I’ll start off with the good and boy is it! Well, I no longer have to put up with my old Dell laptop! Thats right, as of about two weeks ago Steve Jobs finally announced his little company’s new laptops and you know what that means: new MacBook Pro! I love it. Been playing with it for the past 12 days and have loved it. The “switch” was interesting. Getting used to how to do things on mac like installing and uninstalling programs is quite different than on Windows. A couple other things here and there also had to be learned but over all it wasnt too bad. It is so quiet and runs nice and cool compared to my old laptop which is a very welcome change. At first I was a bit upset about glossy only screens but ive grown to love it actually. Reflections arent that big of a deal unless the screen is black.All in all one hell of a satisfied customer here.

Now it’s time for the bad, the very, very bad. I was showing my mom pictures from my cruise from spring break that I had on my external hard drive and at around picture 170 they were corrupted and stopped loading. “No big deal,” I thought, “Probably just the folder.” I have all my pictures backed up on DVD’s so I popped in the DVD with the pictures continued on without giving it muc of a second thought. Later that day I was going through videos off of our video camera and put the ones I did not have on my external hard drive on to my computer before deleting all the videos off the camera because my parents are going on vacation. A little bit later I plug in my external and to my dread almost all the files were not there and the rest were corrupted! A number of exploitives followed as I realized I just deleted the videos on the only other place that they were (the video camera) including the video from the aforementioned cruise and more videos from college, all my old documents from school and my resume, etc., all my website stuff including old versions of it, and lots of other irreplaceable files. More exploitives to follow… Ive tried a couple different data recovery programs to no avail. I will continue on in this mission to get my files back that I need. Either way it’s time for a new external HD. This one was a LaCie 500 giger that I never really liked because it was incredibly LOUD so I rarely even used it. It lasted just over a year. Not good at all.

The wednesday after the previous shoot with the red Civic and white M5 we went out to another shop to do essentially the same thing with different cars. The M5 owner from the last shoot brought his G35 which is insane. On pump gas it puts out 640 hp to the wheels. On C16 race gas its over 1000. That is just nuts. There was also a black Brabus E55 and a couple modded up Lexus’s. Most of my shooting was done with the model. I didn’t have much time or space to get good car shots in the shop before having to leave and go back to school. Either way it was fun. I’ve decided I need to get business cards made up to pass out to people.
This first one was taken while they were doing a practice run for the video. Turned out pretty well all things considered.

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A friend called me up to do a photoshoot so i said yes not knowing entirely what i was getting myself into. long story short he was doing a commercial for a company making carbon fiber tools in order to not scratch the color off of anodized fittings. They wanted me to help out and take stills of the model, product , cars, behind the scenes, and any combination of the above. It was my first time shooting a model and apparently her first time doing any modeling and was apparently also friends with my friends so it was a learning experience for the both of us. So without further ado here they are.

More after the break

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but it’s not my fault! I swear! Truth is my computer is about to die. I can barely browse the internet. Seriously. Youtube videos are choppy as hell and often freeze up for up 10 10 seconds before I get one more frame to look at. It takes about 30 seconds to cycle through pictures just previewing them on my hd. I tried editing one picture and doing basic stuff which shouldnt have taken more than five minutes took about twenty. Im going to be stuck like this for another month when the new macbook pros come out. Then it will be a different story

I am going to do this blog for whenever I take some photos whether it be a full photoshoot or just me having fun