jlohne

The past year has definitely been a long road.  Lots of research, reading, experimenting, learning, and finally shooting.  I know I still got a long way to go, but feel I have come a long way over the past year.  A few friends came to me with the idea of shooting some of the club cars from Backyard Turbo (local club created by a good group of friends) and I accepted.

Some of the shots can be found here: jlohne.deviantart.com/gallery/…

Overall I felt I did good for my first attempt.  Although there were a few things standing in my way: The sun was directly above since we had to shoot at a specific time of day, and happened to be a bad time of day, It was very hot and humid so holding a camera and shooting wasn't easy, third I have never done this before.

One thing I realized was I need to learn how to use my flash better, Most shots there were hot spots from the sun and from the flash which in my mind sort of ruined some of the shots in the full shoot which can be found here:

jefflohne.com/gallery/modelsho…

All in all it was a great experience and I hope to achieve better results as I shoot more and learn and upgrade my equipment as I go.

any comments, suggestions, critiques are welcomed as I am aspiring to get better, so be honest and truthful.

Thanks for taking the time to read through my first real photography shoot experience..  Stay tuned for more.

Jeff

Shoot Details:

Canon XTI
Kit Lense 18-55
Canon 50mm 1.8
Canon 430ex flash
No other lighting equipment was used

Read this on a friends journal and thought it was a bit scarey and interesting.  Please read up, because as an artist and designer you could lose the rights to everything you ever created..

You Tube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBZd0…

I actually am well aware of the bill. The whole of my company seems to be blogging about it and trying to raise awareness. After reading the entire document, I'm very concerned. The wording in some key areas seem to be far too vague and leave far too much room for interpretation. It seems as if our rights as artists are in jeopardy. The major problem is a lot of us lack the patience to read such over embellished dribble. One of the most troubling lines has to do with the concept of a "reasonable" search for the author of the work. That is the kind of thing meant to tie up a less wealthy person (the artist) in expensive litigation with a larger more wealthy company. The other insane request is that we all "register" our work to protect it. This makes it impossibly expensive to even show your work publicly without incurring a huge expense. Either that or risk it's theft ad someone else getting rich off of your work. I feel the worst aspect of this bill is it is being misunderstood by the politicians. They are being told this bill is meant to release old stock pictures that no one alive has the right to claim. The sad part is under our current copyright laws, almost all of these works fall under the statute of public domain. The art community in all mediums will suffer a huge blow should this bill come into law.

I urge you all to do some research and find out more for yourself, don't take anyone's word for it. If you feel strongly about this, write to your local politician, there is a lot of money and special interest behind this bill.

Repost of David Van Allen inwinethereistruth.deviantart.…