Jay's Blog

A Day in SF

2011-11-18T01:02:00.000-08:00

Man, I haven't posted anything in a while. Sold my D300, and bought a D90, so hopefully I'll be posting more often again.

Here are some pictures taken around SF when hanging out with some friends today.

Model shoot preview

2010-11-22T23:17:00.001-08:00

Just a couple of preview shots from a shoot I did for an up and coming make-up artist Charlotte. More will be available on my website once we go through the proofs :) Enjoy!

Chicago Day 2.5

2010-10-31T14:15:00.001-07:00

Yeah, I lagged getting these up, I'm almost never on my personal laptop these days. One more days worth of pictures and I'm done with the Chicago pics. Btw, if you want to see pictures of the Hollywood Manor Halloween Rager, check out my facebook. There are wayyyyyyy too many to post here (Over 100 photos taken)

Chicago day 2.0

2010-10-25T22:07:00.000-07:00

Why 2.0? Cause I have too many damn pictures. Rowena took me to more "grungy" parts of the city at my request. I loved it! Behold, the fruits of my labor.

Took the midnight train, going anywhere.

:(

Handheld night shots, watup. Because I'm a badass (more like because I forgot my damned tripod.. FACK)

NO, YOU'RE WEIRD

So as you can see, this set is more or less city pictures while wandering around. Tomorrow the artwork pictures go up

Chicago pt 1

2010-10-23T12:19:00.000-07:00

Pictures from day 1 in Chicago, probably won't be many form day 2, because day 1 got pretty out of control.

With this name, I was hoping this was going to be a massage parlor or something.

Lag dot com

2010-09-06T22:06:00.000-07:00

Yeah, took these like a month ago and forgot about them..

... Hah more like I bought Starcraft 2... dammit.

D300
Most pictures are natural light or single flash w/Beauty dish.
17-50 2.8

Outfits made by Jamie Gaspar :)
Models: Jade & Jamie Gaspar

zomg made of garbage bags!

Dinosaur poncho... WITH POCKETS

Eating your hedz while yor pickin yor nozez

ROAR

Just Jamie

Random dish shots with our silly in house setup.
Just a white wall, with a white poster-board as a reflector. Pro.

Look at these kids, too cute, sisterly love.

That is all! Hope you liked, more pictures coming later. (From my first back-up wedding shoot!)

Annual Mid Summer Ride Preview

2010-08-08T13:19:00.000-07:00

This meet came back again, so of course, I was back again for media coverage. Wow what a HUGE turnout compared to last year. Here's a quick preview of the shots throughout the day. I didn't cover the whole event, just stops 1 (Milpitas), 2 (Santana Row), and the last stop at City Beach in Fremont. Check it.

Band shoot!

2010-08-04T21:25:00.000-07:00

Pictures from the band shoot done 08/01

Band: ALLORNOTHING
Camera: D300, 17-50 2.8
Lighting: 2x SB-600s, Beauty dish

Seventeen Mile Drive

2010-08-04T21:16:00.000-07:00

Pictures taken while on the seventeen mile drive in Monterey

Santa Cruz with the family

2010-08-04T21:09:00.000-07:00

While my family was in town, we made a trip out to Santa Cruz. Started out ugly and overcast, but it ended up being pretty nice. After that we went on the 17mi drive up in Monterey. (17mi drive pics in next post)

The sister

The star of the show

She does share the spotlight once in a while though.

Band shoot preview

2010-08-02T18:29:00.000-07:00

Here's a preview of a band shoot I did. More pictures will be posted after the band reviews them.

Band: ALLORNOTHING
Camera: D300, 17-50 2.8
Light: 1 or 2 SB-600s, direct and/or beauty dish

Family

2010-07-28T20:10:00.000-07:00

The circumstances in which my family was brought together last weekend were sad and unfortunate. However, the outcome of seeing some family that I haven't seen in decades, some never before, was definitely something to be thankful for.

SF

Familia

<3 the Aunties :)

More coming from Santa Cruz with the family.

LTX

2010-07-11T22:54:00.000-07:00

LTX fools. All the pictures are on FB.

Yet another model shoot

2010-06-21T15:43:00.000-07:00

More will be uploaded onto my website, or another post, but here is the preview.

Models: Catherine/Chelsea
Hair/Makeup: Meena
Fashion: Natalie

Gear used:
D300
17-50 2.8
SB-600 x2
8.5' light stand x2
43" Shoot through umbrella
DIY Beauty Dish
20" Gold/White reflector

DIY Dish

2010-06-17T21:47:00.001-07:00

YEP, finally got around to making a beauty dish, to be tested out this Saturday :)

Crazy Mike

2010-06-17T10:41:00.001-07:00

Decided to whip together some kind of makeshift studio with Mike at his new house. So then of course we had to take pictures using it.

D300
17-50 2.8
2x SB-600
2x 8.5ft Light stands
2x 43" Shoot through umbrellas

Super Mike, he'll photograph himself drilling your horse underwater. Awesome.

Jehn, rocking the latest in fashion.

Jehn, same outfit, Mike rocking the fashion accessories rambo style.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...... Yeah

Vintage

2010-06-05T15:07:00.001-07:00

Helped Nat's friend Tiana with her fashion project, and her theme was vintage-sportsy. I had a great time with my new light setup and all the (gorgeous) girls. BIG thanks to Nat for getting my name out there :) Thanks to Tiana for giving me some fun practice time, and thanks to Meena and Catherine for handeling the make-up and modeling. I'd love to do it again sometime!

For you photo nerds out there:

D300 17-50 2.8

2x SB-600

2x 8.5ft Light stands

2x 43" White Shoot-through umbrellas

Direction: Tiana/Nat

Make-up: Meena

Hair: Nat

Model: Catherine

Bowling set

Tennis set

Basketball (lol 1 picture)

Baseball

Golf

Check it out

2010-06-04T15:13:00.001-07:00

Couple of friends an I decided to start a blog together. There will be a lot of random/funny stuff on the new blog. You should check it out, subscribe, all that good stuff.

http://www.weareproductive.com/

Los Gatos

2010-06-02T19:03:00.000-07:00

Photowalk in Los Gatos.

DANGER

Mr. Pickles

Mike trying to piss me off

Nando wondering why his Canon isn't as cool as our cameras <3 ;)

Tired.

Maker Faire 2010

2010-05-31T10:39:00.001-07:00

Had a chance to go to the Maker Faire this year, SUPER awesome, I was definitely geeking out the whole time. Took some pictures of course, here are the results.

LEGOS!

Giant cardboard structure

Playing with lightning

Great live music

Cars

Playing with mirrors

Clowning around on bikes

Fire extinguishers: We got this.

Meeting monsters

Other random pictures

Chillen.

SF part 2

2010-05-18T08:05:00.000-07:00

Since Jamie does not like working, we decided to go shooting again on Sunday. NO I didn't go to bay to breakers (dammit), but I was watching F1 with free breakfast, so it's ok. Then it was off to hollywood manor for the Sharks game. Then night shooting with Jamie.

Pictures incoming, but first... For t3h lulz:

Ok, srs pictures.

LATERS

Weekend in SF part 1

2010-05-16T17:37:00.000-07:00

Took a weekend off in SF, took a few pictures... YUHP.

Night shots:

And the day's favs.

More portraits and some maternity shots

2010-05-10T17:48:00.000-07:00

Took a chance to use Mike's (Thanks Mike!) gear to use for another portrait shoot the other day. Turns out to also be my first maternity shoot (Thanks Anna!). Enjoy!

We even had a surprise guest that wanted his picture taken :)

Some portraits and a tat

2010-05-08T23:11:00.000-07:00

Krissy needed some help with her portrait final so we ventured out into the world. Then she decided to get a tattoo.

Goa Part 2

2010-04-28T00:54:00.000-07:00

Ah, the "better" pictures of the trip. No funny captions here, this is srs bdns. Enjoy!

Laters Goa

Goa Part 1

2010-04-25T20:23:00.000-07:00

Goa, India is BEAUTIFUL. Too bad this post isn't. Random pictures of us being stupid in Goa. This is only half of them, so stay tuned for Goa Part 2.

Singing opera, LIKE A BAWSS

Hugging locals, LIKE A BAWSS

Riding scooters, LIKE A BAWSSS

Knock off Ray-bans, LIKE A BAWSSS

Alright, no more of that song. But still more interweb meme refrences!

FIRST I WAS LIKE:

AND THEN I WAS LIKE:

$4 for an hour or so of hookah? Why the hell not?

Our fakes are genuine.

Big Peckers.

Goddammit Rusty.

Rusty, Bad decisions incarnate.

The bad decision to eclipse them all.

Look at Rusty giggling like a little girl

LATERS RIGHT LEG

Cute hat Rusty.

That's all for now, More Goa pictures coming later.

Watup India

2010-04-18T23:23:00.000-07:00

SO, if you don't already know, I'm in India. I've been here the past couple of weeks, so if you don't know by now, you will never never never know me. Ohhhhhhh-ooooohhhhhhh.

Anyways. Week one was pretty chill. I didn't go out much so most of these pictures were just from the places I was staying at, and the local market.

Staying place one: The Luxor. Nooo it was not as classy as the Luxor Las Vegas, this place was four stories with a sketchy elevator. But whatevers, it had working A/C, a shower, and rock hard beds.

Check out that do-it-all-at-the-same-time bathroom. You can shit, shower, and check if your hair looks fine all at the same time.

Spent about a week there, and we got moved out to the Google guest houses.

Living room:

Upstairs living room:

My room:

The Don's bathroom (mine)

Various pictures taken from one of our 7 balconies (lol?)

From the local market:

Rusty, making bad decisions, and looking fucking scary.

That's all for now, we'll see where the road takes me here in India :)

Photo dump

2010-02-21T11:56:00.000-08:00

POW POW Photo dump.

Taken @ San Juan Bautista.

Days Fav

Random January

2010-01-31T13:17:00.000-08:00

Not sure what to write here. Here are some assorted pictures taken in January. Enjoy

Pre-Christmas

2009-12-21T08:53:00.000-08:00

Been a while since I posted. Just haven't really gotten out and about to take pictures. Finally put the Xbox controller down this past weekend and had a great time with Krissy. Ventured out to Hakone gardens for some great fresh mountain air. After that we headed to Christmas in the park. Dinner was scheduled to be our next stop, but the lovely girlfriend ended up getting full off the snacks we had. Instead we took a detour and ended up doing some Christmas shopping. Anyways, enjoy the pictures!

My two favorite pictures of the day:

ZOMBIES!

2009-08-27T09:19:00.000-07:00

Went to a Zombie walk DTSJ. It was pretttyy cool.. haha here's pics.

Last but not least, my favorite zombie there (other than the hot zombies in skanky clothes.. LOL) The late Billy Mays

Fambam BBQ

2009-08-16T22:19:00.000-07:00

Got a D300! Grip and Black Rapid RS4 strap coming soon!

Had a Fambam BBQ. Cool stuff. Some people flaked, some people showed up. It was cool. Here's pictures :) I'm tired and I don't know what to say.. hehe

The few essentials. Phone, glasses, D300 :)

Bikes go vroom vroom

2009-08-08T19:03:00.000-07:00

Wellp, hit up a local bike meet at the request of miss Beverly because she needed some pictures taken. Ran into some old friends and made some new ones. I hope you all made it back safely, maybe I can join you guys someday. Ride safe!

Cool garage find!

2009-08-08T11:02:00.001-07:00

I was digging through the family garage (storage) and I stumbled across a camera bag! Excited I peeked inside and discovered an old Canon AE-1. So I cleaned it up a bit and snapped some pictures. It looks like it comes with an Alibinar 28-85mm f3.5-4.5 so I'm going to try and pick up an old FD mount 50mm 1.4 or 1.8 for super cheap. ANYHOW, enough talk! Here's some pictures!

Couples photo shoot

2009-08-01T19:18:00.001-07:00

Today, went out to Sun Microsystems off of Montague to do a photo shoot. To be more accurate, I helped a friend Daniel with his photo shoot. I just took the liberty to take a few pictures in the process. Enjoy!

High Dynamic Range

2009-07-26T17:08:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Jon at J.W.Lee Photography for his great HDR tutorial. It was simple and easy to follow. I decided to try my hand at some pseudo HDR and this is how it turned out.

Original RAW shot, straight out of the camera... good composition, but yuck overall xD

The HDR Image Curve/Levels/Saturation slightly adjusted.

The final product :)

Festival of garlic

2009-07-25T21:39:00.000-07:00

Hit up the Gilroy Garlic Festival. It was cool, food was aiight, it was HOT. Well not as hot as Disneyland, but hot enough.. lol. Anyways, here's some pics.

There is a Fly, on Alex's head.. LOL

AWESOME Picture of Alex and Melissa, they're so photogenic :)

Disneyland!

2009-07-17T14:37:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm back from vacation, of course I took a few pictures. Here are a few that I liked.

Me with my terrible driving position.. lol

Day 1: We arrived mid day, but hadn't planned to go to the actual park until the next day. We decided to walk around Downtown Disney for the time being, just to check everything out.

Day 2 and 3. We were finally at Disneyland! :)

More random pictures, we ran into some ducklings :)

Sunset and night pictures

Random pictures

Our crazy Mr Potatohead. $18 for as many parts as you can fit into the box!

That's about it!

Ready, set, VACATION!

2009-07-11T23:57:00.000-07:00

What a GREAT start to my vacation! Started off at the Children's Discovery Museum with Alex, Anna, and Krissy. We planned to head down the Guadalupe trail. First we got sidetracked by a car show. Then decided to take the light rail down to Japantown for the Obon festival. Ran into Henry, Gabe, Trinh, and Jackie. Had a fucking blast. Sake Bombs + empty stomach=drunk fast. Woooo.

The few pictures I took from around the museum.

Car show pictures. Beautiful classics.

The Datsun roadster we fell in love with....

Then at the Obon festival.. WOO HENRY AND GABE!

Last but not least, the beautiful sunset.

Disc Golf!

2009-07-04T17:33:00.000-07:00

Fun stuff! Went up to SF and played some disc golf! I never even knew this sport existed prior to today. It's pretty self explanatory, it's like golf, but with discs. Pretty cool, there's all kinds of different frisbees to use. We played a 9 hole game, here are some pics.

FOOOOOREEEE!!!

Super Saiyen Alejandro prepares his Kamehameha attack.

After we went to a nearby mexican place right off 35th. Not bad, the "hot sauce" definitely needed more hot to it. The super tacos were definitely super though. The burrito was meh.. It's no Iggy's but it's still better than terrible fast food. Here are some pics of that, and then some messing around at the place while we let the food settle.

Somewhere in there are 3 tacos....

The aftermath.

I was still hungry so I tried to eat her face :)

After that we ended up in Oakland, to go to a warehouse party. No I didn't feel comfortable bringing my DSLR walking around Oakland.... So there are no pictures for you to enjoy :)

Hope you liked the pictures, and of course, feedback is always appreciated. Even if it's some constructive criticism.

New stuff!

2009-07-03T12:51:00.000-07:00

Got some new stuff!!!

New NAS, makes uploading and editing much easier. I can upload from work, and quickly resize and what not from work as well because of my NAS (Network-Assigned Storage) gogo my own home FTP!

New netbook, the MSI Wind U-123 with the 9 cell battery. Pretty sweet, estimated 9hr+ battery life. Pretty freakin awesome

YAY Awesome new lens, probably my favorite lens so far. The new 35mm f1.8 AF-S DS lens from Nikon. Of course after that comes some playtime with it. :)

Last but not least, a truly awesome Darth Vader bobblehead! SWEET!

Here are some pictures with the new lens!
Taken at Alex's house, Downtown SJ (music in the park), Sweet Tomatos:

Heeeeeres some party pics from Alex's house.

Hope you like! Feedback please :)

Mikayla's Dance recital

2009-07-03T12:47:00.000-07:00

A few pictures from Mikayla's dance recital. Ironically I couldn't get any pictures of her! They all came out blurry because she doesn't have many "pose" moments... Oh well. Here are some pictures, more updates coming later today :)

Another random upload

2009-07-03T11:43:00.000-07:00

I apologize for not posting lately! I've been so busy, anywho, here are some random pictures taken through May and June, I'll be updating again later today or tomorrow with some more recent stuff!

My cousin Ryan got married, chilled with him and my cousin Justin for a weekend, man it's been years since we've last hung out.

Here's two random SF pics I found in my camera.

Stay tuned for another update soon!

Boogie in the crazy heat

2009-05-17T17:44:00.000-07:00

MAN, first hot weekend of the year! Probably should have gone to the beach, but I decided to go to the "Boogie by the Bayou" event in downtown Campbell. It was pretty cool, live music, art everywhere, etc. The misses had to eventually go to work, and I headed off with Anna to help her out with her photography final. Here are the fruits of my labor.

Pacman noms another

2009-05-03T21:56:00.001-07:00

What an awesome fight! I wished it was a little bit longer, but I would have lost my voice for sure. We watched the fight at Mark's place, god damn, too much food... After eating I fell asleep for all the card fights, etc etc. Happy birthday Mark!

OMGWTFBBQ

2009-04-28T18:07:00.000-07:00

Fun week, picked up some new glass!

another 18-55 kit lens, but with VR and a 55-200mm VR lens... So of course I went out n had some fun with it. Went to a Miata BBQ, and checked to the Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival. Had a fun time at both, got to coach the misses on a little mountain driving tech, etc. Anyways, enough text, enjoy the photos!

Eventful Weekend

2009-04-21T08:47:00.000-07:00

What an eventful weekend, where to begin. On Friday, I lost my job, pretty interesting, so I decided to go to Santa Cruz and have the beach-bum-meal-of-champions (Tall can of Mikey's and a huge Turkey leg). Saturday, more beach bum-ness, and then on Sunday, headed over to Alex's place for some BBQ (AWESOME CARNE ASADA) and more beer. Well, that's pretty much the weekend summarized. It's so damn hot....

Cruz'n it

2009-04-08T22:24:00.001-07:00

Well then, Saturday April 4th, what a day. Woke up and decided it was great out, and that we should head to Santa Cruz. Got to drive the Miata up 9, cause 17 was full of slow people. Damn Miata's handle amazing... Anywhoo, I snapped a few pictures here and there, most of them came out not too great, but here's a select few that did come out okay. Enjoy.

Classic

2009-03-31T20:32:00.000-07:00

Went out to the Classic Car show in Alameda. Got owned by allergies, then later on owned by dehydration related cramps! Awesome! But I learned that I can finish a pound burger at Fuddruckers, so all was not lost. :)

Jesus christ, this Z was sexy...

Yum.