November 19, 2007

• Seniors Rule
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  As a photographer my style is constantly evolving and slowly I am starting to see more and more of how I like to capture my clients.  Senior portraits like many other photo shoots you recreate emotion or an experience to life out of nothing but your subject.  Everyone has a different personality and when I photograph people I always look for things they do that make them look like them.  Often time on photo shoots people can look too staged and if anything they can look dull and unnatural.  I am typically a easy going person and thats exactly how I am on my shoots, relaxed.  If I am tense and uptight that will eventually rub off onto my client and will show through my work.  Everyone carries themselves differently and their personality often dictates the style, look and feel of the shoot.  Taking a good photo is one thing but I really want to learn more on how to take great photos/portraits consistently. 

  For this shoot, I had so many images I liked I had a difficult time narrowing down ones I wanted to post.  A few might be a little redundant and I apologize for that but I really liked the way a lot of these turned out.  Alex was such a joy to work with and to be honest she is my kind of client for senior portraits.  When Alex’s mother first approached me she had seen some of my photo work displayed at our local family business and was intrigued by my style and my approach to photography.  She knew her daughter Alex didn’t want the typical senior portrait shoot and neither did I =).  So they took a chance with me and the rest was history haha…that was probably the most fun I’ve had on a photo shoot and I hope for more clients like Alex.  Thanks for being so awesome to work with.  I hope you all enjoy this set.

  Misc. Thoughts:
  Can you believe Thanksgiving is almost here?  The weather has been a little off this year (global warming perhaps?).  But if you live in California you’ll notice Fall seems to be a little late this year at least here in Sacramento.  It’s late November/almost December and were in the high 60s (68 to be exact for somedays).  That is relatively high for this time of the year.  In the past its normally been a lot colder than it is now.  Anyhow, I am going to learn how to snow board for the first time this Thanksgiving so that should be fun aside from the fact that it hasn’t snowed.  Only place open is Boreal…man made snow.  O well its cool its not about the event but more so the people I am going with and the time well all spend together with family and friends.  I know how to ski but figured its about time I learned how to snow board like the rest of the kidos haha. 

  4 reasons why I think American’s can’t lose weight

  • Too much carbs in our diet (grocery stores are flooded with carbs everywhere).  If you look at grocery stores often times a lot of the carb products seem to dominate what you see for special sales.  We basically love carbs haha.
  • People may eat healthy/well but they don’t monitor HOW MUCH they consume.
  • Consumption of too much sugar(particularly synthetic sugars found in soda and other beverages).
  • Lack of physical activity.

  Obviously there are countless factors for everyone since everyone and their bodies are different.  The above statements are simply speculation and facts I have dervived from my observations and personal experience.  I could probably write a book on food, nutrition and health haha even though I am not a doctor.  I might not be 100% sound of course but I sure enjoy talking about health and nutrition.

  Sunday my church DKC (Davis Korean Church) held its first annual joint ministry praise and dinner night.  It was such a blast and I couldn’t believe how large are church body really was until you put them all in one room.  Big and I mean like over 600 people big!  Our church has so many little kids,  couples with new borns and the number keeps growing with people in the congregation having children.  For me it was so exciting because I had never seen the church as a whole because its broken down into several ministries so we actually don’t see each other much on Sundays.  Children, Korean, English speaking, college and youth are all separate and its difficult to see the church visual in terms of people because its segmented.  For example, I am a part of the English speaking ministry since my Korean is poor haha but our numbers are relatively small in comparison to the church as a whole.  We are about 100 or less I believe but I could be wrong.  Anyways, I used to seeing only those people each Sunday or for social or small group gatherings.  Today blew me away because I had no idea that so many people went to this church.  Anyways, it was such a blessings.  Special thanks to all the Korean Ahjahma’s who made all the food for us.  There’s nothing like good old American turkey and ham dinner with all the fixings and Korean food on top of that haha.  More importantly, listening to Pastor David today…the one thing that stood out to me is our lives are to be lived with thanksgiving and praise in all circumstance we encounter in life.  Easier said than done.  Happy Thanksgiving everyone and don’t forget to be thankful tomorrow, the day after thanksgiving and the day after that and the day after that.  You get the picture.  =) 

  Thanks for reading.

  Cheers,
  Steve

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