I needed a new post because having 13 is bad luck.

Venison Kabobs

We're hoping to win tickets to the Taste of the NFL event in Fort Worth next month. We'll see.

There was a pretty cool sunset last week.

My best friend, Roy is getting married this June and my mom is throwing him and Lindsay an engagement party. She wanted me to take a picture of them from camp and make it black and white with a black background.

Waaaay to easy, so I got a little crafty.

But I felt even that was too easy, so I went ahead and pulled out all the stops and started pushing buttons that I wasn't sure what what they did.

I think this appropriately displays Roy and Lindsay's awesomeness.

Funhouse!

To my knowledge, the best website on the internet for creative tutorials is GreyScaleGorilla.com

Nick Campbell does a great job explaining how to make awesome stuff in Photoshop, After Effects, and (my favorite) Cinema 4D.

This is based on one of his tutorials on the website. If you haven't checked it out, do it now!

I'll probably try to add some sound effects and more stuff in AFX eventually.

More photoshop crap.

Since I've started to delve into photography, I'm a lot more analytical when I see images shot by others. I'm learning that I'm not a fan of a lot of popular styles, especially for portrait photography.

Case and point: off-color black and white photos. I see this a lot where someone takes a picture of someone and changes it some cream-tinted weirdness. Granted occasionally it does look good and has a place, but I think this kind of stuff is way too overused and therefore kind of bush league and very unprofessional.

Don't feel like you have to prove your creative. That shit's for jr. high. Just take good pictures.

I think the best stuff I've seen is the stuff you can't tell were photoshopped. All pictures should be taken through some kind of post program before delivery, but the best one are the ones that you can't tell what's been done to them.

Check out this guy, Greg Miller. he does large format photography on a 100 year old 8X10 camera. This is some of the most beautiful stuff I've seen recently and he doesn't add a ton of worthless effects, he lets his images speak for themselves.

And that's what my photography goal is for now. To take pictures that don't have to rely on photoshop tricks to make them look good. There's something called the "13% Rule", which is the idea that subtlety in post is what wins. Don't go overboard with your effects. Yes add curves, levels, vibrance, saturation, but keep them down low so that they're not taking over the image.

I've heard that if you take 1 great photo out of entire roll of film, you're doing pretty good. 1 in 36 photos sounds pretty simple but there's a big difference between taking good pictures, and taking great ones.

Jill & Chris' Wedding

We went to an awesome wedding in Katy about 4 months ago and I'm just now getting around to posting the photos.

Some of my favorite people to photograph.

And some artsy bs for good measure.

Business Card

I might use this as a business card.

Headshots

We went out to help someone out with headshots as a favor. Here are a few I shot that I've been working on coloring.