Luis’ Blog

Milena is a very good friend of me. We met in High School, and she is one of very few people I still see from the good all Buena Park High. Milena is a fellow peruvian, and moved here just about the same time, well maybe before me. An artist that denies it, she has so much talent and she lets no one see it. That day we had an awesome lunch at a Thai restaurant with Maricarmen and then she abandon us at the mall to go take care of some problems and we just had a good time pretending we were gonna buy something.  Funny thing, we wanted Thai food so I told them about this restaurant in Garden Grove but couldn’t remember the name. Milena grabbed her iPhone and Yelped Thai restaurant in Garden Grove.  Couldn’t remember any of the names she threw at me so we just went to the best one (by yelp.com) that was in the area… As we are getting close I see that the restaurant that Yelp had recommended is the restaurant I wanted to go to. The name is Jumpa Thai restaurant and is very good!

 Maricarmen and I found a ghost in my expresso.

A few weeks ago I had to take pictures for an assignment.  I did the assignment wrong I guess but never the less I liked the photos. I captured people laughing.  I think most of the time when people know they are getting their picture taken they smile. There is nothing wrong with smiling, yet is not genuine, its posed. Catching this natural laughs was pretty cool, I ask the different groups of people if I could take pictures first; I told them to ignore me, to forget I was there. I had to wait about 15 minutes until they started losing up, and eventually, they where back to normal, as if I was not even there. Here are some of them.

Here are some shots taken at school the first week with the new baby. Still trying to figure it out, then. Some people at school wanted to test out Canon vs. Nikon at very low light and see what was better. at the end the result are pretty similar, yet I still like the canon a little more.

This one was at almost no light! at 6400 ISO

So after a long time of being very close to buying my 5d Mark II I finally got it. I just want to say this is an awesome tool. I’ve been shooting with a Rebel XTi for last two and a half years and it did the trick, but now I’m ready for more. The 5D is just amazing, and these are some of the Photos taken with it on the very first week I got it. they are not great, I think I over did it with using the high ISO, but you cannot stop yourself when you have 3200 ISO and your pictures still look good. anyways. I just wish I could have it a year ago.

This was the very first picture with the 5D, my Dad.

Matt, coworker. with very, very low light.

First day out, Maricarmen was sick so we just went to the donut shop by the house

One of the first videos, the quality is ridiculous!

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.