319

For the pass couple of months one of my classes has been working on a project to help the LA Food Bank. The whole class participated, going to different churches or places; at this locations the LA Food Bank distributes food and goods to people that really need it. Its all based on donations and volunteers, so all help is always welcome. It a beautiful thing they are doing, and it was great to be part of it. I hope to continue participating in things like this. The the concept was to take pictures of the people that use this public service, the volunteers and what goes behind the scenes as well, to inform the future donors and the one who have donated of what happens with the donations. Here are some of the portraits taken at the church I went to with Brent and Clifford.

I had to make a pin hole Camera for my Photo History class. Well, my expectation were not that high; i thought i was not gonna get anything out of this. I was wrong. It turned out to be a great little project to do, in fact I love my shoe box camera. It was a lot easier to make than i thought. Its just  shoe box ( with out the shoes) with a pin hole on the middle, then you need black and white photo paper. And my exposures were  about 25-30 seconds.  I definitely want to keep playing with it. I was very excited to see the results, its very clean.

Eddy, Patric and I went to Black Star Canyon to check out the meteor shower.  Me got to see some amazing shooting stars but while doing so got distracted doing some long exposure photographs. All of them are about 30 seconds; big props to them for being able to not move for 30 seconds, it is harder than you may think. we were in a pretty dark place and only used the light from cars that passed by,We had a great time.

Last week we had a 3 models come with us to this club that is being built in Fullerton. The shoot was for my available light class. The assignment was to take a portrait utilizing light in a beautiful way. We all had a blast, I followed Courtney, and here are some of the pics i took of her.

On friday 30th I went out to shoot some pics at a club for the OC Register’s, Excelsior. While doing so I found this Light that caught my attention. I think its a laser but to be truth I have no idea. The next day some of the people in my available class met at Old Town Orange to take some pictures. so that where the last one comes from… there will be more from halloween soon.

Just go to this page to read more, everyone should try this at home!! I will write a little more about this later today

http://greywatergarden.blogspot.com/

In the last month I have done a lot of projects. Some of them for school, some of them for myself, I just thought I put some of them together in a post and show you. For example the first one was in a moment of boredom. I was waiting for a long time for my ride to go shoot an event in LAI waited for a very long time and right when  I took out my camera and took 2 pics my ride was  here and i had to go, well i didn’t looked at them cause it was more of an accident than anything but I loved them both, the liht was just beautiful.

This selfportrait was for a class project and I actually liked it

Last night, October 20th, a bunch of class mates and my teacher from my Available Light Class met up in Hollywood, right in front of Mann’s Chinese Theater. It was a bunch of us, all geek-up with our camera’s and ready to find interesting things in Hollywood. The city is filled of amusing places and interesting people that for some reason manages to blend just perfectly. The there is plenty of light, which was perfect for our Available Light class. The right amount of flashing things + a little bit of creepy alley and you have a good night. We all had a nice time. Its always fun to hang out with fellow photographers and just do what we like most. (at least in my case). Here are some of the pics I took.

Left: Brent Matsuno, right: Clifford Lester.

Really good Joker.

A blond Wonder Woman, which they were filming for a student film (I think).

And Jesus saying good bye, as his bus takes off. Till next time Jesus.

When told me she wanted to get some pictures in LA I told her i wanted to go early. She was nocking at my door 7:30 on that Saturday. Britney McKinon, Michaela Travieso, and my sister were on the way to La around 9, and we got there in like 30 minutes. The interesting part of this day for me was the fact that after watching 500 days of summer I was very interested in finding the places where they filmed it. There is this scene where the couple go to this park in the middle of downtown, well I found it! I was such a geek. We ended having to go home early cause one of the passengers was feeling “sick”. Sick of us that is.