So another shoot got canned

I was going to shoot this guy Bobbo. Nice guy, good photographer, but he got a job and had to cancel. So again I was left with far too much time on my hands. But instead of shooting more coins (I found more) I went out skateboarding and, while out, I was struck a with an inspiration. Here's what I got:



Everybody thinks that my Supremacy Racing sticker is a Supreme sticker. It isn't. Supreme isn't rocking a horse for a logo, they don't build fast Hondas, and I have really no connection to Supreme. Supremacy, on the other hand, hosted my first art show and I know Frank and Kel, the guys who run it.

It's not much of an update, but it's either that or coins. And my God I hate those coins.

Canceled shoot

My friend Dave Brewer was on his way over to help me out with a project, but unfortunately his car blew up on the way over so I had nothing but time on my hands. What am I to do? Well, I could do this:



"This" is photographing a coin collection I inherited. I've only had the collection in my house for a few years now, and I've been saying I'm going to photograph every coin (and piece of paper money, there's a bunch of that) since it arrived at my house.

Anyway, what you're seeing is a black sheet for a full sized mattress stapled to the wall (of a house I'm renting, genius I know!) with a little table underneath it and a small felt lined box on top of the table. I've got my camera, a Canon Digital Rebel (300D) with a Tamron AF70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD Macro lens, sitting just below and to the right of the shoot through umbrella I have on my Alien Bees B400 flash head. The flash is at 1/4 power, the camera is at 1/200 @ f/16 and 100 ISO. Here's one of the coins:

Obligatory Introductory post

Yes, hello, welcome and all that. I'm Michael, I'm a photographer, and this is my blog. This is where I'll rant about shoots and projects I'm working on, have done or are really really wanting to do, post photos from said shoots/projects, and post up random things that inspire me, catch my eye, or otherwise grab and hold my interest. I'm unemployed right now, so believe you me there will be plenty of posts about nothing.

So back to the photographer thing. You may have actually seen my work. I covered SEMA 2008 for TunerZine.com and I had 3 photos in Honda Tuning in the "Oh Snaps!" section. These are said "Snaps":





and the third one isn't on my flickr page, but I'll put it up when I get home.

Yeah, right now I'm hanging out at the Starbucks in the University of Utah Hospital, stealing internet, coffee and pastries. It's a sweet gig. Anyway, that's all I got. I'm in the midst of a project right now, and as soon as I get it to the pre-determined point I pre-determined I'll post it here. But until then guess.